I suffer through one of the worst 'prog' albums ever recorded. Is it 'so bad it's actually good'? No, it's just terrible. Subscribe: www.youtube.co.... Twitter: / notesreviews
You were right for the most, but your clip was TOOOO long. You should edit it with more pictures and videos without speaking. Give the sounding of your voice a break. Better still, ...keep down to 3 minutes.
Memoirs of an Officer and Gentleman is a prog masterpiece. It is worth the price of the whole album. The lyrics are poetry that tells a beautiful story. Canarios isn't bad. "… what it means to be an officer and a gentleman …" The last line sometimes makes me start to tear up.
pschroeter1 it’s honestly really hard to believe that THAT song is on that shity fucking album. The piano section was absolutely beautiful. It’s fantastic.
This was the second ELP album I ever listened to, and it was so bad that it kinda put me off them for a while. Luckily a friend used Brain Salad Surgery to smack some sense into me. Loved the room comparison notes.
I love how bad the lyrical content on this album is. I enjoy it a lot for the fact that it does not sound like other ELP albums. But I really enjoy all of their stuff.
Well, if you stick to "Canario" and "Memoirs of an Officer and a Gentleman" (which maybe is about 60% of the whole album), you'll probably notice it's maybe better than Works vol. 2...
Was it a good album? No. It was very weak ... BUT, there were some points that were good and just saying the entire album is bad because it goes along with your narrative is also weak. First, the album's lyricist (and that's what he does in all his efforts with ELP) is Pete SINFIELD, not Seinfeld. Second, Canario was a pretty good effort. Lastly, Memoirs was another pretty good effort. The lyrics tell a touching story of a man growing up and falling in love and going to war. The 4 pieces do NOT sound alike. I disagree with that. If you hate the album, fine ... but throwing the baby out with the bathwater is just lazy.
This album is clearly underrated in my opinion. I know it´s not the best one but this is not bullshit. ELP are talented performers, I like the way they play in Love Beach. Not so different to other recordings. I think you´re making a caricature, so far from reality.
When I was 15 years old, the album came out. I went to the record shop and when I saw the cover I said "My God" and on the back side I saw all short songs. I bought the record but I hadn't any faith. I was very disappointed with the songs. It had nothing to do with the real music of ELP. But after all the years I can say that there are albums that I never listen to. These are "In the hot seat" and "Works Vol I & II" I can't stand these albums. So the B-side of Love Beach isn't too bad. And songs like Canario and For you are OK. At least we can hear three people playing without trumpets or an orchestra which don't belong to them. Greg's voice is so clear on this album. It's not Brain Salad Surgery or Pictures at an exhibition but try to accept it. It was the record company who wanted this. If you don't like the album just don't play it !
Love beach is underrated. Still proggy and peter sinfield was always co writing stuff with Greg lake no way as bad as some people say it is. Have to disagree with you on this one. Love beach gets bad reviews because of its bee gees style cover, a lot of people jump on the bandwagon and say its bad. Its not.
LOVE Beach is one of the best memory's of ELP. They had an Awesome time making that LP. Say what you want but you all will never be able to replace them in your lifetime.
I disagree with you. LOVE BEACH is a good album. You underestimate it TOO MUCH that you can't listen to the gems in it. MEMOIRS is one of their masterpiece.
Your review cracks me up. I guess on your worst to first for ELP, Love Beach would be worst, eh? You'd be wrong though. The Fallen from Grace record for ELP is "In the Hot Seat". I love Memoirs and Canario. This is a pop album... but not nearly as bad as In the Hot Seat.
It's Peter SINFIELD, not SEINFELD. You make it sound like Pete Sinfield was some outside writer who just happened to be hanging out in the Bahamas, and hooked up with Greg. He wasn't. He's a well known lyricist who worked with Greg all the way back to Greg's King Crimson days. Pete co-wrote lyrics on Brain Salad Surgery and both of the Works albums. Ironically, the first Works album are solo albums. Each band member got one side to fiddle with, and none of the guys appear on each other's side except for Keith appearing on one track on Carl's side. The record company wanted ELP to do a "commercial album", so that's why we got Love Beach. They actually owed Atlantic three more records, not just one, when Love Beach came out. They ended up breaking up after this, and to fill out their contract, released one live album and a greatest hits album. The live one (In Concert, later remastered and reissued as Works Live) is very good. The greatest hits album is pretty shoddy. As for the actual album, yeah, it's not great, but it's not a complete disaster, not even close. Canario and Memoirs of an Officer and a Gentleman are great ELP tracks. For You isn't that bad either. Greg's voice sounds great, too. This album is better than their last studio album, In the Hot Seat, which was a complete mess and didn't even sound like them. Love Beach, for all its faults (mainly its cheesy lyrics), at least sounds like ELP.
Great album. Every decade it gets better and better. Listen to the remastered version and listen on BIG speakers. The GX-1 sounds great. Greg's voice is fantastic. ALL the song are good, more than half are great. Most importantly, it coincided with the times. Even the songs everyone hates, ignore the lyrics and listen to the instruments.
Considering that ELP had hit some hard times after the monumental financial collapse of the Works stadium tour. Love Beach was more of a last gasp meant to fulfill their contractual obligations.
I really don't agree with you, Mister. This is the best ELP album for me. I bet in a million years you cannot make such a masterpiece like An Officer and A Gentleman.
All these guys from this era are jealous of Genesis....They all come out of that Brit Prog genre...pop hits were not their thing....Collins and the guys made that transition from the 70s to.80s. Hey rest in piece...I still like Trilogy!
Everyone is bashing Love Beach.. I bought this album back in 1978. I wore it out. I now have a CD copy and to this day I still listen to it. To each his own I guess. I am an ELP fan and I have been since the early 70s....
A review to tell us how "bad" Love Beach is? How original! I don't think I've ever heard that before! 😒 Seriously, I don't think it's as bad as it's reputation. Granted, some of the songs have terrible and sleazy lyrics, and it's not their best. However, I really love "For You" and "Memoirs...", and the opening song is pretty good too, a different take on pop with a martial beat. The album title and cover make it an easy target, but there's good stuff here besides "Canario". Also, the Peter "Seinfeld" references... Google is an amazing tool for fact checking, may want to use it in the future.
As a Fan since the reunion in '92, The no ideas LP was Works 2. It is shelved songs from the brain salad sessions, Keith's solo single, Greg's solo single and Works 1 leftovers. . As for Love beach, its a mixed bag. short possible singles tunes and a side long suite. Keith using the GX1 for all the songs did not go well. The lyrics, eehh. .Greg's singing is well fit in each song. Carl does a good job here in his signature style. The guys were tired and I feel they waited too long to follow BSS and rest after the mega tour for it.
Along the lines of the "Fallen From Grace" series... I wonder what your opinion is of "The Final Cut" by Pink Floyd... Is it a FFG worthy album? I actually enjoy that record.... If you view it from the prism of a Roger Waters solo album, and not a Floyd album.. Anyways great review... I've only listened to LB once....never again.. I do have a suggestion for a good record to do in a future FFG... "IV" from Blackfield..
The Final Cut is far superior to the last two PF albums. They are A Total Lapse of Reason and The DIVISION Bell and should have been under the band name The Dave Gilmour Band as RW was not in the group.
@@jooree7696 the final cut is just Roger Walters droning on and on with very little music in it. The division bell is a lot more like a Pink Floyd album imo that features a lot more musical passages and actual contributions from the three remaining members of the band whereas final cut is all Walters and doesn't even have Rick Wright on it so if anything isn't a Floyd album it's the final cut imo
EVERY band has an album that is on the bottom of the list...EVERY BAND!!! They did their best to fulfill a contractual agreement (so I've heard). It's really not THAT bad!
Contractual obligation from Atlantic. ELP had been constantly touring, recording etc since 1970 and were burnt out. Memoirs has some wonderful playing from Keith and Greg’s vocals were a delight even if some of the lyrics weren’t great.
Someone somewhere at this website needs to shut this channel down. A person's (informed...hopefully) opinion is one thing but mispronouncing band members names, song and album titles (as he does in other "reviews") is just shameful and embarrassing. He's obviously oblivious to his own shortcomings...RUclips put him out of his misery.
This album is not great. It has moments that are...not good. But there is some good and this guy seems to be saying things because he's predisposed to slagging LB as the worst album ever. I believe that there needed to be another album following this one, produced by someone else, that stayed in the generally more relaxed vein of LB but with the hot garbage elements forcibly held out. As it happened, after a gap of several years, the EMERSON LAKE AND POWELL album came out and it was one of the most consistent - and consistently good - things the band ever did. Also: "Seinfeld??" "Tiriumverat?" Hard to come off as an authority on prog rock...
Here's my MP3 collection tracklist: All I Want Is You (alternate mix with 33 seconds cut) Taste Of My Love (rehearsal, so instrumental) The Gambler (alternate mix) For You Canario Memoirs of An Officer And A Gentleman If an instrumental version of the title track was available, I would have it as a medley with the Taste Of My Love rehearsal. Otherwise, it goes in the bin.
Very good album standing proud among haters who will always praise garbage cover band Led Zeppelin but are too blind to see the greatness of an Officer and Gentleman.
I really love the second section of "Memoirs of an Officer and a Gentleman" where it starts at 11:10 with a drum section and then Emerson enters playing a Fender Rhodes electric piano (Why did it take him so long to finally add this wonderful instrument to a song) and it is a wonderful last movement to this long piece. Emerson even plays some spacey synth as it fades out. The last little march is not bad.
The UnknownCommenter That’s a generous rating. To which I’ll agree. Coz I, too, am a generous person. “Memoirs..” put people off but then Led Zeppelin’s “Hot Dog” caused a few people to roll their eyes. Still, depending on mood as we age, there are times when these odd songs may hit the spot depending on circumstance. Nothing wrong with variety.
@@billhale2713 Yeah I agree with you as we age different songs resonate with us more. And I also agree that there is nothing wrong with variety. Nothing wrong with a band changing it up and nothing wrong with a listener having a diverse playlist. I think the only bad song on Love Beach is Taste of My Love. The rest are good. Love the singing on For You, Memoirs is beautiful, Canario is an awesome instrumental. I could go on. And not being able to hear Palmer or Emerson (Especially Emerson) is some bull. Its like this guy didnt even listen to the record just read a review someone else did and decided to paraphrase it in his video.
I know the band even slogged this off, but musically it's certainly no worse than Works Vol. 2, which was mostly subpar leftovers -- never mind their pretty awful post-reunion albums in the 90s. "All I Want Is You" wouldn't sound out of place on Trilogy or Brain Salad Surgery, and "Memoirs of an Officer and a Gentleman" isn't that far removed from "Pirates."
This is a case of forcing a group to do an album when they really needed a break. The irony is when they came back with Emerson, Lake and Powell they achieved that Prog cross over.
"Canario" was one that was on Carl Palmer's "Wanna play Carl?". Also, this album was by contract, but also when Keith Emerson's hands started acting up., where he was able to get injections. After their 40th Anniversary concert "High Voltage", that Keith's life was marked with unsuccessful surgeries on his hands, his flying was hampered by eyesight. Aging! I guess after "In the Hot Seat" he must have worked himself up and ate a bullet.
In case you weren't aware... Keith Emerson's solo is an arrangement of Fantasia Por Un Gentilhombre by Joaquim Rodrigo. So in fairness, that probably gives it a bit more credibility than you suggest. Still funny though!
Jim Steinman might actually have been an interesting Producer for this period of ELP, y'know? He would have understood where their heads were at at this point in their soon to finished career, and might have brought some VERY interesting things out of them...course, I don't know if they could have even worked with him, but, hey.....Anyway, this was an awesome review, thanks for all your hard work!
Album broni sie sam po dekadach krytyki. Nawet wyszydzana okladka wygląda sympatycznie. ELP byli wowczas na szczycie swojej kariery. Po tyraniu na sukces polecieli odpoczac na Bahamy. Powstał przyjemny, wakacyjny album. Mimo slabszych fragmentow calkiem udany.
Peter “Signfield”? Lol. It’s “Sinfield” as in “Sin”, not “Sign” and he wrote the lyrics of many great songs, including the lyrics on “In the Court of the Crimson King” , In the “Wake of Poseidon” , “Lizard” and “Islands”, as well as ccasionally added touches of EMS VCS 3 synthesizer, see, e.g., the Ladies of the Road album recorded live on tour in 1971 and '72 or "Indoor Games" and "Happy Family" on the Lizard album. In fact, Fripp became involved with other projects (most notably the Centipede orchestra), which left Sinfield with much of the responsibility for the final version and design of the album Lizard, including the uniquely ornate jacket. Also, he co-wrote the majority of the lyrics with Lake for ELP’s “Brain Salad Surgery” album as well as all of the Greg Lake songs and “Pirates” on “Works Vol. 1” and “Vol. 2” including “Tiger in a Spotlight” and “I Believe in Father Christmas”. He also recorded a really great solo album called “Still” on ELP’s Manticore label which included Lake and John Wetton as well as many past King Crimson alumni, he also wrote the English lyrics for the Italian Prog band PFM to sing on their albums “Photo’s Of Ghosts” and “ The World Became the World”. “Love Beach” is definitely a half hearted effort by the band with some pretty cheesy songs, but there are also a few good songs as well and I think as it was a contractual obligation album, they just had fun with it. "It's not that Love Beach is a bad album," Lake has said in an interview. "It was an album that the band really didn’t want to make. We were forced to make it contractually, but once we’d decided to do it, we gave it our best shot. So it was another ELP album, but it wasn’t the best of ELP records -- it wasn’t Tarkus, Trilogy, Brain Salad Surgery, Pictures at an Exhibition or Emerson Lake and Palmer, or Works Volume 1. It wasn’t that quality. It was an album that was tired creatively." Also regarding Sinfield, he produced Roxy Music’s first album as well as the McDonald and Giles solo album and wrote the lyrics to the song “Birdman” on that album, in the 80’s he got into writing more pop songs and also wrote many songs for the band “Buck’s Fizz”, believe it or not, he also wrote the Celine Dion song “Think Twice” on her “Colour Of My Love” album.
Love Beach wasn't recorded out of spite for the band not being able to do their own thing. According to Keith, the head of Atlantic wanted to the band to attempt to make an album with hit singles that would crossover into the mainstream, much in the similar vein of what bands like Yes and Genesis achieved around that time. They recorded at Chris Blackwell's studio in the Bahamas cause of attacks happening in the UK at the time.
Oh, you mean "Cocaine Beach"? Also, Pete Sinfield was the long time lyricist for the band (and also for King Crimson), going back to at least "Brain Salad Surgery."
The original had a cool advertisement for t-shirts and poster featuring a silver pirate ship on a black background. That is what I remember most. The songs are horrid. Really. It's what Satan sings to torture new souls on their arrival to hell.
I'm 99.99999999999999% today's jazz, like kamasi washington, is way better than this. Although mainstream is extremly shit, there are a lot of bands that are still very good and in every genre (still not as good as 70's prog in my opinion)
Funny. I actually preferred the first side of soppy pop songs to the proggier second side which seemed pretty lame. I might have to go back and listen to it since people seem to rate it highly.
Am i the only one who thinks this album isn't that bad? I mean yeah the album is bad (Taste of my Love is disgraceful) but there is some good songs in here like Canario and Memoirs. If anything it's In the Hot Seat that really showed the worst from the band, seriously fuck that album.
Yes has never had an a album as bad as this, but they've had a few that came pretty close. A lot of people would choose Union, but I think that album was actually rather good in comparison to some of their later albums. The last album, Heaven & Earth was pretty bad, but it being Squire's last album I would be hesitant to call it their worst.
I too have some thoughts on this since ELP is still my favorite. I walked into the record store. I don't remember why, but I saw this. First of all, did I miss something? I didn't know they made a new album. But looking at it, the first thing I notices was the lettering. No where was the normal ELP logo and I had a suspicion about it right away. It didn't look like an ELP album and it probably wasn't going to sound like one. But, it was a new album by them, I gotta buy it. I liked "all I want is you." downhill after that. I thought side 2 was good. But I was excited because I thought "this album is goi ng to be a smash hit! I was wrong fofr obvious reasons and should have known better. The final blow was when I saw the album in a bin - all albums $4.99. Most albums I believe were in the 7 to 8 dollar range.
Why does everyone hate me
Love Beach I like Officer and a Gentleman but the rest of you sucks
I love you fuck everyone else.
Brian St. James 😘
Adam Bendelow 😡
You were right for the most, but your clip was TOOOO long. You should edit it with more pictures and videos without speaking. Give the sounding of your voice a break. Better still, ...keep down to 3 minutes.
Seinfeld? Sinfield !!
Maybe Kramer and Elaine Benes could have co-written some of the songs?;-)
I agree everyone who says "Memoirs of an Officer and a Gentleman" is a solid track.
In their defence, that is a great Bee Gees impression they do on the cover.
Memoirs of an Officer and Gentleman is a prog masterpiece. It is worth the price of the whole album. The lyrics are poetry that tells a beautiful story. Canarios isn't bad. "… what it means to be an officer and a gentleman …" The last line sometimes makes me start to tear up.
pschroeter1 it’s honestly really hard to believe that THAT song is on that shity fucking album. The piano section was absolutely beautiful. It’s fantastic.
Everyone hates this album but I LIKE IT!
In my opinion An Officer and a Gentleman is one of my favorite songs by them
The guys name is Sinfield “sin field” NOT Seinfeld 🤨
emersons keyboard work is astounding he never stops
Yeah him saying he cant hear Emerson on the record makes NO SENSE
This was the second ELP album I ever listened to, and it was so bad that it kinda put me off them for a while. Luckily a friend used Brain Salad Surgery to smack some sense into me. Loved the room comparison notes.
I think "For You" is quite good as is "Canario". The band really plays with great gusto on that one!
Underrated album.
Patrik Gabrielsson Yes, underrated 🙄
I love how bad the lyrical content on this album is. I enjoy it a lot for the fact that it does not sound like other ELP albums. But I really enjoy all of their stuff.
Well, if you stick to "Canario" and "Memoirs of an Officer and a Gentleman" (which maybe is about 60% of the whole album), you'll probably notice it's maybe better than Works vol. 2...
Even if Love Beach is bad, for me it's still better than Works 2. I hate that album
@@jooree7696, No ,better than Works 1 !
Was it a good album? No. It was very weak ... BUT, there were some points that were good and just saying the entire album is bad because it goes along with your narrative is also weak. First, the album's lyricist (and that's what he does in all his efforts with ELP) is Pete SINFIELD, not Seinfeld. Second, Canario was a pretty good effort. Lastly, Memoirs was another pretty good effort. The lyrics tell a touching story of a man growing up and falling in love and going to war. The 4 pieces do NOT sound alike. I disagree with that. If you hate the album, fine ... but throwing the baby out with the bathwater is just lazy.
Peter Sinfield wrote none of the music. He is solely a lyricist.
This album is clearly underrated in my opinion. I know it´s not the best one but this is not bullshit. ELP are talented performers, I like the way they play in Love Beach. Not so different to other recordings. I think you´re making a caricature, so far from reality.
Imagine all these songs as sitcom themes.
When I was 15 years old, the album came out. I went to the record shop and when I saw the cover I said "My God" and on the back side I saw all short songs. I bought the record but I hadn't any faith. I was very disappointed with the songs. It had nothing to do with the real music of ELP. But after all the years I can say that there are albums that I never listen to. These are "In the hot seat" and "Works Vol I & II" I can't stand these albums. So the B-side of Love Beach isn't too bad. And songs like Canario and For you are OK. At least we can hear three people playing without trumpets or an orchestra which don't belong to them. Greg's voice is so clear on this album. It's not Brain Salad Surgery or Pictures at an exhibition but try to accept it. It was the record company who wanted this. If you don't like the album just don't play it !
Love Beach is a good album for a contract obligation and nice to hear them change it up.
OK, the kids theme montage with Canario, made me subscribe. Well done.
The track "For You" is very good and one of Lake's best vocals ever.
I agree it
I ever listen For You, since many years i still find it good
Agree
I had to see this review again , not only a great ELP review but one of the best accurate reviews I’ve ever seen about anyone, brilliant!
Love beach is underrated. Still proggy and peter sinfield was always co writing stuff with Greg lake no way as bad as some people say it is. Have to disagree with you on this one. Love beach gets bad reviews because of its bee gees style cover, a lot of people jump on the bandwagon and say its bad. Its not.
Its really just the cover. thats why people hate it
Rock albums like Love Beach are the reason why punk exploded in the second half of the decade.
LOVE Beach is one of the best memory's of ELP. They had an Awesome time making that LP. Say what you want but you all will never be able to replace them in your lifetime.
Underrated Channel
I disagree with you. LOVE BEACH is a good album. You underestimate it TOO MUCH that you can't listen to the gems in it. MEMOIRS is one of their masterpiece.
SIN-field. Not SEIN-feld. Jeez.
Keith Minnion if Seinfeld wrote it, there would be more slapbass and high pitched standup comedy.
Sinfields funnier, especially with this tragic albums .
Your review cracks me up. I guess on your worst to first for ELP, Love Beach would be worst, eh? You'd be wrong though. The Fallen from Grace record for ELP is "In the Hot Seat". I love Memoirs and Canario. This is a pop album... but not nearly as bad as In the Hot Seat.
Memoirs of an Officer and a Gentleman, is Classic ELP, you realy do like the sound of your own voice !
It's Peter SINFIELD, not SEINFELD.
You make it sound like Pete Sinfield was some outside writer who just happened to be hanging out in the Bahamas, and hooked up with Greg. He wasn't. He's a well known lyricist who worked with Greg all the way back to Greg's King Crimson days. Pete co-wrote lyrics on Brain Salad Surgery and both of the Works albums.
Ironically, the first Works album are solo albums. Each band member got one side to fiddle with, and none of the guys appear on each other's side except for Keith appearing on one track on Carl's side.
The record company wanted ELP to do a "commercial album", so that's why we got Love Beach. They actually owed Atlantic three more records, not just one, when Love Beach came out. They ended up breaking up after this, and to fill out their contract, released one live album and a greatest hits album. The live one (In Concert, later remastered and reissued as Works Live) is very good. The greatest hits album is pretty shoddy.
As for the actual album, yeah, it's not great, but it's not a complete disaster, not even close. Canario and Memoirs of an Officer and a Gentleman are great ELP tracks. For You isn't that bad either. Greg's voice sounds great, too. This album is better than their last studio album, In the Hot Seat, which was a complete mess and didn't even sound like them. Love Beach, for all its faults (mainly its cheesy lyrics), at least sounds like ELP.
Darren Lock made people try to hate love beach. Not a bad album guys. Its definitley their worst 70s album but the songwriting is good
Great album. Every decade it gets better and better. Listen to the remastered version and listen on BIG speakers. The GX-1 sounds great. Greg's voice is fantastic. ALL the song are good, more than half are great. Most importantly, it coincided with the times. Even the songs everyone hates, ignore the lyrics and listen to the instruments.
Memoirs of an Officer and Gentleman is a very goid track. Some very beautiful music in this.
Considering that ELP had hit some hard times after the monumental financial collapse of the Works stadium tour. Love Beach was more of a last gasp meant to fulfill their contractual obligations.
Its just the cover and the Love Beach track .I wish I could have changed the cover. Called it Officer and Gentleman or Canario, two great tracks !
OK, it wasn't their best effort but it's a lot better than the crap that passes for music nowadays !
I was a huge elp fan in high school. I still dig For You and always liked Memoirs, not really sure why since it sounds like a show tune
How the HELL does For You not have any passion, just LISTEN TO HIS VOICE! Good video tho nice work
I really don't agree with you, Mister. This is the best ELP album for me. I bet in a million years you cannot make such a masterpiece like An Officer and A Gentleman.
Prog pop. It's pretty fun and cheesy.
All these guys from this era are jealous of Genesis....They all come out of that Brit Prog genre...pop hits were not their thing....Collins and the guys made that transition from the 70s to.80s. Hey rest in piece...I still like Trilogy!
Everyone is bashing Love Beach.. I bought this album back in 1978. I wore it out. I now have a CD copy and to this day I still listen to it. To each his own I guess. I am an ELP fan and I have been since the early 70s....
peter sinfeld trying to be like the David Foster kind of guy behind the scenes writing the tunes of schlock.
A review to tell us how "bad" Love Beach is? How original! I don't think I've ever heard that before! 😒
Seriously, I don't think it's as bad as it's reputation. Granted, some of the songs have terrible and sleazy lyrics, and it's not their best. However, I really love "For You" and "Memoirs...", and the opening song is pretty good too, a different take on pop with a martial beat. The album title and cover make it an easy target, but there's good stuff here besides "Canario".
Also, the Peter "Seinfeld" references... Google is an amazing tool for fact checking, may want to use it in the future.
As a Fan since the reunion in '92, The no ideas LP was Works 2. It is shelved songs from the brain salad sessions, Keith's solo single, Greg's solo single and Works 1 leftovers. . As for Love beach, its a mixed bag. short possible singles tunes and a side long suite. Keith using the GX1 for all the songs did not go well. The lyrics, eehh. .Greg's singing is well fit in each song. Carl does a good job here in his signature style. The guys were tired and I feel they waited too long to follow BSS and rest after the mega tour for it.
ELP's version of "Metal Machine Music"
Along the lines of the "Fallen From Grace" series... I wonder what your opinion is of "The Final Cut" by Pink Floyd... Is it a FFG worthy album?
I actually enjoy that record.... If you view it from the prism of a Roger Waters solo album, and not a Floyd album..
Anyways great review... I've only listened to LB once....never again.. I do have a suggestion for a good record to do in a future FFG... "IV" from Blackfield..
The Final Cut is far superior to the last two PF albums. They are A Total Lapse of Reason and The DIVISION Bell and should have been under the band name The Dave Gilmour Band as RW was not in the group.
@@bobby666666 division bell is awesome and shits all over the final cut
@@otflipz1
The final cut is ok, but Division Bell is a f*****g masterpiece
@@jooree7696 the final cut is just Roger Walters droning on and on with very little music in it. The division bell is a lot more like a Pink Floyd album imo that features a lot more musical passages and actual contributions from the three remaining members of the band whereas final cut is all Walters and doesn't even have Rick Wright on it so if anything isn't a Floyd album it's the final cut imo
Like love beach. Great album.
Me to awesome Record.
Stephen Snelling How is it awesome? Greg Lake is the William Shatner of Prog.
Even Keith,Gregg,and Carl thought it was shit. They just made it to fulfill a contract. After that they got the fuck out
EVERY band has an album that is on the bottom of the list...EVERY BAND!!! They did their best to fulfill a contractual agreement (so I've heard). It's really not THAT bad!
Does Greg Lake have the sex appeal to pull this off? Good god, man. LOOK AT HIM ON THAT COVER.
❤ he looks just like me pumpkin😊
I like Love Beach. I just want to say it.
I have avoided listening to this album for years.Hearing the excerpts here it is actually not as bad as I imagined.Its worse.
This guy’s constant mispronunciations used to drive me to outrage. Now it’s merely part of the entertainment.
Contractual obligation from Atlantic.
ELP had been constantly touring, recording etc since 1970 and were burnt out.
Memoirs has some wonderful playing from Keith and Greg’s vocals were a delight even if some of the lyrics weren’t great.
"You're tearing me apart, Lisa!" "I got the results of the test back. I definitely have breast cancer."
Someone somewhere at this website needs to shut this channel down. A person's (informed...hopefully) opinion is one thing but mispronouncing band members names, song and album titles (as he does in other "reviews") is just shameful and embarrassing. He's obviously oblivious to his own shortcomings...RUclips put him out of his misery.
This album is not great. It has moments that are...not good. But there is some good and this guy seems to be saying things because he's predisposed to slagging LB as the worst album ever. I believe that there needed to be another album following this one, produced by someone else, that stayed in the generally more relaxed vein of LB but with the hot garbage elements forcibly held out. As it happened, after a gap of several years, the EMERSON LAKE AND POWELL album came out and it was one of the most consistent - and consistently good - things the band ever did. Also: "Seinfeld??" "Tiriumverat?" Hard to come off as an authority on prog rock...
Here's my MP3 collection tracklist:
All I Want Is You (alternate mix with 33 seconds cut)
Taste Of My Love (rehearsal, so instrumental)
The Gambler (alternate mix)
For You
Canario
Memoirs of An Officer And A Gentleman
If an instrumental version of the title track was available, I would have it as a medley with the Taste Of My Love rehearsal. Otherwise, it goes in the bin.
The album's name and its cover say it all.
Anyone else hear the Chopin in the Officers and a Gentleman?
Pete Sinfield (not Seinfeld).
Very good album standing proud among haters who will always praise garbage cover band Led Zeppelin but are too blind to see the greatness of an Officer and Gentleman.
I can't help but feel that they went out of their way to make it shite.
I really love the second section of "Memoirs of an Officer and a Gentleman" where it starts at 11:10 with a drum section and then Emerson enters playing a Fender Rhodes electric piano (Why did it take him so long to finally add this wonderful instrument to a song) and it is a wonderful last movement to this long piece. Emerson even plays some spacey synth as it fades out. The last little march is not bad.
All criticism aside, I adore the album “Love Beach”. Always will.
Its a solid 8/10
The UnknownCommenter That’s a generous rating. To which I’ll agree. Coz I, too, am a generous person. “Memoirs..” put people off but then Led Zeppelin’s “Hot Dog” caused a few people to roll their eyes. Still, depending on mood as we age, there are times when these odd songs may hit the spot depending on circumstance. Nothing wrong with variety.
@@billhale2713 Yeah I agree with you as we age different songs resonate with us more. And I also agree that there is nothing wrong with variety. Nothing wrong with a band changing it up and nothing wrong with a listener having a diverse playlist.
I think the only bad song on Love Beach is Taste of My Love. The rest are good. Love the singing on For You, Memoirs is beautiful, Canario is an awesome instrumental. I could go on. And not being able to hear Palmer or Emerson (Especially Emerson) is some bull. Its like this guy didnt even listen to the record just read a review someone else did and decided to paraphrase it in his video.
Seinfield was a comedian and so was Sinfield with his lyrics on this album so he’s right theres no difference!
ELP is the greatest . And it's sin ( having fun ) - field ( where cows graze ) .
Pah !
I know the band even slogged this off, but musically it's certainly no worse than Works Vol. 2, which was mostly subpar leftovers -- never mind their pretty awful post-reunion albums in the 90s. "All I Want Is You" wouldn't sound out of place on Trilogy or Brain Salad Surgery, and "Memoirs of an Officer and a Gentleman" isn't that far removed from "Pirates."
This is a case of forcing a group to do an album when they really needed a break. The irony is when they came back with Emerson, Lake and Powell they achieved that Prog cross over.
at 1:37, do you think they wanted to screw over the record company????
"Canario" was one that was on Carl Palmer's "Wanna play Carl?". Also, this album was by contract, but also when Keith Emerson's hands started acting up., where he was able to get injections.
After their 40th Anniversary concert "High Voltage", that Keith's life was marked with unsuccessful surgeries on his hands, his flying was hampered by eyesight. Aging!
I guess after "In the Hot Seat" he must have worked himself up and ate a bullet.
In case you weren't aware... Keith Emerson's solo is an arrangement of Fantasia Por Un Gentilhombre by Joaquim Rodrigo. So in fairness, that probably gives it a bit more credibility than you suggest. Still funny though!
Jim Steinman might actually have been an interesting Producer for this period of ELP, y'know? He would have understood where their heads were at at this point in their soon to finished career, and might have brought some VERY interesting things out of them...course, I don't know if they could have even worked with him, but, hey.....Anyway, this was an awesome review, thanks for all your hard work!
Please don't preach. Love Beach is NOT bad.
Album broni sie sam po dekadach krytyki. Nawet wyszydzana okladka wygląda sympatycznie. ELP byli wowczas na szczycie swojej kariery. Po tyraniu na sukces polecieli odpoczac na Bahamy. Powstał przyjemny, wakacyjny album. Mimo slabszych fragmentow calkiem udany.
Peter “Signfield”? Lol. It’s “Sinfield” as in “Sin”, not “Sign” and he wrote the lyrics of many great songs, including the lyrics on “In the Court of the Crimson King” , In the “Wake of Poseidon” , “Lizard” and “Islands”, as well as ccasionally added touches of EMS VCS 3 synthesizer, see, e.g., the Ladies of the Road album recorded live on tour in 1971 and '72 or "Indoor Games" and "Happy Family" on the Lizard album. In fact, Fripp became involved with other projects (most notably the Centipede orchestra), which left Sinfield with much of the responsibility for the final version and design of the album Lizard, including the uniquely ornate jacket. Also, he co-wrote the majority of the lyrics with Lake for ELP’s “Brain Salad Surgery” album as well as all of the Greg Lake songs and “Pirates” on “Works Vol. 1” and “Vol. 2” including “Tiger in a Spotlight” and “I Believe in Father Christmas”. He also recorded a really great solo album called “Still” on ELP’s Manticore label which included Lake and John Wetton as well as many past King Crimson alumni, he also wrote the English lyrics for the Italian Prog band PFM to sing on their albums “Photo’s Of Ghosts” and “ The World Became the World”.
“Love Beach” is definitely a half hearted effort by the band with some pretty cheesy songs, but there are also a few good songs as well and I think as it was a contractual obligation album, they just had fun with it. "It's not that Love Beach is a bad album," Lake has said in an interview. "It was an album that the band really didn’t want to make. We were forced to make it contractually, but once we’d decided to do it, we gave it our best shot. So it was another ELP album, but it wasn’t the best of ELP records -- it wasn’t Tarkus, Trilogy, Brain Salad Surgery, Pictures at an Exhibition or Emerson Lake and Palmer, or Works Volume 1. It wasn’t that quality. It was an album that was tired creatively."
Also regarding Sinfield, he produced Roxy Music’s first album as well as the McDonald and Giles solo album and wrote the lyrics to the song “Birdman” on that album, in the 80’s he got into writing more pop songs and also wrote many songs for the band “Buck’s Fizz”, believe it or not, he also wrote the Celine Dion song “Think Twice” on her “Colour Of My Love” album.
Peter Sinfield wrote only the lyrics. The music was by either Greg or Keith.
Open Your Eyes by Yes.
Love Beach wasn't recorded out of spite for the band not being able to do their own thing. According to Keith, the head of Atlantic wanted to the band to attempt to make an album with hit singles that would crossover into the mainstream, much in the similar vein of what bands like Yes and Genesis achieved around that time. They recorded at Chris Blackwell's studio in the Bahamas cause of attacks happening in the UK at the time.
Officer and a Gentleman really needed more work on it - it lacks polish. It could of been a hell of a lot better then.
Oh, you mean "Cocaine Beach"? Also, Pete Sinfield was the long time lyricist for the band (and also for King Crimson), going back to at least "Brain Salad Surgery."
The original had a cool advertisement for t-shirts and poster featuring a silver pirate ship on a black background. That is what I remember most. The songs are horrid. Really. It's what Satan sings to torture new souls on their arrival to hell.
I couldn't have put it better myself, Canario is always stated as the saving grace for this album, it ain't folks !
What about reviewing Tusk, by Fleetwood Mac, that would be very much fun!
I love Love Beach.
Some people will like the album to be contrary or to be a rebel. Maybe this album could be used at Guantanamo prison to punish POW's
I'll admit it wasn't their best album but its still better than about 99.99999999999999% of today's music.
I'm 99.99999999999999% today's jazz, like kamasi washington, is way better than this. Although mainstream is extremly shit, there are a lot of bands that are still very good and in every genre (still not as good as 70's prog in my opinion)
There’s still tons of great shit you can still listen to today. Trust me, it’s out there.
Why not yes and Genesis we're doing the same thing😢
Funny. I actually preferred the first side of soppy pop songs to the proggier second side which seemed pretty lame. I might have to go back and listen to it since people seem to rate it highly.
That comparison to Attack Of The Clones killed me xD
Am i the only one who thinks this album isn't that bad? I mean yeah the album is bad (Taste of my Love is disgraceful) but there is some good songs in here like Canario and Memoirs. If anything it's In the Hot Seat that really showed the worst from the band, seriously fuck that album.
Totally agree. This is not a bad album.
I strongly disagee with what you said about carls drumming on the album. You can still hear his style on these songs
It's not a good album as a whole, that's for sure, but I must say I dig "All I want is you" and "Canario".
Remind me of some of the Asia's work. With either John Wetton or Greg Lake. Very cheesy prog rock commercial music.
Yes has never had an a album as bad as this, but they've had a few that came pretty close. A lot of people would choose Union, but I think that album was actually rather good in comparison to some of their later albums. The last album, Heaven & Earth was pretty bad, but it being Squire's last album I would be hesitant to call it their worst.
Drakus I actually I kinda like Union fight me
I like Union. It was good.
I too have some thoughts on this since ELP is still my favorite. I walked into the record store. I don't remember why, but I saw this. First of all, did I miss something? I didn't know they made a new album. But looking at it, the first thing I notices was the lettering. No where was the normal ELP logo and I had a suspicion about it right away. It didn't look like an ELP album and it probably wasn't going to sound like one. But, it was a new album by them, I gotta buy it. I liked "all I want is you." downhill after that. I thought side 2 was good. But I was excited because I thought "this album is goi ng to be a smash hit! I was wrong fofr obvious reasons and should have known better. The final blow was when I saw the album in a bin - all albums $4.99. Most albums I believe were in the 7 to 8 dollar range.
. Love Beach, is a bad ass album, imagine this album live . gb* ~ hard life (MULDEW)