Egg versus Cherry Five

Normaly you can post again and it goes through.

it happens these days to everyone, don't take it personally, it's not something against you. This kind of error happens to all of us. 

^I also prefer Goblin to Cherry Five, but I do like the C5 record. I concur it's a "classic."

It's just that, to me, Goblin is a huge deal. Along with Tangerine Dream, Vangelis and Oldfield, Goblin sounds like no other band.

 

Of course he Cherry Five Album is simply the first Goblin Album. It got shelved when the band got their

contract for the sountrack Albums. It was released somewhat later under the made up moniker of "Cherry Five" to avoid confusion with the different Sound Goblin where known back then.

 

So originaly there never was a band called "Cherry Five" (not until their second Album). If the band was already called Goblin at the time of the Album recordings  or if they still went under the original name of "Oliver" is not really clear.

I wish I could explain why I want to ask this question. They sound nothing alike, come from different countries, yet their level of complexity is equal. To me the piano intro to "Oliver"...that's not just standard prog...that's straight up classical training! While I'm not sure if the guy in Egg was trained (D. Stewart), he certainly took the complexity to just as high of a level. I just can't believe two groups in the same year could be doing something heady yet come up with something so different from each other. I wonder what they'd say to each other if they could have met and listened to each other in '74.