ELO
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Topic: ELO
Posted By: space_craft
Subject: ELO
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 20:28
| I know many don't think ELO as prog,which album do you think is their best?The Roy Wood era is is probably more prog, but many songs leave me cold. On The Third Day, gives a passing nod to post Wood and a clear indication Jeff Lyne is the boss. Eldorado, is a favourite of mine, as is Face the Music. Who used to play Fire on High backwards, on their turntables, to hear the secret message? A new World Rcord seems to be aimed at an American audience, excellent all the same, and Out Of The Blue is their best selling album to date, but long past their prog roots, and Discover was a disco album that made mega bucks. Time pulled things around, but by then the band ahd started to pull in different directions and Lynne was by now a morethan proficient producer, hence the Travelling Willbouries (sorry for the spelling). |
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Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 20:35
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*cough* wrong area *cough*
ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA Prog Related So therefore not Prog..... 
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Posted By: space_craft
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 20:37
| Like Kansas and Styx??????? |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 20:42
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* beep beep beep * micky's ELO radar goes active.... ELO is not Prog Related... simply a member of a subgenre not ...as of yet recognized here yet.. prog pop. Prog instrumnetation and classical influences... experimentive nature... .all within the context of well written pop songs (HEAVY Beatles influence in songwriting) And their first 3 or 4 album were FULL ON prog ... listen to them people. PR my backside  ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 20:42
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and will be moving to Art Rock....
------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 20:44
STYX: Prog-Related
KANSAS: Hillbilly-Prog
Doesnt matter what you think of the categorisation,as long as they are categorized as Prog-Related then any posts directly relating to ELO must go in the "Proto-Prog and Prog-Related Lounge" 
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space_craft wrote:Posted By: space_craft
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 20:52
| I'm not arguing...jut pointing out other less prog bands. |
Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 21:02
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Posted By: Sasquamo
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 22:18
Isn't prog-pop a bit of an oxymoron
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Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: October 06 2006 at 03:20
 ------------- "Peace is the only battle worth waging." Albert Camus |
Posted By: Neil
Date Posted: October 06 2006 at 05:13
ELO 2 and On The Third Day are definitely the most interesting musically and definitely progressive in my opinion; but anything up to Out of the Blue is good stuff. I don't mind Discovery and Time as I grew up with them but the stuff after that wasn't even good pop music. Jeff Lynne definitely did some good stuff with the Willburys 'though and the album that he released a year or two back under the ELO name, Zoom, showed some hints of the old stuff.
All in all Jeff and ELO influenced a lot of people. I remember trying to convince a friend (hiding somewhere on this forum) that Grandaddy were obviously ELO fans and he refused to believe me; until he read an interview where they named Jeff Lynne as one of their idols.
 ------------- When people get lost in thought it's often because it's unfamiliar territory. |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: October 06 2006 at 07:30
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I'm not hiding - hiding is what someone with a Kiki Dee album in their collection should do.
+++now I am hiding+++ ------------- 
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Neil
Date Posted: October 06 2006 at 07:34
There's nothing wrong with having eclectic tastes. You forgot about the Wombles albums in the loft. At least I can honestly say that I don't own a PALLAS album. ------------- When people get lost in thought it's often because it's unfamiliar territory. |
Posted By: DallasBryan
Date Posted: October 06 2006 at 08:36
ELO is sooooooo ART ROCK its interesting to see them not listed that way. Anyway ELDORADO is a classic. The new remaster has 2 interesting bonus tracks added to the concept that only adds to its legacy!
Jeff Lynne was a genius for putting together ELO and a genius for going commercial when the feds started harassing the hippy artists!
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: October 06 2006 at 12:25
 Yes please along with Supertramp ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: progaeopteryx
Date Posted: October 11 2006 at 20:15
It's quite clear from their latest release. The end of the CD has a hidden track that is a cover of the outro on ELO's "Shangri-La." I think the stuff Grandaddy is doing is some of the freshest stuff I've heard in years. Admittedly with an ELO influence, but quite a twist. |
Posted By: rupert
Date Posted: October 12 2006 at 10:15
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Their "best album" is "A NEW WORLD FECORD", followed by "OUT OF THE BLUE". If you prefer the latter you are accepted as a connaisseur as well ------------- ...I'm a musician/singer/songwriter, visit me on www.reverbnation.com/rupertlenz and there you can choose from 125 recordings you can listen to ( for free ) if you're not limited to prog-rock ! |
Posted By: bhikkhu
Date Posted: October 12 2006 at 12:46
Actually, it's hard to say which one of those I listen to more, but "A New World Record" is the superior album. Trying to fill a double album proved to be a more arduous task for them. It's a bit uneven. ------------- a.k.a. H.T. http://riekels.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow - http://riekels.wordpress.com |
Posted By: moodyxadi
Date Posted: October 12 2006 at 14:41
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From the debut to Time I like all their lbum, some more than others. Event their half side in Xanadu is fine. It seems to me that the movement towards disco initiated in Out of the Blue was finished with Time, a wonderful synth pop-rock concept album.
My favs are On the third Day, Eldorado, the wonderful A New World record and, in a lesser degree, Ou of the Blue. The last could be a classic if some filler were cutted and the album was a single one. Even Discovery has its moments. ELO is a wonderful pop-prog band, and art rock fits its variety of stiles along the years. ------------- Bach, Ma, Bros, Déia, Dante. |
Posted By: rupert
Date Posted: October 14 2006 at 10:10
exactly my opinion ! ------------- ...I'm a musician/singer/songwriter, visit me on www.reverbnation.com/rupertlenz and there you can choose from 125 recordings you can listen to ( for free ) if you're not limited to prog-rock ! |
Posted By: drain-o
Date Posted: October 17 2006 at 12:43
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I always think that the this On the third day is the most adventurous release
by ELO. They is my two hundreds.
------------- Jacques Brenier\ realizer of sequence\ |