Brain Salad Surgery: ELP’s Dystopian Masterpiece
The year was nineteen seventy-three. Punk was a distant threat brewing in smoky clubs. Synthesizers were still considered exotic instruments, and concept albums were the height of artistic ambition. From this fertile, if slightly pretentious, ground sprang “Brain Salad Surgery,” the fourth studio album by Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP). It was audacious. It was … Read more
