[The Watcher]

I would give the first ELP a spin as well, Tarkus is a great song, yet it's unrepresentative of ELP as a whole - I think the first album represents them at their peak in terms of musicianship and before they went a little crazy with the over the top stuff...... Still I think you make an interesting point when you reference ELP is "full of prog stereotypes people hate", it's funny because ELP was what progressive rock represented at the time to most people - same with bands like Genesis with the costume changes and such (Genesis are obviously excellent, I just don't care about costumes) - there were a lot of preposterous elements yet thats what prog was...... That excess was what made prog so unique, regardless if it was Spring having THREE mellotron players or ELP or whatnot........