OFF- Eloy

[Craig Shipley]

>
> > For pure power, I'd go for METROMANIA first and then THE TIDES RETURN FOREVER. PERFORMANCE isn't bad, either. In fact, the only ones that I really don't care for are INSIDE, FLOATING and POWER & THE PASSION (lyrics are just down-right silly, but the mus> ic is good. The first two sound like a Jethro Tull-imitation band and not a very good one. Fortunately, they got better...)
> >
> I kinda think some of their later stuff sounds a bit too much like
> latter-day Pink Floyd. One track in particular on the album RA is almost
> identical to Learning to Fly. I seem to recall METROMANIA being rather
> Floydish as well.
>
> William
>
Well, I _like_ Pink Floyd, especially the Roger Waters-era stuff. The PF
influence on Eloy is unmistakeable for anything else, but I don't care.
Considering that PF isn't doing the music that I care for anymore, it is nice
to have someone picking up that torch (besides Porcupine Tree, which has kinda
shed the PF influence on their new one SIGNIFY, which is a must-have!).

I never thought of METROMANIA as being overly PF influenced (now, SILENT CRIES
& MIGHTY ECHOES, there's a Floyd clone!). I thought that METROMANIA has a more
"guitar-rock with synths" feel to it, basing my opinion on the title track,
"Escape To The Heights" & "Nightriders". Almost has a touch of punkish
agression to the release, but without the amaturishness that punk has.

RA & "Learning To Fly", eh? Hmmm, now that you mention it, there is a bit
of similarity. But not that much of a cop. They were both released within a
year of each other (PF 1987 and RA 1988, I think. But I think that RA may have
even been out before the PF release, at least on vinyl. CD's lagged the vinyl
releases in them days.) so there may be some "spirit of the age" cross-pollen-
ization there.


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