Best (Eloy album)

Best
Best
Compilation album by Eloy
Released	March 1994
Recorded	1972–1984
Genre	Prog rock
Length	72:38
Label	Minos EMI
Eloy chronology

Best is a compilation album by the German rock band Eloy, released in 1994. It compiles songs from ten different albums Eloy released under the EMI Electrola label during the 1973-1984 period.

The songs were selected by Giannis Koutouvos,^[2] a Greek radio producer and journalist, mainly known as the founder of the Greek Metal Hammer magazine, who at the time was working as manager of foreign repertoire for Minos EMI, the Greek division of EMI.^[3] Koutouvos chose songs from every 1973-1984 Eloy album except Floating (1974) and Dawn (1976), although Dawn is technically represented by a live version of "The Sun-Song" from the album Live.

The album's artwork was designed by Athena Margeli.

Track listing

Writers credited according to each song's original album credits.

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Original Album	Length
1.	"Sunset"	Eloy	Colours	3:19
2.	"Future City"	Eloy	Inside	5:37
3.	"The Bells of Notre Dame"	Eloy Frank Bornemann, Gordon Bennit	Power and the Passion	6:30
4.	"In Disguise"	Eloy Sigi Hausen	Performance	4:32
5.	"Carried by Cosmic Winds"	Eloy Hausen, Bornemann	Planets	4:46
6.	"The Apocalypse" a) "Silent Cries Divide the Night" (4:17) b) "The Vision-Burning" (7:15) c) "Force Majeure" (3:22)	Eloy Bornemann, Bennit	Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes	14:54
7.	"Impressions"	Eloy Sonja Brown	Colours	3:08
8.	"Say, is it Really True"	Eloy Hausen	Time to Turn	4:47
9.	"Escape to the Heights"	Eloy Bornemann, Mark Sarkautzky	Metromania	4:51
10.	"Poseidon's Creation"	Eloy Jürgen Rosenthal	Ocean	11:44
11.	"The Sun-Song" (live)	Eloy Rosenthal	Live	8:26
Total length:				72:38

References

^ ^a ^b "Eloy – Best". Discogs. Zink Media, LLC. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
^ Koutouvos, Giannis (March 1994). Eloy - Best (booklet) (in Greek). Greece: Minos EMI. p. 3. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
^ Tragakis, Nikos (20 April 2018). "ΓΙΑΝΝΗΣ ΚΟΥΤΟΥΒΟΣ: "Έφυγε" ο ιδρυτής του Metal Hammer". Metal Hammer (in Greek). Treck SAIC. Retrieved 20 July 2024.

External links

"Best". Prog Archives. Retrieved 23 July 2024.
"Best". ProgGnosis. Retrieved 23 July 2024.

[Discogs-1] "Eloy – Best". Discogs. Zink Media, LLC. Retrieved 20 July 2024.

[2] Koutouvos, Giannis (March 1994). Eloy - Best (booklet) (in Greek). Greece: Minos EMI. p. 3. Retrieved 20 July 2024.

[3] Tragakis, Nikos (20 April 2018). "ΓΙΑΝΝΗΣ ΚΟΥΤΟΥΒΟΣ: "Έφυγε" ο ιδρυτής του Metal Hammer". Metal Hammer (in Greek). Treck SAIC. Retrieved 20 July 2024.

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v t e Eloy
Frank Bornemann Michael Gerlach Hannes Folberth Klaus-Peter Matziol Stephan Emig Fritz Randow Jürgen Rosenthal Detlev Schmidtchen Hannes Arkona Jim McGillivray Steve Mann Bodo Schopf Kristof Hinz
Studio albums	Eloy (1971) Inside (1973) Floating (1974) Power and the Passion (1975) Dawn (1976) Ocean (1977) Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes (1979) Colours (1980) Planets (1981) Time to Turn (1982) Performance (1983) Metromania (1984) Code Name: Wild Geese (1984) Ra (1988) Destination (1992) The Tides Return Forever (1994) Ocean 2: The Answer (1998) Visionary (2009) The Vision, the Sword and the Pyre – Part I (2017) The Vision, the Sword and the Pyre – Part II (2019) Echoes from the Past (2023)
Live albums	Live (1978)
Compilation albums	Rarities (1991) Chronicles I (1993) Best (1994) Chronicles II (1994) The Best of Eloy Vol. 1 – The Early Days 1972–1975 (1994) The Best of Eloy Vol. 2 - The Prime 1976-1979 (1996) Timeless Passages (2003)