Travelling Wilburys C/D?

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I like the combination of 60s and 80s, plus I am a sucker for a supergroup, plus proven songwriters came up with the goods. I can also see why someone would think they are just a bunch of hasbeens looking for a last bite of the cherry.

― lukey (Lukey G), Thursday, 11 March 2004 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought they were disappointing. Too many leaders, perhaps. And keep Jeff Lynne away from the console.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 11 March 2004 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

First album (Vol.1)classic: "Handle with Care", "Margarita", "End Of The Line" and Dylan's "Tweeter & The Monkey Man" are all brilliant, and the album holds together really well even now.

Second album (Vol.3 - there was no Vol.2 for some reason) dud: all a bit embarrassing and lacklustre second time round, and no Orbison=meh imho.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 11 March 2004 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, each of those guys were experiencing some creative rebirth in 1988, so calling them hasbeens is a bit shortsighted. Too bad Roy couldn't stick around long enough to ride the wave a little longer.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 11 March 2004 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I didn't call them hasbeens, I simply said that looking back, that is a way in which a detractor could view them.

― lukey (Lukey G), Thursday, 11 March 2004 15:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd say classic. The album's a lot of fun, and Dylan's sly Springsteen homage/rip is a hoot. There are some demos with the group trying out Del Shannon as a Roy replacement, but that obviously didn't pan out.

Amazing that just fifteen years ago those guys could all get regular MTV play! In fact, Tom Petty was still in heavy rotation as recently as '94 or so.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Thursday, 11 March 2004 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

CLASSIC! They're voices work so well together, and they manage to avoid that "too many cooks" conundrum by being extremely non-alpha-male about the whole thing. I've actually been listening to Vol. 1 a helluva lot lately. It's great spring-time driving music.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 11 March 2004 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Stick with the Harrison/Orbison tracks (I've only heard the 1st album, btw.)...12-string guitars and non-rawk vocals. Also, why does Jeff Lynne insist on making everything sound like ELO? I've always said that he taints records, as opposed to producing them.

― Jez (Jez), Thursday, 11 March 2004 19:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Because ELO records sound great?

― Broheems (diamond), Thursday, 11 March 2004 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Amazing how Jeff Lynne can make even a great drummer like Jim Keltner sounds like he's pounding on cardboard boxes.

― shookout, Thursday, 11 March 2004 21:49 (twenty-two years ago)

End of the Line is classic, duh...

― OCP (OCP), Friday, 12 March 2004 03:56 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...

And here was me thinking that it was "I Am the Walrus" that all Jeff L's productions resemble...

I do like that 1st Wilburys album. Always sneered at them while secretly liking "End of the Line", & avoided hearing any more until last summer, when we stayed in a house where there was a copy lying around. I put it on out of curiosity, stopped sneering, started smiling.

― Colin Greenland (Colin Greenland), Saturday, 27 March 2004 12:13 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

Were "You Got It" and "I Won't Back Down" recorded during the same sessions? The information regarding the songs written/recorded during this time is a bit confusing.. George and Ringo are in the Tom Petty video, but does that mean they were on the recording? Mystery Girl and Full Moon Fever seem to have a lot in common with "Volume 1" and they were all released within months of each other.

Also I wasn't sure if there were guest vocalists/performers on George's "I Got My Mind Set On You," but this may have been a bit too early to coincide. (Also I had no idea this song was a cover.)

― billstevejim, Monday, 15 December 2008 07:31 (seventeen years ago)

Well, Jeff Lynne produced "You Got It" and "I Won't Back Down" (and "I Got My Mind Set On You"), and basically all his productions in 1988-9 sounded exactly the same ...

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Monday, 15 December 2008 11:27 (seventeen years ago)

Does't really sound that much like ELO though. The chorus-heavy drum sound does, but there were way less strings and synths on those late 80s Lynne productions than on the classic ELO albums from the 70s.

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 15 December 2008 12:25 (seventeen years ago)

According to Petty, the recording of Full Moon Fever and Mystery Girl preceded the Wilburys stuff.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 15 December 2008 13:22 (seventeen years ago)

'Got My Mind Set On You' is earlier - that was a hit here in 1987, Wilburys not till late 1988 - same as the late Orbison as I recall, and the Petty LP was 1989?

They do all tend to sound the same (though not so much Harrison's Cloud Nine), and in a way I quite like this, the feeling of a sound spilling over.

I like Dylan's 'If You Belonged To Me' on the 2nd LP also!

― the pinefox, Monday, 15 December 2008 14:39 (seventeen years ago)

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