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Stand out cut from the LP are “Still…You Turn Me On” & “Karn Evil 9”
The album climbed to number 11 on the Billboard 200 and stayed in the charts for 47 weeks, more than any other Emerson, Lake & Palmer album.
The working title for the album was Medious’ expression Whip Some Skull on Ya. Subsequently, the album title was changed to Brain Salad Surgery, which has the same meaning as Whip Some Skull on Ya. The phrase was probably taken from the song “Right Place, Wrong Time” by Dr. John, which contains the line “I been running trying to get hung up in my mind, got to give myself a little talking to this time, just need a little brain salad surgery, got to cure this insecurity”.