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"Tarkus" is the title track of Emerson, Lake & Palmer's second album. The progressive rock epic clocks in at 20:35. It was the longest studio song by the band until the three impressions of "Karn Evil 9". The name "Tarkus" refers to the armadillo-tank from the William Neal paintings on the album cover. The artist has explained that the name is an amalgamation between 'Tartarus' (a place of punishment mentioned in 2 Peter 2:4) and 'carcass' (hence the name being written in bones on the album cover). Consequently, the name refers to the "futility of war, a man made mess with symbols of mutated destruction." The song "Tarkus" itself supposedly follows the adventures of Tarkus from his birth, through a fight with a manticore, which he loses and concludes with an aquatic version of Tarkus named "Aquatarkus". Keith Emerson, when asked what work he is proudest of, named his Piano Concerto (from the ''Works'' release) and Tarkus. ==Movements== "Tarkus" itself is broken down into seven parts: #"Eruption" (instrumental) — 0:00 #"Stones of Years" — 2:43 #"Iconoclast" (instrumental) — 6:27 #"Mass" — 7:43 #"Manticore" (instrumental) — 10:55 #"Battlefield" — 12:47 #"Aquatarkus" (instrumental) — 16:39 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tarkus (song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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