Eloy - masterpieces
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Topic: Eloy - masterpieces
Posted By: steve j
Subject: Eloy - masterpieces
Date Posted: January 11 2008 at 08:39
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Hi guys,
I just thought I would ask a question concerning Eloy. What are your favorite albums and why.
Mine are
Colours
Planets
Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes.
All three are classics in my mind, but very different. Planets is very space rock, and flows beautifully between tracks. Colours is much rockier, whilst Slient Cries is more Pink Floydesque. Truly, three remarkable albums. You will notice that I haven't included Ocean, I just can't get into it.
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Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: January 11 2008 at 09:12
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The best one is DAWN, in my opinion. Wonderful balance between acoustic and electric guitar, bass, mellotron, organ and strings. The cover art is just superb as the music.
A step below stands the excellent SILENT CRIES AND MIGHTY ECHOES with the best Eloy's track ever: The Apocalypse...wonderful epic sad atmosphere with interesting addition of femal (angelic let's say) choruses.
At third position an ex aequo:
the immortal (and "motionless"... just read my review...) OCEAN and the unespected TIME TO TURN, their last great record with fabulous opener Through a Somber Galaxy, mini-epic track as End of an Odissey and good acoustic guitar in the warm closer Say is it really true.
Then, the other classics from their repertoire:
POWER AND THE PASSION, COLOURS, PLANETS (with the exciting Queen of the Night).
Not my fave:
FLOATING and PERFORMANCE.
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Posted By: steve j
Date Posted: January 15 2008 at 16:57
Thank you Andrea for your reply. It seems we are the only Eloy fans in the Prog Universe. Nevermind we will keep our well guarded secret to ourselves.
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Posted By: A B Negative
Date Posted: January 16 2008 at 06:11
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My favourite is Eloy Live, it was the first Eloy album I heard. It has a great atmosphere and excellent versions of some of my favourite Eloy tracks. ------------- "The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar.... Now, that's my idea of a good time." |
Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: January 16 2008 at 09:06
Indeed!
BTW, here on PA I know many Eloy's fans. In the past we have discussed a lot about this great german band.
Surprisingly, none of them posted here. Probably they didn't see this thread.
Just this morning I've put Colours on my car cd player and realized that, probably, my review and rate casted on PA are a little bit lower than its true quality.
Songs as Illuminations, Impressions and Child Migration are just superb!
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steve j wrote:Posted By: tuxon
Date Posted: January 16 2008 at 09:54
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Often overlooked, but indeed an amazing band.
I enjoy most Eloy albums with Dawn, Ocean and Power And The Passion as my favourites. but Colours and their debut are good too.
Think I'll put on Colours today, haven't heard it in years now, but that's the good thing about threads like these, the "Oh Yeah I forgot about that album" factor.
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Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: January 18 2008 at 10:34
I confirm that Colours is a great album. Definitely a classic from them. As a transitional album it may appear non Eloysh at the first listen 'cause the previous and the following records goes to completely different directions...but I like the acoustic guitar phrasing in Child Migration and flute on Impressions.
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Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: January 18 2008 at 12:36
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This is a fabolous band and a personal favorite of mine, curiously the first album i listened was Time To Turn and it reminds as one of my favorites along with Dawn, Mighty Echoes and Ocean ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: ironpagan67
Date Posted: January 20 2008 at 23:17
| The only Eloy albums I have are Colours & Planets. But I guess I would have to put Colours at the top. Really enjoy both though. |
Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: January 21 2008 at 05:20
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I only really like their second album _Inside_.
------------- Over land and under ashes In the sunlight, see - it flashes Find a fly and eat his eye But don't believe in me Don't believe in me Don't believe in me |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: January 21 2008 at 10:25
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(After having listened to: Inside, Floating, Dawn, Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes, Ocean & Colours)
I'd say Dawn. It has the perfect balance between Space- and Symphonic Rock. The whole album can be seen as one, two, or three epics.
I love all the others aswell, but i think that Inside and Floating is special, because of the unpolished feel.
Those were more Psychedelic/Space, and not as much, if any Symphonic.
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Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: February 02 2008 at 12:03
| Depending on your tastes, anything up to 1982's TIme to Turn could be a favourite. My favourites are Inside, Dawn, Colours, Planets and Time to Turn. The latter 3 showed that a prog band could stay prog in the 80s while still changing their style. |
Posted By: Factorplayer
Date Posted: February 11 2008 at 07:30
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Interesting topic here, Eloy certainly has many excellent and
distinctly different albums to chose from. Silent Cries, Planets,
Colors, and Dawn are all very solid with their own moments of
brilliance. It's hard for me to pick just one, but one of my favorites that hasn't been mentioned is definitely Performance - this was a real step toward more techincal playing, take Shadow and Light for instance. Plus it had a great cover art! Also have a soft spot for Floating - it was my first Eloy album many years ago. It's definitely early Eloy and less polished, but really set the tone for their signature sound with jams like The Light From Deep Darkness. (not sure why you don't dig them Andrea but they are really some of Eloy's best IMHO :) Definitely love me some Eloy! only wish I was old enough to have seen them in their heyday |
Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: February 12 2008 at 13:56
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^^^
In primis happy birthday Factorplayer.
Then, about the Floating matter I have to say that it's superior to Perfomance.
Anyway, in comparison with the other classics it appears to me too immature. Not that I don't like to listening to it (I use to enjoy every Eloy's record I have) rather that it's less "spacey" and more "trippy" (psych) if you understand what I think. On the other hand it features a lot of great music. But if you ask me, I will always prefer the follow up, the mighty Power and the Passion. |
Posted By: Grobsch
Date Posted: March 19 2008 at 10:32
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From Floating to Silent Cries... all great albuns... best is 'Eloy Live' followed by 'Dawn'.
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Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: March 21 2008 at 14:20
| Ocean is the one I am very familiar with and is highly recommended |
Posted By: ozzy_tom
Date Posted: March 22 2008 at 09:41
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Definitely "Inside" & "Floating" are the best for me. Also "Power and the passion" is great. -------------  
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Posted By: monolith
Date Posted: September 27 2008 at 05:06
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By far Eloy Live is the best of their albums...Jurgen Rosenthal's performance is outstanding...the bass
playing of Klaus Peter Matzoil is often overlooked as well as the entire band. ELOY was one of the greatest prog bands ever.... I first heard this album in 1981..and every time I listen to it , even now it blows my mind..The Sun Song is a powerfull reminder of their talent. As well as Poseiden's Creation and Atlantis. Unfortunately because they were from Germany, they never got the recognition they deserved....but I am convinced they were as good as any of the the British prog bands of that era.... |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: September 27 2008 at 05:09
Silent Cries & Mighty Echoes is my favourite... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Anthony
Date Posted: September 27 2008 at 19:46
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Here's my list of Ely-albums in order or preference
1 Dawn
2 Live
3 Silent cries and mighty echoes
4 Ocean
5 Colours
6 Planets / Time to turn (I see this as it should have been: as a double album)
7 Ocean 2: The answer
8 Metromania
9 Power and the passion
10 Inside
11 Ra
12 Floating
13 Destination
14 Eloy
15 Performance ------------- Future prosperity lies in the way you heal the world with love (Introitus - The hand that feeds you) |
Posted By: Alberto Muņoz
Date Posted: October 22 2008 at 14:48
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well a personal favorite of mine i think that these are my favorites:
Inside
Power and The Passion
Live
Dawn
Silent
Ocean -------------  |
Posted By: mobby
Date Posted: October 23 2008 at 03:47
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being a fan since 80, here is my top 10 albums 1-Dawn
2-Floating
3-Ocean
4-Power and Passion
5-Inside
6-Colours
7-Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes
8-Planets
9-Ocean 2
10- Time to Turn
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: October 24 2008 at 09:17
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Missed this thread first time round. I have mostly everything by Eloy. My favourites are:
Time To Turn
Planets
Dawn
Silent Cries and Might Echoes
The bass playing on Time To Turn is superb.Masterclass.That allied with the synths and tight drumming does the business for me.
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Posted By: b_olariu
Date Posted: October 24 2008 at 09:36
| Definetly one of my fav bands ever with stunning albums from Inside to Planets everything is top notch with a plus on Ocean, my fav from them. |
Posted By: Takeshi Kovacs
Date Posted: October 24 2008 at 15:44
Wow - this is a bit of a tough one! I love Eloy. It's quite strange but whilst at University I was playing Eloy (mid 80s) and no-one I knew at the time were into them, a few ridiculed them (particularly Frank's accent), and most just ignored them. Strangely enough, I started with a tape cassette version of Performance, as I was fortunate enough to hear 'A Broken Frame' being played on The Friday Rock Show, and felt the need to investigate (as you do)! I invested more of my student grant in...Inside, Planets and Metromania, remaining ignorant of the rest of Eloy's catalogue for some time. Things change, but at time of writing, I think my favourite Eloy album is currently 'Planets', but then I have a very great respect and affinity for a number of others, in particular Inside (ok it's raw but the organ and bass are outstanding), Dawn, Ocean, Power / Passion, Floating (especially Light From Deep Darkness) &Time To Turn. And that's before we get to the Live album! A 'lesser known' band maybe, but sometimes I think it's great when you love a band that's underrated! -------------  Open the gates of the city wide....
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Posted By: febus
Date Posted: October 24 2008 at 23:23
1-Power And The Passion
2-Ocean
3-Dawn
4-Inside
5-Silent echoes
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Posted By: Hawkwise
Date Posted: October 24 2008 at 23:45
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Posted By: LinusW
Date Posted: October 26 2008 at 17:14
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Since I've barely scraped the surface of Eloy's discography I'm really curious about what you 'experts' have to say. I'm really, really fond of Dawn and it's vibrant, rich and balanced combination of symphonic and spacey qualities, Planets stingier flavour and to a lesser extent the pounding waves of keys that is Ocean. So where should I head next? |
Posted By: ironpagan67
Date Posted: October 26 2008 at 18:48
| Check out Colours, Silent Cries & Mighty Echoes or Power & the Passion. |
Posted By: ironpagan67
Date Posted: October 26 2008 at 18:55
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Check out Colours, Silent Cries & Mighty Echoes or Power & the Passion.
Most people on Prog Archives feel as though Time To Turn and Planets should have been a double album. Which I can understand. But I find myself listening to Colours first. And then Planets. To these wacked out ears, they make a great 1-2 combo.
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Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: October 26 2008 at 22:45
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here are some ideas Linus Colours and Time to Turn are great Silent Cries is good Inside is great but much more psychedelic/early 70s |
Posted By: LinusW
Date Posted: October 27 2008 at 08:07
| Colours and Silent Cries seems to be the ones. |
Posted By: Alberto Muņoz
Date Posted: October 27 2008 at 13:28
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Posted By: RoidRageOnStage
Date Posted: October 27 2008 at 22:20
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I'm a quite big fan since 10 years or something, though I'm not that fond of their debut and 1980+ (some 80's are fantastic though so don't get me wrong).
Masterpieces is hard to say, I've got some personal faves but masterpieces I don't know.
My favs are in this order.
1. Inside
2. Floating
3. Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes
4. Dawn
5. Power and the Passion
6. Ocean
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Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: October 28 2008 at 11:05
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Another great work is Chronicles I, which features some of the best songs from the 1977-1982 period, rerecorded very well. I also don't want to discredit two good albums from the 90s, "Tides Return Forever" and "Ocean 2", but I would wait and get some of the earlier classics first.
Ken
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Posted By: Einsetumadur
Date Posted: February 01 2009 at 06:11
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"Inside", for sure ... I don't like these cheesy keyboards that were later to be found in the arrangements, i.e. on "Silent Cries", "Ocean", "Power & Passion" etc. "Inside" is still really cool, "Land of No Body" is outstanding, the title track dto - "Up And Down" is ok, and "Future City" probably a nice bit more than ok - nice jamming.  But I can't stand "Power and the Passion" - and "Silent Cries" and "Ocean" are o.k., but get on my nerves. Just "Poseidon's Creation" and "Master of Sensation" are quite good. ------------- All in all each man in all men |
Posted By: Takeshi Kovacs
Date Posted: February 01 2009 at 09:12
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I really like Eloy and if pushed, would nominate Planets as my favourite album of theirs.
------------- Open the gates of the city wide....
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Posted By: mobby
Date Posted: February 02 2009 at 02:57
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as a big eloy fan for ages,(i even have personally signed photos from the band which i cherich immensely) i find it hard to choose a favorite, though inside and dawn were the first albums i listened to and introduced me to prog from early age, and i never looked back since..
however my least favorite eloy album/s..(or rather the album i though at the time was not as good as their classics, was performance and to a lesser degree metromania..)though after few listens and some time later, i came to appreciate these two albums and discovered some great songs (broken frame/follow the light/nightriders/surrender..)
ra which has been slammed by many esp for use of drum machine!!(imagine the band that had two of the best drummers in rock, rosenthal and randow use a drum machine!), this album i liked very much from the first listen..with songs like heroes/voyager of future race/sensations/) eloy i thought were back in business! (if you can forget rainbow their most commercial song ever and to this day the one i always skip)
i have all their albums..including rarities(with the gem that is let the sun shine in our brain) and timeless passages, but the last one i bought was their first (the legendary 'bin' self titled album)..i hesitated much before buying it because i read so much how different it is from all their other albums..a politically driven rock album and not prog..and was not disappointed at all..although not symphonic/spacey, it has some of the best bornemann guitar, and killer songs like song of a paranoid soldier and eloy with a mind blowing intro and precussions..
let's just hope that the rumours are true and that frank is really making a new album..it's about time!
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Posted By: Roj
Date Posted: February 04 2009 at 08:46
 I only have four (so far).
1. Ocean
2. Live
3. Silent Cries
4. Planets
More needed, very quickly. I think Eloy are great. The decision is, what album next?
 Incidentally, I second what mobby said above. I just love listening to Jurgen Rosenthal, one of my favourite drummers.
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Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: February 04 2009 at 22:42
get Dawn, then Colours and Time to Turn
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Posted By: Roj
Date Posted: February 05 2009 at 03:22
Thanks for the recommendation Ken
 . I have in fact already placed an order for Power And The Passion  . I will then go for Dawn and Colours. |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: February 05 2009 at 10:13
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Floating and P&P (and Destination) are my least favourite by Eloy. I feel that after the excellent "INside", they basically did the same thing much less distinctively with "Floating", while P&P was the start of trying to do something epic, ultimately dramatically imporved with Dawn. But P&P is popular here too Eloy's not just produced a lot of fine albums, but it is really in taking account the entire body of work that one can be truly impressed. For most of the 1971-1998 period, they operated with integrity and with a willingness to change without selling out. Not everything was of top quality, but it was the willingness to evolve that remains so remarkable.
Ken
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Posted By: valravennz
Date Posted: February 06 2009 at 01:52
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My favourite Eloy albums are:
1. Dawn
2. Ocean
3. Ocean 2 - The Answer
4. Colours
5. Planets
6. Silent Cries & Mighty Echoes
"Inside" and 'Floating" were the first two Eloy albums I bought - unfortunately I still have not got into either of them. ------------- 
"Music is the Wine that fills the cup of Silence" - Robert Fripp |