Tarkus

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Tarkus is the second album by British progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released in 1971 (see 1971 in music).

"Tarkus" seems to be the hybrid machine-animal depicted on the cover. The inner gatefold sleeve featured a sequence of pictures depicting battles between this armadillo-tank hybrid and other half-mechanical creatures, until its eventual defeat by a manticore. The band later chose the name Manticore Records for their self-owned record label.

Since the album got its name from its famous side-long suite on side one, many fans think of it as a concept album, but technically it is not, as the songs on the second side are not connected to the suite on the first side.

The final track, Are You Ready Eddy?, was written for their engineer Eddie Offord.

In 1993 the album was digitally remastered by Joseph M. Palmaccio. The remastered version was released by Victory Records in the UK and Rhino Records in the US.

1 Track listing
2 Personnel
3 Production
4 Charts

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Track listing

"Tarkus" (Emerson, Lake) - 20:35
- "Eruption" - 2:43
- "Stones of Years" - 3:44
- "Iconoclast" - 1:15
- "Mass" - 3:11
- "Manticore" - 1:52
- "Battlefield" - 3:51
- "Aquatarkus" - 3:59
"Jeremy Bender" (Emerson, Lake) - 1:46
"Bitches Crystal" (Emerson, Lake) - 3:55
"The Only Way" [hymn] (Emerson, Lake) - 3:48
"Infinite Space" [conclusion] (Emerson, Palmer) - 3:18
"A Time and a Place" (Emerson, Lake, Palmer) - 2:57
"Are You Ready Eddy?" (Emerson, Lake, Palmer) - 2:10