ELP vs Camel

Camel for sure, i never menaged to fully embrace elp. 

I know ELP's output from the debut to Welcome Back My Friends... All of those albums have some really good stuff, but also a lot of material that leaves me cold. Trilogy is I think their best album as a whole, the only one that's more or less good material from beginning to end. Karn Evil 9 is my favourite song from them and contains my favourite keyboard riff ever.

Camel on the other hand is a band that I have a huge soft spot for. Brilliant stuff from Mirage to Moonmadness, then downhill towards the 80s when they had a couple of very good albums in Nude and Stationary Traveller. Dust and Dreams continued on the good standards set by these albums, but on Rajaz and A Nod and a Wink they returned to the same level they last were on Moonmadness. Love both albums. And especially I love Latimer's vocal performance on both. His voice truly gained a lot of character and emotion as years went by. Definitely one of my dearest favourite bands from the prog field, if not the dearest of all.

Fleetway wrote: Camel by a mile. I dont see why all the hate for camel around these here parts. Camel has done 14 albums of wich im in love with 12. ELP has made like 100 albums of wich 50 are turds. That said I do like ELP alot. But only on afew albums.   Blacksword wrote: Camel gets the vote. ELP have a superior drummer and singer (not that I generally rate Greg Lake very highly) but Camel have Andy Latimers lead guitar, flute. Pete Bardens more varied keyboard sound, and of course, most importantly, they write better songs in my personal opinion. I think they also progressed more interestingly, and survived the 70's better than ELP.   I absolutely agree with this except that i like Andy Latimers singing. Especialy on the later albums.

I'd certainly agree that he improved with age as a singer.

Camel gets the vote.

ELP have a superior drummer and singer (not that I generally rate Greg Lake very highly) but Camel have Andy Latimers lead guitar, flute. Pete Bardens more varied keyboard sound, and of course, most importantly, they write better songs in my personal opinion. I think they also progressed more interestingly, and survived the 70's better than ELP.

Camel by a mile.  While I do like a lot of ELP, and agree that some of their albums should be in the top 100, they were a bit too inconsistent for me, and quite often self-indulgent.  I find Camel's music to be much more emotional, without so much focus on technique over emotional content.  Latimer is the man, and I don't mind his vocals really either, although I always thought that Bardens and then Sinclair were better vocalists.

crimson87 wrote: Just finished Moonmadness ,and it's a pity because I wasn't even moved by that record like I was before. It all seemed so... harmless

maybe you should listen to ' 'the hot seat '' or ''love beach ''

camel

Emerson, Latimer and Palmer ,......... oops! Terrorism again. I mean the Us vs Them thing again, really! Hey Camel is good  and Elp is good, they both matter , they both deserve , they both are prog. C'mon Micky , let's both attack some sh***tier band , OK? Like , the Stones , fer example (hahahahahahaha)