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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen years ago) link
XANADU
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Saturday, 12 April 2008 07:26 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (eleven 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