Reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| Classic Rock | |
| Georgiy Starostin | (9/15) |
| Rolling Stone | (favorable) |
Allmusic's retrospective review was largely negative, particularly criticizing the solo sides of Keith Emerson ("on the level of a good music-student piece, without much original language") and Greg Lake (""C'est la Vie," the featured single, says little that "Still...You Turn Me On," from their previous album, didn't say better and shorter"). They offered some praise for the Carl Palmer and group sides, but concluded that the group songs "cover a lot of old ground, albeit in ornate and stylish fashion."
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“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
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—Walter Pater (1839–1894)