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Emerson Lake and Palmer's second album Tarkus, done after their eponymously named first effort. In many ways, I always regarded this as being at least as good--if not better in some ways--than the first, mainly because of the " Tarkus Suite" which comprised the entire Side One {oh, the good old days of vinyl!} of the record {remember lps, anyone?}. What ELP did by devoting a whole side to one song was very radical and innovative for its time. I'm not sure if they were actually the first prog rock group to do this--but whether they were or not--the effect and impression were awesome indeed! How it fared commercially as opposed to their first album I don't know.