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Poll Question: Which band do you prefer?
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ELP have been my favourite band since I was 14 (before that Queen perhaps). Only needed to see Keith Emerson doing 'things' to an organ and I was hooked. ELP made the keyboard sexy and made prog something that could be put on a stage alongside Black Sabbath and Deep Purple. They were as heavy as hell and in the 70's were even called 'Heavy Metal' as strange as that seems now. No shrinking violets and the only so called 'Supergroup' not to immediately implode of that era. They were everything rock music was about but could play classical, jazz and folk music. Unbelievable band but here is the rub.. they should have stopped in 1974. Their reputation and importance and legacy would have been protected. They carried on too long. Remember it was just the 3 of them. No one else. They couldn't change that but why would they?

ELO were a very different animal and even early ELO with Roy Wood is totally different to the later commercial AOR version of the band. They were constantly on the radio in the seventies and tunes like Livin Thing and Mr Blue Sky were and still are great. ELP couldn't write a catchy tune to save their life. But they were not ELP. Were the 2 bands intersected was in massive over the top live production and both released a double album withing months of each other in 1977. If I was voting for a choice betwen Works Vol One and Out Of The Blue then I would go for the latter, but as far as bands go, ELP every day of the week and twice on Sundays!
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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

ELP. ELO does zip for me.


not that i would expect you to like it, but this was maybe my first favourite ELO songs when I was a child (my eldest brother was into ELO)

"Mission (A World Record)" off a New World Record.


I heard quite a bit of ELO back in the '90s while at university. My neighbor hung out with us, and he had the big box set. I know they've a very dedicated fan base, but I could never get into them.


Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

Weirdly, perhaps, ELP's In the Hot Seat was not nearly as bad for me as I was expecting.


ItHS isn't "bad" so much as it's not memorable. It feels like a band going through the paces, a band that we expect so much more from. But I wouldn't say it's necessarily worse than the 3 record that Emerson and Palmer did with Robert Berry.
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Originally posted by Bj-1 Bj-1 wrote:

^I just gave GG a vote in that thread since it was still open.. Tongue


So I guess for you it goes:

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Yep Wink Big smile

still love ELP though.. Tongue





Edited by Bj-1 - 5 hours 17 minutes ago at 19:12
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Originally posted by Bj-1 Bj-1 wrote:

^I just gave GG a vote in that thread since it was still open.. Tongue


So I guess for you it goes:

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^I just gave GG a vote in that thread since it was still open.. Tongue
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Wow, it looks like ELP is running away with this. I'm not sure they would do so good if they were up against Gentle Giant though.


Actually it looks like it was pretty close. Wink https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=114398


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Wow, it looks like ELP is running away with this. I'm not sure they would do so good if they were up against Gentle Giant though.
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ELP. ELO got annoyingly poppy after the first few albums.

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Grew up with much of ELO and like them a lot, but I mostly prefer ELP overall.
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5 minutes of Tarkus encapsulates more 'music' and sound than everything ELO combined
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This one is so easy to me as it can be, ELP.
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I like ELO, but ELP easy in a walk. Live, ELP had few equals in the rock world when it came to musicianship and showmanship. Always a fun show.
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Originally posted by Floydoid Floydoid wrote:

Both are exceptional albums but ELP's debut is a masterpiece.

This poll is about the bands and not specific albums.
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It has to be ELO for me, they're much much more consistent
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Both are exceptional albums but ELP's debut is a masterpiece.
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Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

ELP. ELO does zip for me.


not that i would expect you to like it, but this was maybe my first favourite ELO songs when I was a child (my eldest brother was into ELO)

"Mission (A World Record)" off a New World Record.



Weirdly, perhaps, ELP's In the Hot Seat was not nearly as bad for me as I was expecting.



I've heard that song called garbage yet I quite enjoy it.

Edited by Logan - 9 hours 51 minutes ago at 14:38
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Neither are really among my favorites but I would choose ELP over anything by ELO, any day!
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ELP. ELO does zip for me.
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Originally posted by Manuel Manuel wrote:

ELP witho a doubt. ELO is good, specially their early work, but ELP certainly was a better band, at least in my book.


Interesting, i have not thought that ELP was good beyond its first few albums. I would say that ELO's 1974 work is much better than ELP with the late 70s works, but then I also prefer ts earlier albums to those of ELP. I appreciate ELP's debut the most, and used to like trilogy very much.
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ELP witho a doubt. ELO is good, specially their early work, but ELP certainly was a better band, at least in my book.
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