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Icarium 
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Posted: April 27 2011 at 17:00 |
which of these two art rock/glam band do you like the most
with crossing bounderies of rock and artsy music, symponic structured rock songs, but not as dence and dragged out as the giants of prog. ELO and Queen represent the borderline between artsy rock and pop art. (and influence from other specters of the fine arts,
two of the great vocalists in rock, Jeff Lynne was also part of the traveling wildeberrys, and can like few else do Roy Orbinson almost as good as the original
and Freddy who few rock singers surpasses.
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Posted: April 27 2011 at 17:06 |
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I can't vote yet, but I'll go for Queen
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Posted: April 27 2011 at 19:37 |
I've always hated Queen, but Brian May being an astrophysicist is so awesome.
I vote ELO.
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The Dark Elf
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Posted: April 27 2011 at 21:34 |
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Queen on the strength of three consecutive superb albums: Queen II, Sheer Heart Attack and A Night at the Opera. ELO has nothing comparable.
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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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Posted: April 28 2011 at 02:37 |
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Both. I wish ELO would have stayed on the same course as their first two albums though.
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Queen, but ELO has some really fun songs that I also enjoy.
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Posted: April 28 2011 at 15:57 |
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I've gone with Queen because of their early albums, ELO have produced one or two nice songs though.
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Posted: April 28 2011 at 16:28 |
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the traveling wildeberrys???
I always used to hate ELO but recently I've been quite enjoying Out of the Blue, for some odd reason. Despite this, I have to say I still prefer Queen.
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Posted: April 28 2011 at 17:07 |
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Queen by far.
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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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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Posted: April 29 2011 at 06:49 |
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ELO because the writing is better.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Posted: May 01 2011 at 06:05 |
Easy for me. I love Queen.
I don't like ELO
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