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doompaul 
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oh. Queen. Hands down.
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Tom Ozric
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Posted: December 26 2016 at 16:39 |
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ELO by (electric) light years. I was never fully sold on Queen. They do have a handful of tunes I like, but never an entire album.
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Imperial Zeppelin
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Posted: December 26 2016 at 15:08 |
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Neither
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"Hey there, Dog Man, now I drink from your bowl."
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DeadSouls
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Posted: December 26 2016 at 12:52 |
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Queen
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The Dark Elf
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Posted: December 26 2016 at 12:49 |
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Queen. They simply have more albums I care about and still listen to. I just was listening to the debut album in the car the other day.
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...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology...
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charles_ryder
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Posted: December 26 2016 at 12:48 |
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ELO is one of my favourite bands. And their first album is the best for me because of Roy Wood, a genius composer. The last albums are great too but they are different from the first that was a miracle.
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Bad2Bone
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Posted: August 07 2011 at 12:58 |
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Queen is group of my childhood. Freddie Mercury and his band had made dramatical input in music history. Also they faced true popylarity among people. I guess there can't be any doubts
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kevin4peace
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Posted: August 05 2011 at 01:45 |
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ELO is just too awesome. Long live Jeff Lynne.
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Nothing to say here. Nothing at all. Nothing is easy.
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JeanFrame
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Posted: May 04 2011 at 09:57 |
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ELO; but I like Queen for the quality of the musicians.
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Snow Dog
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Posted: May 01 2011 at 06:05 |
Easy for me. I love Queen.
I don't like ELO
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Green Shield Stamp
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Posted: May 01 2011 at 05:09 |
 The Dark Elf wrote:
Green Shield Stamp wrote:
The Dark Elf wrote:
Queen on the strength of three consecutive superb albums: Queen II, Sheer Heart Attack and A Night at the Opera. ELO has nothing comparable. |
ELO on the strength of three superb albums:
Eldorado
A New World Record
Out of the Blue
Queen has nothing comparable |
Eldorado certainly is a great album, and the follow-up Face the Music is good (particularly the song "Fire on High"). The other two you mentioned represent ELO descending into pop hell, from whence they never returned. |
But there has always been a strong pop element to Queen. I don't understand how you can be such a strong advocate of Queen, when you have such a disparaging view of pop. I don't think there is such a big difference between Queen and ELO. Personally I love the pop inflected Beatle-esque melodies of ELO. I also like Queen very much but sometimes find their arch campness a little tiring.
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Haiku
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With seventeen syllables
Is very diffic....
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The Dark Elf
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Posted: April 29 2011 at 21:59 |
Green Shield Stamp wrote:
The Dark Elf wrote:
Queen on the strength of three consecutive superb albums: Queen II, Sheer Heart Attack and A Night at the Opera. ELO has nothing comparable. |
ELO on the strength of three superb albums:
Eldorado
A New World Record
Out of the Blue
Queen has nothing comparable |
Eldorado certainly is a great album, and the follow-up Face the Music is good (particularly the song "Fire on High"). The other two you mentioned represent ELO descending into pop hell, from whence they never returned.
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...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology...
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Epignosis
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Posted: April 29 2011 at 15:59 |
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ELO for me- so many great songs and charming melodies!
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Alitare
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Posted: April 29 2011 at 15:46 |
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If your post had a 'like' button, sir stamp...
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Green Shield Stamp
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Posted: April 29 2011 at 15:41 |
The Dark Elf wrote:
Queen on the strength of three consecutive superb albums: Queen II, Sheer Heart Attack and A Night at the Opera. ELO has nothing comparable. |
ELO on the strength of three superb albums:
Eldorado
A New World Record
Out of the Blue
Queen has nothing comparable
Edited by Green Shield Stamp - April 29 2011 at 15:42
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Haiku
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With seventeen syllables
Is very diffic....
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Alitare
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Posted: April 29 2011 at 12:40 |
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I'd take ELO, but that's because the melodies. They're both fake as hell, but ELO always seemed less fake. :P
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richardh
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Posted: April 29 2011 at 12:15 |
Neither are my favourite bands although I liked both when I was growing up and equally lost interest when they adopted a more commercial approach in the late seventies. If I had to choose it would be ELO as they did the 'proggier' stuff in their earlier years while Queen were really a heavy glam rock band before becoming a pop band. Queen were never that close to prog but I know its an old argument not to be revisited.
Edited by richardh - April 29 2011 at 12:16
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Atoms
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Posted: April 29 2011 at 07:17 |
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I don't like Queen, so ELO it is, but I'm not that fond of them either.
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giselle
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Posted: April 29 2011 at 06:49 |
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ELO because the writing is better.
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Lizzy
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Posted: April 28 2011 at 17:32 |
Kwien! And it's FREDD IE as in Internet Explorer. 
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