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Hey! ELO has some of my favorite songs ever. Admit it, you like them too: Sweet Talkin' Woman, Livin' Thing, Turnin' To Stone (I guess it was really Turn to Stone, but those R&D bastards made Jeff remove the apostrophe). These songs are like Beatles with extra sugar on top! Or the Move without that other guy!

But the hits are the only ELO tunes I've ever heard. :(

So we already know that ELO is classic, so Search Und Destroy my friends! What ELO albums are good? Are any as good as the singles?

― Blake, Tuesday, 3 July 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Search: 'Out of the Blue' for those sumptuous Jeff Lynne overproduced epics like 'Turn to Stone'. The string section alone on the album could stop a small army, let alone blow out the left woofer on your parents' hi-fi.

Also search "Time" for sci-fi-driven concept-album delirium, early 80's synths, and again - those wonderfully campy choral arrangements. Air are definately the heir apparent to this album.

― Jason, Tuesday, 3 July 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

yeah they made some decent stuff for a band that one was ideologically required to HATE @ the time. but The Move *with* the other guy were way-to-hell better...

― duane, Tuesday, 3 July 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

"Out of the Blue" is always plentiful in the dollar bin and I haven't been tempted yet.

― Mark, Tuesday, 3 July 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

I'd dispute that we all know that ELO is classic, and I think they still have much to prove. I used to love, love, love them, but the more I grew up and started listening to the Beatles the more I realized just how much stuff Jeff Lynne lifted directly from the Fab Four. Go ahead, listen to "Telephone Line" and try not to think of "Hello Goodbye". I dare yez. The only one I'll stand up for these days is the album Time, which is often sorely maligned. Okay, so a space-and-future-themed album isn't exactly newsworthy, even back in 1981, but it helped them turn their backs on disco, was relatively sonically innovative, and got me through a bad year.
― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Just thinking about them again has got me all in a muddle, incapable of basic HTML tags. I thought I left this stuff behind-- it's like a trip to the past. Yow.

― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

first of all: Classic. Search: 'New World Record'. So filled with production tricks, rhythms that come up out of nowhere it almost sounds like two-step. 'Eldorado' is pretty good, altohugh I hate that single 'Can't get it out of my head'? And 'Time' is also pretty good.

― Omar, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Their Beatle-y stuff was better than the limp technobilly they did later after sacking the string section, and started re-writing the same thing over and over. I love "Shine a Little Love" though.

― tarden, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

I *just* got the joke! 30 years after everyone else!! Electric "Light Orchestra" = "Electric Light" Orchestra!!!

I wuv em but it used (aged 16) to piss me off mucho that they weren't an ORCHESTRA. Two vs and a c ain't an orchestra, it's a TRIO.

I really did only just get that joke. I put this down to my immense and vastly superior sense of humour rather than my tiny IQ as revealed on ILE.

― mark s, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

The early stuff isn't bad either. I've not found 'ELO' and 'ELO II' yet, but 'On The Third Day' and 'Eldorado' have some great tracks. 'Time' is the best, and 'Discovery' probably the worst (too polished, and the smooth, high vocals sounds really dated). 'Time' was a car journey staple in our family, along with Jean Michel Jarre, and probably cultivated an early love of synths.

Roy Wood (guy from The Move, along with Jeff Lynne and Bev Bevan) left ELO before On The Third Day I think, to become Wizzard.

― m jemmeson, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Mark S - presume you missed the giant picture of a LIGHT BULB on the cover of their first alb...

― Andrew L, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

I think it's the 'light orchestra' part of the joke that is less obvious, seeing as light orchestras aren't common these days. The band logo was also in the style of the General Electric logo which I always thought was pretty cool.

― m jemmeson, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Definitely search out A New World record and Out of the Blue. John Lennon reckoned the Beatles would have ended up sounding like ELO, it's doubtful that they'd sound quite as ambitious, opulent and fun as these two records.

Destroy Secret Messages and Balance of Power and the wretched live LP

You can take or leave the rest, but Discovery is mostly soppy, cod disco although it does contain the mighty Don't bring me down.

A word of warning the first two LP's (and the first one in particular) aren't at all typical of there sound, being a mish mash of Beatles, Prog and mediaeval music!

Will have to check out Time, what with all the praise being heaped on it.

― Billy Dods, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

"giant picture of a LIGHT BULB": no, i remember it very clearly! To be honest I didn't interpret the name either way, tho: to me it was just what they were called, like Barclay James Harvest [*studies these three words very carefully*].

― mark s, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

"Barclay James", "James Harvest", "BJH".

I can't believe you've never seen that before, M*rk.

― Tim, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Also, let's not forget the contribution to the Olivia Newton John vehicle 'Xanadu'... You can pretty much aim scud missles at that one.

― Jason, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

No, not Xanadu! I love that one. I'd hate it if ONJ weren't on it, though.

― Kerry Keane, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Just listening to "Above the Clouds": this sounds exceptionally a bunch like Skylarking era XTC.

― Blake, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

First band I ever saw live. Wembley Pool (now "Arena") in 1976 (or was it 1977?). They had the giant spaceship on stage, the lasers and everything. Looking back I can see that they weren't exactly brimming with personality as a stage act but I do remember that 'Strange Magic' was beautiful.

Walking back the tube station wearing an 'Out OfThe Blue' sweatshirt afterwards three punks saw me and started laughing and sneering. What do they know about good music, I thought. I was only 14 at the time. About a year later I realized they knew a lot more than me.

Still, as a pop band ELO produced some gems, The 'New World Record' album is their best, 'Out Of The Blue' is terrific of course but not as concise. Everything after that stinks to high heaven, but maybe that's just because my tastes had moved beyond them by that time.

― Lee Caulfield, Friday, 6 July 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

So I went out and bought the remastered version of Time, with three (COUNTEM THREE) bonus tracks and half-hearted commentary by Jeff Lynne. Now that Lynne's got his version of ELO back together again, with a new album, it's a good time for people to pick up remastered versions, thanks to Legacy. I know that at least Discovery and Time are redone now, and Secret Messages (but why bother with that one?).

Time sounds great remastered. I can't verify the actual quality of the material anymore...I realize that most of my fond memories of the album are really nostalgia for that period in my life. I'm enjoying this a lot, but I'd probably be embarassed if others were around.

― Sean Carruthers, Tuesday, 10 July 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

3 years pass...

My god - Shine a Little Love - would have to be one of the most uplifting songs I've ever heard in my life.

Long live ELO.

― Neil McFarlane, Thursday, 13 January 2005 04:16 (8 years ago) Permalink

amen.

― derrick (derrick), Thursday, 13 January 2005 07:08 (8 years ago) Permalink

On The Third Day is my favorite album, Showdown's my favorite track from it. Eldorado's good too but I prefer on the 3rd. The first albums better than the 2nd I think but it'd very different from the rest of them. Much rawer sounding and strange.

― jjj, Thursday, 13 January 2005 16:13 (8 years ago) Permalink

TS: "Do Ya" by ELO vs. "More Than A Feeling" by Boston

― Jeff Reguilon (Talent Explosion), Thursday, 13 January 2005 16:50 (8 years ago) Permalink

TS: "Mr. Blue Sky" vs. everything thing else they ever did

― darin (darin), Thursday, 13 January 2005 17:17 (8 years ago) Permalink

i've had "xanadu" on repeat for over 12 hours now.

― cathy berberian (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 13 January 2005 19:48 (8 years ago) Permalink

8 months pass...

Anyone out there who'd like to support me in saying that "Zoom" is one of the greatest comebacks ever? Sure, most of the old stuff is marvellous but who would have thought that Lynne comes up with something that genuine after "Balance of Power" - Though - He never failed to write impeccable tunes (even during his "plastic periods").

― Jens, Wednesday, 5 October 2005 09:43 (7 years ago) Permalink

because of these ELO threads of late, i purchsed their greatest hits collection yesterday.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 12:16 (7 years ago) Permalink

Good call, Maria — I'm still ogling those possibly out of print expanded versions of the first two record. Does anyone have those? I gather the second one includes all this lost/unreleased material w/ Roy Wood...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 13:28 (7 years ago) Permalink

i have a few of their albums on LP but i realized yesterday at work that i needed a cd. i dont know why i just didnt slsk their stuff, but oh well.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 13:35 (7 years ago) Permalink

Perhaps because their pleasures are more...permanent?

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 14:23 (7 years ago) Permalink

if i sought permanency, i would have gone home and listened to my LPs of their stuff. i did search for them on slsk but couldnt find anything suitable and last night i found myself in a record store.

now people are gonna think im some weird ELO fangeek for owning it on LP and CD. [wait, i am.]

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 14:27 (7 years ago) Permalink

Well, Chris Dahlen and I were a bit put off at the conference when you showed up w/ a Jeff Lynne sunglasses and wig.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 14:59 (7 years ago) Permalink

i was just trying to stick it to the establishment, man!

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 15:27 (7 years ago) Permalink

You and that Magnatune asshole and his lovely wife.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 15:38 (7 years ago) Permalink

dont make me break out pictures.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 15:44 (7 years ago) Permalink

currently loving the chug-chug-chug of the guitar thats squeezed in between the disco gloss of "shine a little love". luckily my boss isnt in the office, so im blasting it.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 16:11 (7 years ago) Permalink

11 months pass...

Recently, I've heard a couple ELO songs I hadn't heard in a long time, and, wow, I think I need to reassess them. They are a bit of 70s childhood music listening that I didn't go back to recover after pushing a lot of that stuff aside as a college radio listening adolescent, but they actually seem really strong to me at the moment.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 02:08 (6 years ago) Permalink

ELO remain the most consistently lush, orchestrated, and unfunky bands ever (although "The Whale" and "Don't Bring Me Down" are jams, yeah yeah.)

I liked them a lot as a kid, then fell off bigtime, and rejoined bigtime. Favorite albums are Electric Light Orchestra [No Answer], Face The Music, A New World Record, and best of all, ELO's half of the Xanadu soundtrack.. The problem is that for every great track, there are two that are just ok.. but these great and ok tracks differ from person to person.

At this point, the only album until Secret Messages that has yet to get a reissue, AFAIK, is Out Of The Blue which I'm guessing is going to get a deluxe treatment of some kind for its 30th anniversary next year.

"Yours Truly, 2094" thematically defined Daft Punk.

― the dow nut industrial average dead joe mama besser (donut), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 03:09 (6 years ago) Permalink

There are reissues available for every single album now, although here in Norway I haven't been able to track down the recently reissued "On The Third Day", "Face The Music" or "A New World Record" yet. As for the rest of the reissues, they haven't done that much out of them, but they sound slightly better and there is also the occasional bonus track.

Btw. Search at least everything from "On The Third Day" up to and including "Time". After that they kind of lost their momentum, while their first two albums are worth investigating only a bit different than the rest.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 07:42 (6 years ago) Permalink

Don't Bring Me Down was a amazing song to play at a wedding.

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 12:16 (6 years ago) Permalink

TS: "Do Ya" by ELO vs. "More Than A Feeling" by Boston

"Do Ya" is by The Move isn't it?

― Oh No It's Dadaismus! (Dada), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 12:17 (6 years ago) Permalink

ELO did a version on A New World Record. The Move original trumps all, though.

― LC (Damian), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 12:32 (6 years ago) Permalink

If I didn't have to go to bed, I'd geek out all over this thread and then never come back out of embarrassment.

So I'll just insist that Secret Messages is actually really good and leave it at that.

― Hideous Lump (Hideous Lump), Thursday, 21 September 2006 02:27 (6 years ago) Permalink

Excuse me people, but where the FUCK is the "Four Little Diamonds" praise?!?!

"...But it NE-ver EE-ven CROSSED! MY! MIIIINNNND! She was a CHEE!! TER!!"

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 21 September 2006 09:38 (6 years ago) Permalink

ELO are so so classic. I've loved Out of the Blue since I first heard it but recently had the pleasure of hearing "The Diary Of Horace Wimp" with it's Sparky's Talking Piano reading out the days of the week - it's amazing.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Thursday, 21 September 2006 09:42 (6 years ago) Permalink

Picked up the reissues of Face The Music and A New World Record yesterday (Only £5 in Fopp!).

I've only listened to the former so far. Not sure the remastering has made much, if any, difference. I still had to turn up the treble on the hi-fi to compensate for that muddy production of a lot of 70s ELO. (The previously unreleased bonus tracks - presumably newly mixed - have a much better sound.)

The music's fantastic, of course.

― Jeff W (zebedee), Thursday, 21 September 2006 09:45 (6 years ago) Permalink

i have a love/hate relationship with elo. it has something to do with an elder brother being in the elo fan club and posessing almost their entire back catalogue. i had a fondness for the elo box.

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Thursday, 21 September 2006 09:56 (6 years ago) Permalink

Excuse me people, but where the FUCK is the "Four Little Diamonds" praise?!?!
The best post-"Don't Bring Me Down" rocker bar none ("Hold on Tight" and "Rock & Roll Is King" don't even make the top ten).

― Hideous Lump (Hideous Lump), Friday, 22 September 2006 01:44 (6 years ago) Permalink

"Four Little Diamonds" is great (possibly the most Beatlesque of all ELO songs - even with a spoken message to a "Paul", in a scouse accent, at the start), but so isn't the rest of "Secret Messages", sadly.

"Calling America" and "So Serious" were great singles from "Balance Of Power" though.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 22 September 2006 09:49 (6 years ago) Permalink

Btw. found the 20th anniversary edition of "A New World Record" here yesterday. "Surrender" is fantastic, and I cannot believe it wasn't included in the album in the first place!

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 22 September 2006 09:58 (6 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, I'm love-love-loving the reissue of ANWR. No reservations about the sound of this one either.

― Jeff W (zebedee), Friday, 22 September 2006 11:36 (6 years ago) Permalink

The best post-"Don't Bring Me Down" rocker bar none ("Hold on Tight" and "Rock & Roll Is King" don't even make the top ten).

Did they release as much as 10 rockers after "Don't Bring Me Down"? :)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 22 September 2006 11:50 (6 years ago) Permalink

ELO CD80 'portable' GO!

10538 Overture
Showdown
Evil Woman
So Fine
Livin' Thing
Turn to Stone
Sweet Talkin' Woman
Boy Blue
Shine a Little Love
Confusion
Last Train to London
Don't Bring Me Down
Xanadu (OST version feat Olivia Newton John)
I'm Alive
All Over the World
Twilight
Yours Truly 2095
Secret Messages
Xanadu (Jeff Lynne vocal version)

(my perfect best of, chronological AFAIK, 76:54)

― I.M. From Hollywood (i_m_from_hollywood), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:29 (6 years ago) Permalink

steve shasta got me into the el dorado album

― chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 22:52 (6 years ago) Permalink

The new Andy Sturmer (Jellyfish) vehicle is called L.E.O. and the album is a song cycle done in E.L.O. style. It's pretty good, actually.

― don weiner (don weiner), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 23:06 (6 years ago) Permalink

Actually, the main guy behind L.E.O. is Bleu, but Andy Sturmer is one of the participants, as are Matt Mahaffey (Self), Tony Goddess (Papas Fritas), Mike Viola (Candy Butchers), even Hanson!

http://www.myspace.com/bleuleo - From the tracks posted here, it's verrrrry Jeff Lynne.

― Hideous Lump (Hideous Lump), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 02:43 (6 years ago) Permalink

Ah, ELO are one of those bands that I've been told I should consider a guilty pleasure but I love 'em out and out.
For me, best moment is the "Bruce!" in Don't Bring Me Down, though New World Record is probably my favorite overall... Their cheese is sublime.

― js (honestengine), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:50 (6 years ago) Permalink

Tbh they touched genius SO often you'd think they'd have more good songs

And yet, they don't

What they have is prob plenty tho.

― Richard Bliss (mazdachik), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 12:12 (6 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

Also, let's not forget the contribution to the Olivia Newton John vehicle 'Xanadu'... You can pretty much aim scud missles at that one.

Xanadu is a fantastic disc (with, admittedly, a few total dud songs).

― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 9 July 2009 03:58 (3 years ago) Permalink

Xanadu is the last piece that needs to be remastered. My cousin had the "Don't Bring Me Down" single, and a friend had Out of the Blue. I saw A Box of Their Best, consisting of ANWR, OOTB and Discovery at Musicland, and had to have it. Being 10 yrs old, I had to gather pop and beer cans for a couple weeks to refund (5 cents each in Iowa) to raise funds for it, just like the homeless people in my neighborhood do now. It was worth it, I couldn't believe the other albums were just as great. The only remaster I don't have before Time is Face The Music, which I always felt was kind of drab and dreary. Will grab it used someday.

― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 9 July 2009 13:17 (3 years ago) Permalink

― Jazzbo, Thursday, 9 July 2009 13:22 (3 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

FOUR LITTLE DIAMONDS

― Master of the Manly Ballad (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 9 July 2010 16:22 (2 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

ELO cellist killed by bale of hay

― a cankle of rads (Gukbe), Monday, 6 September 2010 00:34 (2 years ago) Permalink

Jesus, the state of that van.

― Neggin' you crapative (NickB), Monday, 6 September 2010 10:54 (2 years ago) Permalink

Horrible story

― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Monday, 6 September 2010 10:57 (2 years ago) Permalink

RIP dude

― Jeff W, Monday, 6 September 2010 11:17 (2 years ago) Permalink

terrible story -- r.i.p.

― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 6 September 2010 12:54 (2 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

Based on his amazing stripped down "Xanadu", I'm looking forward to the ELO remakes.

http://youarethewildones.blogspot.com/2012/08/elos-jeff-lynne-returns-with-new-album.html

for reference:

― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 19:04 (9 months ago) Permalink

It's one thing if he's re-working "Xanadu," but there are few of the band's hit I think Lynne can "improve," as he's threatened to do.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 19:18 (9 months ago) Permalink

“There was a big reason I wanted to re-record these ELO songs,” says LYNNE. “When I listen to the old versions they don’t sound the way I thought they did when I first wrote and recorded them.

"Also," it can be assumed Lynne added, "I gain the total rights to all the new recordings of the songs."

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 19:22 (9 months ago) Permalink

I just think of them as alternate versions. I LOVE *both* versions of "Xanadu" of course.

― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 19:35 (9 months ago) Permalink

"Also," it can be assumed Lynne added, "I gain the total rights to all the new recordings of the songs."

Good point, he probably wants all the money from an even ad-friendlier "Mr Blue Sky".

― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 19:37 (9 months ago) Permalink

don't see how that improves in any way on the ONJ version. makes xanadu sound like a terribly dreary place.

― contenderizer, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 20:34 (9 months ago) Permalink

hey, this is great! geir was right...

― contenderizer, Thursday, 2 August 2012 04:46 (9 months ago) Permalink

xpost -I like how it's a sweet longing for a place that can never be again - a sweetly sad and reflexive take on a track (and a time) which Lynne disavowed for years and it's achingly beautiful.

― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 2 August 2012 05:24 (9 months ago) Permalink

well, shit, i love that interpretation. i'm listening again as a result, but i still can't hear it. maybe if it was slower and just vox and acoustic guitar? i mean, it's not bad, and OLJ isn't great on the original, but i don't really feel the reflexive resignation and longing you're talking about. would love to have heard roy orbison sing it, though...

fwiw, i'm going through the whole catalog tonight, as it's been a while. in reverse, cuz it's the 80s stuff i really needed a refresher on. spotty, but damn, i sure do love the high points.

― contenderizer, Thursday, 2 August 2012 05:34 (9 months ago) Permalink

feeling a strong trevor horn influence on secret messages. works surprisingly well with jeff's approach.

― contenderizer, Thursday, 2 August 2012 05:38 (9 months ago) Permalink

had a good time going through all this stuff back to back. didn't do much to shake up my view of the band, but i came up with a three-and-a-half hour playlist of ELO songs i dig, quite a few more than i expected. first and third albums are surprisingly good (surprising to me, anyway - i didn't like them at all as a kid).

the syrupy, string-laden, mid to late 70s pop albums are clearly their peak, but 1981's time is my personal favorite. tons of catchy tunes, clever production, buggles-like combination of futurist optimism and nostalgic regret. secret messages is a guilty half-pleasure. lot of dumb, formulaic songwriting, but it got burned into my head way back when.

― contenderizer, Thursday, 2 August 2012 17:38 (9 months ago) Permalink

Out of the Blue and New World Record are all time. Rest can pretty much be distilled down to the hits.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 2 August 2012 17:53 (9 months ago) Permalink

both great, but to me, they're a singles band. tbh, i don't think they ever made a perfect album. 2nd half of out of the blue drags, and while new world record is more concise, "mission" and "so fine" don't do much for me. elorado's kind of a sleeper. short on smash hits, but even the middling tracks are pretty engaging.

― contenderizer, Thursday, 2 August 2012 18:20 (9 months ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

'Mr Blue Sky' is here http://vimeo.com/50058590 Don't really get what Lynne's playing at it's so similar to the original version that it makes me wonder why he bothered.

― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 12:28 (7 months ago) Permalink

blimey it is very very similar.

here is the reasoning as per an interview in the new mojo ?

'when i used to hear those songs on the radio i'd go fuck, that aint right, i thought it was better than that. so i tried 'mr blue sky' as an experiment to see if i could get it better. and i found that i could'

'it's a better sound, better bass sound, better piano sound, better guitar sound, better drum sound, better harmonies sound. its all better. because i know more. i know what i did in the old days, and i know what i did now, so i know how much better they are. thats what i'm saying, and i'm sticking to it'

― mark e, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 13:35 (7 months ago) Permalink

actually, i know its not been announced anywhere, but is this a similar situation that the songwriter is redoing a catalogue in order to gain some form of control a la simply red/squeeze.

i mean i have never read anything that suggests that jeff is unhappy with the way that the elo catalogue is being maintained, but it does make you wonder if the end results of these new versions are as similar as this track.

also, frontier ?

an italian hard rock label ?

oh how the mighty have fallen.

before google revealed the truth, i actually thought this was a self release label, which i would have understood, but as it is, this is an even weirder choice to release this collection and his new solo album on - is there really that little interest in his new material ?

― mark e, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 18:47 (7 months ago) Permalink

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