The Friday Canon: ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

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

Comments

AHEM

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

WHERE IS XANADU?????

Re: AHEM

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

My bad - I used 'begins' instead of 'contains' :(

Re: AHEM

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

I may have to withdraw one of my eight votes in protest as obviously it is one of their finest moments (and Olivia's too)

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[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

Yee, 'Xanadu' may be one of *her* finest moments but I'm not sure it's an ELO great. Obv, it should still be on the list, of course. I'm surprised 'Four Little Diamonds' isn't on here, as I thought it was released a single. My bad there, I guess.

Re: AHEM

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

i wuv the xanadu album. what i don't like on it, is bobbins enough to merit the WTF listening.

Re: AHEM

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

The film is pretty WTF from start to finish. I'd never seen it until last year when I was in Australia (where it has cult status) and forced to see it by friends.

Re: AHEM

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

still not actually seen it!

Re: AHEM

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

You can get an idea of some of the WTF-ness of it from this clip (featuring another ELO song from the film):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGEiDN3GH-0

although the whole thing really needs to be seen to be believed

Re: AHEM

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

Oh I totally think it's one of their finest moments too. It's got all the recognisable moments that make me love ELO - and so sounds as much their song as it is hers.

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[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

I like *bits* of it, but other bits are all wrong. For some reason, the verse (not chorus, obv), to me, makes her voice sound all flat and uninspired - and that's hardly the first thing I'd think of in connection with ONJ's voice.

Can't quite put my finger on it, may be something about so much of the song being in the upper registers? Which is, of course, typical ELO. But for some reason it doesn't really work for me. It seems so light and breathy in places that it's in danger of floating away. ELO typically have an undercurrent of darkness anchoring even their fluffiest song, IMHO (their best ones, anyway), and I fear that 'Xanadu' lacks that all-important element.

It kind of makes me think of Duran Duran and "Rio", weirdly - there's 10 seconds of the song here and there which really gets me, the intervening bits are such a disappointment. Although at least it's less disjointed than "Rio".

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[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

yes, i was also surprised at the lack of four little diamonds. i think it's the only ELO on my ipod due to GTA: Vice City

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[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

i have just found a cover of this by "Dj Happy Vibes Feat Jazzmin" in my iTunes. no idea why - could have been a podcast submission??

Re: AHEM

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

hmmm, never made it to a podcast if so...