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    Posted: January 24 2010 at 15:35
Originally posted by tdfloyd tdfloyd wrote:

Got to go with Chicago. 3 excellent vocalists, horn section, many writers and styles.  And if you wait for it, Terry Kath could rip it up when he was given the chance. 
After Kath passed away (way too soon) I saw Chicago twice in concert in the early 70s and both remain the lousiest shows I ever saw, dim, cheap, lightweight and crass (barely playing 40 minutes both times).
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Originally posted by Procol Harum Machine Procol Harum Machine wrote:

Chicago's considered prog? Confused


no....  but they did prog albums. 
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Chicago's considered prog? Confused
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NoNononono. Electric Light Orchestra and Chicago are Outstanding multi-piece bands in Concert. They have sold Hundreds Of Millions of records all over the world. We dont compare them around here

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I mean this in the kindest sort of way.
 
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I was just thinking about ELO and how "proggy" I think they were back in the day. Discovery went pop in my mind, even though I enjoy their music. I thought it was very cool and "progressive" how Jeff Lynn brought in that classical theme to rock music. Isn't that a ProgRock feature to use classical and jazz and meld that into song structure, part of the definition of prog?? (IDK??)
 
To this day I still enjoy spinning Out of the Blue and Olé ELO. I think they are a low-end prog band with classical influences....heh    Ermm
 
 
 
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Early live Chicago is fantastic... ELO was always cool or whatever but just based on those early live performances I gotta go with Chicago. 
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ELO is a music of my late teens... But looking from now Chicago is much more interesting ( I am speaking about debut plus a few more earlier albums, for sure). Voted for Chicago
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ELO lost it when Roy Wood left....
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Well, these are two bands which I don't know well. However, I'm going to go with E.L.O. simply because thier 'Time' album was stunning and some of Chicago's stuff that I've heard so far (late 70's) bores me somewhat.
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I will stick to my side of the Atlantic on this one - as with a lot of votes (Not all before you start throwing eggs).  ELO were a little proggy once and when they went pop I still enjoyed a lot I don't think they took themselves too seriously. 

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ELO by a comfortable margin.  Eldorado and New World Record are albums that are very close to my heart.
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Chicago has really suffered from their extreme turn from revolutionaries to reactionaries.  Their first three albums are absolutely progressive - and have a decidedly open anti-establishment message:  Revolution now!  Change the world!  The whole world's watching!  They did side long suites about motorboats to Mars, political and spiritual liberation, and the evolution of man.....they also fried speakers with acid guitars and blaring horn lines.  They were amazingly tight and far-out frantic at the same time.....anybody who's not clued into the first three Chicago albums ought to at least give 'em a try. 
 
I'm a fan, so V thru Hot Street at least have a bit of the spark of the first three, but those unititiated should go directly to the first three.....I'm partial to the third album - fantastic harmonies but a bit of fat at the end (that suite on the evolution of man that I spoke of earlier.....eeek!  But still a million miles away from those Peter Cetera 80s ballads).
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I found the CTA at the library when I was young and immediately fell in love with the brass (I was a trumpeter), but then I found ELO and found their sounds were a much more mature - Chicago was great but ELO was much better.
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Chicago is probably BETTER.....
 
....but, come on, ELO is just so much more FUN.
 
 
 
Seriously though, ELO by a longshot.
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Points: 7826 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 16 2009 at 19:51
ELO. Early Chicago is excellent (probably better than any ELO), but ELO has more solid albums.

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Originally posted by Evan Evan wrote:

It struck me the other day that these two have a similar approach to music, as both are pretty conventional rock bands spiced up by non-conventional instrumentation.  That, and both went downhill after their first two albums Tongue. 

So, who will it be?
Elo never struck me as a really good band were Chicago has a very good sense for the music they are playing. I also think that Chicago has more skill than ELO.
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LOL, ELO by far.
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Both had great drummers but I think early Chicago were more groundbreaking. Jimi Hendrix really liked the guitarist on Chicago.

I like ELO more but they admit they were just extending what the Beatles did on "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "I Am the Walrus".
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I actually have all of the Chicago studio albums from the CTA album through the Stone of Sisyphus that was finally released last year.
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