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

Hurrah!

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Hurrah! Thanks, kat.

I was very good and only ticked 8 as instructed. This is what and why:

10538 Overture
From when Roy Wood was still involved. Heavy! Also, the most 'orchestral' ELO ever were really.

Evil Woman
So many great moments - the killer synth/clavinet "riff" in the chorus, the backing singers, the 'a propos of nothing' descending phrase on the violins in the middle (later much sampled)...

Livin' Thing
Guilty Pleasures anthem

Rockaria!
What it says on the tin. Sublimely silly. "I thought I saw the mayor there! But I wasn't really sure"

Mr Blue Sky
Duh. The false ending -> abrupt key and tempo change = gets me every time.

Shine A Little Love
Disco classic.

Don't Bring Me Down
Written for Discovery at the last minute because there weren't enough LOUD SONGS on the album. Stomp, stomp, stomp.

Here Is The News
I only heard this for the first time recently. Weird choice for a single (quite avant garde for ELO) from what is a pretty odd space-themed concept album. Perhaps not one of their best, but I like that Jeff Lynne wasn't resting on his laurels with all the dosh he'd got from sales of Out Of The Blue.

Re: Hurrah!

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

Livin' Thing - who wouldn't
Telephone Line - all telephone-based songs rule. this one has some lovely warbling sounds in it
Mr Blue Sky - OH COME ON
Wild West Hero - it just has such an epic feel to it, and i remember the video
The Diary Of Horace Wimp - some great silliness in the backing vocals, terrific 'concept'
Confusion / Last Train To London (1979) - just so catchy, well done for the guy out of OMD noticing that too.
All Over The World - euphoric
Don't Walk Away - aw sadness. i listened to this a lot after a gurl wouldn't dance with me at an school disco (a REAL school disco, alright!)

Here is the News

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

I heard this (at least "Ticket to the Moon") for the first time a few years ago - for some reason it got a lot of airplay in pre-millenium Ukraine. But it was probably two or three years later before I ever figured out who did the song. Definitely pretty good, just not as classic as the other stuff.


Am wondering now if I should've voted for Shine A Little Love, but I can't remember how it goes.

Re: Shine A Little Love

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

It's the one with the dum da-da-dum da-da-dum galloping one-note guitar riff and descending synth lines and the chorus goes: "youshinealittlelove on ma life hoo hoo-hoo" clap clap

(or something like that)