― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 02:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― lukey (Lukey G), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 12:15 (nineteen years ago) link
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
― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 12:35 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 14:30 (nineteen years ago) link
"And do you beleive me now Sonny?'
Nuff said.
― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 16:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― k3rry (dymaxia), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:19 (nineteen years ago) link
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").
― Joe (Joe), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 00:22 (nineteen years ago) link
i do love the songs i know from it though
― JaXoN (JasonD), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 00:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― hockey family (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 00:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― hockey family (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 00:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 17 November 2004 01:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 02:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 02:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Joe (Joe), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 02:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 03:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 05:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― dave q (listerine), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 06:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 07:06 (nineteen years ago) link
Why did so many people hate this soundtrack? Some songs are good, and -- as noted above -- TEH SEX.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 22 March 2008 15:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Well, no one who posted on this thread hates it.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Saturday, 22 March 2008 16:58 (sixteen years ago) link
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."
― Kevin John Bozelka, Saturday, 22 March 2008 17:02 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 22 March 2008 17:18 (sixteen years ago) link
"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.
― Bimble, Saturday, 22 March 2008 22:01 (sixteen years ago) link
I worship that scene!
― Kevin John Bozelka, Saturday, 22 March 2008 22:53 (sixteen years ago) link
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".
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 24 March 2008 21:49 (sixteen years ago) link
The Olivia Newton-John tracks I usually skip
OH COME ON!
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 24 March 2008 22:13 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 00:27 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 25 March 2008 02:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Well, I prefer Xanadu, but I see where you're coming from.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 25 March 2008 02:32 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 12:59 (sixteen years ago) link
That's surprising to me, Geir. Isn't Oliv all about the melody? Have you never been mellow?
― Joe, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 13:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Olivia Newton-John mainly sung other people's material rather than writing her own. Plus I have always preferred male vocals anyway.
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 13:43 (sixteen years ago) link
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?
― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 14:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Geir you cannot dislike Olivia Newton John. The melodies in her songs are gorgeous. She is gorgeous.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 25 March 2008 16:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Geir... is dragging his FEET!!! (DANG DANG!!!)
― Mark G, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 16:21 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Bimble, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 16:51 (sixteen years ago) link
John Farrar
― Bimble, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 16:53 (sixteen years ago) link
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"
― Bimble, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 17:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Can't resist singing with "Suspended In Time"
― Bimble, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 17:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Not that there's a thing wrong with the ELO tracks, I don't mean that.
― Bimble, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 17:54 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 20:41 (sixteen years ago) link
At least we know who wrote it.
Anyway I'm pretty sure she runs/ran a winery with his wife.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 21:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Geir Hongro: Melodic rockist.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 25 March 2008 21:49 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.onlyolivia.com/memorabilia/poster/xanadu/1980fr_xanadu.jpg
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Saturday, 12 April 2008 07:16 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.onlyolivia.com/memorabilia/poster/xanadu/1980uk_xanadu2.jpg
http://www.funkyafro.com/junk/12-2004/Xanadu-small/Xanadu-063_sm.jpg
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Saturday, 12 April 2008 07:18 (sixteen years ago) link
XANADU
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Saturday, 12 April 2008 07:26 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― sparkletuna, Saturday, 12 April 2008 11:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Every time I open this record it cracks me up that they included a photo of the writer of "Magic."
― dream words & nightmare paragraphs from a red factory in a dead town (Abbbottt), Saturday, 18 February 2012 00:51 (twelve years ago) link
TEH SEX indeed. I'm gonna regret this, but yeah, that's me:
http://www.fastnbulbous.com/xanadu.jpg
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 18 February 2012 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
<3
― dream words & nightmare paragraphs from a red factory in a dead town (Abbbottt), Saturday, 18 February 2012 15:49 (twelve years ago) link
The guitar sound on 'Magic' makes me feel crazy.
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 18 February 2012 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
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
― veronica moser, Saturday, 14 April 2012 22:10 (twelve years ago) link
HAVE TO BElieve we are MAgic
― pilate is my cogod (Crabbits), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 04:52 (eight years ago) link
love that this lp is labelled 'elo side' and 'onj side'like u knowthey are both gnna be good but diff sideslike that rekkid i have that is the turtles on one side & the association on the other
― pilate is my cogod (Crabbits), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 04:56 (eight years ago) link
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
― pilate is my cogod (Crabbits), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 04:58 (eight years ago) link
kinda want her over-the-knee length wrap dressseems v glam + pratcical
― pilate is my cogod (Crabbits), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 05:01 (eight years ago) link