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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2008 at 08:48
i couldn't agree more. If you ever had a chance to see Supertramp in concert pre-'Breakfast in America' you'd know you were watching a true progressive rock band. Their live executions made their songs sound like symphonic peices that incidentally had lyrics---with all of the emotional impact of a Broadway show. Plus, I'm just a sucker for a 12-string guitar and a slide show on a video screen. Must be a visual learner.... Nektar, doves slayed me.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2008 at 10:24
10CC: for some reason, I have difficulty appreciating them.
 
ELO: I used to like their hits. Since I discovered prog I'm not really interested anymore, except for Mr. Blue Sky.
 
I like Supertramp from Crime Of The Century to Breakfast In America, though I don't like them as much anymore as I used to. Also because of the prog factor, I think. But it's a good band.
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2008 at 10:45
Originally posted by Moogtron III Moogtron III wrote:

ELO: I used to like their hits. Since I discovered prog I'm not really interested anymore, except for Mr. Blue Sky.
 
you need to re-visit their first two albums - definite prog quotient.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2008 at 10:53
Originally posted by darqDean darqDean wrote:

Originally posted by Moogtron III Moogtron III wrote:


ELO: I used to like their hits. Since I discovered prog I'm not really interested anymore, except for Mr. Blue Sky.

 

you need to re-visit their first two albums - definite prog quotient.


Absolutely,Dean.I would also add 'On The Third Day'.My favourite ELO album.
Their rendering of 'In the Hall of The Mountain King' is prog at it's most overblown...in a good way.

Ocean Breakup from OTTD is also an amazing prog track.

Edited by Man Erg - April 04 2008 at 10:55

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2008 at 12:19
Originally posted by Man Erg Man Erg wrote:

Originally posted by darqDean darqDean wrote:

Originally posted by Moogtron III Moogtron III wrote:


ELO: I used to like their hits. Since I discovered prog I'm not really interested anymore, except for Mr. Blue Sky.

 

you need to re-visit their first two albums - definite prog quotient.


Absolutely,Dean.I would also add 'On The Third Day'.My favourite ELO album.
Their rendering of 'In the Hall of The Mountain King' is prog at it's most overblown...in a good way.

Ocean Breakup from OTTD is also an amazing prog track.
 
You're right, I know that I still have some homework to do. I haven't heard any ELO earlier than Eldorado, I realise that, and I think I've heard someone say before that the first albums are good. Well, I shall push them a little bit higher on my things-I-need-to-hear-list LOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2008 at 12:44
Can't play prog when the Missus's around.
But these will not get any complaints.
Great pop with a dash of prog.
Everybody's happy.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 08 2008 at 00:50
I like ELO a lot actually.  Don't care too much for the other two.  Jeff Lyne is a creative guy and so he keeps the ELO albums quite interesting.  I even enjoyed the generally hated Discovery album!  
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 19 2008 at 02:54
Originally posted by Man Erg Man Erg wrote:

Originally posted by darqDean darqDean wrote:

Originally posted by Moogtron III Moogtron III wrote:


ELO: I used to like their hits. Since I discovered prog I'm not really interested anymore, except for Mr. Blue Sky.

 

you need to re-visit their first two albums - definite prog quotient.


Absolutely,Dean.I would also add 'On The Third Day'.My favourite ELO album.
Their rendering of 'In the Hall of The Mountain King' is prog at it's most overblown...in a good way.

Ocean Breakup from OTTD is also an amazing prog track.
 
I can't stand their first album, except for 10538 Overture.  On The Third Day and Eldorado were their most solid offerings, although I'm also fond of Out of the Blue and A New World Record.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 21 2008 at 22:19
Actually ELO, at least the hits, always reminded me of ABBA, or maybe the other way around.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 21 2008 at 22:22
Originally posted by jammun jammun wrote:

Actually ELO, at least the hits, always reminded me of ABBA, or maybe the other way around.


That's somehow an insult to BOTH bandsLOL



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 21 2008 at 22:27
Originally posted by Drew Drew wrote:

Originally posted by jammun jammun wrote:

Actually ELO, at least the hits, always reminded me of ABBA, or maybe the other way around.


That's somehow an insult to BOTH bandsLOL
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 09 2008 at 02:05
I agree with Blacksword several posts back--each, in their heyday, had some material that I enjoyed, but each having also MOR pop elements that are mostly antithetical to Prog...(cue the inevitable shadow reference to post-Hackett Genesis Pinch)
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 09 2008 at 11:20
When I first started to seriously listen to music, my friend always insisted that Supertramp and ELO were better than Pink Floyd and Rush. I borrowed his LPs and found a lot of enjoyable music (but I still preferred Floyd and Rush).
 
Never met any 10cc fans.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 16 2008 at 11:34
Supertramp: Their first album is a super MASTERPIECE.
10 CC: haven't heard so much, but is great band.
ELO: Their first album is SUPERB.




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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 20 2008 at 02:36
All three bands happily reside in my collection...
 
10cc were sheer genius between 1972 and 1976 - the layering, nuance and attention to detail in their albums of this period would take a book to elucidate (I may write it one day).
 
ELO were just a fabbo pop band and although you could nearly always see where Jeff Lynne had re-written a tune from - I still found them irresistible.
 
Supertramp knocked my socks off live on the Crime of the Century tour but were patchier thereafter.
 
 
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 20 2008 at 03:52
i know it sounds a bit corny when someone says "that music was the soundtrack of my life" but ELO, Supertramp and 10cc truly were!
 
all their albums were rarely off my turntable during the 70's and 80's especially "Third Day","Face the Music", "Out of the Blue", "Time", "Crisis", "Breakfast", "Sheet Music", "Original Soundtrack", "How Dare You"......ah, memories...who needs a photo album? the faces and places all come flooding back Wink
 
 


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 11 2008 at 22:55
I haven't heard this song for ages but in university I always like 10cc's One Night in Paris.  It's funny and has lots of prog elements.  I tried a search on Limewire recently but you can imagine the results I got.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 20 2008 at 18:57
These bands have nothing in common IMO (except they were great at some time of their existence). I have reviewed their whole works and liked them an awful lot.
 
But what does have ''Sheet Music'' or ''The Original Soundtrack'' (CC) has in common with ''Crime'' or ''Crisis'' (Tramp) or with 'the great ''ELO II'' or ''El Dorado''?
 
Nothing but a high rating (four to five stars).
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 21 2008 at 07:34
I love Supertramp, at least their albums from Crime of the century to Breakfast in America, I haven't heard the rest yet. They're one of my favourite prog bands.
I have only two albums by ELO, Eldorado and A New World Record. I like them but I didn't really got into them yet. I love the first 3 or 4 songs on A New World Record but the I usually lose interest after those ones when I listen to it. The few times I tried to listen to Eldorado it couldn't hold my attention. But I think it's just a matter of time, I know it's a band I will end up loving sooner or later. I think they're somehow similar to Supertramp cos in my opinion they sound like pop oriented prog. I find some Styx stuff from the 70's a bit similar too.
I haven't heard anything from 10cc, are they worth cheking out?


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 21 2008 at 09:07
Originally posted by SgtPepper67 SgtPepper67 wrote:

I love Supertramp, at least their albums from Crime of the century to Breakfast in America, I haven't heard the rest yet. They're one of my favourite prog bands.
I have only two albums by ELO, Eldorado and A New World Record. I like them but I didn't really got into them yet. I love the first 3 or 4 songs on A New World Record but the I usually lose interest after those ones when I listen to it. The few times I tried to listen to Eldorado it couldn't hold my attention. But I think it's just a matter of time, I know it's a band I will end up loving sooner or later. I think they're somehow similar to Supertramp cos in my opinion they sound like pop oriented prog. I find some Styx stuff from the 70's a bit similar too.
I haven't heard anything from 10cc, are they worth cheking out?


check out Brother where are you bound from Supertramp... you'll love it... I did at least..

have a sample



and ELO...  you should get the first 3 next . all very different.. yet all 3 completely prog.. GREAT stuff.
have a sample... my favorite ELO track... from the 2nd album.. yet the 3rd as a whole is my favorite.. was mentioned earlier in the thread


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