I'm a lover of ELO, always have been. Gasped at the Travelling Wilburys, classic stuff.
A nice song, is very Jeff Lynne-ish. I was always more of a fan of their more rocky stuff. The slow stuff was always excellent stuff, but...
Funny though isn't it Jeff Lynne is the Wilbury nobody remembers, everybody remembers Harrison, Petty, Orbison, and Dylan, then it's like who was the other one? :))
I listened to the new song on the radio the other day and as luny says, it's very Jeff Lynne-ish.
I'm always reminded of my dad whenever Jeff pops up in the media as he was in the same class as him at school and we had a bit of a stupid running "joke" where my dad would never fail to mention this fact if some Jeff-related song was playing on the radio. It didn't help that he often had the Traveling Wilburys or Roy Orbison CDs on in the car.
Oh well, I guess I'm still carrying the tradition on by mentioning it here! :)
it does sound like about a dozen different 70s songs compressed into one
Yeah, I was thinking that too. Part of it sounds like The Air That I Breathe along with some Beatles (or maybe more McCartney solo stuff) and towards the end it almost goes into a bit of Queen.
Brilliant sound and very much sounding like the Zoom video/songs which was awesome and ELO were always a little Beatle very tight songs with a simple melody but never matched the musical writing skills of the Beatles but should be a really good listen.
sounds a bit like.. salt water ( lennon jnr) at the start music wise.. and a bit like "all the young dudes" 2:37 in... and the default ending for beatle songs. drum fills and guitar are sorta defacto.. and same with the string sweeps.
if it was anyone else , it'd be passable and "nice enough".. but I expect far better than that from Jeff , maybe a bit too much.
I will always have a lot of time for Mr Blue sky in the sense of the arrangement itself, due to the twists / turns in it.
his engineering and producer credits are as interesting as him being an artist himself. He is what I'd class as a musicians musician also.
Funny though isn't it Jeff Lynne is the Wilbury nobody remembers, everybody remembers Harrison, Petty, Orbison, and Dylan, then it's like who was the other one? :))
I guess he always hid behind the ELO label. Only the real fans remembered his name, everyone else just remembers ELO and Mr Blue Sky. The others were known by name ad individual artists. Its all down to 'labels' isn't it.
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Jeff Lynne passed away years ago.
that's not bad at all though, except it does sound like about a dozen different 70s songs compressed into one
A nice song, is very Jeff Lynne-ish. I was always more of a fan of their more rocky stuff. The slow stuff was always excellent stuff, but...
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I'm always reminded of my dad whenever Jeff pops up in the media as he was in the same class as him at school and we had a bit of a stupid running "joke" where my dad would never fail to mention this fact if some Jeff-related song was playing on the radio. It didn't help that he often had the Traveling Wilburys or Roy Orbison CDs on in the car.
Oh well, I guess I'm still carrying the tradition on by mentioning it here! :)
if it was anyone else , it'd be passable and "nice enough".. but I expect far better than that from Jeff , maybe a bit too much.
I will always have a lot of time for Mr Blue sky in the sense of the arrangement itself, due to the twists / turns in it.
his engineering and producer credits are as interesting as him being an artist himself. He is what I'd class as a musicians musician also.
I guess he always hid behind the ELO label. Only the real fans remembered his name, everyone else just remembers ELO and Mr Blue Sky. The others were known by name ad individual artists. Its all down to 'labels' isn't it.
@luny@mstdn.games
https://www.luny.co.uk
http://elodiscovery.com/downloads/ASH-II-ELO-Multimix-mp3.rar