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The Miracle 
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 Posted: October 25 2006 at 18:39 |
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Not in the least.
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richardh
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Posted: October 25 2006 at 18:33 |
I can understand why people might think them overated.... but 'boring' ...NOOOOOO!!!!
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Sasquamo
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Posted: October 25 2006 at 16:21 |
Their music is so complicated and there's so much cool stuff from all three instruments to listen to that it's pretty hard for me to get bored listening to ELP.
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Peter
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Posted: October 25 2006 at 16:14 |
They are only boring to those boring people who find them boring.
I'm bored with these kinds of polls, though....
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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Bj-1
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Posted: October 25 2006 at 15:09 |
I don't think they're boring.
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RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!
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Jeremy Bender
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Posted: October 25 2006 at 14:32 |
 Progressive?? wrote:
Brain Salad Surgery should be in the top ten albums. |
Progressive? for president!
As a fan I would like to see that one day Brain Salad Surgery will appear as the no.1 in the top 100 of progarchives 
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Hatters
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Posted: October 25 2006 at 14:28 |
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Errrr. NO!
Try Tarkus if you think the others are boring, it is more conventional Prog.
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Progressive??
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Posted: October 25 2006 at 14:01 |
they are not boring at all.
in fact, I think they are underrated. (IMO Genesis is overrated), Brain Salad Surgery should be in the top ten albums.
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Jeremy Bender
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Posted: October 25 2006 at 13:50 |
blindtoad wrote:
Jeremy Bender wrote:
Oh yes, they are sooo boring.....zzzzzz......songs like: the barbarian, take a pebble,] |
Take a Pebble is a great composition, the background piano solo is so great... if it's boring all calssical piano etude or composition are boring...
bu they_re not boring so... Love ELP!
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My comment on that was ironic 
Take a pebble is one of the best things they've ever done(ever seen the live version from the 'masters from the vaults' dvd?, that's a wonderfull version  ).
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blindtoad
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Posted: October 25 2006 at 13:41 |
Jeremy Bender wrote:
Oh yes, they are sooo boring.....zzzzzz......songs like: the barbarian, take a pebble,] |
Take a Pebble is a great composition, the background piano solo is so great... if it's boring all calssical piano etude or composition are boring...
bu they_re not boring so... Love ELP!
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quelqu'un pour un jam?
blindtoad = Poor english...
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Jeremy Bender
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Posted: October 25 2006 at 13:32 |
Oh yes, they are sooo boring.....zzzzzz......songs like: the barbarian, take a pebble, three fates, tarkus, endless enigma, toccata, karn evil 9....pffffff 
One of the reasons I like them is the energy and power they have in their music(often a sort of metal-like approach to the music, which is kinda cool I think).
ELP isn't boring........dated perhaps, as a fan i'd say charming(except for that bloody Yamaha GX-1 keyboard  ).
But their best compositions are total masterpieces in the progressive rock genre, imo.
(you have to remember that prog as a musical style(approach?) was still in 'embryo state' and ELP was one of the first bands to define that genre, so bravo ELP!)
It's just that ELP had to quit completely after the Works vol.1 album/tour imo(with that album and tour everything was said and done, musically speaking).
Now, neo-progressive that's boring 
ps: oh yeah and Emerson, Lake & Palmer sounds pretty cool!
Edited by Jeremy Bender - October 25 2006 at 13:45
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Philéas
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Posted: October 25 2006 at 12:40 |
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Not really. Pretty overrated though.
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fuxi
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Posted: October 25 2006 at 11:11 |
As long as Lake keeps his trap shut, I don't find them too boring! 
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Ricochet
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Posted: October 25 2006 at 11:01 |
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overall, no, but I do have a grundge against their sometime unciseled material and, in the 90s, against the pseudo-comeback, giving 5-6 live albums of the same material (and only two studio refreshments, the first being okay, but the second being a practical joke).
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Abstrakt
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Posted: October 25 2006 at 10:53 |
God, No!!!!!! They are too much! 
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A B Negative
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Posted: October 25 2006 at 10:50 |
I didn't vote because sometimes ELP are boring, sometimes they aren't.
Strange how they've divided everyone else's opinion!
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"The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar.... Now, that's my idea of a good time."
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cuncuna
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Posted: October 25 2006 at 10:40 |
Andrea Cortese wrote:
ELP are not boring. They inspired so many italian prog bands during the seventies...how could I say their music is boring?
Cold and maybe too much formalistic sometimes, but never boring! |
Yes, they inspired them to copy the keyboards sections / style, and keep it as a steady component. Say, even I can mimc those short keyboard prhases (¡tun, tun, tun, tun, tuntún!). Ater one hundreed spins, and after their failure at creating something beyond their own cliches, yes, they are boring indeed.
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¡Beware of the Bee!
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Neil
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Posted: October 25 2006 at 10:19 |
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By the way. If you want to see Noddy's Puncture they are playing on Saturday night in Rochdale.
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When people get lost in thought it's often because it's unfamiliar territory.
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Neil
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Posted: October 25 2006 at 10:16 |
Seeing as I often mix the PA for an ELP tribute band I may be biassed. I'd say no, they are definitely not boring.
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When people get lost in thought it's often because it's unfamiliar territory.
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Masque
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Posted: October 25 2006 at 10:16 |
I love ELP I don`t care what some people think because I play them lots and enjoy them
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