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I just figured it was a marketing gimmick.
...well, it was certainly catchy. Flavorless, but catchy. I can see why the band didn't really go anywhere though. That might be the most painfully average piece of music I've ever encountered. Listening to it was like eating a wafer.
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The hype backlash is probably why a lot of people didn't like it that much.
It's not the best album of the decade, but it's certainly a (in my opinion) fantastic album. This probably is because I consider myself a fan of hers, but I think every song on the album is pretty fucking good.
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To clarify, The Who were probably the first mainstream (as opposed to “prog”) band to have synths as a major component of their sound. The Beatles, the Turtles and the Monkees beat them to using them and Emerson, Lake & Palmer were probably the first rock band to use the Moog as one of the main components of their overall sound.
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Surely it would have been Emerson's previous band, the Nice?
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Actually, while The Nice were innovative in that they paved the way for progressive rock, Keith Emerson used synthesizers only occasionally when he played for them, instead relying on Hammond organs and grand pianos. Of course, Emerson’s unique keyboard playing was already apparent at the time. It was only after joining ELP that the Moog synthesizer became a total and permanent part of his sound. He holds the distinction, however, of being the first artist to ever tour with a Moog synthesizer.
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Just awesome like that
As for The Beatles, I'm pretty sure they only used synths on Abbey Road, on "Maxwell's Silver Hammer", "Here Comes the Sun", and "Because".
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I shall take your word for it; ELP are probably the only mainstream prog group from the seventies I've never quite been able to get into.
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Emerson never actually got his hands on a Moog until the first ELP album. The Nice were revolutionary in the idea of a rock & roll band fronted by a keyboardist (mind you, the idea was prevalent in the early days, see Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, but it had kind of fallen out of favour by the time the psychedelic 60s rolled round).
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Born This Way's drop to 99 cents was probably due to Hype Backlash. The album was overhyped beyond belief and with Gaga already being everywhere, most listeners probably wanted something else.
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