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Topic: Eelie Craig
Posted By: noni
Subject: Eelie Craig
Date Posted: September 09 2017 at 09:07
Came across this band the other day through various Youtube sites I prescribed.     Eelie Craig a band from Austria has quite a variety off crossover styles and not too shabby either...  Great symphonic/neo/crossover or to which you wish to label them.

They came out with severn albums and yesterstay splurged and could only buy 6 of their 7 albums..


1. Eelie Craig - Debut
2. One Niter 
3. Miss Universalis
4. Hats of Glass
5. Virgin Oiland
6. Hit and Miss
7. Symphonic Rock

So far I've enjoyed all the 6 albums..  Hats of Glass, One Niter and the Symphonic Rock albums really y stand out and in my opinion would rate these around 9/10

It's a shame I could not find Hit and Miss anywhere Cry...  Shame really...   This PA site has rated their albums highly accorded to the listeners...

Great band to check out..  If limited for cash, would go for Hats of Glass first and those I enjoyed the most ....Big smile






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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 09 2017 at 11:22

Sorry to be pedantic, but it's Eela Craig. I came across the name yesterday when someone reported a low-rated review of "Hit or Miss" where the person reviewing it had not heard it. Hit or Miss is now the highest rated one since removing his sole review, and it has the fewest ratings at six, and was the lowest rated before that. Hopefully someone will write a review of it. I noticed you rated Hats of Glass, Hit or Miss, One Niter and Symphonic Rock all five stars, so you must think that they are a great and very consistent in quality band (BMW also felt the same about the albums).   

I'd actually like to hear Hit or Miss, the review I deleted before got me curious about it. Could you please hit me with a link as I didn't find it on youtube? Or do you mean that you weren't able to hear that album as well as not able to purchase it, in which case I can delete your five star rating of the album?


Posted By: noni
Date Posted: September 09 2017 at 12:21
Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:


Sorry to be pedantic, but it's Eela Craig. I came across the name yesterday when someone reported a low-rated review of "Hit or Miss" where the person reviewing it had not heard it. Hit or Miss is now the highest rated one since removing his sole review, and it has the fewest ratings at six, and was the lowest rated before that. Hopefully someone will write a review of it. I noticed you rated Hats of Glass, Hit or Miss, One Niter and Symphonic Rock all five stars, so you must think that they are a great and very consistent in quality band (BMW also felt the same about the albums).   

I'd actually like to hear Hit or Miss, the review I deleted before got me curious about it. Could you please hit me with a link as I didn't find it on youtube? Or do you mean that you weren't able to hear that album as well as not able to purchase it, in which case I can delete your five star rating of the album?

Cannot post YouTube stuff on here, Unless PA has fixed my issue..    But since yesterday, after that review which was deleted, I was absolutely amazed by this band and I've been around a bit..  This band is a true classic and so much under the radar!!  First time I heard this band was yesterday ,but there are so many influences in their music..  Jazz Fusion/ Symphonic/ early Neo and Crossover.Smile

I cannot find any music on Hit and Miss anywhere, not even a listen!!.....Cry




Posted By: noni
Date Posted: September 09 2017 at 12:25
Highly recommended band,  not one dull track IMHO!!Smile


Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 09 2017 at 12:36
Originally posted by noni noni wrote:

Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:


Sorry to be pedantic, but it's Eela Craig. I came across the name yesterday when someone reported a low-rated review of "Hit or Miss" where the person reviewing it had not heard it. Hit or Miss is now the highest rated one since removing his sole review, and it has the fewest ratings at six, and was the lowest rated before that. Hopefully someone will write a review of it. I noticed you rated Hats of Glass, Hit or Miss, One Niter and Symphonic Rock all five stars, so you must think that they are a great and very consistent in quality band (BMW also felt the same about the albums).   

I'd actually like to hear Hit or Miss, the review I deleted before got me curious about it. Could you please hit me with a link as I didn't find it on youtube? Or do you mean that you weren't able to hear that album as well as not able to purchase it, in which case I can delete your five star rating of the album?


Cannot post YouTube stuff on here, Unless PA has fixed my issue..  By way, I was not the one that posted the Hit and Run review...  But since yesterday, I was absolutely amazed by this band and I've been around a bit..  This band is a true classic and so much under the radar!!  First time I heard this band was yesterday ,but there are so many influences in their music..  Jazz Fusion/ Symphonic/ early Neo and Crossover.Smile


Didn't mean to imply that you posted the review, that review was from 2004, you only rated Hit and Run, I thought you might have made a mistake by rating that one.

No need to embed, a simple copy/paste of the url will work, can hyperlink it with url tags if you like. But if you want to embed it should work, you just need to copy the number/letter bit after v= and place tube tags around it. By quoting this post, you will see how it's done with the video I am embedding. I always do it manually by typing in the tags. It used to that you could do it by posting the whole address when embedding, but that doesn't work anymore.



And for a hyperlink to the same: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYK92zMc6jI" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYK92zMc6jI The jYK92zMc6jI part is the only part you want when using tube tags. Actually, I get unwanted code when quoting, so not sure how much that will help. It's this [ tube]jYK92zMc6jI [/ tube] without any spaces for videos, and the whole address without spaces for hyperlinks [URL ] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYK92zMc6jI[/ URL]

I posted a single by Eela Craig there and I like it. I actually recall now that I had heard some of the early stuff before; it's good.


Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: September 09 2017 at 13:26
Originally posted by noni noni wrote:

So far I've enjoyed all the 6 albums..  Hats of Glass, One Niter and the Symphonic Rock albums really stand out and in my opinion would rate these around 9/10
 
IMO, yes, those are their two best. Btw, Symphonic Rock is the CD two-fer that compiles both those albums (minus two songs).


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Posted By: noni
Date Posted: September 09 2017 at 13:35
Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:


  



Didn't mean to imply that you posted the review, that review was from 2004, you only rated Hit and Run, I thought you might have made a mistake by rating that one.

No need to embed, a simple copy/paste of the url will work, can hyperlink it with url tags if you like. But if you want to embed it should work, you just need to copy the number/letter bit after v= and place tube tags around it. By quoting this post, you will see how it's done with the video I am embedding. I always do it manually by typing in the tags. It used to that you could do it by posting the whole address when embedding, but that doesn't work anymore.



And for a hyperlink to the same: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYK92zMc6jI" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYK92zMc6jI The jYK92zMc6jI part is the only part you want when using tube tags. Actually, I get unwanted code when quoting, so not sure how much that will help. It's this [ tube]jYK92zMc6jI [/ tube] without any spaces for videos, and the whole address without spaces for hyperlinks [URL ] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYK92zMc6jI[/ URL]

I posted a single by Eela Craig there and I like it. I actually recall now that I had heard some of the early stuff before; it's good.

Sorry, I must of hit the wrong album!.....Ouch....


Can, someone who knows this band send me a link to buy the Hit and Miss album...  Prefer a  mp3 download, rather then the CD..  I have over 5000 cd's in my collection...  No more space, Im afraid!!Cry

Or listen to this album...Smile


Posted By: noni
Date Posted: September 09 2017 at 13:37


Posted By: noni
Date Posted: September 09 2017 at 13:40
Still a problem!!


Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 09 2017 at 13:46
No worries, thought from your post that sounded the case, I can delete your rating. With the quick rating feature it's an easy mistake to make. That it has so few ratings I'm guessing that it's very hard to come by.

As to another site maintenance matter, not that I want to turn this thread into that.

Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

Originally posted by noni noni wrote:

So far I've enjoyed all the 6 albums..  Hats of Glass, One Niter and the Symphonic Rock albums really stand out and in my opinion would rate these around 9/10

 
IMO, yes, those are their two best. Btw, Symphonic Rock is the CD two-fer that compiles both those albums (minus two songs).


It seems that progarchives should have listed the Symphonic Rock album under compilations rather than the stdio albums section (I don't suppose that there's any reworked material). http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=92" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=92

Rateyourmusic certainly has it listed as a compilation. http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/eela_craig" rel="nofollow - http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/eela_craig As does wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eela_Craig" rel="nofollow - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eela_Craig and discogs https://www.discogs.com/artist/973413-Eela-Craig" rel="nofollow - https://www.discogs.com/artist/973413-Eela-Craig

Safe bet to move into the right category, so going to...


Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 09 2017 at 13:57
Originally posted by noni noni wrote:

Still a problem!!


The problem is that there's an added code there that you don't want
Instead of QR-b7Zoyav4&t=319s it should be QR-b7Zoyav4 . Just need to get rid of the &... bit



Posted By: noni
Date Posted: September 09 2017 at 14:03
Got it!!...Smile


Posted By: noni
Date Posted: September 09 2017 at 14:05
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQaKopVrGVs


Posted By: noni
Date Posted: September 09 2017 at 14:12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQaKopVrGVst=1s


Posted By: noni
Date Posted: September 09 2017 at 14:33
Still looking for the Hit and Miss album, if someone can help.  Prefer a mp3 download!


Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: September 09 2017 at 23:34
The debut album is a killer !! Top marks.
Others I have in my collection are Hats of Glass, and Missa Universalis. Both are quite good.
Very good band that flies under the radar tbh.


Posted By: noni
Date Posted: September 10 2017 at 13:32
Just managed to pick up Hit and Miss.   This is quite a pop album,  not bad at all though!!!... Not as progressive compared to their other releases.

Suppose the album goes with this title Big smile


Posted By: noni
Date Posted: September 10 2017 at 13:43
Hit and Miss.......This album is nothing like the other releases....  Not at all progressive...  Still a good album though!...  Most Eela Craig fans might find this quite a shock!....

Personally I like it!!...  Depending on personal tastes, it's a worthy album to own.

It's a shame this album cannot be listened on the internet?....

3/5


Posted By: noni
Date Posted: September 10 2017 at 13:46
Tried to post a review of this album on the PA site, not sure if this has gone through?


Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 10 2017 at 14:32
You managed to edit your rating, but there is no review. Maybe it hadn't sufficient words? By the way because of Captcha, be really careful to save your review before you submit it. Even before that, and I haven't reviewed much, I lost two reviews that took me a long time to write. I redid them both, but not nearly as well as the first time I wrote them.


Posted By: noni
Date Posted: September 10 2017 at 17:36
Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

You managed to edit your rating, but there is no review. Maybe it hadn't sufficient words? By the way because of Captcha, be really careful to save your review before you submit it. Even before that, and I haven't reviewed much, I lost two reviews that took me a long time to write. I redid them both, but not nearly as well as the first time I wrote them.

Does this need 100 words or more?...


Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 10 2017 at 17:53
Originally posted by noni noni wrote:

Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

You managed to edit your rating, but there is no review. Maybe it hadn't sufficient words? By the way because of Captcha, be really careful to save your review before you submit it. Even before that, and I haven't reviewed much, I lost two reviews that took me a long time to write. I redid them both, but not nearly as well as the first time I wrote them.


Does this need 100 words or more?...


Yeah, preferably quite a lot more. It says under ratings which are under the review box:

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2 - While ratings without reviews are accepted, you are strongly encouraged to write a review to support your rating.

3 - Feel free to review as many discs as you like, and to construct your reviews in whatever way you wish. (Tip, to start a new paragraph in your review, put <p> at the end of the previous paragraph.)


Incidentally, I don't think your review will now show up on the front page because you already rated it. I tried to delete your original rating yesterday, but it wasn't working.


Posted By: noni
Date Posted: September 10 2017 at 18:09
Will write another review after another listen...Smile


Posted By: noni
Date Posted: September 10 2017 at 18:29
It's weird,  after someone complained about a certain album with Eelie Craig  Hit and Miss.  I checked their discovery and bought all their albums in the past few days.
Hit and Miss the hardest to find.

I can sum up,  this is a great band from Austria which was often forgotten.

This band has elements of Camel, Nektar, ELP, Rick Wakeman, Stackridge, Colosseum, Soft Machine, Pink Floyd, Procal  Harum....  The list goes on...  This band is a Symphonic/Neo/ Jazz Fusion/ Crossover of music which started in the 70s....Smile

How I rate these albums 

1. Hats of Glass.... 10/10
2. One Niter .... 9.5/10
3. Eela Craig debut album 1971... 9.5/ 10
4. Missa Universalis ... 9/10
5. Virgin Oiland .... 8.5/10
6. Hit & Miss .... 5/10
7. Symphonic Rock .... 9.5/10












Posted By: Cosmiclawnmower
Date Posted: September 11 2017 at 15:04
I came across 'One Niter' many years ago and firstly was really impressed by the photo of the band on the rear sleeve!! All that Kit!! A bit like the back of Ummagumma.. and set in some weird sculpture park..
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A great European prog lp! Not so impressed with 'Hats of glass' with its version of Chris de Burgh's 'Spaceman came a travelling'.. there are a couple of really good tracks but a bit of filler in there too. Have meant to get the debut lp for years but just haven't got round to it.



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