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Topic: Chicago or ELO? Posted: July 25 2009 at 14:29
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 .
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Posted: July 25 2009 at 16:38
They are both proggy, though probably not truly prog. It's okay. Plus, ELO are on this site and Chicago are pending, last I checked. I went with ELO. Both bands were great, but ELO had a lot more unorthodox ways to toy with their music (for example, the bizarre Fire on High).
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Posted: July 25 2009 at 17:48
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.
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Posted: July 25 2009 at 22:25
Padraic wrote:
Chicago, easily. Can't stand ELO.
Me too, Pat. Chicago's best material gets to me emotionally, fulfills something. ELO has never gotten beyond empty calories for me. Ear candy, no protein.
I know when I start describing music in culinary terms, I must be getting hungry.
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Posted: July 29 2009 at 03:16
I personally don't consider the two of them actual "prog", but meh. ^^ I'm gonna go with ELO. I love Chicago's sound and all, but I've been an ELO fan since I was about 11 and I just really enjoy their stuff- pretty unique, really.
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Posted: July 31 2009 at 15:19
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.
Tough to call, I like em both a lot, for different reasons (and I even like both of them up until quite a few albums past their "prog prime"), but in the end I went for Chicago for the reasons above.
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Posted: August 24 2009 at 07:34
ELO's approach on the No Answer debut title is stylistically based(on a few tracks), on a Gentle Giant or KC sound. ELO II and On The Third Day have certain errie-ness to them. Chicago had some excellent material especially pieces like Introduction. Terry Kath was an under--rated guitarist. Forget 25 or 6 to 4 with the wah-wah guitar! Listen to the guitar solo on Approaching Storm from Chicago Three. Then put on some great fusion guitar solos from Billy Cobham records and compare. Many times Kath chose not to use distortion and for God's sake he sounded like a George Benson at Carnegie Hall. He was also very technical. More technical than many people would ever realize. I can't compare the 2 bands. There are things I enjoy about both of them, especially in the early days. However Chicago blew me away with "The Devil's Suite" which was on a later album Chicago Seven.
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