ext_88055 ([identity profile] katstevens.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] poptimists2007-11-02 12:04 pm
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The Friday Canon: ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA



The most requested canon ever! :-) Here you go Jeff, twenty-six UK Top 40 hits means EIGHT ticks across the tunes below. If you don't know any then get yourself over to Youtube and have a listen!

[Poll #1081557]
Roxette: (link)
1. It Must Have Been Love
2. The Look
=3. Joyride
=3. Listen To Your Heart / Dangerous
5. Fading Like A Flower

[identity profile] alexmacpherson.livejournal.com 2007-11-02 12:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think I've even heard OF these people. I certainly haven't heard of any of their songs.

[identity profile] alexmacpherson.livejournal.com 2007-11-02 12:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Based on the picture I don't think they're my thing. At all.

[identity profile] lockedintheatti.livejournal.com 2007-11-02 12:22 pm (UTC)(link)
This is one of their best-known songs (and my favourite):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7NwtjNpl-U

[identity profile] jeff-worrell.livejournal.com 2007-11-02 12:47 pm (UTC)(link)
They are very pop, Lex (alth' they also rock out). You would probably like some of these, especially the disco-flavoured ones.

"Don't Bring Me Down" you almost certainly know, if only through the cover version on 'As heard on Radio Soulwax pt.2'.

[identity profile] lockedintheatti.livejournal.com 2007-11-02 12:51 pm (UTC)(link)
and surely everyone knows Xanadu too

[identity profile] friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com 2007-11-02 12:31 pm (UTC)(link)
If you've seen 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind', you've heard "Mr Blue Sky". It turns up quite a lot these days, but randomly, so you might well have heard it on an ad.

[identity profile] alexmacpherson.livejournal.com 2007-11-02 12:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Never seen it...are they prog-rock?

[identity profile] lockedintheatti.livejournal.com 2007-11-02 12:44 pm (UTC)(link)
It was on an M&S ad as well I think. And yes, it seems to turn up more and more these days on all kinds of things.

[identity profile] jauntyalan.livejournal.com 2007-11-02 12:48 pm (UTC)(link)
and, er, doctor who. not that that will help

[identity profile] dansette.livejournal.com 2007-11-02 12:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I've heard of them but never heard of any of the songs! I'm glad I'm not the only one in ignorance.

[identity profile] jauntyalan.livejournal.com 2007-11-02 12:43 pm (UTC)(link)
atomic kitten 'be with you' = Last Train to London sort of messed around with

[identity profile] friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com 2007-11-02 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Oooh blimey, yes! I've always had mixed feelings about LTTL as well, in an odd sort of way that makes even more sense.