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Enchant X
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Topic: Electric Light Orchestra or Kansas? Posted: January 17 2018 at 19:12 |
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its official Kansas kicked ELO's butt in this poll ... but us fans aren't happy with that small victory we want to see some of those English prog bands this site just loves so much taken to the cleaners in future polls to do with Kansas, then we will see the glass as measured ..no longer guessing or basing the opinion of a prog band on just their hits ... its the prog the fans seem to love about Kansas .. the hits are great hits though.
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Padraic
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Posted: January 16 2018 at 10:54 | |||
ELO has never appealed to me.
Kansas once did. |
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Saperlipopette!
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Posted: January 16 2018 at 10:51 | |||
Time was actually my first ever favorite album - and I still love it.
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iluvmarillion
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Posted: January 15 2018 at 21:52 | |||
Funny because I think Face The Music is their best album because it's more consistent all the way through, whereas a lot of ELO albums are spoiled by some ordinary rock n'roll songs. What Lynne does is write some of the most beautiful ballads I've heard, but it's not prog, not that it matters one way or the other, as long as it's good music.
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Tom Ozric
Prog Reviewer Joined: September 03 2005 Location: Olympus Mons Status: Offline Points: 15916 |
Posted: January 14 2018 at 03:44 | |||
ELO were Prog up until Face The Music.
KANSAS were Prog up until Monolith. What does that give us - 5 albums each ?? |
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richardh
Prog Reviewer Joined: February 18 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 26151 |
Posted: January 14 2018 at 02:45 | |||
Kansas . They were a prog band while ELO were a clever pop group. Admittedly the end bit of Mr Blue Sky is beyond genius and better than anything Kansas did but hey ho.
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Mortte
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Posted: January 13 2018 at 22:40 | |||
^Great to hear you like them!
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mlkpad14
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Posted: January 13 2018 at 21:22 | |||
^Knifeworld is also pretty good; today's best discography for me was miRthkon.
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mlkpad14
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Posted: January 13 2018 at 13:07 | |||
Really liked "a Hermitage", it reminded me of Russian Circles. Over the next few days, I will try out your recommendations, I am sure I will find them somewhere.
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dr wu23
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Posted: January 13 2018 at 07:24 | |||
Kansas for me (Song For America is one of my favorite prog tracks from any band).......I like the first 4 ELO (wish Wood had stayed around) but after that Lynne turned it into a pop fest doing his version of the BEATLES.
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Mortte
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Posted: January 13 2018 at 00:28 | |||
Some parts of the album reminds me Finnish band called "Absoluuttinen Nollapiste" and specially their two latest albums Pisara & Lammas 1 & 2. If Finnish-language singing is not too much for you (also lead vocalist Tommi has a little monotonius voice, gladly there are lots of quest vocalists in those albums) I think you would like those albums. They´re concept albums with a great story, I have made a review from them to PA, there I roughly tell the story of the albums. BTW music is sounding more eighties than seventies specially in the first album, but I like those sounds too! Sadly those albums are not in spotify or youtube, there are few songs in youtube. I think Pisara & Lammas 1&2 are the greatest Finnish progalbums of 2000!
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Mortte
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Posted: January 12 2018 at 23:30 | |||
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Mortte
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Posted: January 12 2018 at 22:40 | |||
To me it´s also just the same when music is made. It´s just happens to be that many albums I love has made in the sixties or seventies.
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mlkpad14
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Posted: January 12 2018 at 14:02 | |||
Also Martti, can I recommend you Deluge Grander?
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mlkpad14
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Posted: January 12 2018 at 13:54 | |||
What I like about my taste in music is that I will enjoy everything that you enjoy with the addition of more of my own music. I will check out Knifeworld and Jambinai; thanks for the recommendations.
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verslibre
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Posted: January 12 2018 at 13:43 | |||
I wouldn't be too sure of that. We could try Kansas vs Pallas!
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ClemofNazareth
Special Collaborator Prog Folk Researcher Joined: August 17 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 4659 |
Posted: January 12 2018 at 13:38 | |||
This may be the only poll Kansas ever wins on this site (other than Kansas vs Kansas)!
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Mortte
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Posted: January 12 2018 at 04:55 | |||
Anyway, you´re right. I think our music tastes are very different. Just keep on enjoying yours, I keep on mine. The greatest thing is that we both find lots of great music to ourselves.
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mlkpad14
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Posted: January 12 2018 at 04:42 | |||
^So if the sounds are too modern for you, then that is a problem... because every modern band is going to sound modern.
If you like 70s prog, I recommend you keep listening to music that you like. However, I am getting very into a lot of modern music, and I think that a lot of it is really good, honestly.
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Mortte
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Posted: January 12 2018 at 00:41 | |||
Just listened Ga´an first album. Yes, they have quite personal style, really like their drum sounds. First I like it a little, but after whole album listening this band is not for me. It´s like many new bands, when you heard the first song, you have heard the whole album. Are the musicians of today said by somebody, that when you started a band, you have to had a "brand" and then you don´t make no exceptions of that "brand"? What was in the fifties-seventies albums is suprises. Today´s albums just bores me, just because they´re same from the begin to end, same elements, same sounds. I think that is that consistency what we talked about some other thread. Really hope there will born new generation who will throw consistency away and do just what come in their creative mind!
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