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Poll Question: Which band do you prefer?
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17 [38.64%]
16 [36.36%]
3 [6.82%]
0 [0.00%]
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    Posted: November 19 2024 at 05:27

As mentioned earlier, I prefer Eloy (even much), and I can also tell that my Eloy fond-ofs are Inside, Floating and Ocean.
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Hi,

Nektar all the way since ATITO ... and from then on, all of their albums.

Eloy from the first American release on HARVEST, which got an immediate play by Guy Guden as well as a bunch of other bands on the same label that kinda showed up together ... Kayak was in that bunch as well. "Floating" got immediate airplay by Guy Guden as did "See See The Sun". Nektar was in the first SPR shows all the way back to January 1974.


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Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

Originally posted by I prophesy disaster I prophesy disaster wrote:

Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

I don't understand how people can know Eloy but not Nektar. Confused
 
Different people have different life experiences. I was introduced to Nektar by my older brother in the early '80s (though he had been enthusing about their debut album since the mid-'70s). By contrast, I had not heard of Eloy until I started visiting PA. Eloy - Ocean is at #128 in the top 250 list whereas Nektar is nowhere to be found in that list.
 


Quite... I was into Eloy years before the internet... didn't discover Nektar until around 2006/7 and some of their catalogue over the past few years?

I knew of Nektar well before Eloy; Nektar were part of the 1970's UA label roster along with Man, Hawkwind, Brinsley Schwartz, Amon duul 2 and some of the other German UA artists.. they tended to be 'freak' (Space/Psych) bands and often played in package tours aimed at a slightly different audience from the average Genesis or Yes fan. Apart from a few German import lps, Eloy were completely unknown in the UK before Neo/ NWOBPR revival in the early 80's and the Planets/ Time to turn album releases on an independent UK label (Heavy metal worldwide), the BBC sessions and the run of gigs at the Marquee. I bought Colours on a whim before i heard them on the Friday Rock show (83/84) but didn't even know about their earlier more Space-rock material from the early 70's until the early 90's

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Originally posted by I prophesy disaster I prophesy disaster wrote:

Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

I don't understand how people can know Eloy but not Nektar. Confused
 
Different people have different life experiences. I was introduced to Nektar by my older brother in the early '80s (though he had been enthusing about their debut album since the mid-'70s). By contrast, I had not heard of Eloy until I started visiting PA. Eloy - Ocean is at #128 in the top 250 list whereas Nektar is nowhere to be found in that list.
 


Quite... I was into Eloy years before the internet... didn't discover Nektar until around 2006/7 and some of their catalogue over the past few years?
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

I don't understand how people can know Eloy but not Nektar. Confused
 
Different people have different life experiences. I was introduced to Nektar by my older brother in the early '80s (though he had been enthusing about their debut album since the mid-'70s). By contrast, I had not heard of Eloy until I started visiting PA. Eloy - Ocean is at #128 in the top 250 list whereas Nektar is nowhere to be found in that list.
 



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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Eloy by far 
you busy digging up old skeletons again, Cristi?  LOL

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Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Eloy by far 
you busy digging up old skeletons again, Cristi?  LOL

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Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

you busy digging up old skeletons again, Cristi?  LOL

I think, it's good with reuse. Smile
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Eloy
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I really like both!Approve

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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Eloy by far 

you busy digging up old skeletons again, Cristi?  LOL

Eloy certainly... but don't discount Nektar; they did 3 or 4 fine albums...
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I really like both!Approve

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Eloy by far 
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Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

This is weird. Third Eloy vs Nektar poll in a few months (but Nektar is seemingly doing better every time, which is cool).

Really? I did a search for my old polls and didn't find it. I figured if it was done before it was done by me. I guess not. I also did a google search and while progarchives polls show up there wasn't one for these two bands that showed up.
Yes really, but I never find anything with that useless forum search myself:)

Edit: No sorry those two were both Focus vs Nektar.

I'm pretty sure one of the Focus vs Nektar polls was one I started. 
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I don't understand how people can know Eloy but not Nektar. Confused
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Eloy all the way!
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'I only know Eloy.'
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Both are great, but I think I prefer Eloy.
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