The Best of Emerson, Lake & Palmer

The Best of Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Greatest hits album by Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Released 1994
Genre Progressive rock
Symphonic rock
Length 76:49
Label Manticore
Atlantic
Producer Keith Emerson
Greg Lake
Carl Palmer
Mark Mancina
Ian Morrow
John Van Tongeren
Emerson, Lake & Palmer chronology
Emerson, Lake and Palmer Live at the Royal Albert Hall (1993) The Best of Emerson, Lake, & Palmer (1994) In the Hot Seat (1994)
Alternative cover
1980 cover

The Best of Emerson, Lake & Palmer is an album by British progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released in 1994. This supersedes a 1980 compilation with a shorter, different track list and Japanese ukiyo-e cover.

Track listing

The Best of Emerson, Lake & Palmer has a running time of 76 minutes and 49 seconds spread amongst fourteen tracks, one of which has multiple sections:

  1. "From The Beginning" (4:13)
  2. "Jerusalem" (William Blake, C. Hubert H. Parry) (2:44)
  3. "Still... You Turn Me On" (2:53)
  4. "Fanfare for the Common Man" (Aaron Copland) (single version, 2:57)
  5. "Knife Edge" (5:05)
  6. "Tarkus" (20:35)
    1. "Eruption" (2:43)
    2. "Stones of Years" (3:44)
    3. "Iconoclast" (1:15)
    4. "Mass" (3:11)
    5. "Manticore" (1:52)
    6. "Battlefield" (3:51)
    7. "Aquatarkus" (3:59)
  7. "Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression, Pt. 2" (4:43)
  8. "C'est La Vie" (4:16)
  9. "Hoedown" (Aaron Copland) (3:43)
  10. "Trilogy" (8:53)
  11. "Honky Tonk Train Blues" (3:09)
  12. "Black Moon" (single version, 4:46)
  13. "Lucky Man" (4:37)
  14. "I Believe in Father Christmas" (Greg Lake) (original single version, 3:30)

Original 1980 track listing

Original running time was 38:51 and had only 9 tracks.

  1. Hoedown (3:46)
  2. Lucky Man (4:38)
  3. Karn Evil 9 (1st Impression, Part 2) (4:48)
  4. Jerusalem (2:45)
  5. Peter Gunn (3:37)
  6. Fanfare for the Common Man (2:57)
  7. Still...You Turn Me On (2:54)
  8. Tiger in a Spotlight (4:35)
  9. Trilogy (8:51)