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oh. Queen. Hands down.
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ELO by (electric) light years. I was never fully sold on Queen. They do have a handful of tunes I like, but never an entire album.
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Queen. They simply have more albums I care about and still listen to. I just was listening to the debut album in the car the other day.
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ELO is one of my favourite bands. And their first album is the best for me because of Roy Wood, a genius composer. The last albums are great too but they are different from the first that was a miracle.
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Queen is group of my childhood. Freddie Mercury and his band had made dramatical input in music history. Also they faced true popylarity among people. I guess there can't be any doubts
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ELO is just too awesome. Long live Jeff Lynne.
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ELO; but I like Queen for the quality of the musicians. 
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Easy for me. I love Queen.

I don't like ELO
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Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

Originally posted by Green Shield Stamp Green Shield Stamp wrote:

Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

Queen on the strength of three consecutive superb albums: Queen II, Sheer Heart Attack and A Night at the Opera. ELO has nothing comparable.
 
ELO on the strength of three superb albums:
 
Eldorado
A New World Record
Out of the Blue
 
Queen has nothing comparable
Eldorado certainly is a great album, and the follow-up Face the Music is good (particularly the song "Fire on High"). The other two you mentioned represent ELO descending into pop hell, from whence they never returned.
 
But there has always been a strong pop element to Queen.  I don't understand how you can be such a strong advocate of Queen, when you have such a disparaging view of  pop.  I don't think there is such a big difference between Queen and ELO.  Personally I love the pop inflected Beatle-esque melodies of ELO.  I also like Queen very much but sometimes find their arch campness a little tiring.
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Originally posted by Green Shield Stamp Green Shield Stamp wrote:

Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

Queen on the strength of three consecutive superb albums: Queen II, Sheer Heart Attack and A Night at the Opera. ELO has nothing comparable.
 
ELO on the strength of three superb albums:
 
Eldorado
A New World Record
Out of the Blue
 
Queen has nothing comparable
Eldorado certainly is a great album, and the follow-up Face the Music is good (particularly the song "Fire on High"). The other two you mentioned represent ELO descending into pop hell, from whence they never returned.
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ELO for me- so many great songs and charming melodies!
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Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

Queen on the strength of three consecutive superb albums: Queen II, Sheer Heart Attack and A Night at the Opera. ELO has nothing comparable.
 
ELO on the strength of three superb albums:
 
Eldorado
A New World Record
Out of the Blue
 
Queen has nothing comparable


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I'd take ELO, but that's because the melodies. They're both fake as hell, but ELO always seemed less fake. :P
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Neither are my favourite bands although I liked both when I was growing up  and equally lost interest when they adopted a more commercial approach in the late seventies.
If I had to choose it would be ELO as they did the 'proggier' stuff in their earlier years while Queen were really a heavy glam rock band before becoming a pop band. Queen were never that close to prog but I know its an old argument not to be revisited.


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I don't like Queen, so ELO it is, but I'm not that fond of them either.
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ELO because the writing is better.
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Kwien! And it's FREDDIE as in Internet Explorer. Ermm
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