The Return of the Manticore

Infobox Album | Name = The Return of the Manticore
Type = Box set
Artist = Emerson, Lake & Palmer


Released = November 16, 1993
Recorded = January 1971-September 1993
Genre = Progressive rock
Length = 4:53:25
Label = Victory Music (1993 release)
Rhino Records (reissue)
Producer = Keith Emerson,
Greg Lake,
Carl Palmer,
Eddie Offord
Reviews = *'Allmusic'Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:6uqpg44btv4z link]
Last album = "Emerson, Lake and Palmer Live at the Royal Albert Hall"
(1992)
This album = "The Return of the Manticore"
(1993)
Next album = "In the Hot Seat"
(1994)

The Return of the Manticore is a 4-disc retrospective on the band Emerson, Lake and Palmer's career. It was released in 1993 and features several new recordings of previously released songs, most notably a studio recording of "Pictures at an Exhibition," presented in Dolby Surround Sound. Also, a live recording of Dave Brubeck's "Rondo" features on disc 2; the track was previously unreleased on any live or studio album by ELP.

The box set is a fairly comprehensive cross-section of the band's history, offering tracks from all of ELP's studio and live albums (at the time of release), as well as new ELP renditions of hits previously recorded by bands they were members of prior to forming ELP.

Disc one

# Touch and Go (new recording, originally recorded by Emerson Lake and Powell) (Emerson/Lake) – 3:01
# Hang on to a Dream (new recording, originally recorded by The Nice [Keith Emerson's band prior to ELP] ) (Hardin) – 4:27
# 21st Century Schizoid Man (new recording, originally recorded by King Crimson [Greg Lake's band prior to ELP] ) (Fripp/Giles/Lake/McDonald/Sinfield) – 3:07
# Fire (new recording, originally recorded by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown [Carl Palmer's band prior to ELP] ) (Brown/Crane/Ker/Finesilver) – 3:24
# Pictures at an Exhibition (new recording) – 15:33
#:a) Promenade (Mussorgsky) – 1:46
#:b) The Gnome (Mussorgsky/Palmer) – 2:07
#:c) Promenade (Mussorgsky/Lake) – 1:44
#:d) The Sage (Lake) – 3:10
#:e) The Hut of Baba Yaga (Mussorgsky) – 1:16
#:f) The Great Gates of Kiev (Mussorgsky/Lake) – 5:30
# I Believe in Father Christmas (new recording) – 3:26
# a) Introductory Fanfare (Emerson/Palmer) – 0:53, b) Peter Gunn (Mancini) – 3:35
# Tiger in a Spotlight (Emerson/Lake/Palmer/Sinfield) – 4:32
# Toccata (Ginastera, arr. by Emerson/Palmer) – 7:20
# Trilogy (Emerson/Lake) – 8:53
# Tank (Emerson/Palmer) – 6:47
# Lucky Man (Lake) – 4:37

Disc two

# Tarkus – 20:35
#:a) Eruption (Emerson) – 2:43
#:b) Stones of Years (Emerson/Lake) – 3:44
#:c) Iconoclast (Emerson) – 1:15
#:d) Mass (Emerson/Lake) – 3:11
#:e) Manticore (Emerson) – 1:52
#:f) Battlefield (Emerson/Lake) – 3:51
#:g) Aquatarkus (Emerson) – 3:59
# From the Beginning (Lake) – 4:14
# Take a Pebble [live version] – 22:48
#:a) Take a Pebble [beginning] (Lake) – 4:58
#:b) Lucky Man (Lake) – 3:02
#:c) Piano Improvisations – 11:55
#:d) Take a Pebble [conclusion] – 2:53
# Knife Edge (Janáček, arr. Emerson, Lake & Fraser) – 5:05
# Paper Blood (Emerson, Lake & Palmer) – 4:26
# Hoedown (Copland, arr. Emerson, Lake & Palmer) – 3:43
# Rondo [live version] (previously unreleased) (Brubeck) – 14:28

Disc three

# The Barbarian (Bartok, arr. Emerson, Lake & Palmer) – 4:28
# Still...You Turn Me On (Lake) – 2:52
# The Endless Enigma – 10:37
#:a) The Endless Enigma Part 1 (Emerson/Lake) – 6:41
#:b) Fugue (Emerson) – 1:56
#:c) The Endless Enigma Part 2 (Emerson/Lake) – 2:00
# C'est La Vie (Lake/Sinfield) – 4:16
# The Enemy God Dances with the Black Spirits (Prokofiev) – 3:21
# Bo Diddley (previously unreleased) (Emerson/Lake/Palmer) – 5:03
# Bitches Crystal (Emerson/Lake) – 3:55
# A Time and a Place (Emerson/Lake/Palmer) – 2:57
# Living Sin (Emerson/Lake/Palmer) – 3:12
# Karn Evil 9 – 29:37
#:a) 1st Impression (Emerson/Lake) – 13:23
#:b) 2nd Impression (Emerson) – 7:07
#:c) 3rd Impression (Emerson/Lake/Sinfield) – 9:07
# Honky Tonk Train Blues (Mead (Lux) Lewis) – 3:11

Disc four

# Jerusalem (Parry/Blake, arr. by Emerson, Lake & Palmer) – 2:44
# Fanfare for the Common Man (Aaron Copland, arr. by Emerson) – 9:40
# Black Moon (Emerson/Lake/Palmer) – 6:58
# Watching Over You (Lake/Sinfield) – 3:54
# Piano Concerto No. 1: Third Movement (Emerson) – 6:48
# For You (Lake/Sinfield) – 4:27
# Prelude and Fugue (previously unreleased) (Gulda) – 3:15
# Memoirs of an Officer and a Gentleman – 20:12
#:a) Prologue/The Education of a Gentleman (Emerson/Sinfield) – 5:34
#:b) Love at First Sight (Emerson/Sinfield) – 5:36
#:c) Letters from the Front (Emerson/Sinfield) – 5:18
#:d) Honourable Company (Emerson) – 3:46
# Pirates (Emerson/Lake/Sinfield) – 13:18
# Affairs of the Heart (Lake/Downes) – 3:46

Personnel

*Keith Emerson: Keyboards
*Greg Lake: Vocals, Acoustic and Electric Guitars, Bass
*Carl Palmer: Drums and Percussion