Eloy vs Nektar
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Topic: Eloy vs Nektar
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Subject: Eloy vs Nektar
Date Posted: July 12 2022 at 16:00
| I don't think I ever did this one before. |
Replies:
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: July 12 2022 at 19:45
| Nektar gets my vote. Both are great, but I prefer Nektar. |
Posted By: Hugh Manatee
Date Posted: July 12 2022 at 20:52
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Either, depending on what I'm in the mood to listen to.
------------- I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of uncertain seas |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: July 12 2022 at 22:45
Equally, depending on my mood.  ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: EduTatsumi
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 00:28
| Nektar |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 00:40
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Eloy
------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 01:51
| Eloy |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 02:51
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Eloy. Never really warmed to Nektar. |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 03:45
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I have a certain problem with Eloy. The German accent of Frank Bornemann is absolutely awful. But else I am fine with them. I prefer their early albums (up to and including "Dawn") to the latter ones. I like Nektar too. If it weren't for Bornemann I'd say "both", but because of him my vote goes to Nektar. -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 04:29
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Eloy! ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 05:22
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This is weird. Third Eloy vs Nektar poll in a few months (but Nektar is seemingly doing better every time, which is cool). |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 06:12
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Nektar ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 08:29
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.
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Saperlipopette! wrote:Posted By: IncogNeato
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 09:00
| Eloy |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 09:02
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When I tried Eloy many years ago, they did not resonate with me at all. Nektar has always resonated with me. -------------   
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 09:08
Edit: No sorry those two were both Focus vs Nektar.
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Posted By: VianaProghead
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 09:34
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Both are great, but I think I prefer Eloy.
------------- "PROG IS MY FERRARI". Jem Godfrey (Frost*) |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 09:57
| 'I only know Eloy.' |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 10:18
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Eloy all the way! ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 10:28
I don't understand how people can know Eloy but not Nektar. 
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: July 13 2022 at 10:30
I'm pretty sure one of the Focus vs Nektar polls was one I started.
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: November 16 2024 at 09:43
| Eloy by far |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: November 16 2024 at 10:21
| Nektar |
Posted By: Cosmiclawnmower
Date Posted: November 16 2024 at 10:29
I really like both! ------------- |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: November 16 2024 at 10:30
you busy digging up old skeletons again, Cristi?  Eloy certainly... but don't discount Nektar; they did 3 or 4 fine albums... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: November 16 2024 at 10:31
 ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 16 2024 at 13:08
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Eloy ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 16 2024 at 13:25
I think, it's good with reuse.  ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: November 16 2024 at 13:29
It's a good poll. Resurrecting an old thread or poll is a sign of appreciation and respect for the thread/poll creator.
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: November 16 2024 at 13:32
Thank you. Much appreciated.
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Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: November 16 2024 at 18:53
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. ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: November 17 2024 at 05:30
| Both Equally |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: November 17 2024 at 06:47
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? ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Cosmiclawnmower
Date Posted: November 17 2024 at 15:04
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 ------------- |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: November 18 2024 at 13:26
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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.
------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 19 2024 at 05:27
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As mentioned earlier, I prefer Eloy (even much), and I can also tell that my Eloy fond-ofs are Inside, Floating and Ocean. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |