Electric Light Orchestra

I do, though I am not the greatest expert on their music. However, my husband (Micky, another forum member) is a big fan of theirs, and has all their early albums. On the other hand, when I was much younger I used to own a copy of Discovery, and liked it too.

Me.  That's a band for which it would be impossible for me to choose a favorite song.

Ole' for ELO.  ELO are one of those bands that I have quite a few albums from, although admittedly I have only listened to each of them a few times here and there.  I'm most familiar with their greatest hits which I enjoy.  I also enjoy Tom Petty's Jeff Lynne era albums.

Originally posted by Calculate900 So, who else likes them?

Me!!

The first concert I ever saw was on the "Out Of The Blue" tour at Wembley Arena in June 1978.

I remember being so excited with the lasers and space ship. It was fantastic.

That is still one of my favourite albums.

When i was 10 or 11 years (a looog time ago) my mother went to visit her sister in the US and brought me three cassettes: ELO's Face the music, ABBA's greatest hits and Donna Summer's Bad Girls (apparently they were recommended to her by my cousin who used to work at a music store), i really liked ELO, while ABBA and Donna Summer's tapes were kept by my sister. Some years later when i was older and after i had almost all the Queen albums i started buying ELO's albums on vynil; i still have at my mom's house these:

The Electric Light Orchestra
On the Third Day
Eldorado
Face the Music
A New World Record
Out of the Blue
Discovery
Xanadu Soundtrack
Time
Secret Messages
Balance of Power

I haven't listen to them in years, but i'm sure i still will enjoy them someday when i play them again.

I love the album Time.  And their version of Roll Over Beehtohven was a large inspiration for me to get into prog

El Dorodo is  amazing. I listened to that album over the winter and was blown away. Jeff Lyne is a cool guy. I love the whole proggy beatles mixed with orchestra feel that Electric Light Orchestra has.

I grew up listening to "Face the Music", "Out of the Blue", and "Discovery" (and...uh.. the Xanadu soundtrack), so those bring back fond memories for me.  Face the Music is my favorite, and includes one of my all time favorite songs, "One Summer Dream".  But really the whole album is a winner, and ditto for the others I mentioned.

Edited by HolyMoly - June 17 2009 at 07:40

They're a band I need to explore further. I bought Out of the Blue a few years back, mainly for nostalgiac reasons. I like selected songs a great deal, but most of them dont blow me away. Clearly a very talented and original band. I'll have to check out some of their earlier work.

Hello,

I collected all from Jeff since I was 12. And I began to love Songs that sound like ELO as "Thank You for being a Friend" from Andrew Gold, some Tracks from the Lighthouse Family and "Honest Men" from Eric Troyer, ELO part 2. With the Time I started to make ELO - Songs on my own, just new Melodies with Drums, Bass, Guitars, Strings and Synthesizers and call myself the "Second light Orchestra". You can listen to my Melodies on www.myspace.com/paulraab. "Keep your Heart", "Keep on smiling", "Feel the Sunshine" and "The hottest Woman in Town" are my Best.