Official ELO thread

[ctc]

>Musically, ELO is Queen without the fluff

Never thought of it like that.... I think ELO was too mellow for later audiences, and that's why they aren't considered more imoprtant. Queen adapted to the guitar heavy later 80's, whereas ELO kept a sound that most would consider 70's, and old, and therefore irrelevant. (Since it's always about the next big thing.)

Don C.

[SlipperyLilSuckers]

I loved them back in the day...haven't listened to them for years.

[mego73]

Yup.I like ELO

[Hotfoot]

One letter off.

ELP is my Favorite of all time!

[EmergencyIan]

Jeff Lynne was the unwanted step kid in the Travelling Wilburys, never figured out how he belonged in that bunch.

Jeff Lynne and George Harrison formed the Traveling Wilburys. And they've got all of it on film.

- Ian

[EmergencyIan]

I'd always loved ELO, as well! To a large degree, I can thank my parents for it. I vividly remember my parents having ELO albums in the living room. The UFO covers, the Wicked Witch grabbing for Dorothy's ankles, etc.

I seem to have a lot of ELO's music going through my head on a regular basis.

Jeff Lynne is really great. I also love him because he was such a good friend of and to George Harrison (who I also love).

- Ian

[Mikey]

It's hard to imagine Queen is such a giant on everyones favs lists, but ELO isn't.

Musically, ELO is Queen without the fluff

[YoungOnce]

One of my favorites of all time!

I agree... "Time" is a great concept album and is a s cool as an old episode of the original Star Trek...

Jeff Lynne is a musical genius as far as arrangements go...imo.

[Mikey]

ELO doing Xanadu
(just music-no video)

Tell me this isn't cool

YouTube - Xanadu- ELO

m

[thunderbolt]

Not to step on your phallus there. As much as I admire Jeff Lynne, I would have to strongly disagree.
We are talking about Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, George Harrison and Bob Dylan also that were among that bunch.

The best one?
It would be a toss between George Harrison and Roy Orbison.

Maybe they kept him around to carry luggage and guitars?

[EMCE Hammer]

Back in the day, I used to like ELO a lot but never knew who they were until Don't Bring Me Down.

You sure you ever heard that song Mike? Did you mis the "Don't" part?

[Cosmicman]

Jeff Lynne was arguably the best musician in the Willburys.

Not to step on your phallus there. As much as I admire Jeff Lynne, I would have to strongly disagree.
We are talking about Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, George Harrison and Bob Dylan also that were among that bunch.

The best one?
It would be a toss between George Harrison and Roy Orbison.

[Mikey]

Back in the day, I used to like ELO a lot but never knew who they were until Don't Bring Me Down.

After their smash DBMD, I started noticing all these songs I liked were all by the same group

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

I like 'em a lot. Funny thing, I'm playing "ELO Part Two" right now.

The first time I heard them was way back in the day, when I saw the Daicon 4 intro.

Don C.

[Meule]

Never heard of them