ELO vs Supertramp album?
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Topic: ELO vs Supertramp album?
Posted By: TexasKing
Subject: ELO vs Supertramp album?
Date Posted: August 30 2017 at 16:49
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A New World Record, but it's very close for me. What you'll say?
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Posted By: Wanorak
Date Posted: August 30 2017 at 17:24
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Love both but Crime of the Century is in my top 10 fave albums. ------------- A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!! |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: August 30 2017 at 18:16
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Crime of the Century, and it's not even close. ------------- ...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... |
Posted By: twosteves
Date Posted: August 30 2017 at 18:53
| this is easy for me---not a fan of ELO---am a fan of Supertramp---so Supertramp. |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: August 30 2017 at 21:09
| Supertramp. I'm not a massive ELO fan after Eldorado. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: August 30 2017 at 21:19
pffff...figures... Micky from Mars.. the rest of you.. no clue where you all are from.  not even remotely close.... the brilliant opening track slays anything on that Supertramp album... only the best of what Supertramp did. And it wasn't this overrated album. Breakfast in America.. can touch the brilliance of Jeff Lynne and the boys did here. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: August 30 2017 at 21:21
^ Hey ! 
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: August 30 2017 at 21:31
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------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: b_olariu
Date Posted: August 31 2017 at 03:00
| ELO - A New World Record |
Posted By: Tillerman88
Date Posted: August 31 2017 at 03:32
^^holy cLap(s) ha ha ... to ya! ;) nuff said ------------- The overwhelming amount of information on a daily basis restrains people from rewinding the news record archives to refresh their memories... |
micky wrote:Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: August 31 2017 at 04:52
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Both great, but I don't think ELO ever recorded anything as good as COTC. COTC is a masterpiece from start to finish, and I'm ashamed to say that for many years, I just didn't see it, but then at one point I thought Marillion were one of the best prog rock bands ever, so go figure!  ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: August 31 2017 at 04:57
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Have to give it to Supertramp for this poll. ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: August 31 2017 at 04:58
| ^ You're bloody well right !! |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: August 31 2017 at 05:06
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COTC by light years. NWR isn't even an ELO top 5 album with me.
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: August 31 2017 at 05:16
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Crime of the Century |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: August 31 2017 at 05:17
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COTC is one of those albums where every track is superb, and I never tire of listening to the whole thing end to end. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: August 31 2017 at 05:49
| Supertramp on this one. I liked ELO until "El Dorado", after that, I lost interest. |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: August 31 2017 at 07:23
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I prefer the Supertramp album. Btw, Triumvirat toured with both bands in the same year (1975) in North America. Those were the days! |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: August 31 2017 at 09:10
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Oh, stop it already with these ludicrous comparisons. ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: August 31 2017 at 09:38
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Supertramp but don't really like either. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: digdug
Date Posted: August 31 2017 at 10:24
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Crime by a long ways ------------- Prog On! |
Posted By: Argo2112
Date Posted: August 31 2017 at 13:10
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I like both albums but I went with Supertramp. |
Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: September 01 2017 at 03:36
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They're about equal for me. Both 8/10ers. No vote. ------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385 |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: September 01 2017 at 03:54
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I see where this thing is going ; 2 quite Commercially successful albums that teeter on the brink of outright Pop music, along with the more clever, boundary-pushing ideals of Prog-rock, all meshed in an acceptable, compact package. To me, ELO were far more eclectic in their approach than Supertramp. Though I prefer the 'tramp overall. |
Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: September 01 2017 at 08:09
| Supertramp by a mile! |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: May 06 2018 at 03:09
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Supertramp ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: May 06 2018 at 08:59
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Although I like ELO - A New World Record, Supertramp - Crime of the Century is one of my favourite albums, so that gets my vote by quite a large margin.
------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: May 06 2018 at 09:39
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Crime of the Century is one of the best ever, but ELO is amazing, too... |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: May 06 2018 at 10:17
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I think the first 4 ELO have a decent prog approach with accessible songs.....after that they became a pop vehicle for Lynn. Supertramp always seemed like 'prog lite' to me though with some decent tracks here and there. That ELO album is pop all the way ,,,Do Ya is a decent rocker but taken from when Lynn was with The Move. I suppose Crime is the better album....track for track regarding a prog theme.. yet imho it's an overrated work. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Squonk19
Date Posted: May 06 2018 at 16:42
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Crime of the Century - a classic album! ------------- “Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.” |