A rhetorical Q really, as I know there will be.
For me Focus' 1974 album is the best they ever made. With the actual Concerto on side 2 being the best piece of music they ever put on vinyl.
IMO it is the perfect mix of serious, sometimes heavy, rock with great synth, great guitar and great bass and drum playing with minimal vocalising on their own compositions with many killer riffs. Some very Dark Sideish Pink Floyd moments on there in fact.
For me this is what ELP should have focused on being and tried more to avoid the silly hayride stuff and elevator music versions of classical pieces that they often indulged in.
This for me is how I would have liked to have seen Ekseption evolve, into a true serious prog outfit writing all their own music rather than doing classical covers.
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