Electric Light Orchestra

i guess it must be our friendly neighbourhood archive-bot at work.

ELO!

Jeff Lynne!

the man was a sonic pioneer.

stereo panning, real hi-fi clarity, some very experimental phasing and equalisation techniques, a continuation of the work the beatles started in incorporating orchestral instruments into rock music, lovely analogue synths and vocoders all over the place, boc^H^H^Hbackmasking, stage sets funkadelic would be proud of, and when ELO adopted disco, some beats vibert would beg to have made.

but fuck all that, if i'm walking down the street and my mp3 player is on shuffle and 'mr. blue sky' comes on, i literally cannot stop myself from breaking out into a big shit-eating grin. respect to you, jeff lynne. although later ELO is really shitty, dude.

incredibly impressive hair in this one.

check that vocoder! and the wtf cod reggae interludes...

post ELO tracks/admire ELO in this thread.

mr blue sky is the best

followed by strange magic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11A8JZ-RDDo

and the rest of the top 5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh4E6jz9QJI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJuV5TyFy5M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6vPTAt8MFU

listen to the end of the boc/cloudDead remix and think of jeff lynne

godfathers of IDM... that actually makes sense. Fuck Steve Reich, Philip Glass, and Terry Riley

the beautiful positive response in this thread so far made me cry like a troon

LUDD, yes! maybe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5q5vXV5iwE

somewhere. and even, god help me

i can't help but like it. people love daft punk.

  On 12/1/2009 at 1:42 AM, loganfive said:

listen to the end of the boc/cloudDead remix and think of jeff lynne

there's backwards jeff lynne in a track on boc maxima iirc.

  On 12/1/2009 at 2:59 AM, kaini said:

  On 12/1/2009 at 1:42 AM, loganfive said:

listen to the end of the boc/cloudDead remix and think of jeff lynne

 

there's backwards jeff lynne in a track on boc maxima iirc.

It's on the end of happy cycling from the peel sessions.

*likes

i want to die every time i hear Evil Woman.

  On 12/1/2009 at 5:06 PM, Calx Sherbet said:

i want to die every time i hear Evil Woman.

For the longest time I thought the lyric was medieval woman lol

  On 12/1/2009 at 2:53 AM, kaini said:

i can't help but like it. people love daft punk.

thanks, I had forgotten the wang activation potential of ONJ - boing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X9MET_H0dU

Love this one from Xanadu.