Favourite Eloy Album - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Originally posted by dr prog

Here's my rankings. I'll include worthy bonus tracks on the remasters as part of the session. I haven't got the debut album though and I stopped after Planets. Metromania has a crap drum sound so I won't buy that one

1 Planets-fine composing, mainly good recording 8.5/10

2 Time to turn-better recording and almost as good composing as planets 8.5/10

3 Silent cries and mighty echoes-some strong tracks, a couple of mild yawners, a couple of nice bonus tracks 8/10

4 Power and the passion-mutiny is one of the great prog songs, really solid album, nice short tracks too 8/10

5 Colours-consistently solid, nice bonus track 8/10

6 Dawn-Midnight fight awesome, solid album, a couple of mild yawners 8/10

7 Performance-some great and some not so great 7.5/10

8 Floating-pretty good album 7.5/10

9 Ocean-some strong moments but a few yawning moments 7/10

10 Inside-some good stuff, a bit raw in composition though 7/10

I do like your rankings although I've never had a problem with Metromania.

All time worst Eloy album has to be Ra. Now if you want to hear a really crap drum sound that has it in spades

I don't care for Eloy's earlier and later albums, but their mid period was great. My ranking goes something like this:

1 Planets
2 Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes
3 Colours
4 Ocean
5 Time to Turn
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6 Performance
7 Metromania

Pretty much a three-way tie at the top, though.

P.S. I love Matziol's bass playing. He may not have been a virtuoso the likes of Squire and Lee, but... I love Matziol's bass playing.

Ocean, with Silent Cries at a close second. The rest of their discography is kind of meh.

Hanashukketsu

Here's my rankings. I'll include worthy bonus tracks on the remasters as part of the session. I haven't got the debut album though and I stopped after Planets. Metromania has a crap drum sound so I won't buy that one

1 Planets-fine composing, mainly good recording 8.5/10

2 Time to turn-better recording and almost as good composing as planets 8.5/10

3 Silent cries and mighty echoes-some strong tracks, a couple of mild yawners, a couple of nice bonus tracks 8/10

4 Power and the passion-mutiny is one of the great prog songs, really solid album, nice short tracks too 8/10

5 Colours-consistently solid, nice bonus track 8/10

6 Dawn-Midnight fight awesome, solid album, a couple of mild yawners 8/10

7 Performance-some great and some not so great 7.5/10

8 Floating-pretty good album 7.5/10

9 Ocean-some strong moments but a few yawning moments 7/10

10 Inside-some good stuff, a bit raw in composition though 7/10

1. Ocean (mostly for Mr Rosenthal performance on drums !)
2. Silent cries and mighty echoes
3. Dawn
4. Planets

I have never heard the other albums...

Ocean is my fav but Power and the Passion comes very close.

Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half.

Eloy are a band who really don't enthuse me that much generally; some of their stuff tends towards corny space rock.

But they're good musicians and they certainly never do anything to offend. I really like Time to Turn, so it gets my vote.

Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you have to eat.

Originally posted by dr prog

As usual one of the weakest albums gets the most votes

All of these are weak. Tongue

Coldness doth get away with the badness.

Colours!!! by far

FAIS QUE TON REVE SOIT PLUS LONG QUE LA NUIT HAVE YOUR DREAM LASTING LONGER THAN THE NIGHT

Ocean followed Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes

Poll Question: What's your favourite
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Eloy	0	[0.00%]
Inside	2	[5.88%]
Floating	4	[11.76%]
Power and the Passion	2	[5.88%]
Dawn	3	[8.82%]
Ocean	10	[29.41%]
Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes	4	[11.76%]
Colours	1	[2.94%]
Planets	4	[11.76%]
Time to Turn	1	[2.94%]
Perfomance	0	[0.00%]
Metromania	0	[0.00%]
Codaname Wildgeese	0	[0.00%]
Ra	0	[0.00%]
Destination	0	[0.00%]
The Tides Return Forever	0	[0.00%]
Ocean 2	2	[5.88%]
Visionary	1	[2.94%]
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