― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 12:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
Are all Jeff Lynne's production jobs bad? Didn't he do a wierd and kinda cool one for Dave Edmunds? What was the name of that single...
― Sean (Sean), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 16:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
I liked his Travelling Wilbury's stuff but I think I'm probably the only one who does.
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 16:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 16:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
Jody Beth; Yeah... ELO have this reputation of being horrendously tacky etc., "uncool", but what does this matter? I've listsened and judged for myself and they aren't at all bad overall... Yes, I can see exactly where the reputation comes from; particularly some of their later singles... but one has to judge more of a whole.
The albums I have of them are "Eldorado" and "Out of the Blue". Both are enjoyable, thoroughly decent records. "Eldorado" better as it has more brevity and a little more orchestrated flavour. "Out of the Blue" is a very strong record, mostly songs of a fine & dandy disposition. "Sweet Talkin' Woman" is an outright classic song in my opinion; indeed one of the best of that era and pop genre. Sheer joyous pop music, that cannot be dimmed by any cynicism in this age of ours. "Eldorado"'s title track is an epic (without being at all long) joust through yearning, melodious territory; one wouldn't think with the reputation they have, that they could do such great stuff, but it is the case. Reputations can mislead people greatly, in the field of music.
― Tom May, Thursday, 5 December 2002 00:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean (Sean), Thursday, 5 December 2002 00:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean (Sean), Thursday, 5 December 2002 04:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― robin carmody (robin carmody), Thursday, 5 December 2002 06:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― bob snoom, Thursday, 5 December 2002 13:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean (Sean), Monday, 23 December 2002 03:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Vinnie (vprabhu), Monday, 23 December 2002 19:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 23 December 2002 19:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― robin carmody (robin carmody), Friday, 26 September 2003 01:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 26 September 2003 12:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 26 September 2003 12:56 (twenty years ago) link
― dleone (dleone), Friday, 26 September 2003 13:03 (twenty years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 26 September 2003 13:20 (twenty years ago) link
― dave q, Friday, 26 September 2003 19:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 26 September 2003 21:17 (twenty years ago) link
― robin carmody (robin carmody), Saturday, 27 September 2003 00:35 (twenty years ago) link
destroy - rockaria, rock and roll is king.
― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Saturday, 27 September 2003 02:49 (twenty years ago) link
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Saturday, 27 September 2003 14:26 (twenty years ago) link
Ah, Dom, I totally disagree -- perhaps even disrespectfully. I'll freely admit that I was no fan until fairly recently, but listening to their box set (no, I didn't pay a cent for it) a few weeks ago, Lynne more than knew his way around a pop hook -- he knew how to make it fucking stick. Their shit is total craft, Pop w/ a capital "p" (and ludicrously Pretentious to boot). But pretty fucking undeniable.
Do you like the Move?
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Sunday, 28 September 2003 04:20 (twenty years ago) link
I always hear ELO slagged as typifying this horrible genre of 70's slick pop. What other bands are included in this, and are they half as joyful?
― derrick (derrick), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 04:06 (nineteen years ago) link
Hmmm. Good song, but is it that much better (if actually better at all) than "Jealous Guy" or "Mind Games" or "#9 Dream?"
― Tim Ellison, Tuesday, 15 June 2004 04:15 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm a lapsed ELO fan, sadly. These days I'm more likely to put on something from the first album only because its just so damn strange, particularly considering where they ended up. I've got pretty much everything they did on vinyl (and played it obsessively in my early teen years, say 1980-1985), which is pretty odd considering where I ended up with my musical tastes.
I'm sure I can sing along with everything they've done up to and including _Balance of Power_.
I need a drink now...
― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 04:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 06:48 (nineteen years ago) link
i mean, instead, why not a response to "swinging classics" and other beat orchestras from that period ? well, i guess Newman wasn't a real music-lover fan of James Last et. al., so a loving tribute to that type of stuff just wouldn't have been possible ..
― george gosset (gegoss), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 09:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― george gosset (gegoss), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 09:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 09:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― jjj, Tuesday, 15 June 2004 14:19 (nineteen years ago) link
Pls answer me this question ILM!
― Good Dog (Good Dog), Thursday, 23 June 2005 03:41 (eighteen years ago) link
Eldorado and NWR are required.
Selected singles also, if so inclined.
― Zed Szetlian (Finn MacCool), Thursday, 23 June 2005 03:52 (eighteen years ago) link
10CC! They actually are only about 1/2 as joyful but still worthwhile as far as awesomely overproduced '70s pop. Todd Rundgren is also in a slightly similar bubblegum weirdness vein.
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 23 June 2005 04:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― derrick (derrick), Monday, 8 August 2005 07:15 (eighteen years ago) link
might be the answer to the S part of this thread. And 'Evil Woman' and 'Diary of Horace Wimp'. I guess there must be a decent compilation out there; I'll have to check it out.
― avery keen-gardner (avery keen-gardner), Monday, 8 August 2005 08:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 8 August 2005 09:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Will(iam), Monday, 8 August 2005 14:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 2 October 2005 17:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― ~~~~ DODONGO DISLIKES SMOKE ~~~~ (ex machina), Sunday, 2 October 2005 17:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Sunday, 2 October 2005 19:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― jim wentworth (wench), Monday, 3 October 2005 00:43 (eighteen years ago) link
and where is the love for 'Calling America'?
― JohnFoxxsJuno, Monday, 3 October 2005 11:43 (eighteen years ago) link
Disco+rock+vocoders+alienation, they even shared an album title.
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 3 October 2005 13:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 3 October 2005 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link
With multiple bonus tracks on each – instrumental, alternate take, and alternate mix versions – plus brand new liner notes written by ELO mastermind Jeff Lynne, the expanded editions of No Answer and ELO 2 arrived in stores March 28th on Epic/Legacy. They are the first wave of ELO expanded editions on Epic/Legacy that will continue over the course of 2006 with subsequent releases of On The Third Day (1973), Face The Music (1975), A New World Record (1976), Out Of The Blue (1977), and Balance Of Power (1986).
And this from www.ftmusic.com -
In two short months, expanded and remastered definitive editions of 'On The Third Day', 'Face The Music' and 'A New World Record' are released worldwide from May 22 onwards.
Each classic ELO album has been digitally remastered by ELO leader Jeff Lynne (with engineer Jeff Magid) from the original master tapes, only recently recovered, and are packed with rare and previously unreleased material. All have full-colour booklets with rare photos, improved front cover artwork and new liner-notes from both Lynne and ELO archivist Rob Caiger. Phase 2 follows in September.
So no remastered Out Of The Blue for a while just yet...
― Lotta Continua (Damian), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 09:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― dr x o'skeleton, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 09:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― James, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 13:30 (seventeen years ago) link
There were never remasters released of "On The Third Day", "Face The Music" or "A New World Record" though, so it's about time they appear in a remastered form as well.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lotta Continua (Damian), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― James, Tuesday, 4 April 2006 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― bangelo (bangelo), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link
Has anyone heard ELO 2: Lost Planet? I gather it includes pieces of a long-lost concept album with Roy Wood that was recorded in between the first and second records...
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link
It was re-issued with extra tracks in 2001 along with Discovery, Time and Secret Messages. It's only now that the rest of their albums are being re-issued in this format.
― Lotta Continua (Damian), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― bangelo (bangelo), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link
I don't think it was.
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Fastnbulbous (Fastnbulbous), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lotta Continua (Damian), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 13:51 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005KBK9/qid=1144265108/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_11_1/026-6419034-7711650
― Lotta Continua (Damian), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link
EVERYONE, in spite of genre, made disco in 1979...
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 6 April 2006 07:54 (seventeen years ago) link
Kelly Groucutt R.I.P.
― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Sunday, 22 February 2009 04:49 (fifteen years ago) link
TIME is their best album!
― akaky akakievich, Monday, 23 February 2009 04:34 (fifteen years ago) link
what, only a single passing reference to the xanadu soundtrack?
i'm alive and all over the world are hands down the best elo songs ever made.
(note how daft punk lifted a single throwaway moment from all over the world and expanded it into their biggest single)
― messiahwannabe, Monday, 23 February 2009 05:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Shame he's passed on at such a relatively young age. Underrated bassist, the sound he got on Discovery is begging to be sampled. He added some nice vocal touches too, especially on 'Evil Woman'. RIP.
― Creedence Clearwater Couto (Billy Dods), Monday, 23 February 2009 09:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Saddened to hear this. RIP.
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Monday, 23 February 2009 10:37 (fifteen years ago) link
"Long Black Road" - 3:22 (Japanese bonus track)
― 210 (Jackie Wilson), Monday, 23 February 2009 10:59 (fifteen years ago) link
I remember an ELO feature in Mojo back in 2001 where Kelly talked about becoming a cabbage for eight months and losing both his home and his first wife following his ill-advised and only partially successful legal action against JL. It seems that he ended up playing pubs for beer money. He was wrong to sue but in the end deserved better.
― Bernard Braden Misreads Stephen Leacock (Marcello Carlin), Monday, 23 February 2009 11:09 (fifteen years ago) link
RIP. Now I guess Jeff Lynne, Bev Bevan and Richard Tandy were key members to a larger extent, but Grouchott contributed to most of their best albums.
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 23 February 2009 23:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh god, Eldorado. Out of the blue might have all the hits, but this was their masterpiece... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Bre3HF8_Vw
― You are the worst breed of fong (stevie), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 10:37 (nine years ago) link
on the remastered edition, you get all the orchestral interludes as one track, as they recorded it and then split it up across the album.
a fantastic album.
― mark e, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 10:44 (nine years ago) link
and he/they're back :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfH8EJA-hg0
(on the day i am wearing my ELO t-shirt @ work for the first time !)
yes, its more of the same, but hey, that's the point.
― mark e, Thursday, 24 September 2015 13:43 (eight years ago) link
Jeff Lynne enjoying a coffee pic.twitter.com/ma9Xgu28Dh— SCassidy (@iamscassidy) June 15, 2017
― pplains, Saturday, 17 June 2017 00:37 (six years ago) link
i knew this would be the reason for the thread revive and yet i am still in no way disappointed
― Who's puttin' sponge in the zings I once zung (stevie), Saturday, 17 June 2017 10:06 (six years ago) link
"Still no expanded Secret Messages then - it was supposed to be a double originally but Lynne was told that was uneconomic in times of vinyl crisis (1983? I don't recall any vinyl crisis then. But anyway...). Apparently when reissued on CD they attempted to restore it to its original format but Lynne put the kibosh on that out of pique, so we still don't get a legit issue of "Hello Old Friend," possibly their/his best-ever song"
There's a very very long thread on the HOffman forums that's worth a read if you're interested in the history of this. The main person in the thread was working on a book which was maybe going to be proposed for 33 1/3 but it sounded like it was getting too long for that and he's been working on it for three years or something.
Anyway, how did people rate the Lynne's ELO tour from a few years ago? Wondering if I should spring for tix this summer.
― akm, Thursday, 2 May 2019 13:28 (four years ago) link
I have friends who saw it in NY last time and said it was awesome and tons of fun.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 2 May 2019 13:40 (four years ago) link
suddenly a new album from out of nowhere
― times 牛肉麵 (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 28 September 2019 12:16 (four years ago) link
,,,maybe this is the wrong thread
― times 牛肉麵 (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 28 September 2019 12:18 (four years ago) link
https://fanart.tv/fanart/music/0c502791-4ee9-4c5f-9696-0602b721ff3b/albumcover/face-the-music-4f03a2aea5193.jpg
when all is said and done re this band, it cannot be denied that this is a seriously mad cover.
― mark e, Thursday, 4 March 2021 22:35 (three years ago) link