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Poll Question: What's your favourite
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Out of the few I know, Ocean is my favorite.  After that, Floating and then Ocean 2.
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Ocean is my fav but Power and the Passion comes very close. 
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I love Eloy. It's a very difficult choice. But I'll go with Power And The Passion, my first album of theirs.
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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...
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Points: 8080 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 28 2012 at 15:47
Inside-the master album, followed by the debut. Both feature the great bassist Wolfgang Stocker. Well, all of the playing on the first two  albums is great

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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 Wink
 
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
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Points: 3236 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 28 2012 at 18:35
I wonder why we can't include live albums in these polls, as Eloy Live (1978) is one of the few Eloy albums I enjoy listening to in preference to the few Eloy albums I own which rarely make it onto my CD player.
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Ocean, with Silent Cries at a close second. The rest of their discography is kind of meh.
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1 Dawn
2 Silent cries and mighty echoes
3 Ocean
4 Colours
5 Ocean 2
6 Planets / Time to turn
7 The tides return forever
8 Visionary
9 Metromania
10 Inside
11 Power and the passion
12 Floating
13 Ra
14 Destination
15 Eloy
16 Performance
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Points: 403 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 29 2012 at 12:05
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.
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Klaus Peter Matziol is a very good player I love how he play those bass lines. They are so groovy
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Originally posted by dr prog dr prog wrote:

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 Wink
 
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 spadesTongue
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Points: 26137 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 30 2012 at 10:00
Originally posted by PabstRibbon PabstRibbon wrote:

Klaus Peter Matziol is a very good player I love how he play those bass lines. They are so groovy
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