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A fantastic sound at last due to the new remaster, and nice to have the 5.1 option on disc 3. Biggest problem is that despite appearances, there isn't a note of strictly new music on this album: The claims to unreleased 35th anniversary editions of Karn Evil 9 on disc 2 are more of the same first mixes which we first heard for Jerusalem on the recent box set. They are the same performances we already have, but sound only slightly different. Same goes for the first mix of Toccata. The instrumental backing track to KE 9 part 3 just sounds like the usual version without any vocals on it. Themore… NME flexidisc material and the Apple Blossoms/BSS tracks were all released on the last UK Sanctuary release. So, despite 3 discs, we've heard it all before. It would have been better to track down some early live versions from the German dates of 1973, before the studio versions were recorded, to serve as working comparisons: Shouldn't this be what a definitive anniversary edition is all about: Other bands seem to have found new things to put onto their corresponding deluxe reissues. The usual problems of shoddy proof-reading also raise their ugly heads again: Ginastera spelt incorrectly throughout the booklet essay, the Manticore studio referred to as the Manicure studio(!), and the band members' previous bands listed supposedly respectively, but in the wrong order with Atomic Rooster appearing as Keith's band and The Nice as Carl's. A small point too, but the album title has not been printed in the slot left blank for it on the spine of the cover (compare it to the new Pictures release, which follows the same template and has its title in the slot). Timing on disc 2 is listed as 00.00 minutes, and Toccata is spelt wrongly on disc two's tracklisting. This all-time classic deserves better, but will we ever see another reissue?

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CD

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Retail

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Title:

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery (2008) Retail CD

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Front

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