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RoyFairbank 
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 Posted: May 11 2010 at 15:26 |
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For me this Killer Queen and We are the Champions vs. my beloved Electric Light Orchestra.
I haven't heard much more from Queen but my image of them is a .... glam band that is happy to work with ...lord Adam Lambert. Yuk!
Edited by RoyFairbank - May 11 2010 at 15:27
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Anthony
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Posted: May 11 2010 at 18:19 |
 RoyFairbank wrote:
For me this Killer Queen and We are the Champions vs. my beloved Electric Light Orchestra.
I haven't heard much more from Queen but my image of them is a .... glam band that is happy to work with ...lord Adam Lambert. Yuk!
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The-time-is-now
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Posted: May 12 2010 at 14:07 |
ELO.
Queen is less progressive, to me.
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Posted: May 12 2010 at 14:16 |
RoyFairbank wrote:
For me this Killer Queen and We are the Champions vs. my beloved Electric Light Orchestra.
I haven't heard much more from Queen but my image of them is a .... glam band that is happy to work with ...lord Adam Lambert. Yuk!
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Oh come on! That's just Brian and Roger at menopause. Cut them some slack! ( that being said, Rrrroger is still the love of my life ) So, if you have the time get Queen II and we'll talk afterwards. 
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Posted: May 12 2010 at 15:36 |
Queen. ELO is about as interesting as . . . some other not very interesting thing. 
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esky
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Posted: May 13 2010 at 10:27 |
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Queen? In this forum? But anyway, I'll go with ELO although they could always be counted on to be a little smarmy and candy-ass. As for Queen, they were rockers who flirted with prog in snippets here and there along the way.
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AtomicCrimsonRush
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Posted: May 14 2010 at 05:53 |
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cocaine
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Posted: August 21 2010 at 06:34 |
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ELO were inspired by The Beatles. Queen was inspired by ELO. I feel Queen 'copied' ELO but I don't mean copy in a bad way. Many many ELO ideas viz. orchestra, vocals, chord progressions, piano, ended up in Queen songs.
Compare
Sweet Talkin Woman -v- I want to break free
for example.
(And then compare
Night in the city -v- A day in the life, and Starlight -v- Live and let die!!!).
Anyway, my vote goes to ELO for sure! It has a classic groove, it's so smooth. A lot more funk (at least in the sound production). But thank goodness for Queen and The Beatles too...
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cocaine
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Posted: August 21 2010 at 06:50 |
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Sorry for the mistake. Live and let die (McCartney) was 'inspired' by Starlight. So McCartney inspired by ELO which was in turn inspired by McCartney.
It's like a 'musical oneness Utopia'.
By the way, why did everyone stop talking about this almost 2 months ago?
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Snow Dog
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Posted: August 21 2010 at 06:51 |
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This is easy for me because I think ELO suck the big one.
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Posted: August 21 2010 at 07:24 |
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and Jeff Lynne is actualy quite an underrated (yes i said underrated), singer he have a perfect vocal tone which brings tears in youre eyes, on he's best he kan give Roy Orbison a real challange vocaly, and he is also a qiute okey guitaris as well, not a shredder but i have seen he's fingger flye over the frettbord on some ochasions.
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cocaine
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Posted: August 21 2010 at 08:28 |
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I think Snow Boy is a Genesis fan. Fair enough. I think I moved off track a little with the Beatles, Aginor with Roy (perhaps) and Snow Boy with Genesis.
(This thread was originally ELO-v-Queen)
But yes, to get to the last point, Roy Orbison was perhaps the greatest voice ever recorded (at least in non-classical music). Even Elvis said so...
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Snow Dog
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Posted: August 21 2010 at 08:37 |
cocaine wrote:
I think Snow Boy is a Genesis fan. Fair enough. I think I moved off track a little with the Beatles, Aginor with Roy (perhaps) and Snow Boy with Genesis.
(This thread was originally ELO-v-Queen)
But yes, to get to the last point, Roy Orbison was perhaps the greatest voice ever recorded (at least in non-classical music). Even Elvis said so... |
I never even mentioned Genesis. ELO suck imo...end of.
I presume you are referring to me. I may be wrong.
Edited by Snow Dog - August 21 2010 at 08:42
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cocaine
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Posted: August 21 2010 at 08:51 |
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Sorry, I was looking at the picture (with recent tracks and top artists from last.fm), and since AtomicCrimsonRush had pictures of Pink Floyd and Genesis I was reading too much into it.
My fault...
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Posted: August 21 2010 at 10:00 |
cocaine wrote:
Sorry, I was looking at the picture (with recent tracks and top artists from last.fm), and since AtomicCrimsonRush had pictures of Pink Floyd and Genesis I was reading too much into it.
My fault...
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himtroy
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Posted: August 21 2010 at 12:57 |
ELO by a thousand miles. They have some AMAZING work (actually a lot of amazing work), some okay work, and some that I could take of leave.
Queen has a few good songs and a LOT of generic filler songs in my opinion. (I said in my opinion, before some fanboy goes off on me). And I never really saw the fascination with Queen other than Mercury having a good voice.
Also, ELO is a good prog rock band, Queen is a generic rock band that occasionally has moments that are debatably progressive.
Edited by himtroy - August 21 2010 at 12:59
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Posted: August 21 2010 at 12:59 |
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This by a country mile.
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Posted: August 05 2011 at 01:44 |
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I'll take ELO, just because they were more consistent to me. Queen had 4 writers, and sometimes wrote boring songs. Jeff Lynne, in my honest and seemingly unique opinion, never wrote a bad song.
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Nothing to say here. Nothing at all. Nothing is easy.
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giselle
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Posted: August 14 2011 at 04:33 |
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I prefer ELO because Jeff Lynne is much superior songwriter to anything anyone in Queen can produce, and even though Queen are the superior musicians and a better group.
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Posted: August 14 2011 at 12:33 |
giselle wrote:
I prefer ELO because Jeff Lynne is much superior songwriter to anything anyone in Queen can produce, and even though Queen are the superior musicians and a better group. |
Jeff Lynne is a great songwriter, but not better than Freddie.
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Electric Light Orchestra V Queen
