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ELO or ELP
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Poll Question: Which band do you prefer?
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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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^I just gave GG a vote in that thread since it was still open.. Tongue
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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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ELO

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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:

GG
ELP
ELO

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Yep Wink Big smile

still love ELP though.. Tongue





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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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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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Both. 
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I like and dislike albums from both bands. Also very different musically, very apples and oranges. 
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ELO is up there with ABBA and The Carpenters as one of my favorite commercial pop/rock groups of all time. ELP hurts my ears - and I don't mean that as a compliment.
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