Why are there loads of Yes threads on here but few ELP?
Why are there loads of Yes threads on here but few ELP?
YES seems to have more universal appeal in general.
I personally rate ELP's best as highly as I do YES's best, but I'm probably in the minority.
YES is still making records (not very good ones IMHO), ELP has not made one since the 90's.
ELP has less controversy concerning band members. There have only been 4 members. People love controversy. I don't think there were too many people during the Cozy Powell days that were that adamant about them not being the 'real ELP'.
That's my .02...
And if there were a god, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence - Russell
You can tell only so many jokes about the cover of Love Beach...
Why not ask the same question on why not many Pink Flyod threads , who are without doubt the biggest prog band ever....note i said biggest & not the best !
I don't even consider Pink Floyd to be prog.
Then what would you consider Pink Floyd to be?
I`ll have to research Classic Arena Rock as i`ve never heard of it being defined as a genre of music ¿
1. Yes is more popular
2. Yes has had more activity in the last 20 years
3. Yes is still together, touring and recording
4. Yes is more interesting
5. Yes is more controversial
You get the idea...
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ELP were more popular than Yes in the early 70s, but a lot of prog fans under 30(let's say) don't care much for the trio. They never had an "Owner Of A Lonely Heart" to make the younger folk get interested in them.
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There are and have been plenty of threads on ELP. And all those "Big Six" artists, although now that Pink Floyd somehow aren't allowed inclusion it'll have to be "Big Five" instead, but WAIT! It already WAS, wasn't it? Oh, but Tull had that overt "singer-songwriter" sensibility to them, so it has to be the "Big Four" from now. Or rather the "Big Three", since Krimso didn't really fit the "sympho-lympho" tag that well. OK then, the "Big Two", seeing how ELP were too much distracted by their boogie affinities and Lake's Neil Diamond-antics ("Lend Your Love to Me Tonight" and other such masterworks). Or the "Big One", 'cause Genesis weren't really that tremendously "big" in the first place until after the proglodyte couple of Gabe/Hacko had left.
So we're left with Yes. Let's start discussing that Russian onetime Yes keyboardist's choice of underpants before actually venturing into something new or interesting, shall we?
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
Some would say (including me) ELP hasn't made a really good album since 1973 (Brain Salad Surgery) so their real creative time is much more distant than that of Yes. So, less to discuss.
It always seemed to me that every ELP fan liked YES, but not every YES fan liked ELP.
Pink Floyd were a good (but not prog) band up to DSotM when they jumped the shark and went commercial.
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