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imjammin 
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Posted: October 07 2009 at 15:39 |
Hi, What bands are there that play a similar style to Eloy? I love that band BUT I can't stand the vocalist, his accent and how he tries to cram all those syllables in short lines when singing. It's a pity, I really like all the rest  TIA
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Negoba
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Posted: October 07 2009 at 16:00 |
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Much much better psychedelic prog rock rock than Eloy is Khan's Space Shanty.
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You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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martinprog77
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Posted: October 08 2009 at 00:32 |
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you should check astra debut '' The Weirding ''
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kenethlevine
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Posted: October 25 2009 at 21:57 |
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Anyone's Daughter's debut album ADONIS and Ramses debut La Leyla might be interesting to you
I would also mention Daniel Gauthier's "Above the Storm", but if you don't like Frank Bornemann's vocals you won't like Gauthier's either
German space rockers DICE, here in crossover prog. Try Dice in Space or Within vs Without Next Part
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Posted: October 26 2009 at 06:11 |
 imjammin wrote:
Hi,
What bands are there that play a similar style to Eloy?
I love that band BUT I can't stand the vocalist, his accent and how he tries to cram all those syllables in short lines when singing.
It's a pity, I really like all the rest
TIA
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I have always had the same problem  It's the accent that takes getting use to. Mani from Guru, Guru, is a little more easy to digest......at times. Although Guru, Guru is nothing like Eloy, my point is that you may need some time to adjust to the sound and style of German vocals. It took me quite a long time to adjust to the vocals of Ange. I am convinced that if I had lived in France all these years, the vocals in Ange would have been easily excepted. One day during a windy and nasty storm, with a landscape view from my window, I became daring and played the first 6 Ange titles. Everything fell into place. But I was in a mind set where I felt that American or British vocals were not suitable for my mood. I believe if I had been dating a girl from Germany, (many years ago), I would have taken a quicker adapting process for the Eloy vocals. It's really inspiring when a person from Germany listens to krautrock with you.
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imjammin
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Posted: October 26 2009 at 06:36 |
Thanks for the recs everyone. I'm checking them out right now  I can say Anyone's Daughter and Ramses are excellent recommendations! Thanks. TODDLER > I don't mind german vocals, it's the accent I can't stand. I haven't listened to many Ange songs yet but they sing in French, don't they? Not sure :P
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Posted: October 26 2009 at 06:45 |
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Try Sky from Great Britain, specially Sky 2 - 1980 and Sky 3 - 1981, they are similar with Eloy, same spacey moments combined very well with symphonic and eclectic elements. Great band
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TODDLER
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Posted: October 26 2009 at 10:43 |
imjammin wrote:
Thanks for the recs everyone.
I'm checking them out right now
I can say Anyone's Daughter and Ramses are excellent recommendations! Thanks.
TODDLER > I don't mind german vocals, it's the accent I can't stand.
I haven't listened to many Ange songs yet but they sing in French, don't they? Not sure :P
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Sorry. I meant to say accent and I didn't. Ange are French. The first 6 titles are pretty good. They sound a bit like early Genesis in places but, I feel that they have something original about them. They were or still are popular among the French but, here in the U.S.A. they were sought after as an underground prog band. They, if anything are much darker than Genesis and are sometimes reminiscent of King Crimson. As I always point out due to my personal beliefs, the lack of European social environment was why I did not prefer the accents. If I grew up in Germany maybe I wouldn't have minded it so much. This half true theory of mine I arrive at from this example only: I purchased about 6 titles from Omega. Out of those 6 titles I had a version of Skyrover that featured Hungarian and English vocals. I started gradually disliking the English version and developing a taste for the sound of Hungarian language. Now when I hear PFM or Omega singing in English, I think it sounds quite ridiculous. But still, simple and plain, the reason stares me in the face. If I had grown up in a social environment in Hungary, the customary everyday sound of a Hungarian accent would be effortless to enjoy in music.
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Posted: October 27 2009 at 22:47 |
imjammin wrote:
I love that band BUT I can't stand the vocalist, his accent and how he tries to cram all those syllables in short lines when singing.
It's a pity, I really like all the rest
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Haha, exactly!  On top of that, he can't sing either. But the music is really good. I put on Oceans or Dawn once in a while if I want some 70s prog that I haven't played to death already.
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Plankowner
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Posted: October 28 2009 at 01:39 |
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I think Satellite has its Eloy sound-a-like moments...
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The Truth
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Posted: October 28 2009 at 16:04 |
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I always thought Eloy sounded like Pink Floyd, in fact, they seem to almost copy them at times
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kenethlevine
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Posted: October 28 2009 at 21:12 |
Plankowner wrote:
I think Satellite has its Eloy sound-a-like moments... |
I agree, especially the synths of "Evening Wind" off their first album
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kenethlevine
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Posted: October 28 2009 at 21:14 |
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I always thought Eloy sounded like Pink Floyd, in fact, they seem to almost copy them at times |
you are correct, but if you dismiss them as just a Pink Floyd copy you are missing a lot of great music. And to comment more on the original thread, I actually like Bornemann's voice in spite of its flaws. He cna go from caressing to careening in seconds, while sidestepping doom and gloom.
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Posted: October 29 2009 at 10:11 |
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I also think Pink floyd is the obvious answer though I guess you allready know them. I also wrote down some of the recomendations here for future check.
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Posted: October 29 2009 at 21:20 |
kenethlevine wrote:
The Truth wrote:
I always thought Eloy sounded like Pink Floyd, in fact, they seem to almost copy them at times |
you are correct, but if you dismiss them as just a Pink Floyd copy you are missing a lot of great music.
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It's not a bad thing to copy Pink Floyd, much the contrary, that's a great thing
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kenethlevine
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Posted: October 29 2009 at 21:54 |
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others that might be of interest are AMENOPHIS (first), MINOTAURUS, TROYA, MADISON DYKE, TIBET, and PELL MELL (first 4 but the first is the most Eloy-like), and ZOMBY WOOF
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mobby
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Posted: October 30 2009 at 04:47 |
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it really annoys me to read ever so often that eloy are a copy of floyd..and mainly because of that guitar intro in master of sensations! eloy are certainly not a copy of floyd..they might be influenced by them..(who hasn't?? porcupine tree for one..who have copied a lot of floyd themes in their earlier career..) but eloy with albums like dawn/floating/ocean/planets/ttt/ are quite original in my humble opinion..
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Posted: October 30 2009 at 07:27 |
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antonyus
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Posted: October 30 2009 at 08:34 |
Probably Eloy is the most unique progressive rock band ever, you can easily compare with pf but you cant say "copy"...its really harsh.
Especially keneth's recommandations are really close to Eloy sound and i agree with him and also you can check these band too; jane, pancake, novalis.
And finally you have to buy our album, Frank Bornemann one of the most supporting person on these project. We were planning to record together but our drummer has problem with the visa so we are doing in Turkey rightnow. when we published our album, i will let you know ofcourse
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kenethlevine
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Posted: October 30 2009 at 21:44 |
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I should also say that it was ELOY that got me interested in German symphonic and discovered all the bands I mentioned here and others. Germany wasn't just about krautrock, but also about some really refined and melodic symphonic rock. It also had its share of folk rock like OUGENWEIDE, CAROL OF HARVEST, AIGUES VIVES, BROSELMASCHINE, EDEN, EMTIDI, BAYON, WIND
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