Some Eloy-related music

re ELOY, yep agree with a lot said. The recent Joan Of Arc albums are excellent but their creative peak is Colours to Time To Turn imo. I well remember the BBC taking a big interest at that time and that helped build them a small but enthusiastic fan base in the UK. Before that they were hardly known here although Ocean is generally their most highly regarded album in prog circles for sure.

verslibre wrote: Ra is by consensus Eloy's nadir.

I'm with Kees on this one; Performance and Metromania are decent, but I already find Ra quite cringeworthy. To be honest, I never even listened to Destination. From The Tides... onwards they sound good again in my ears (it's mainly sound choices that ruin Ra) but I think the creativity has waned, I just find too little that enthuses me on these albums on the composition side. I'd probably also nominate Colours as my favourite album, and Planets/Time to Turn are pretty much up there. I think I'd take Schmidtchen's album and for sure Ego on the Rocks over anything Eloy did after and maybe including Metromania. I may not appreciate Faust as a whole either, but I do appreciate Matze's signature style pretty much everywhere, also the instrumental contributions of the others.


Edited by Lewian - October 23 2022 at 05:12

Edited by Lewian - August 13 2022 at 07:48

Eloy may be influenced by bands such as Pink Floyd and Jethro Tull. Still no one sounds like Eloy. Maybe a bit similar still Eloy are very unique. Really no one sounds “like” Eloy in my opinion. It’s not just the German accented narration. They are a band loved by many and I am one of the many. When I want to hear Eloy sounding music I take out Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes or Ocean and don’t really look for another band. I do like other space Prog rock bands. None of them sound like Eloy to me and this is one of the things that makes them so special.

^ No, this is not the band Faust. Faust - The Rockballett (sic) is the original title of this project, "performed by Shade" as the album says, but this was just a one off. See the discogs page.

yes, Syrinx Call is really good, and apparently current.  Does that album have Eloy on other songs as well?  It starts a bit like Poseidon's Creation, but ends up much folkier.