My - ELOY - story

On this page I'm gonna tell my story about the German epic and proggresive group Eloy
which is the best group in my opinion.



ELOY

Have it on CD.
The first album, to early for my taste. Bonus CD with an interwiew.

INSIDE

Have it on vinyl.
Not a very good album, except the end of 'Up and down', it still makes me shiver
(Dm Am Dm Am C G)

FLOATING

Have it on CD.
Good concept album.
Fast and angry music.

POWER AND THE PASSION

Have it on CD.
Balanced and good.

DAWN

I only have it on casette and a self burned CD.
Nice melodies and chords.

OCEAN

Have it on vinyl and CD.
Poseidon's Creation is one of the best songs ever.
The rest is not so good, long-winded

LIVE

Have it on CD
Bad sound and long-winded

SILENT CRIES AND MIGHTY ECHOS

Have it on vinyl and CD.
Now it's happening things.
Good sound and strong songs.

COLOURS

Have it on vinyl and CD
Different album. Very good.

PLANETS

Have it on vinyl (English version) and CD.
One of the better album they ever made.
The vinyl album is painted by Rodney Matthew

TIME TO TURN

Have it on vinyl and CD.
This is the best album.
Five stars......

PERFORMANCE

Have it on vinyl and CD
An underestimated and forgotten album.
But one of the better.
Sharp and distinctly sound.

METROMANIA

Have it on vinyl and CD
A heavy and good album
but maybe to much treble.

CODENAME WILDGEESE

Have it on a self burned CD.
A movie soundtrack without Frank Borneman.
Very '80 sound.

RA

Have it only on CD
First, second and the fourth track is very good
but the rest is boring.

DESTINATION

Have it on CD
Heavy Metal ???
'Fire and ice' is the best track.

THE TIDE TURNS FOREVER

Have it on CD
Now it's getting better again.
Matziol and analog keyboard are back.

RARITIES

Have it on CD
Good assortment and a nice version of 'Childmigration'.

CHRONICLES

Have it on CD
WOW !!! Don't miss it.

CHRONICLES II

Have it on CD
Hm...what's new ??

THE BEST OF ELOY 1

Have it on CD
Just another 'Best of album'.
To early material.

THE BEST OF ELOY 2

Have it on CD
One more...
To early material.

THE BEST OF ELOY 2

Have it on CD
They back !!
What can I say. Yeah.


I discovered ELOY in 1983 (I think) and the first song I heard was 'A broken frame'. In that time I was listening to SAGA and Gary Numan.
I've always thought that ELOY have been able to pick out the best sounds of the keyboard and make solos on them like nobody else.
Once I went to a record store and asked if they had any ELOY records, and the assistant told me that he had some but there was a guy who came in to the store and he bought a album (he had never heard them) 'cause there was such a nice cover picture on it. I don't know which album it was.
One hour later he came back to the store and bought the rest of the albums because he thought that the music was so good.


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