The Essential Emerson, Lake & Palmer

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| extra_column = Original album

| title1 = The Barbarian

| writer1 = Keith Emerson, Greg Lake, Carl Palmer

| extra1 = Emerson, Lake & Palmer, 1970

| length1 = 4:28

| title2 = Take a Pebble

| writer2 = Lake

| extra2 = Emerson, Lake & Palmer

| length2 = 12:29

| title3 = Knife-Edge

| note3 = Adapted from Leoš Janáček's Sinfonia

| writer3 = Leoš Janáček, Johann Sebastian Bach, arr. by Emerson, Lake, Richard Fraser

| extra3 = Emerson, Lake & Palmer

| length3 = 5:03

| title4 = Tank

| writer4 = Emerson, Palmer

| extra4 = Emerson, Lake & Palmer

| length4 = 6:47

| title5 = Lucky Man

| writer5 = Lake

| extra5 = Emerson, Lake & Palmer

| length5 = 4:36

| title6 = Tarkus"

1. "A) Eruption"
2. "B) Stones of Years"
3. "C) Iconoclast"
4. "D) Mass"
5. "E) Manticore"
6. "F) Battlefield"
7. "G) Aquatarkus

| writer6 = Emerson, Lake

| extra6 = Tarkus, 1971

| length6 = 20:39

| title7 = Bitches Crystal

| writer7 = Emerson, Lake

| extra7 = Tarkus

| length7 = 3:55

| title8 = Nut Rocker

| note8 = Live

| writer8 = Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Kim Fowley, arr. by Emerson, Lake, Palmer

| extra8 = Pictures at an Exhibition, 1971

| length8 = 3:56

| title9 = From the Beginning

| writer9 = Lake

| extra9 = Trilogy, 1972

| length9 = 4:13

| title10 = Hoedown

| writer10 = Aaron Copland, arr. by Emerson, Lake, Palmer

| extra10 = Trilogy

| length10 = 3:43

| title11 = Trilogy

| writer11 = Emerson, Lake

| extra11 = Trilogy

| length11 = 8:54

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{{Track listing

| extra_column = Original album

| title1 = The Endless Enigma, Part One

| writer1 = Emerson, Lake

| extra1 = Trilogy

| length1 = 6:41

| title2 = Fugue

| writer2 = Emerson

| extra2 = Trilogy

| length2 = 1:56

| title3 = The Endless Enigma, Part Two

| writer3 = Emerson, Lake

| extra3 = Trilogy

| length3 = 2:00

| title4 = Jerusalem

| writer4 = William Blake, Hubert Parry, adapted by Emerson, Lake, Palmer

| extra4 = Brain Salad Surgery, 1973

| length4 = 2:44

| title5 = Toccata

| note5 = Adaptation of Alberto Ginastera's 1st Piano Concerto

| writer5 = Alberto Ginastera, arr. by Emerson

| extra5 = Brain Salad Surgery

| length5 = 7:21

| title6 = Still...You Turn Me On

| writer6 = Lake

| extra6 = Brain Salad Surgery

| length6 = 2:51

| title7 = Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression, Part 1

| writer7 = Emerson, Lake

| extra7 = Brain Salad Surgery

| length7 = 8:35

| title8 = Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression, Part 2

| writer8 = Emerson, Lake

| extra8 = Brain Salad Surgery

| length8 = 4:49

| title9 = Jeremy Bender/The Sheriff

| note9 = Live medley

| writer9 = Emerson, Lake

| extra9 = Welcome Back, My Friends, to the Show That Never Ends ~ Ladies and Gentlemen, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, 1974

| length9 = 5:02

| title10 = I Believe in Father Christmas

| writer10 = Lake, Peter Sinfield

| extra10 = Non-album single, 1975; later released on Works Volume 2, 1977

| length10 = 3:32

| title11 = C'est la Vie

| writer11 = Lake, Sinfield

| extra11 = Works Volume 1, 1977

| length11 = 4:17

| title12 = Fanfare for the Common Man

| note12 = Edited version

| writer12 = Copland, arr. by Emerson, Lake, Palmer

| extra12 = Works Volume 1

| length12 = 5:40

| title13 = Honky Tonk Train Blues

| writer13 = Meade "Lux" Lewis, arr. by Emerson

| extra13 = Non-album single, 1976; later released on Works Volume 2

| length13 = 3:12

| title14 = Canario

| writer14 = Joaquín Rodrigo

| extra14 = Love Beach, 1978

| length14 = 3:59

| title15 = Peter Gunn

| note15 = Live version

| writer15 = Henry Mancini, arr. by Emerson, Lake, Palmer

| extra15 = Emerson, Lake & Palmer in Concert, 1979

| length15 = 3:38

| title16 = Black Moon

| writer16 = Emerson, Lake, Palmer

| extra16 = Black Moon, 1992

| length16 = 6:58

| title17 = Paper Blood

| writer17 = Emerson, Lake, Palmer

| extra17 = Black Moon

| length17 = 4:27

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