Artist: EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER
Album: LOVE BEACH REMASTERED (CD)

Year: 1978/ 2004
Media type: CD

Love Beach is a 1978 album by English progressive rock group Emerson, Lake and Palmer. It was the band's final album of original studio recordings until Black Moon (1992), and was produced to satisfy contractual obligations with the group's record company. It was a critical and commercial disappointment, charting at #55 on the Billboard 200, although it did eventually go gold. The group was reportedly not satisfied with the album; drummer Carl Palmer even compared the portray of the band in the cover photograph as more akin to disco stars the Bee Gees.

Critical appraisal of the album is mixed; some reviewers consider it the nadir of ELP's 1970s output, while others refer to the continued popularity of songs such as "Memoirs of an Officer and a Gentleman". Some outraged fans even went so far as to give it the nickname "love bitch". [1] Writing in Rolling Stone magazine at the time of the album's release, reviewer Michael Bloom said that "Love Beach isn't simply bad, it's downright pathetic. Stale and full of ennui, this album makes washing the dishes seem a more creative act by comparison."

TRACKLIST:

"All I Want Is You" (Lake, Sinfield) – 2:35
"Love Beach" (Lake, Sinfield) – 2:46
"Taste of My Love" (Lake, Sinfield) – 3:33
"The Gambler" (Emerson, Lake, Sinfield) – 3:23
"For You" (Lake, Sinfield) – 4:28
"Canario (From Fantasia para un Gentilhombre)" (J. Rodrigo) – 4:00

"Memoirs of an Officer and a Gentleman" (Emerson, Sinfield) – 20:16
- Prologue / The Education of a Gentleman
- Love at First Sight
- Letters from the Front
- Honourable Company (A March)

Bonus Tracks:
"Canario" - 4:38
"Taste of my Love" - 3:01
"Letters From the Front" - 8:52

LINE-UP:

Keith Emerson: keyboards
Greg Lake: vocals, guitar, bass
Carl Palmer: drums, percussion
Peter Sinfield: lyrics