Eloy: Where to start?

[MYSTERIOUS TRAVELLER]

Mutiny is one of the all time great yet unsung prog tracks imo.

and its about all that's good on that album... Dawn is a bummer as well
Once they got past Dawn and P&tP they started to get it together... though I can do without all that talking on Ocean

[notallwhowander]

PRIMARY PROCREATION HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED...

[Mythos]

With Eloy YMMV seems to apply in spades...Floating and Inside are my favorites.

+1 for Floating and Inside...!

[the ferret]

Metromania & Visionary are my favourites. Still play both regularly.

The only one to be wary of is the debut which contains lots of fun garage/psych riffage but less in the way of great songs.

[Sunhillow]

I've got Ocean. Some people are put off by the vocals but they don't really bother me.
What else is good and worth getting?

Knowing you like Ocean, I think you pretty much can't go wrong within most of Eloy's 70s and 80s output. I think you should avoid - like everyone here does - the debut-album and pretty much everything after 1984 - except "Ocean 2: The Answer", you'll love that one.

In a list:

Eloy (1971) - avoid
Inside (1973) - excellent
Floating (1974) - very good
Power and the Passion (1975) - mediocre, but 'The Bells Of Notre Dame' is a classic
Dawn (1976) - excellent
Ocean (1977) - excellent
Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes (1979) - excellent
Colours (1980) - very good
Planets (1981) - excellent
Time To Turn (1982) - very good
Performance (1983) - very good, often neglected
Metromania (1984) - very good, 'All Life Is One' and 'Follow The Light' are classics
Ra (1988) - avoid
Destination (1992) - avoid
The Tides Return Forever (1994) - mediocre, though it shows promise again
Ocean 2: The Answer (1998) - excellent
Visionary (2009) - good
Reincarnation On Stage (2014) - excellent, the only live-album worth mentioning

[zombywoof]

Floating, for some heavier, rockier stuff.

[gingernut]

Knowing you like Ocean, I think you pretty much can't go wrong within most of Eloy's 70s and 80s output. I think you should avoid - like everyone here does - the debut-album and pretty much everything after 1984 - except "Ocean 2: The Answer", you'll love that one.

In a list:

Eloy (1971) - avoid
Inside (1973) - excellent
Floating (1974) - very good
Power and the Passion (1975) - mediocre, but 'The Bells Of Notre Dame' is a classic
Dawn (1976) - excellent
Ocean (1977) - excellent
Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes (1979) - excellent
Colours (1980) - very good
Planets (1981) - excellent
Time To Turn (1982) - very good
Performance (1983) - very good, often neglected
Metromania (1984) - very good, 'All Life Is One' and 'Follow The Light' are classics
Ra (1988) - avoid
Destination (1992) - avoid
The Tides Return Forever (1994) - mediocre, though it shows promise again
Ocean 2: The Answer (1998) - excellent
Visionary (2009) - good
Reincarnation On Stage (2014) - excellent, the only live-album worth mentioning

For what it's worth here is my opinion. Only heard snippets of the early stuff and it has not made me investigate further. Ocean 2 I could listen to every day.

Eloy, Inside, Floating, P&P, Dawn, Ocean, Silent Cries no opinion
Colours - mediocre
Planets - avoid
Time To Turn - brilliant
Performance - poor
Metromania - good
Ra - very good
Destination - avoid
The Tides - good
Ocean 2 - brilliant
Visionary - avoid

[jlneudorf]

Just listened to Visionary this morning. I think it's a very good album.

Regards,
Jon

[PROGMONSTER]

My 5 faves are planets, time to turn, silent cries, power and passion and dawn

[PROGMONSTER]

I see no love for "Power and the Passion" here

I like it. First half is fine stuff. Mutiny and Midnight flight are my fave Eloy songs

[Burley Wright]

Timeless Passages is a nice 2-CD compilation if you can find it for a decent price, on Amazon the prices are positively silly

http://www.amazon.com/Timeless-Passa...eless+passages

[MYSTERIOUS TRAVELLER]

Knowing you like Ocean, I think you pretty much can't go wrong within most of Eloy's 70s and 80s output. I think you should avoid - like everyone here does - the debut-album and pretty much everything after 1984 - except "Ocean 2: The Answer", you'll love that one.

In a list:

Eloy (1971) - avoid
Inside (1973) - excellent
Floating (1974) - very good
Power and the Passion (1975) - mediocre, but 'The Bells Of Notre Dame' is a classic
Dawn (1976) - excellent
Ocean (1977) - excellent
Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes (1979) - excellent
Colours (1980) - very good
Planets (1981) - excellent
Time To Turn (1982) - very good
Performance (1983) - very good, often neglected
Metromania (1984) - very good, 'All Life Is One' and 'Follow The Light' are classics
Ra (1988) - avoid
Destination (1992) - avoid
The Tides Return Forever (1994) - mediocre, though it shows promise again
Ocean 2: The Answer (1998) - excellent
Visionary (2009) - good
Reincarnation On Stage (2014) - excellent, the only live-album worth mentioning

as I have them all, I can agree except
Dawn - mediocre IMO
Ocean - very good IMO (the talking kills it)

[Sunhillow]

For what it's worth here is my opinion (...)
Planets - avoid
Time To Turn - brilliant

Though I respect the YMMV-principle, this surprises me, for this material was to be meant seen as a whole, and general opinion favors Planets (first part of 'Salta') slightly above Time To Turn (second part of 'Salta').

[PROGMONSTER]

Mutiny is one of the best tracks of all time imo.

[Digital_Man]

Mutiny is one of the best tracks of all time imo.

Yep. I agree.

[Rand Kelly]

Performance rocks and it is at the top of my list.

[Rarebird]

Knowing you like Ocean, I think you pretty much can't go wrong within most of Eloy's 70s and 80s output. I think you should avoid - like everyone here does - the debut-album and pretty much everything after 1984 - except "Ocean 2: The Answer", you'll love that one.



Reincarnation On Stage (2014) - excellent, the only live-album worth mentioning

I still prefer Live. I'm mostly not that fond of live-albums with several additional musicians. Live is just the group playing. Reincarnation on stage has an extra keyboardplayer, an extra guitarplayer and some female vocals. I rather hear what the group can do without those extra's.

[Sunhillow]

Performance rocks and it is at the top of my list.

Yay! Another bystander.

[dropforge]

Yes, Live is a must.

I also like Performance and Metromania. They're different than what came before (dare I say Rush influenced?), but they rock.

[Yaman Aksu]

+1 for Colours, Performance, Inside

[PROGMONSTER]

Performance has some cool stuff. Metromania is crap though. Horrible drum sound

[sergio]

only "Planets" and "Time To Turn" worked for me. That was long time back tho...

[Kanukisbrave]

Ra (1988) - avoid
Destination (1992) - avoid
The Tides Return Forever (1994) - mediocre, though it shows promise again

I wouldn't put avoid on any of these, "but" I would get them near last as they suffer from being studio creations that sound less like a band and more like a project by the leader of the band.. rate the three as good!

[Rune Blackwings]

Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes

add me as another person to advocate this one

[Rune Blackwings]

Mutiny is one of the best tracks of all time imo.

"Mutiny" is awesome