― lukey (Lukey G), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 09:31 (twenty years ago) link
― mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 09:40 (twenty years ago) link
― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 09:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Speedy (Speedy Gonzalas), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 10:16 (twenty years ago) link
i remember being captivated by the track "The Whale".. that trippy stereo separation really caught my five year old imagination..
I also love those backing singers on 'sweet talkin woman' - they sound so severe and scary.
― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 12:04 (twenty years ago) link
If you really wanna know how terrible I think they are, search the ILM.
― peepee (peepee), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 13:05 (twenty years ago) link
'Discovery' however, is a complete dud ('Horace Wimp' especially), but as it's the album that sent me into the arms of The Jam I suppose I should be grateful to it.
― LondonLee (LondonLee), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 13:30 (twenty years ago) link
..OK, occasional moments of entertainment.. "Do Ya" can hang.. That's about it for a complete song though.
― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 13:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 15:31 (twenty years ago) link
Ok, Classic, and Discovery may have spelled the beginning of the end for them, but at least it had "Shine a Little Love" and "Don't Bring Me Down" which were both fab singles. As a special treat, I'm going to sing the backing vocals on "Don't Bring Me Down" for you: "Ooh. Ooh. Oohaahoohaahoohaahoohaah, Woooooh!!"
― Sean (Sean), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 15:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 15:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Not That Chuck, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 18:59 (twenty years ago) link
Does anyone rate "Zoom" particularly?
― Tom May (Tom May), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 20:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Robomonkey (patronus), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 22:35 (twenty years ago) link
Lynne is brillinat.
― Ian Grey (Ian_G), Thursday, 26 February 2004 04:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 26 February 2004 15:55 (twenty years ago) link
single worst ELO (or even Beatles) article I have ever read
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Friday, 23 March 2012 01:08 (twelve years ago) link
Fun fact: at least I learned that "Evil Woman" has a line snatched from "Fixing a Hole". I never made that connection!
― henry s, Friday, 23 March 2012 02:07 (twelve years ago) link
Classic, by the way. First live show I ever saw. (Pontiac, MI, 1978. They got sued by the promoter for "cello-synching".)
― henry s, Friday, 23 March 2012 02:08 (twelve years ago) link
Also agree w/pretty much every xpost that "Discovery" was the shark-jumping album.
― henry s, Friday, 23 March 2012 02:10 (twelve years ago) link
^probably. i don't own it but i thought some ilxors fuck w/ Time
― it's smdh time in America (will), Friday, 23 March 2012 02:23 (twelve years ago) link
one of my best hauls ever was finding every ELO studio album except the debut & everything that came after Xanadu on pristine vinyl and paying <$2.00 for the whole shebang
― it's smdh time in America (will), Friday, 23 March 2012 02:40 (twelve years ago) link
Also, RIP Kelly Groucutt. Dug his background box.
― henry s, Friday, 23 March 2012 02:55 (twelve years ago) link
"vox"
They were big childhood favorites, including their half of Xanadu, and Time, which at the time I thought was the most awesome album ever. I always was shaky on the disco-y Discovery, and disinherited the band in h.s. But I came back around as an adult and re-acquired everything up to '86, and my wife even has several of their songs on her daily workout mix. And as cheesy as it is, I've always liked "Horace Wimp," and the rest of Discovery sounds good to me now too. It may be part nostalgia, but there's other bands from my youth that I don't like anymore.
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 23 March 2012 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
"Discovery" really isn't bad at all. Love "Horace Wimp". E.L.O. is definitely a band my wife and I can agree on, which is a real bonus for road trips etc. (though this may be a big detriment to other readers ....) They certainly mystified me when they came on the radio when I was 5 years old, just seemed to come from another world altogether at times. Pretty much never stopped loving them, but really I only ever owned albums in the last 10-15 years, so the band really opened up for me once I heard a lot of the deeper cuts on the records.
― grandavis, Friday, 23 March 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
Lynne was the producer of choice for post-Beatles' solo projects: George Harrison's Cloud Nine, Paul McCartney's Flaming Pie, and numerous Ringo Starr projects. He even ended up replacing George Martin as the Beatles producer for the final singles Free as a Bird and Real Love.
"Nevermind those other eleventy-five albums the solo Beatles made, Lynne produced this handful! That proves my thesis!"
― jpattzlovevampz 2 hours ago (Phil D.), Friday, 23 March 2012 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, that was a worthless read (even the two paragraphs I made it through)
― grandavis, Friday, 23 March 2012 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
as a crimbo treat to myself i picked up the recent boxset that puts all the remastered editions together in a nice little box.bar the odd sidestep here and there, its pure joy from start to finish.and i have to say, Disco-very has aged really well i think.
― mark e, Friday, 23 March 2012 23:19 (twelve years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41qvHqZkvXL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
― : ; : (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 22 February 2013 08:01 (eleven years ago) link
why would he spend all that time and money recording exact carbon copies of his own songs
― : ; : (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 22 February 2013 08:03 (eleven years ago) link
i agree.apparently though there are subtle differences which according to jeff makes these better.but hey, even as a fan, i aint falling for it.i have the boxset of the original albums - and thats all i need ...
― mark e, Friday, 22 February 2013 08:04 (eleven years ago) link
one song has a noticeable difference
one
― : ; : (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 22 February 2013 08:10 (eleven years ago) link
I assume he did it for the same reason Squeeze did?
― this is called money bags (Phil D.), Friday, 22 February 2013 11:50 (eleven years ago) link
squeeze did the same thing?
god
― : ; : (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 22 February 2013 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
Haha, yep: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spot_the_Difference
The songs are arranged as similarly as possible to the original recordings, being done in such a way to invite the listener to 'spot the difference'. . . . Chris Difford went on to explain in an interview in the Huffington Post (6 August 2010) the reason for the release: "Well, Squeeze has never owned our own copyrights because, obviously, they're owned by a major record label. We thought it might be fun to re-record our songs to make it possible for us to own a little bit more of our own history. So, Glenn went in the studio, and did most of the work. I have to bow down to his achievements as a producer because he's done a great job of making them sound pretty much like the originals"[3]
. . . Chris Difford went on to explain in an interview in the Huffington Post (6 August 2010) the reason for the release: "Well, Squeeze has never owned our own copyrights because, obviously, they're owned by a major record label. We thought it might be fun to re-record our songs to make it possible for us to own a little bit more of our own history. So, Glenn went in the studio, and did most of the work. I have to bow down to his achievements as a producer because he's done a great job of making them sound pretty much like the originals"[3]
― this is called money bags (Phil D.), Friday, 22 February 2013 19:39 (eleven years ago) link
i mean one could generate equivalent sales without painstakingly producing a highly detailed photostat of one's own 40 year old output. record a once-only gig at edgbaston or something xp
― : ; : (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 22 February 2013 19:42 (eleven years ago) link
ahhhhh, okay. is that why new order did that hideous
http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/n/new-order/album-the-best-of-new-order.jpg
as well?
― : ; : (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 22 February 2013 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.soundandvisionmag.com/article/hello-mr-radio?page=0,1
I thought, “I’ll just have a go at ‘Mr. Blue Sky,’ see if I can get it any better, and try again from scratch. I started out with a click, recorded “Mr. Blue Sky” from scratch in analog, and then ran it through ProTools.
this guy and protools
― : ; : (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 23 February 2013 01:53 (eleven years ago) link
Does he even need ProTools? E.L.O. records had that ProTools sheen 30 years before it was invented.
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 23 February 2013 03:44 (eleven years ago) link
love the dude, but sometimes u must let go
how many anthologies have they had, for god's sake
― железобетонное очко (mookieproof), Saturday, 23 February 2013 03:55 (eleven years ago) link
A very great band. If you don't believe me, then go ahead and listen again to "Turn To Stone".
― jetfan, Saturday, 23 February 2013 04:00 (eleven years ago) link
Camper Van Beethoven:
A compilation of greatest hits, Popular Songs of Great Enduring Strength and Beauty, was released by Cooking Vinyl Records in June 2008. As band relations with Virgin Records were poor, they were not granted access to any material from the two Virgin LPs for this compilation. Thus, the band re-recorded five songs from these albums to include on the collection.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 23 February 2013 04:15 (eleven years ago) link
lol listening on spotify now and these sound nothing like the originals. impressive that he got as close as he did though.
― wk, Saturday, 23 February 2013 04:25 (eleven years ago) link
listen again to "Turn To Stone".
which one
btw please tell me that 'jetfan' refers to winnipeg rather than nyj
― железобетонное очко (mookieproof), Saturday, 23 February 2013 04:46 (eleven years ago) link
See also, Cracker:
Plenty of bands aren't happy with how their catalog is treated by former record labels, but no artists have confronted their old label the way Cracker does with the 2006 release of Greatest Hits Redux. As Virgin prepared its second Cracker compilation, Get on with It: The Best of Cracker, for release in early 2006, the band caught wind of the project, and when the label would not allow them to participate, they retaliated by re-recording a bunch of their signature tunes and releasing this new album, Greatest Hits Redux, on the same day Virgin's comp hit the stores.
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 23 February 2013 06:07 (eleven years ago) link
god that squeeze one is awful. I hope these guys don't seriously think their voices sound the same as they did 30 years ago.
― wk, Saturday, 23 February 2013 07:04 (eleven years ago) link
cheers josh and lump
― : ; : (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 23 February 2013 07:17 (eleven years ago) link
something about ELO melodies and production excess that never fails to hit the spot ..
truly brilliant band.
f*ck the hate.
― mark e, Friday, 4 April 2014 22:20 (ten years ago) link
nobody can deny the majestic pre-chorus of "living thing"
― brimstead, Friday, 4 April 2014 22:22 (ten years ago) link
so many of their songs qualify for classic status..
cannot list as i would just end up listing full albums !
― mark e, Friday, 4 April 2014 22:26 (ten years ago) link
eldorado overture however ....
― mark e, Friday, 4 April 2014 22:27 (ten years ago) link
on the eldorado reissue they released the whole orchestra suite for eldorado .. damn .. its brilliant ..
― mark e, Friday, 4 April 2014 22:29 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUY4d3IQfGA
― mark e, Friday, 4 April 2014 22:58 (ten years ago) link
telephone line chorus will always be my magical musical elixir of joy/melancholy
DOO WOP
DOOBE DO DO WOP
DOO WAH DOO LAAAAAAAAANG
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 5 April 2014 02:08 (ten years ago) link
Oh, no doubt!
― timellison, Saturday, 5 April 2014 04:15 (ten years ago) link
I think that's actually a pre-chorus.
― timellison, Saturday, 5 April 2014 04:21 (ten years ago) link
elo . . . rules
― mookieproof, Saturday, 5 April 2014 04:40 (ten years ago) link
4 eva amen
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 5 April 2014 04:49 (ten years ago) link
I count "Can't Get It Out of My Head" as one of the most beautiful non-solo-artist hits of the '70s. Weird distinction, I know, but Top 40 beauty tends to come via solo artists rather than bands. At least I think so--would probably need to research that.
― clemenza, Saturday, 5 April 2014 13:50 (ten years ago) link
f*ck the hate.― mark e, Friday, April 4, 2014
― mark e, Friday, April 4, 2014
who hates? my only thing is that i focus on the singles so much, it's hard to get through full albums (and, for some reason, i suspect some of their album-cuts are total filler).
― Daniel, Esq 2, Saturday, 5 April 2014 13:53 (ten years ago) link
a lot of my real world friends hate elo with a passion and so i get a lot of grief re my love for them ..
― mark e, Saturday, 5 April 2014 16:39 (ten years ago) link
we're yr friends now mark
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 5 April 2014 17:10 (ten years ago) link
I'm going to throw sound judgment and concern for backlashing retribution to the four winds and say "classic"
― Tompall Tudor (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 5 April 2014 17:44 (ten years ago) link
Totally classic, although I still harbor a slight grudge against them because on the Out of the Blue tour, the show in Pittsburgh didn't get the spaceship stage.
― Sandy, Saturday, 5 April 2014 17:49 (ten years ago) link
magical musical elixir of joy/melancholy
wonderful description of a lot of the brilliance of elo ...
sums up so much of why i love the music
(even now, i rarely go a week without an ELO session .. )
― mark e, Saturday, 5 April 2014 17:53 (ten years ago) link
New World Record was one of the first LPs I ever bought for myself and is still IMO abso killer front to back.
DOO WAH DOO LAAAANG
― Myth or it didn't happen (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 5 April 2014 20:16 (ten years ago) link
*hi-five*
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 5 April 2014 22:59 (ten years ago) link
Bllllack nigh-eee-ights
― Myth or it didn't happen (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 5 April 2014 23:46 (ten years ago) link
the live show a few weeks ago was pure brilliance.jeff = god.simple as.i think simon 'i love the manics me' price summed up my whole groove perfectly re this whole situation.
― mark e, Sunday, 28 September 2014 00:08 (nine years ago) link
Classic!
― *tera, Sunday, 28 September 2014 04:02 (nine years ago) link
just heard that jeff got his star added to the 'walk of fame' last week.
― mark e, Thursday, 30 April 2015 23:00 (eight years ago) link
sweet sweet is the night when you are heredark dark were the days they disappear
― flappy bird, Friday, 1 May 2015 07:08 (eight years ago) link
"Long Black Road"... crazy to think it was some barely-known B-side before American Hustle. Killer riff.
― Vinnie, Friday, 1 May 2015 12:29 (eight years ago) link
http://jefflynneselo.com/news/258463
Jeff Lynne’s ELO has signed a global deal with Columbia Records and is set to deliver a new album which will be the first new ELO music in 15 years. As with ELO’s previous chart-topping albums, Lynne continues to serve as ELO’s producer, songwriter, arranger, lead singer and guitarist.
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 11 September 2015 10:54 (eight years ago) link
As opposed to Bev Bevan's ELO.
― Mark G, Friday, 11 September 2015 11:12 (eight years ago) link
didn't lynne win the rights to the name though? is he just being all peacock about it?
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 11 September 2015 11:40 (eight years ago) link
After that re-working the greatest hits things, I'm guessing he wants to consolidate his power and bring in some bucks to bolster his "Full Moon Fever" points.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 11 September 2015 12:09 (eight years ago) link
I love ELO but can we talk about the time Bev Bevan joined Black Sabbath? With Ian Gillan up front?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HtRcRXs_ro
P.S. What is Roy Wood up to these days anyway?
― sheesh, Saturday, 12 September 2015 05:21 (eight years ago) link
They appropriated disco very effectively
i wonder how much disco is due to ELO. those strings!
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 22:16 (six years ago) link
https://youtu.be/ebbcPIsv-Ds?t=52s
― MaresNest, Saturday, 8 July 2017 17:40 (six years ago) link
Would have been cool if they properly toured the U.S. (played Hollywood Bowl and Radio City Music Hall last year), but I settled for the blu-ray. And also a pretty good performance by Strange Magic: The ELO Experience on AXS TV's World's Greatest Tribute Bands ;)
Also, was looking for footage on YouTube of this: August 26, 1978, Anaheim, CA: This show started with a lot of theatrics. First, just before the start of the show, skywriters wrote "ELO - THE BIG NIGHT" across the sky for the audience to see. Tony Curtis came on stage to introduce the band, when he found himself in a Star Wars style laser battle with Stormtrooper-style stuntmen who supposedly parachuted in and fought a mock battle with the actor. The audience was then treated to a fireworks show before the spaceship finally opened and the show began.
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 9 July 2017 01:35 (six years ago) link
― MaresNest, Sunday, 9 July 2017 03:40 (eighteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
geoblocked to the uk apparently. for those who can't access it it's 'asia no junshin (true asia)' by puffy amiyumi, which is either an elo pastiche or rip-off.
― Autumn Almanac, Sunday, 9 July 2017 12:09 (six years ago) link
When she was in high school, Ami sang for a band called 'Hanoi Sex'.
― Autumn Almanac, Sunday, 9 July 2017 12:10 (six years ago) link
Didn't the guy from Jellyfish write songs for them? Would explain the ELO pastiche elements.
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Sunday, 9 July 2017 12:46 (six years ago) link
oh yeah, andy sturmer's mentioned in the wikipedia page. holy shit, i have to listen to more of this now.
― Autumn Almanac, Sunday, 9 July 2017 12:48 (six years ago) link
A quick way to sample a lot of Puffy--The Puffy AmiYumi Song Finder, Pt. 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6hogTM0qvE
"Asia No Junshin" isn't Andy Sturmer, but he's written and produced probably 1/3 or more of their stuff.
― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 9 July 2017 15:01 (six years ago) link
There are heavy Beatles, ELO and similar influences (especially early on), singles released in mono and other geekery. The cutesy duo format can be off putting but they kicked a lot of arse, and were insanely popular.
― MaresNest, Sunday, 9 July 2017 16:12 (six years ago) link
There was no skywriting, saucers or Tony Curtis on the Time tour, but they did have a surprisingly simple and effective method of hyping the audience before the show--a digital clock readout over the stage which counted down the seconds from 5:00 minutes until showtime. Each minute closer it got, we went crazier; by the time it reached 1:00 the whole arena was counting along. Then they started slowing down the clock.
Stage fog built up until it reached 0:00, then flashed E:LO and an R2-D2 wannabe rolled out and delivered the vocodered intro to "Twilight."
― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 9 July 2017 23:14 (six years ago) link
i’ve come back to ‘time’ for the first time in ages, and have played it all the way through five times in the past three days. yes it’s ridiculous, but it’s also insanely accomplished and perfect in some ways. currently undecided between this and ‘elo 2’ as their best album.
― times 牛肉麵 (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 19 July 2019 02:54 (four years ago) link
Between 'Time' and 'ELO 2', not to be confused with Kurt Vonnegut's 'Between Time and Timbuktoo."
Also, Jeff Lynne must have been listening to the Ultravox 'Vienna' album a whole lot when he made 'Time.'
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 19 July 2019 03:49 (four years ago) link
it is striking how stridently this is album is 1981. it almost couldn’t be from any other time.
the production and mixing absolutely blow me away. every track is as dense as a rainforest, but all the levels and timings are perfect. lynne must have agonised over this.
― times 牛肉麵 (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 20 July 2019 21:06 (four years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/news/jeff-lynnes-electric-light-orchestra-announce-new-album-share-song-listen/
Jeff Lynne’s ELO—the latest incarnation of Jeff Lynne and his band Electric Light Orchestra—are releasing their first new album in four years: From Out of Nowhere is out November 1 (via Columbia). Below, listen to the title track.
you could say this album came...
...
...out of the blue
― times 牛肉麵 (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 28 September 2019 12:20 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5dRg2bq4oc
I was in Target the other day and heard "Mr. Blue Sky" come on, and it was almost immediately apparent that it must have been the re-recorded version (which I had never heard before). At the least what they played sounded faster and lacked the coda. A box store edit, perhaps? Or maybe it was the remarkably faithful/lazy Weezer version?
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 23 November 2019 23:44 (four years ago) link
wait did i post about ELO i have been listening to ELO tonight and have drafted some posts about how Don't Bring Me Down began the 1980s I may have posted them
― imago, Saturday, 23 November 2019 23:50 (four years ago) link
He re-recorded a bunch of stuff in 2012 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Blue_Sky:_The_Very_Best_of_Electric_Light_Orchestra ostensibly as he thought it sounded better, but suspicion was that it was because he got all the publishing etc from it.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 23 November 2019 23:51 (four years ago) link
In much the same way Squeeze re-recorded their songs and Taylor Swift is going to next year.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 23 November 2019 23:54 (four years ago) link