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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: John Junk 2.0 on April 05, 2008, 10:47:16 PM
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WTF!
Why did it take me so long to realize how awesome Electric Light Orchestra is??
P.S.--I'm sorry for how pointless this is, but seriously, let's all talk about ELO, okay?
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I love ELO, also.
would it be fair to call them "the thinking man's ABBA"?
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ELO is awesome.
if you like that check out Roy Wood's solo stuff too. Boulders is one of my favorite albums.
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My first album was The Best of E.L.O. Christmas present, age 5.
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I kind of see them as a band where you only need the best of. Am I wrong?
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Stephen King wasting time before his next Entertainment Weekly deadline?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M1Wa9fFS1k[/youtube]
Actually, I kind of think this guy is cool, like your insurance salesman uncle that still smokes pot in personal protest of his day job. Also, what's up with the sled?
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My all-time favorite song to listen to while doing anything at all is "Turn to Stone."
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when i was a teenager, i just thought elo was a cheesy 70's band from the songs they'd play on the radio like 'evil woman' and 'don't bring me down'. i gave them a closer look when i read that grandaddy's jason lytle was a big fan. they are now a favorite of mine to the extent that at times i think elo's version of 'xanadu' would be a great wedding song, and i play the best of record to needle my 'angry mr. bungle fan' coworker.
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"Telephone Line," "Living Thing," and "Mr. Blue Sky" are three of my all time greatest gold favorite rockin' hits of all time.
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I'm a big Move/ELO/Wood/Lynne fan. There are a lot of great songs across all the ELO albums, but the style or approach or whatever you want to call it changed over the years. The first three albums (Roy Wood is on the first one) sound different from the middle albums, which are what people usually think of for ELO. I like both eras, but the more well-known ones might be an easier place to start, if someone's looking that.
Out of the Blue has a lot of the big hits that people would know - Turn To Stone, Sweet Talking Woman, Mr. Blue Sky - though it does have some songs I could do without, like Jungle and Across the Border. A New World Record has a lot of the ones people would be familiar with, too: Telephone Line, the remake of Do Ya, Livin' Thing...Shangri-La on there is great.
El Dorado is probably my favorite ELO album.
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As Tom once pointed out, ELO's good songs aren't on their Greatest Hits album. Is this on there?
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I picked up this mid-career Greatest Hits on vinyl and 10538 Overture is on there. So is Kuiama. Those two songs convinced me of the genius.
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For my Birthday, I got an ELO Greatest Hits on CD and it's good and it has Mr. Blue Sky and Telephone and a lot of other awesome songs, but I'm convinced I gotta pick up the first two albums to get the rest of the stuff from whatever well Overture and Kuiama came from. Didn't they record the first album at the same time as The Move was doing Message From the Country?
Also, I just watched Xanadu, and it's debatable whether it's awfulsome or just awful.
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Definitely go for the first two albums, then. The second one only has five songs on it, but they're all pretty long, and I like them all except maybe Roll Over Beethoven, which I've heard too often. The first album is sort of a split between Wood and Lynne songs, and I think Wood's "Battle of Marston Moor" is the only real clunker on there.
Both of the Move albums with Lynne - Looking On and Message From the Country - are in the same style, so look into those. "Words of Aaron" and "Message from the Country" are both really great songs from the latter, and "What?" from Looking On is really similar to the songs on the second ELO album like Kuiama.
You might like some of Lynne's Idle Race songs, too, like Birthday, Morning Sunshine and Days of Broken Arrows.
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I'm pretty into Message From the Country already. Holy Smokes, Roll Over Beethoven is bad news, but yeah, I think I'm gonna check out that record.
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Coincidentally, I spent most of Friday listening to ELO.
Mr. Blue Sky is my favorite.
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I like ELO and I basically agree with everybody's choices so far. The purpose of this particular post, however, is to congratulate you on the superb thread title. I wish I could be that clever on my best days.
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Not precisely on topic but close enough... It did jog this hazy memory...
It was the late 70s. I was in first grade. I was scheduled to participate in show and tell for the class. I wanted to share this great music I was enjoying so I brought my ELO tape to school. I don't remember which one but a big spaceship was prominent so perhaps Out of the Blue ? I have no idea why I thought bringing a cassette to show everyone was a good idea (not like I was bringing a portable tape player too ... or was I??? maybe I can't recall.)
In any event, the time came and I went to my school bag to get the tape. It was not there. I thought that it must have fallen out on the playground or on the bus as I noticed my bag was not fully zipped up. I think I cried in the school hallway...
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I'm happy with just listening to a greatest hits collection but El Dorado and Out of the Blue are pretty good albums.
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"Telephone Line," "Living Thing," and "Mr. Blue Sky" are three of my all time greatest gold favorite rockin' hits of all time.
You nailed it. Those are essential to any music collection- the rest are good but don't even compare. Telephone Line would be a great marathon song for Tom....
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Matthew_S!
:'(
I hate that when some jerk steals from you and it takes a long time to sink in that people are jerks!
Next time that happens, you put on your game face and play this song!
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