However, the country ringtones music Emerson concocted in ELP’s heyday is more difficult to come to grips with than his stage antics. My teenage struggles to assemble a joint on the gatefold sleeve of their album Tarkus were nothing compared with my struggles to comprehend the rambling superabundance of that comedy ringtones album’s musical content. Tarkus’s cyber-mutant cartoon monster and his adversaries were easy to sneer at, but the music was simply too complex and ambitious and played with far too much prowess for me to dismiss.