Xanadu Soundtrack!!

there's Olivia duetting with Cliff Richard AND Gene Kelley and ELO

search: Don't Walk Awa, All Over The World, Xanadu (i.e. the ELO stuff)
destroy: suspended in time - but that's, er OK i guess

i fucking love this record, largely because its so acidraincocainesexjams. i close out every dj night i do with "magic".

but whatever we do, let's forget the summer where i thought dressing the way olivia newton-john does in this movie was a good idea.

"And do you beleive me now Sonny?'

Nuff said.

No way! "Suspended in Time" is totally classic; one of my faves on the whole album.

I have to admit I'm partial to the retro tunes ("Dancin'" with The Tubes and the one with Old Codger (tm) Gene Kelly) over the ELO stuff, though the ELO stuff is pretty cool as well (particularly "I'm Alive").

i do love the songs i know from it though

Why did so many people hate this soundtrack? Some songs are good, and -- as noted above -- TEH SEX.

Well, no one who posted on this thread hates it.

God bless the internet, Part 134657482:

"Jeff Lynne of Electric Light Orchestra fame grew up in a council house at 368 Shard End Crescent in Shard End. The lyrics to the ELO song "All Over the World" mention Shard End along with cities like London, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, and Tokyo."

You're right (I just reviewed this and the companion ILE thread about the movie, and it's all pretty positive). But, by contrast, around the internet everything I've seen is pretty relentlessly negative.

"I wanna dance with you/until the sun comes creepin' through..."

"Lover! Won't take a back seat tonight..."

I thought many of the songs on this were very well-written and I especially liked the way they combined those two.

I worship that scene!

The Olivia Newton-John tracks I usually skip. The ELO ones are ace though, and the best of all is the only non-single, "The Fall".

The Olivia Newton-John tracks I usually skip

OH COME ON!

Well, I don't think I have ever heard an Olivia Newton-John song that I like much at all.

But of course, ELO are ace.

Well, OK, I have heard one Olivia Newton-John track I really like. It's called "Xanadu", and Olivia Newton-John herself is not the one to thank for that song being great.

"Suddenly" is the best song on the album.

Well, I prefer Xanadu, but I see where you're coming from.

Hey, how's that Wilbury-style version of Xanadu that Lynne recorded on his own in 2000? Grouse or shithouse? Guiltily I side with the former.

That's surprising to me, Geir. Isn't Oliv all about the melody? Have you never been mellow?

Olivia Newton-John mainly sung other people's material rather than writing her own. Plus I have always preferred male vocals anyway.

Wait a minute. You have a problem with people not writing their own material too? Without getting into any rockism argument (if indeed that's even possible), does it really matter as long as the melody is gorgeous? And the chords are a-changin' every measure or whatever it is you dig?

Geir you cannot dislike Olivia Newton John. The melodies in her songs are gorgeous. She is gorgeous.

Geir... is dragging his FEET!!! (DANG DANG!!!)

In exactly 14 minutes I am going to the CD store to get this damn thing. I have to hear it again. From beginning to end. RIGHT NOW.

And like yeah, no freaking way on the Olivia hate. No fucking way. I just ordered one of her old CD's not long ago. Big with me in childhood. "Don't Stop Believin'". My dad turned me onto her in the 70's. I still have the cassette.

Also take a look at her picture on the sleeves of some of those early records. Crikey, she was beautiful. And even if they were other folks' songs she had a fantastic voice and a good songwriter/musician partner in John Farrar. I have nothing but the highest respect for that guy. He wrote most of those songs she did on Xanadu, too, if I recall correctly.

John Farrar

I GOT THE CD!

It's making me so happy. From the minute I put it on, I've been very happy.

"Lover, I won't take a back seat...got some dancin' to do"

Can't resist singing with "Suspended In Time"

Not that there's a thing wrong with the ELO tracks, I don't mean that.

You have a problem with people not writing their own material too?

Well, the song may be nice, but then the artist isn't the one who should have the honour.

At least she mostly cooperated with the same guy, which if nothing else did at least give her a distinctive and typical musical style even though she wasn't much behind it.

At least we know who wrote it.

Anyway I'm pretty sure she runs/ran a winery with his wife.

Geir Hongro: Melodic rockist.

http://www.onlyolivia.com/memorabilia/poster/xanadu/1980fr_xanadu.jpg

http://www.onlyolivia.com/memorabilia/poster/xanadu/1980uk_xanadu2.jpg

http://www.funkyafro.com/junk/12-2004/Xanadu-small/Xanadu-063_sm.jpg

XANADU

my siblings and I used to take our record player down to our unfinished basement and setup our own roller skating rink, complete with cheapo strobe lights we had bought at Spencers. Xanadu was the album of choice (along with the Muppet Movie soundtrack). Then my parents had the basement redone as a family room, and the fun times were gone.

Every time I open this record it cracks me up that they included a photo of the writer of "Magic."

TEH SEX indeed. I'm gonna regret this, but yeah, that's me:

http://www.fastnbulbous.com/xanadu.jpg

<3

The guitar sound on 'Magic' makes me feel crazy.

a while back, I got very very hung up on the title track: Jeff Lynne = Benny & Bjorn; 'Liv = Agnetha and Frida.

So I went in search of the best performance of the tune I could find. The below is my choice: I wept with joy when I found it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJw0m8QqjVY

HAVE TO BElieve we are MAgic

love that this lp is labelled 'elo side' and 'onj side'
like u know
they are both gnna be good but diff sides
like that rekkid i have that is the turtles on one side & the association on the other

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Hcd02rr-1I

i don't know shit about the tubes but this clip makes me pine for some day where a band could have 35 guitarists pulling the same moves. not listening to but maybe doing it – seems like a pretty good living if you don't mind doing some drugs past bedtime

kinda want her over-the-knee length wrap dress
seems v glam + pratcical