Works Volume 2

Infobox Album | Name = Works Volume II
Type = Album
Artist = Emerson, Lake & Palmer


Released = November 10, 1977
Recorded = 1973-77
Genre = Symphonic rock
Length = 43:54
Label = Atlantic Records
Shout! Factory
Producer = Greg Lake
Last album = "Works Volume I"
(1977)
This album = "Works Volume II"
(1977)
Next album = "Love Beach"
(1978)
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:sxkbikb6bb29 link]

"Works Volume II" is an album released in 1977 by Emerson, Lake & Palmer. Unlike "Works Volume I" (which consisted of three solo sides and one ensemble side), "Volume II" was a single album which seemingly was a compilation of leftover tracks from other album sessions that had not made those albums. While many derided the album for its apparent lack of focus, others felt it showed a different side of the band, with blues, bluegrass and jazz being very prominent as musical genres in this recording.

Album material

"When The Apple Blossoms Bloom...", "Tiger In A Spotlight" and "Brain Salad Surgery" had been recorded at the 1973 sessions for the album "Brain Salad Surgery" but did not appear on it - rather strangely in the case of the latter.

"Volume II" also included a stripped-down version of Greg Lake's "I Believe In Father Christmas". An orchestral version had previously been released in the UK as a single and became something of an annual Christmas standard there, alongside such others as Slade's "Merry Xmas, Everybody" and Wizzard's "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day".

Track listing

#"Tiger in a Spotlight" (Keith Emerson, Greg Lake, Carl Palmer, Peter Sinfield) – 4:32
#"When the Apple Blossoms Bloom in the Windmills of Your Mind I'll Be Your Valentine" (Emerson, Lake, Palmer) – 3:56
#"Bullfrog" (Ron Aspery, Mick Hodgkinson, Palmer)– 3:49
#"Brain Salad Surgery" (Emerson, Lake, Sinfield) – 3:07
#"Barrelhouse Shake-Down" (Emerson) – 3:37
#"Watching Over You" (Lake, Sinfield) – 3:54
#"So Far to Fall" (Emerson, Lake, Sinfield) – 4:55
#"Maple Leaf Rag" (Scott Joplin) – 2:00
#"I Believe in Father Christmas" (Lake, Sinfield) – 3:17
#"Close But Not Touching" (Palmer) – 3:18
#"Honky Tonk Train Blues" (Meade "Lux" Lewis) – 3:09
#"Show Me the Way to Go Home" (L. James Campbell, Reginald Connelly) – 3:30

Bonus Tracks

# "Tiger in a Spotlight" - 4:16
# "Watching over You" - 4:31
# "Show Me the Way To Go Home" - 5:34

ingles

* Tiger in a Spotlight / So Far to Fall
* Watching Over You / Hallowed Be Thy Name