0333. Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Pictures At An Exhibition

Common law states that all prog rock must be in the form of concept albums lest the performers be bound in ordinary clothes and good haircuts for the rest of their lives and thus this live album is dedicated mostly to variations of the Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky's suite of the same name (with a couple of their own material interspersed in between).

The theme is exactly what the title says: it's pictures at an exhibition and you're walking from one painting to another. They perform it well and I got to say they make a better cover band than unique composers, cause compared to Tarkus this is a far more coherent thing and they actually blend in their own material pretty well alongside their adaptations of Mussorgsky's.

The Nut Rocker (neither their own, nor Mussorgsky's, and maybe best known to Swedes as performed by Robert Wells it's the rock version of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker) is more amusing than good, but works as closure for this album.