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Captain Fudge 
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 Topic: Are ELP better than Yes?
Posted: December 23 2004 at 04:47 |
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Emperor
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Posted: December 23 2004 at 04:53 |
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To my opinion, Yes is much more influentive, original and thoughtful band than ELP, which I even consider as not "Elite" of Progressive. Well, ELP has prpduced several very good albums (70-73, 86), but (IMHO) they were very far from the Great works by Yes, Jethro Tull, Genesis, VDGG and some other bands of that period. ELP were good technicians and pompous melodists, but it's not enough to be The Grang of Progressive.
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sigod
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Posted: December 23 2004 at 04:55 |
Too different to compare for me. I must abstain on this matter. 
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Posted: December 23 2004 at 05:00 |
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Yes were a far more important band of the same era....Thus Yes far superia to ELP.....IMHO
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Posted: December 23 2004 at 05:04 |
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I like ELP and all, but for me they're not even in the same league as Yes.
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Emperor
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Posted: December 23 2004 at 05:16 |
 goose wrote:
I like ELP and all, but for me they're not even in the same league as Yes. |
That's just I also wanted to say! :-) We can compare these two bands with well-known football clubs. So Yes would be like Milan, Real, Bayern Munich of MU, but ELP would be like Parma, Zaragoza, Verder Bremen or Blackburn - with some rare bright flashes in history, but not so stable or legendary ;-)
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Reed Lover
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Posted: December 23 2004 at 05:17 |
Captain Fudge wrote:
ANSWER NOW!!!!!! |
Hey, Fudge.Pack it in!
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Dick Heath
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Posted: December 23 2004 at 05:24 |
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Nice were influential, ELP was the supergroup that evolved from it (and other prog bands). There are a number of bands that are clealry Nice derived, e.g. Refugee ( perhaps by default rather than anything else), Collegium Musicum and many others of the Hammond based groups of the early 70's.
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Dead Jester
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Posted: December 23 2004 at 06:26 |
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We have enough youth, how about a fountain of Smart?
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Posted: December 23 2004 at 06:43 |
i'm with sigod on this...can't really compare these two
but i prefer The Nice to ELP  .......being the band that i first saw, by accident, on late night TV and turning me on to proggy stuff.....hmm...a lifetime ago, it seems 
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Posted: December 23 2004 at 06:48 |
To be honest, I dont think its fair to compare since its two diferent concepts. Yes had this more elaborate concept concerning lyrics-complex music melted into a more classic harmonic structure. ELP with fewer musicians had a more jazz approach inspite of a very heavy classical iinfluence. ELP's harmonic structure is a bit simple but the performing was done with far more passion.
There are days when you want to listen to Yes, and other days you'll prefer ELP, all according to your mood. Thus the Yes or ELP is unfair, the correct answer is BOTH...
Have a Great Christmas all, and lets pray for the soon return of Velvetclown, as his snapps hangover must have subsided....
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Posted: December 23 2004 at 07:16 |
Coming soon - What's best? Cheese or Coffee? Blue or Red? 
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Posted: December 23 2004 at 07:17 |
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Posted: December 23 2004 at 07:20 |
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Cheese Obviously and A 75% of mancunians will say RED obviously !!!!
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Posted: December 23 2004 at 07:48 |
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Posted: December 23 2004 at 07:57 |
Dead Jester wrote:
We have enough youth, how about a fountain of Smart? |
I'm so with you on this!!
ELP is my favorite band.. .ever!! But I love Yes also. There is no comparison, but I would want to hear and see ELP live mor than any other band... They were just 3 musicians... 3 musicians that could make all that energy and talent come alive... TRUE GENIUS, I tell ya!!
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Posted: December 23 2004 at 08:23 |
This is a truly disadvantaged question as Yes have always been the best band in the business(I'm speaking of the great era 69' to 79') As much as I loved ELP's first three albums there 1st being my favourite; they cannot hope to be compared to the collective brilliance of Anderson, Bruford, Howe, Squire and Wakeman.(and others Alan White etc) That said 'Knife edge' holds great memories for me from schooldays playing it on a juke box in Blankenburg Belgium in 1971 with everyone singing at the top of their voices.
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Posted: December 23 2004 at 08:26 |
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90% of prog fans (voted thus far) have rightly that Yes are BETTER than ELP, i think this is possibly right - ELP had some high points (Tarkus and PAAE and BSS) but these are seen and raised by the Yes-meisters......
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Posted: December 23 2004 at 09:16 |
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But is Blue Coffee prog?
Perhaps not, but Red Cheese surely is.
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Posted: December 23 2004 at 09:18 |
I haven't voted that Yes are better than ELP, I've voted that ELP are not better than Yes - that is a completely different statement.
As others have stated, you may as well compare orange juice to cake.
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