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Poll Question: Iconic love- hate bands: Which is your favourite?
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Even though I like DT, I much prefer ELP
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It's pretty close to call actually, but I'll vote for ELP as both Tarkus and the debut would be in my all time top 20 prog albums. DT would only have Images and Words in there!
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ELP for me
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Both are awesome but I still prefer ELP a bit more

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I am voting for DT because I am a big fan and have all their albums. I only recently got into ELP, and only have bought Trilogy and Brain Salad Surgery so far. But I like them, though. 
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Dream Theater 'cause if you say it with a Cockney accent it sounds cooler than ELP.
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Hold the metal -- cheese, please. Wink

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I'll say DT

ELP is cool but DT is just more my thang
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ELP v anyone and ELP win in my book.
 
I do have a lot of Dream Theater albums.
Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulance is way out in front my favourite and one of the best doubles ever released.Blows ELP Works out of the water.
Awake is also a fine album of songs and shows DT have more than one string to their bow.
After that I find it hard to like anything else. Images and Words has some good songs but I don't like the way its produced. Recent albums like Systematic Chaos just lack any real inspiration to my ears. But as someone else said DT are a more consistent band and to their credit they tour a lot. I've seen them live a couple of times and they are great in that environment.
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Originally posted by prog4evr prog4evr wrote:

If we compare the bands person-by-person:

1. Petrucci vs. Lake:  Granted, Petrucci can shred like nobody's business, but Lake has warmth in his musical tonality that Petrucci can only dream about.
2. More vs. Emerson (yeah, I know, DT-Awake & earlier only):  Emerson without a contest - for creativity and virtuosity.  Putting Emerson up against Rudess would be much harder.
3. Portnoy vs. Palmer:  Perhaps Palmer cannot do machine-gun double-bass like Portnoy can, but I believe his jazz-inspired colorations around the set (cymbals included) put him even above the mighty Mike.

On this basis alone (which is hardly scientific), the winner is:  ELP...
That's the worse analysis I have seen the whole site...
 
DT anytime... if you will always justify that they just can't play as fast as DT... sorry... but DT player really can play with ELP did, is just that you will always like the original... while ELP can't be able to play a song of DT... period.
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I'm afraid I must go with DT. I love both, but there are so many more songs I love from DT. However, none of them has done a whole album which I would totally like, but DT has come closer.
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ELP vs DT? That was never a competition. ELP.
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they're both good in different ways dt is a progressive metal band and elp is a symphonic prog band you cant tell which one is better
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Originally posted by HughesJB4 HughesJB4 wrote:

ELP, too much soloing that doesn't ring with my ears:\
I vote for DT
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ELP, too much soloing that doesn't ring with my ears:\
I vote for DT
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for me its Elp, even though their albums are somewhat patchy, at their best they were tremendously ambitious, hoping to creat some sort of fusion between classical, rock, improvisation, jazz, opera, perhaps overly ambitious of course in the end but they made quite an impression but at the very worst they were brilliant musicians. i would say their finest album was Trilogy, a very fine achievement, but the ultimate Elp album was love or hate it, Brain Salad Surgery.
 
my best memory of Elp is seeing them circa 1975 at Wembly arena, two buddies and i managed to miss our last train home and we had a cold night on st pancras station!
 
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sleeping on the floor of Euston station after the Elp concert was not pleasant
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Emerson, Lake & Palmer

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Dream Theater for sure.
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ELP , no doubt




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