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Any fans here? I've always loved this man's music. Whether for his own and Electric Light Orchestra stuff, or that which he has produced for many others including The Traveling Wilburys.
He has a new album, Alone In the Universe, out any day soon, the first single - When I Was A Boy - has had airplay on BBC Radio 2, and is full of his usual wonderful touches. I shall be acquiring it as soon as it is available, and signing up to the live tour. Best news in ages.
Of course he's no stranger to movies, having supplied tracks to Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, Electric Dreams and of course Xanadu. Sadly that last title didn't do so well as expected, but by featuring Olivia Newton John it give ELO a long deserved no. 1 hit in the UK.
The icing on the cake for me as a massive Doctor Who fan ELO's music featured heavily in an episode in the revived series' second season, which showed a bunch of fans jamming with the music at their meetings! A match made in heaven. If only our meetings in the 80s finished like that!
http://pitchfork.com/news/61352-jeff-lynnes-elo-announce-new-album-alone-in-the-universe-share-when-i-was-a-boy/
Beautiful.
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Sep 26, 2015 - 9:52 AM
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Octoberman
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ELO is one of my favorite pop groups.
I was practically in on the ground floor, since discovering a copy of "ELO II" in my sister's room and playing it to death.
(I regularly rifled through her records to find new and cool stuff to play! LOL)
That and "Out Of The Blue" are my personal faves and the latter is one of the albums I'd take to that mythical, electrically-wired desert island.
I have no illusions in that I know very well that Lynne IS the band, but somehow my mind is more comfortable with the conceit that the other members of the group mattered more than they actually did. I guess it is for this reason that I didn't care much for "Zoom". To me that was just a Lynne solo album, with the ELO logo on it to lend it credibility, both artistic-wise and sales-wise.
The over-reliance on twangy, compressed sonics didn't help it, either--but, of course, that was a signature sound Lynne had been developing since "Time", although that album and the two that followed get a free pass because the songs were so good.
I always wanted one more album from him where it was with a real group, cellos furiously scraping away, with songs as bravely unique and progressive as what we got on those first three albums. But I don't think that will happen.
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Big fan here. ELO was my "gateway" into rock music. (Having been a classical and film score fan beforehand, Lynne's lush melodies grabbed me in. The Beatles, Elton, Rolling Stones, et al soon followed.)
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Over the years I've got pretty much most of Jeff's output, be it pre-ELO Idle Race, ELO, Traveling Wilburys and most of what he's produced for the likes of Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, George Harrison, and even odd tracks for such diverse talents as Brian Wilson, Agneta Folkscog (yeah, the blonde one from Abba), and Jimmy Nail! And of course he did produce the last two Beatles tracks for the Anthology albums using John Lennon demos of Free As A Bird and Real Love, he did finally achieve a lifetime's ambition there, which in turn led to Flaming Pie for Paul McCartney.
I never fail to enjoy anything he's had a hand in. Of course ELO is where he's best, and I agree that Zoom was more a Jeff Lynne like the earlier solo album Armchair Theatre, but I still love both of those.
I too would like to see some real string sections again, with the cellos and all. That was definitely the best period. As far as The Move is concerned, of course Roy Wood kept asking Jeff to join that band. He finally agreed, leaving The Idle Race after three unsuccessful albums (they made one more without him), as long as they formed a new band. After that one last Move album The Electric Light Orchestra was born. The first one is very interesting as Wood and Lynne write alternate tracks rather than do the early Lennon/McCartney thing, but the contrasts are fun anyway. Wood always said it was because he got too much credit for the record that he left and formed Wizzard.
Thanks for the Xanadu clip. Never seen the film even though I got the album.
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