Post by orioles70 on Oct 3, 2018 22:27:58 GMT
Anyone else feel like this one is an overlooked gem?
This song gets lost in the vast ocean of ELO songs because it's got such an unmemorable name. It's a rocker with high energy driving chords that doesn't really fit in the dreamy strings of Eldorado. How lost a song? I don't think I've ever heard this song on the radio. But maybe it was a near miss - Jeff hadn't quite got control of his studio magic. I'd love to hear him re-mix this one and give it a better name. The lyrics have a Do Ya craziness, but the manic energy and fevered visions come together to tell a coherent story. It surely deserved a better name and more air play.
On the seven seas there was aphantom ship acoming,
Shinin' in the dead of night,
I heard the crew a hummin'
Tunes that sounded like the Rolling Stones and Leonard Cohen.
But they didn't know the words,
So I assumed that they was foreign.
But I heard them just the same doctor let me teach 'em,
I just want to please 'em, doctor let me teach 'em.
I looked up in the sky there was a phantom plane a comin',
Shinin' in the dead of night,
I heard the pilot saying,
Poems that were written by John Keats and Robert Browning.
But he didn't know the words so,
I suppose that it was nothing.
But I heard them just the same doctor let me teach 'em,
I just want to please 'em, doctor let me teach 'em.
Doctor please believe me, I know you won't decieve me,
But do these things I'm seein', have any hidden meaning.
It's all good entertainment and it doesn't cost a penny.
So please doc, let me teach 'em, if I could only reach 'em.
But I heard them just the same doctor let me teach 'em,
I just want to please 'em, doctor let me teach 'em.
here's a live version when ELO was at their peak
This song gets lost in the vast ocean of ELO songs because it's got such an unmemorable name. It's a rocker with high energy driving chords that doesn't really fit in the dreamy strings of Eldorado. How lost a song? I don't think I've ever heard this song on the radio. But maybe it was a near miss - Jeff hadn't quite got control of his studio magic. I'd love to hear him re-mix this one and give it a better name. The lyrics have a Do Ya craziness, but the manic energy and fevered visions come together to tell a coherent story. It surely deserved a better name and more air play.
On the seven seas there was aphantom ship acoming,
Shinin' in the dead of night,
I heard the crew a hummin'
Tunes that sounded like the Rolling Stones and Leonard Cohen.
But they didn't know the words,
So I assumed that they was foreign.
But I heard them just the same doctor let me teach 'em,
I just want to please 'em, doctor let me teach 'em.
I looked up in the sky there was a phantom plane a comin',
Shinin' in the dead of night,
I heard the pilot saying,
Poems that were written by John Keats and Robert Browning.
But he didn't know the words so,
I suppose that it was nothing.
But I heard them just the same doctor let me teach 'em,
I just want to please 'em, doctor let me teach 'em.
Doctor please believe me, I know you won't decieve me,
But do these things I'm seein', have any hidden meaning.
It's all good entertainment and it doesn't cost a penny.
So please doc, let me teach 'em, if I could only reach 'em.
But I heard them just the same doctor let me teach 'em,
I just want to please 'em, doctor let me teach 'em.
here's a live version when ELO was at their peak