Are there any albums you consider perfect?

The 2 best things about Brain Salad Surgery, the artwork,
and the track Benny the Bouncer!, it probably is a more meaningful song, for those living and being dragged up by their doc Martin boot laces in our ill gotten teen days in the UK around that time of the albums release, hooligans working ie as night club bouncers keeping in 'fighting' shape for kicking butts at 3pm every Saturday come rain or shine from Aug/May. That's my personal understanding of the song, whether or not Lake(?) wrote it with football and general hooliganism in mind very prevalent in those crazy times, who knows?,
if ya kno' wha' i mean gov'ner.

Tarkus? Jeremy Bender??lol

""Emerson, Lake & Palmer" does not have a lighter cut."

"Lucky Man"

Very good + a hit, but light/commercial by ELP standards.

OK, Mapman. I'm not going to argue that one.

'Lucky man' good song, ruined for me at end by the twonky tonk high pitched needless meanderings on the synths/keyboards.
Now where is that 'Trilogy' cd? for a bit of 'Hoedown!

I'll never forget the beatdown ELP took when I saw them at the Fillmore East back in the day. I was a huge fan, excited that we scored tickets. Wasn't aware that Edgar Winter's White Trash was 2nd billing. Well, being the era that it was, I think the whole audience was trippin' on acid, expecting a psychedelic ELP roller coaster. Out comes Edgar & the boys, basically performing their whole 'Roadwork Live' record. Poor ELP had to follow FOUR sweaty encores! 1st song was 'Barbarian' followed by the side-long tune from Tarkus. People were walking out in droves! Ah, the good ol' days!;)