PA's Battle to Stardom B2: ELP v. Tangerine Dream

This is quite a different collection of the prog spectrum! One of the most popular and also notorious progressive rock bands of the 1970s and one of the biggest pioneers of electronic prog pitted against each other. Give your vote to choose who advances!

Please: If you are not familiar with one or both of the band's material, I urge that you use the links provided and at least listen to the samples on their respective pages (or Youtube if the particular band has no online streaming).

ELP's PA page: http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=94
TD's PA page: http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=1295

As always, discussions are encouraged.

Recap:
Round 2
B1: Marillion v. Area       (32-35)

B1: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=52648&PN=1


Round 1
A1:  Mahavishnu Orchestra v. Marillion      (24-28)
A2:  Gong v. Area    (18-19)
A3:  Emerson, Lake and Palmer v. The Flower Kings      (22-14)
A4:  The Residents v. Tangerine Dream    (12-15)
A5:  Can v. Dream Theater    (42-37)
A6:  Echolyn v. Opeth    (11-18)
A7:  Van der Graaf Generator v. The Mars Volta    (54-18)
A8:  Samla Mammas Manna v. Radiohead      (27-26)
A9:  Rush v. Tool    (55-21)
A10: Meshuggah v. Kayo Dot     (15-21)
A11: Henry Cow v. Amon Duul II      (17-12)
A12: Soft Machine v. Magma      (23-25)
A13: Ayreon v. Le Orme      (26-29)
A14: Ozric Tentacles v. Hawkwind         (21-27)
A15: Koenjihyakkei v. Univers Zero       (10-17)
A16: Gentle Giant v. Camel        (41-29)

A1: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=51423&PN=2
A2: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=51492&PN=1
A3: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=51567&PN=1
A4: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=51630&PN=1
A5: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=51711&PN=1
A6: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=51778
A7: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=51855
A8: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=51928&PN=1
A9: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=52011
A10: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=52091
A11: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=52158&PN=1
A12: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=52246
A13: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=52336
A14: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=52411&PN=1
A15: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=52487&PN=1
A16: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=52571

Sorry, no vote for me...............like them equally

Still haven't heard any Tangerine Dream, so I'll have to abstain from this one.

I vote for ELP to draw the scores equal in this equal battle.

I can't believe Area won over Marillion. Refreshing!  

ELP without any question. Tangerine Dream is maybe sometimes nice to listen to, but nothing more. ELP for me has at least three albums I consider classics of progressive rock. The whole electronic direction of progressive rock is something I hardly can get into, and Tangerine Dream is no exception on this. So, it's ELP (who, by the way, will win this!).

Luke. J wrote: . So, it's ELP (who, by the way, will win this!).

MovingPictures07 wrote: febus wrote: NaturalScience wrote: Still haven't heard any Tangerine Dream, so I'll have to abstain from this one.   Whoahhhhh!! You know all those obscure Zheul bands, Pat and never heard any TD!...You are an amazing man! I agree; he needs to hear Phaedra, Rubycon, Stratosfear, Force Majeure, and Tangram at the very least.

Much as I like Tangs (seen them live 3 times), it simply has to be ELP. 

hum Hard choice! why? because to my both bands were pioneer int he development of the Prog scene. elp However My vote goes for Tangerine Dream Why? because TD made more tasteful and better albums than ELP. Don't get wrong I love ELP albums from their 1 to Works however after works ELP didn't (my personal Opinion)  manage to make good albums after that. their Studios albums were EXTREMELY BORING! with extremely lack of creativity that their early albums had. However Tangerine Dream made some fantastics albums ( tamgram, Exit, until the 80's and recently their creativity had come back. !