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Works Volume II is an album released in 1977 by Emerson, Lake & Palmer. Unlike Works Volume I (which consisted of three solo sides and one ensemble side), Volume II was a single album which seemingly was a compilation of leftover tracks from other album sessions that had not made those albums. While many derided the album for its apparent lack of focus, others felt it showed a different side of the band, with blues, bluegrass and jazz being very prominent as musical genres in this recording.
[edit] Album material
"When The Apple Blossoms Bloom...", "Tiger In A Spotlight" and "Brain Salad Surgery" had been recorded at the 1973 sessions for the album Brain Salad Surgery but did not appear on it - rather strangely in the case of the latter.
Volume II also included a stripped-down version of Greg Lake's "I Believe In Father Christmas". An orchestral version had previously been released in the UK as a single and became something of an annual Christmas standard there, alongside such others as Slade's "Merry Xmas, Everybody" and Wizzard's "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day".
[edit] Track listing
- "Tiger in a Spotlight" (Keith Emerson, Greg Lake, Carl Palmer, Peter Sinfield) – 4:32
- "When the Apple Blossoms Bloom in the Windmills of Your Mind I'll Be Your Valentine" (Emerson, Lake, Palmer) – 3:56
- "Bullfrog" (Ron Aspery, Mick Hodgkinson, Palmer)– 3:49
- "Brain Salad Surgery" (Emerson, Lake, Sinfield) – 3:07
- "Barrelhouse Shake-Down" (Emerson) – 3:37
- "Watching Over You" (Lake, Sinfield) – 3:54
- "So Far to Fall" (Emerson, Lake, Sinfield) – 4:55
- "Maple Leaf Rag" (Scott Joplin) – 2:00
- "I Believe in Father Christmas" (Lake, Sinfield) – 3:17
- "Close But Not Touching" (Palmer) – 3:18
- "Honky Tonk Train Blues" (Meade "Lux" Lewis) – 3:09
- "Show Me the Way to Go Home" (L. James Campbell, Reginald Connelly) – 3:30
[edit] Bonus Tracks
- "Tiger in a Spotlight" - 4:16
- "Watching over You" - 4:31
- "Show Me the Way To Go Home" - 5:34
[edit] Singles
- Tiger in a Spotlight / So Far to Fall
- Watching Over You / Hallowed Be Thy Name
