Electric Light Orchestra : 3 phase electricity

Is Xanadu phase 2 or phase 3?

oh fuck.

ok, proper elo albums only.

as per the recent boxset :

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Classic-Albums-Collection-Electric-Orchestra/dp/B005LTDPJI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1334690715&sr=8-1

there have been a few mentions that they could have included the xanadu tracks as extras on these ..

phase 2 easy

yeah, that was my choice in the end.

apart from the odd track here and there, phase 1 stuff is just too grating (the lack of studio production/budget being a key factor i think as some of the songs work well), despite the fact that roy wood was clearly a mad sonic genius, i think it was only once jeff found his own style that ELO really became worthy.

that said, there is a lot to be said for 'time' which took the blueprint and replaced all the production excess with analogue synths and drum machines.

i would suggest a lot of cold wave artists have heard this and gone 'ooohhhhhh ... ' making this one an album worthy of rediscovery.

Xanadu is totally Phase 2, and needs a deluxe reissue along with a blu-ray of the movie, heh.

indeed it does - just so we can see the colours of the roller skates more clearly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSGFITIKelU

love their dorky renn fest years

i have no idea what u mean re 'dorky renn fest years'

that said, i suspect its something to do with phase1.

phase II easy, but the other two phases have some great stuff. "on the third day" is solid as hell.

i mean

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rLRBwWg4tc

phase 2, of course

phase 3 addenda:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mLeo692-kQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWYQcimjUEQ

xpost :

re that blue bird post :

such a great track, but better than anything off eldorado ?

nah .. despite the connections to the obvious ..

xpost 2 : you see, this is what i mean re the 3rd phase !

some classic electro pop that rarely gets the love ...

oh i'm very much a phase 2 kind of dude... but 'on the 3rd' might be nestled right up against 'out of the blue' for my favorite ELO record

phase 2 is totally going to kill it isn't it?

despite such obviousness of the outcome, i would say that phase 3 is far more relevant to the current radio 2 playlist which as we all know is the the major market factor UK side these days.

i wish i could provide relevant pointers, but in the last few weeks (during which i have done a lot of radio 2 listening) there has been several tracks that have totally proved this point ..

phase 2 will destroy (as it should), but i dunno why time doesn't get more love:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzehb_yeZtU

"someone left their life behind in a plastic bag"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb5TV7JUvzo

^ could easily be the buggles

hurrah.

time is totally ace in that the songs match the perfection of the golden era, but have a perfect sneaky look to whats coming next

subsequently this one album kills my vote.

I've always liked "Four Little Diamonds" even tho it's more or less a retread of "Don't Bring Me Down"

btw.

have wanted to do this poll for ages, but thought ilm was too full of elo hatred.

irrespective of the phase, i'm just glad to see others sharing the love

Christ, I'm going to have to create two more accounts so I can vote three times. Add in Wilburys/Armchair Theatre/Zoom as phase 4 and I'll vote four times.

Rumor has it that he's working on a album of covers/standards; the only song title mentioned was "Beyond the Sea." I'd be worried, but the covers of "September Song" and "Stormy Weather" on Armchair Theatre were nicely Lynne-ified, so I'm not expecting this will be some Great American Songbook desperation move.

I liked the phase 1 singles best (at the time), caught up with the first 2 lps about 2 years ago was massively disappointed.

Oh, and the thread title would make for a perfect box set

I think the first ever review I wrote was of Time. I said it was the best album ever, ha ha. I mean, who else had a robot voice in the intro? I think only one friend read it, but he bought the album, so success!

A friend's band from college covered Time in its entirety back in '91. I should see if I can find that sucker.

The music is reversible, but...

xhuxk is fond of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn_XsOUC9s0&ob=av3e

I liked the phase 1 singles best (at the time), caught up with the first 2 lps about 2 years ago was massively disappointed.

Roy Wood was always better with singles than albums

It wasn't that though.

I love Roy's "Wizzard Brew" and "Shazam" albums, but.

Yeah, well you know what I mean, over-eggs the pudding somewhat over the course of an album, ol' Roy

More eggs is good eggs sometimes.

I managed to track down a 7" of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDwtOl3zTSI

recently. Now I just know that this must have had a Roy guide vocal, because she's matched his mannerisms perfectly...

... Carl Wayne used to do that to sometimes too. Got to say, he had an impressive list of girlfriends in the 70s for a hairy weirdo.

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xcuxk otm, "calling america" is great

and more than a little cloying, but...

not exactly a surprise result.

which then begs the question why do emi keep re-releasing the harvest era material.

got the 3 cd set a few years back that compiled the first 2 albums/extra etc, with a dreadful quad stereo mix of one of the albums.

now i see they have re-re-released yet another version of the first album with extra dvd.

is there really a demand ..

Rumor has it that he's working on a album of covers/standards; the only song title mentioned was "Beyond the Sea." I'd be worried, but the covers of "September Song" and "Stormy Weather" on Armchair Theatre were nicely Lynne-ified, so I'm not expecting this will be some Great American Songbook desperation move.

please point me to more info re this.

cant imagine,nor want, jeff doing a sodding rod stewart ..

however, i'm loving the whole idea of 'lynne-ified' cover versions ..

of course i would prefer real strings et al, as opposed to the latest plastic preset ..

this was posted in the animated films thread, putting it here cause it's so awesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzy1RNJBUo4

hmmmmm.

still think i prefer phase 1.

doh.

i meant phase 2 of course.

[ and no this was not a sneaky trick to add 2 new answers to this thread .. twas a simple case of an excess of red wine excess ! ]

an interview on radio 2 this afternoon.

a whole night on bbc4.

seems like the bbc are waking up to the majestic elo at last.

not watched the docu, but taped for another night.

suspect the concert is the tony curtis one that i saw way way back ?

I watched the concert, it was at Wembley in 1978. It was pretty cool actually. Lots of hits.

is that the one that they perform inside the space ship styled set ?

(and tony curtis introduces them ? )

I didn't watch the whole thing so I didn't see Tony Curtis, but yeah it was a space ship thing.

ahh .. i saw that back in the early 80s on betamax ..

fucking brilliant ..

glad i taped it.