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Post by Horacewimp on Nov 15, 2019 20:55:14 GMT
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Post by Grroosss on Nov 16, 2019 0:21:18 GMT
Well, I'm still loving FOON, and I maintain that it is the best ELO since SM. But now let me add my very minor gripes: -WTF is with that ending of Time Of Our Life on the CD? I like the video ending with the crowd noise and the thank-you from Jeff. But on the CD it's like someone took the scissors to it before the final "life" could be delivered. It's very jarring, and it almost seems careless. I'm assuming the same holds true for the vinyl... darn. I still haven't been able to listen to my vinyl copy (because someone thought it would be a brilliant idea to wrap each other's up for Christmas ), and I was really hoping that the jarring cut was just a poor cut on Spotify's part, they're notorious for that when it comes to ELO songs. I thought the crowd and the thank-you at the end were a nice touch.
Nah, it's not that we need 12 songs... just that we need a few that are 4-5 minutes instead of them all being 3 minutes! The only ELO albums that have more than 10 songs are Out of the Blue (double album), Time, Secret Messages (intended to be double albums), and Zoom (also a double album). ELO II is a bit of an anomaly so I won't use it for comparison, but even Face the Music only has 8 songs and it still clocks in a few minutes longer than FOON.
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Post by StrangeMagic on Nov 16, 2019 2:10:09 GMT
The US press tour hasn't properly begun. I'm going to a listening party in LA sponsored by SiriusXM on Thursday. Jeff will be there to talk to reporters and answer fan questions. Anything you want me to ask?
How are Bev and Rosie Vela Are you touring the U.K. and Europe and will you add more songs and change the setlist? Will you write a warts and all book about the history of ELO? #1 is cheeky. #2 is "We're not telling you anything yet." #3 is "Right after I release 'Beatles Forever.'"
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Post by StrangeMagic on Nov 16, 2019 2:12:54 GMT
The US press tour hasn't properly begun. I'm going to a listening party in LA sponsored by SiriusXM on Thursday. Jeff will be there to talk to reporters and answer fan questions. Anything you want me to ask?
I'd be curious to know if there are any plans to follow up the recent 2LP edition of Secret Messages with a similar treatment for Time, since we know of a test pressing that suggested this was to have originally been a double album... Jeff mentioned the reissue of Secret Messages as if he had nothing to do with it. He said something along the lines of "And then the whole bloody thing came out last year."
The Time didn't arise.
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Post by StrangeMagic on Nov 16, 2019 2:14:48 GMT
jackpunch I think I'd rather not know the answer to that last question... StrangeMagic Maybe this question has been answered before, or perhaps it's common knowledge but I'm ignorant... But I was wondering, since Jeff doesn't read music, does he have someone help him transcribe the sheet music for his new material for the musicians he plays with live? I was especially thinking of the string players. Or do they play it by ear, too? If you think it's a dumb question, you don't have to ask. Grroosss I was curious about that too, and had wanted to ask if you had gotten a chance to ask Jeff about that lyric when you met him. "Chicane" is such an unusual, oddly specific word (at least to me, I had to look it up when I first read the lyric sheet), that it makes me wonder. Why would they pick that word to put on the lyric sheet if it wasn't what he wrote? Perhaps it was one of those things like "Bruce," where he wrote "chicane" but all of us thought it was "she came," so he just started singing it that way? I read the answer to the sheet music question in a recent interview. Mike Stevens was classically trained at the Birmingham Conservatoire and transcribes the music for all instruments, except for the musicians who play by ear.
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Post by StrangeMagic on Nov 16, 2019 2:17:58 GMT
The US press tour hasn't properly begun. I'm going to a listening party in LA sponsored by SiriusXM on Thursday. Jeff will be there to talk to reporters and answer fan questions. Anything you want me to ask?
Ask him about how the Wilburys started or what it was like producing The Beatles. I don't think I can ever recall him mentioning either of these. Or you could ask him whether he was ever "plastercasted" by Cynthia. I'm not touching that with a ten-foot ...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2019 6:17:22 GMT
Well, that was FOON then.
November 2023 for the next one?
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Post by ajv on Nov 19, 2019 22:31:03 GMT
Ugh. New Billboard chart is out today and it appears FOON has dropped off the Top 200 after a single week, after it's anemic appearance at #47 last week. Meanwhile in the UK it remains in the top 10 at #7 in its 2nd week, so someone's doing something right over there! It might have helped if the band had flown over with Jeff after the Radio 2 concert and they'd done some talk shows like they did last time. How about a performance on Ellen? Can you imagine her interviewing him? But this is what performers, especially older artists, need to do to get sales for new albums. Mind you, the Sirius interview was nice... which I attended! I should go post in that section... 88.5 FM in LA continues to play the title track, I heard it on the air this morning, so there's that at least!
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Post by BIuebird on Nov 19, 2019 23:19:43 GMT
It might just be me, but I have been checking every store that sells records/music since it came out, and I haven't seen it on the shelves anywhere! What is going on? Is it sold out everywhere? Or is it just not in stores? And if so, why not? I have a mind to start asking. I preordered both my CD and vinyl copies online, so luckily for me I didn't miss out on the album because of this. Have any other US fans noticed that FOON is not in brick and mortar stores? Is it only me? I know for sure that one record shop out near Lancaster was carrying it, because our friend said he picked up a copy there. However, I have checked in at least 4 other stores that sell music more locally, and I haven't seen it anywhere.
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Post by Chippa on Nov 19, 2019 23:39:52 GMT
Ugh. New Billboard chart is out today and it appears FOON has dropped off the Top 200 after a single week, after it's anemic appearance at #47 last week. Meanwhile in the UK it remains in the top 10 at #7 in its 2nd week, so someone's doing something right over there! It might have helped if the band had flown over with Jeff after the Radio 2 concert and they'd done some talk shows like they did last time. How about a performance on Ellen? Can you imagine her interviewing him? But this is what performers, especially older artists, need to do to get sales for new albums. Mind you, the Sirius interview was nice... which I attended! I should go post in that section... 88.5 FM in LA continues to play the title track, I heard it on the air this morning, so there's that at least! It dropping out of the top 200 isn't at all uncommon for a sort of niche artist like JLEO. Usually, they sell solid numbers in the first week of release because of a devoted fanbase, but then they tend to drop off sharply. If he does some US tv appearances like Jimmy Fallon etc, I could see FOON re-entering the top 200, but that would be an anomaly.
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Post by Chippa on Nov 19, 2019 23:46:13 GMT
It might just be me, but I have been checking every store that sells records/music since it came out, and I haven't seen it on the shelves anywhere! What is going on? Is it sold out everywhere? Or is it just not in stores? And if so, why not? I have a mind to start asking. I preordered both my CD and vinyl copies online, so luckily for me I didn't miss out on the album because of this. Have any other US fans noticed that FOON is not in brick and mortar stores? Is it only me? I know for sure that one record shop out near Lancaster was carrying it, because our friend said he picked up a copy there. However, I have checked in at least 4 other stores that sell music more locally, and I haven't seen it anywhere. My little local indie record store had four copies on the day of release, and I checked Sunday and they only had one. I think the slow death of physical media is lamentable, but inevitable, so we all need to get used to it.
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Post by nobodyschild on Nov 20, 2019 6:18:22 GMT
I haven’t seen physical copies of FOON in any local record stores here. However I only frequent one, sometimes another shop, and for the most part they only sell used albums, so perhaps that’s why it’s not popping up, since it’s too new to end up there?
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Post by Grroosss on Nov 21, 2019 18:26:37 GMT
It might just be me, but I have been checking every store that sells records/music since it came out, and I haven't seen it on the shelves anywhere! What is going on? Is it sold out everywhere? Or is it just not in stores? And if so, why not? I have a mind to start asking. I preordered both my CD and vinyl copies online, so luckily for me I didn't miss out on the album because of this. Have any other US fans noticed that FOON is not in brick and mortar stores? Is it only me? I know for sure that one record shop out near Lancaster was carrying it, because our friend said he picked up a copy there. However, I have checked in at least 4 other stores that sell music more locally, and I haven't seen it anywhere. My little local indie record store had four copies on the day of release, and I checked Sunday and they only had one. I think the slow death of physical media is lamentable, but inevitable, so we all need to get used to it. Yes, physical media has seen an unfortunate demise. But for the few surviving brick and mortar music stores trying to remain relevant, you'd think that this would make it even more so in their best interest to carry and promote a new album like FOON.
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Post by ajv on Nov 25, 2019 0:27:32 GMT
Despite its fleeting appearance on the US charts, FOON continues to do extremely well in the UK; in it's 3rd week, it's now at #11. Certainly nothing wrong with that!
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Post by BSJ on Nov 25, 2019 2:02:21 GMT
Nope.
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