Album · 1973
Brain Salad Surgery
Brain Salad Surgery is a 1973 progressive rock album by Emerson, Lake & Palmer. It runs 8 tracks across 58 minutes. Riffiter listeners rate it 5.0/5 from 1 rating.
Progressive Rock · Rock · Art Rock
Your rating
- 5.0 /5
- 1 rating
- 77 /100
- 6 critics
- 8
- Tracks
- 58 min
- Runtime
- 150 bpm
- Tempo
- F minor
- Key
Ratings
1 rating · avg 5.0
Recent activity
Chris5.0★
Reviews
No reviews yet.
5 people have played it start to finish
Critics
6 publications
- Classic Rock RevisitedA+
- AllMusic4.5/5
- The Daily VaultA−
- The Rolling Stone Record Guide4/5
- Christgaus Record GuideC−
- MusicHound Rock2.5/5
Scores collected from the English Wikipedia ratings box (CC BY-SA). Ratings belong to the publications; follow a link to read the review.
Brain Salad Surgery album cover
The Brain Salad Surgery cover was designed by H.R. Giger.
- Design
- H.R. Giger
Your rating for the cover
Tracklist
8 tracks · 58 min
Ranked head-to-head
1 vs 1
Stars say how much you like Brain Salad Surgery. They never settle which song on it you would defend. Pick between two at a time and the order builds itself.
Nobody has finished a run on this record yet. Rank Brain Salad Surgery's songs yourself →
More like this
About
Brain Salad Surgery is the fourth studio album by progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released in 1973 and the first under their Manticore Records imprint. It fuses rock and classical themes. Greg Lake wrote the lyrics for the album with the assistance (on two tracks, "Karn Evil 9: 3rd Impression" and "Benny the Bouncer") of former King Crimson bandmate (and, beginning with this album, frequent ELP collaborator) Peter Sinfield. This was the first Emerson, Lake & Palmer album to have no songwriting contributions from Carl Palmer. The cover art is by H. R. Giger.
In brief
- Is Brain Salad Surgery good?
- Riffiter listeners rate Brain Salad Surgery 5.0/5 from 1 rating.
- When was Brain Salad Surgery released?
- Brain Salad Surgery was released in 1973.
- How many tracks are on Brain Salad Surgery?
- Brain Salad Surgery has 8 tracks, with a runtime of 58 minutes.
- What genre is Brain Salad Surgery?
- Brain Salad Surgery is catalogued under Progressive Rock, Rock, Art Rock.
- What BPM is Brain Salad Surgery?
- Brain Salad Surgery runs at a median tempo of 150 BPM across its tracks, most often in F minor, measured from audio analysis.
- What albums are similar to Brain Salad Surgery?
- Listeners of Brain Salad Surgery also rate Red by King Crimson, Selling England by the Pound by Genesis, H to He, Who Am the Only One by Van der Graaf Generator.
Brain Salad Surgery at a glance
- Labels
- Atlantic Records, Manticore Records
- Recorded at
- Advision Studios
- Produced by
- Greg Lake
Facts from Wikidata (CC0).