Roy Wood or Jeff Lynne

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Roy Wood is more creative musician. Both The Move and ELO was his ideas. I prefer him. Although Lynne is a big talent too.

Poll Question: Which of these artists do people prefer?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Jeff Lynne	22	[70.97%]
Roy Wood	9	[29.03%]
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charles_ryder Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: April 15 2014 Location: St.Petersburg Status: Offline Points: 171	Posted: May 21 2014 at 07:50
	Roy Wood is more creative musician. Both The Move and ELO was his ideas. I prefer him. Although Lynne is a big talent too.
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Michael678 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: June 02 2013 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2466	Posted: May 21 2014 at 14:02
	Jeff imo was able to put out some proggy songs as well as catchy ones (REALLY GOOD ones at that), so i am with him.
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uduwudu Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: July 17 2007 Status: Offline Points: 2601	Posted: June 02 2014 at 05:53
	I enjoyed a remark I think I read on the Amazon site. The writer compared the strings played by Wood and Lynne on the first efforts as sawing, compared to the soaring strings of the professional orchestra on Eldorado. The comparison has merit I thought anyway. I think The Beatles influenced Lynne created many terrific songs; he's quite a good vocalist as well. It's interesting as how ELO don't really boast virtuoso musicanship (in soloing terms) although everyone fits in fine on the material which is well arranged and often the seamless anture of the songs' fluency disguise the complex arrangements that make them st So yes, voted for the Jeffe here of course, without whom most of ELO would not have been possible.

Chicapah Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: February 14 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 8238	Posted: June 04 2014 at 12:33
	I feel that while Roy was a true trailblazer who knew no limitations Jeff was the one who was able to refine Wood's wild creativity and help him to present it in better fidelity. In some ways Roy hit his peak with the first ELO album while Jeff really locked into what that band's potential was and ran with it. In the long run Lynne's accomplishments as an artist, songwriter and producer makes it obvious to me who's talent ran the deepest. Jeff is a genius.
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