Electric Light Orchestra S & D

oh yeah, and Roll Over Beethoven isn't bad either but it's no Mr Blue Sky

(hey did you see what i was almost doing there?)

I guess I know that Xgau thing, cuz he must paraphrase Newman in his review!

This song is great!

Jeff Lynne could produce Biohazard and he would want to put timpanis and a full string section underneath it all.

Search ELO's greatest hits. I know they like the Beatles and Beach Boys, but their music is much more over the top. I've got it on 8 track and cd. Listening to it on my 8 track player in my car, it works much better.

Destroy-- generally Jeff Lynne's productions in the 90s for Tom Petty, leave the timpanis at home.

Nothing tops "Mr Blue Sky" tho'. And Sean is OTM upthread.

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...

I liked his Travelling Wilbury's stuff but I think I'm probably the only one who does.

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.

destroy - rockaria, rock and roll is king.

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?

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?

Hmmm. Good song, but is it that much better (if actually better at all) than "Jealous Guy" or "Mind Games" or "#9 Dream?"

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...

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 ..

Pls answer me this question ILM!

Eldorado and NWR are required.

Selected singles also, if so inclined.

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.

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.

and where is the love for 'Calling America'?

Disco+rock+vocoders+alienation, they even shared an album title.

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...

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.

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...

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.

I don't think it was.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005KBK9/qid=1144265108/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_11_1/026-6419034-7711650

EVERYONE, in spite of genre, made disco in 1979...

Kelly Groucutt R.I.P.

TIME is their best album!

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)

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.

Saddened to hear this. RIP.

"Long Black Road" - 3:22 (Japanese bonus track)

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Jeff Lynne enjoying a coffee pic.twitter.com/ma9Xgu28Dh

— SCassidy (@iamscassidy) June 15, 2017

i knew this would be the reason for the thread revive and yet i am still in no way disappointed

"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.

I have friends who saw it in NY last time and said it was awesome and tons of fun.

suddenly a new album from out of nowhere

,,,maybe this is the wrong thread

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.