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I was stuck between "Guilty Pleasure" and "Good Band", but finally voted for guilty Pleasure.I bought and like their newest "Zoom" which is a nice return to form. Now if Aric would part with his cardboard spaceship (I have fond memories of seeing them during that tour)

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YOU GUYS ALSO SUCK CAUSE U SAID U LIKE TODD RUNGREN AND HE COVERED DO YA ON HIS 2ND LIVE UTOPIA LP

ELO 4 EVR

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P.S.: Bev Bevan was a bad drummer?  :wacko:  The people who say that usually also hate Charlie Watts. 'Nuff said.

Bev and Watts in the same sentence? Bev, of "Evil Woman" dullest druming in any top 40 record, Bevan? I'll see your :wacko: , and raise you to :wacko::wacko: !

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Bev Bevan was a bad drummer? :wacko: The people who say that usually also hate Charlie Watts. 'Nuff said.

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Bev Bevan was a bad drummer? :wacko: The people who say that usually also hate Charlie Watts. 'Nuff said.

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I know, I shouldn't have put Bev into the same sentence with Watts. Bev could play all 4 notes on the hi-hat without interruption.

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I'll never forgive Jeff Lynne for smothering his production sound all over the otherwise fine albums by the Traveling Wilburys, Tom Petty and George Harrison in the late 80s. They instantly sounded dated. It's like he wanted to make ELO wanna-bes with those records

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I remember the early versions of ELO doing sessions on the BBC late night programmes in the early 70s but they never really attracted me.

I loved 'Living Thing' when it came out as a single in late 1976...I distinctly recall hearing it in my Aunt's kitchen in a tiny seaside village in Cornwall on the morning I'd gone down to be introduced to the school where I was to do my teaching practice. I bought the album and really liked it for a few months...and then it wore off.

After that I just associate ELO with that late-70s era where everything I loved to listen to (the whole early-70s prog-rock thing) just disappeared, flattened by the punk/New Wave onslaught. ELO were one of the few dinosaurs to maintain some success in the UK...and I'm afraid what they had to offer sounded very thin to my ears.

So on balance ELO do not bring back happy memories.

I much preferred The Move!

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Use to love ELO, but then my tastes changed and now I generally dislike Jeff Lynne's production. Still think ELO was a pretty good band, though, and "Out ofthe Blue" was a terrific LP. I've been really digging on "Mr. Blue Sky" ever since the "Eternal Sunshine" trailer... :tup

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Went through an ELO phase for a while but don't listen anymore now. I still think they have 2-3 good songs on each of their albums up to the early 80s. Also, kind of like the Xanadu movie soundtrack, which has some nice Olivia Newton John vocals.

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One of the great things about having a turntable is that you can buy a lot of rock from the 70s for .50 cents. Dare I say this? But I bought Eldorado a couple of days ago and totally enjoyed it. Maybe the strings melted my mind or something, but I think Aric might be right on ELO. Now I'll have start looking for their other stuff on the cheap. Speaking of surprises, I picked up the first lp bySpirit and was amazed that Marty Paich is listed as doing the strings & horns on the lp. Great job on Taurus. Wonder if Jimmy Page ever heard that song? ;)

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I'd like to check all 3 boxes,although the Xanadu soundtrack was all cheesy!Still have "Out Of The Blue" kicking around on tape somewhere(swapped my blue vinyl copy for something silly long ago).I remember a big fuss being made when it emerged they used backing tapes.

On the Bev Bevan front,I once had the misfortune of seeing him with Black Sabbath(Ian Gillan singing)...his drum riser was a Stonehenge mock-up(I've since read it was a tongue in cheek thing,a la Spinal Tap,but that didn't come out 'til a year later).Awful gig...and it wasn't Bev's fault.

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