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Post by Helmut83 on Dec 7, 2019 5:55:00 GMT
Not sure if my favourite moment, but one that has always caught my attention is "I saw you last night but you couldn't answer, you were a lonely little sidewalk dancer", that strange bridge that is in the middle of "From the end of the world" and has nothing to do with the rest of the song.
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Post by StrangeMagic on Dec 7, 2019 5:58:22 GMT
Not sure if my favourite moment, but one that has always caught my attention is "I saw you last night but you couldn't answer, you were a lonely little sidewalk dancer", that strange bridge that is in the middle of "From the end of the world" and has nothing to do with the rest of the song. I interpret that short bridge this way. The sidewalk dancer was representation of Julie--a ghost that flitted across the mind of the narrator. Perhaps she was a real dancer who resembled his lost love. There's an "all-night dancer" in "Stranger" who serves a similar symbolic function, highlighting the aloneness of the singer.
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Post by Helmut83 on Dec 7, 2019 6:02:23 GMT
Not sure if my favourite moment, but one that has always caught my attention is "I saw you last night but you couldn't answer, you were a lonely little sidewalk dancer", that strange bridge that is in the middle of "From the end of the world" and has nothing to do with the rest of the song. I interpret that short bridge this way. The sidewalk dancer was representation of Julie--a ghost that flitted across the mind of the narrator. Perhaps she was a real dancer who resembled his lost love. There's an "all-night dancer" in "Stranger" who serves a similar symbolic function, highlighting the aloneness of the singer. Ah, that could be a good interpretation, but I wasn't talking about the lyrics but about the music. Musically speaking that bridge has very little to do with the rest of the song (still, it works!). At the time Jeff wrote the album he was pulling rabbits out of his hat like crazy. He could write a small 20-second piece which sounded great as if anything and instead of using it to write a full song out of it, he just pasted it in the middle of a completely different song (which sounded great too), that's why "Time" songs are so loaded with brilliant short bits. Those bits attached to songs are in my opinion the certificate of an incredibly productive and inspired songwriting period by the author/s of the album. I've seen that kind of stuff in other albums I consider among the very best and most inspired ever, like Roxette's "Joyride" and the Beatles' "Abbey Road".
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Post by elosimms on Dec 7, 2019 22:07:15 GMT
I agree. There seems to be a time when everything 'clicks'. It obviously takes a lot of effort to write great songs...but Jeff has made it seem effortless at times. 'Time' is a great example in my opinion. I've often wondered too when he at his most prolific in the song writing department...you know, when he just couldn't help writing great songs in quick succession. Late'70's maybe? I suppose every good songwriter has a 'purple patch' when it all comes easier for them.
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Post by Helmut83 on Dec 8, 2019 19:46:47 GMT
I've often wondered too when he at his most prolific in the song writing department...you know, when he just couldn't help writing great songs in quick succession. When he wrote "Time". He was clearly in that state of grace then.
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Post by queenofthehours on Dec 18, 2019 18:50:24 GMT
I think 'Hold On Tight' fits Time better if we forget it was a popular single. It stands out because the other songs on the album are relatively unknown to un-ELOish people. Also, the rest of Time is not quite as upbeat as 'HOT' so that may not help it blend in.
My favourite Time moment is one of my favourite ELO moments altogether - the Prologue / Twilight / Yours Truly, 2095 sequence, it's just so seamless and perfect. I can't listen to any of those tracks without the other two; it's just wrong.
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Post by Timeblue on Dec 18, 2019 22:16:52 GMT
You're right, I can't listen to Twilight without the Prologue either...
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Post by Timeblue on Dec 18, 2019 22:18:46 GMT
Speaking of YT2095, are the pinball sounds generic or do they come from a particular pinball machine? if so, I'd love to play that pinball...
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Post by elophant on Dec 19, 2019 6:33:02 GMT
Speaking of YT2095, are the pinball sounds generic or do they come from a particular pinball machine? if so, I'd love to play that pinball... Pretty shure it's the pinball machine at Musicand studios at the time. Brian May can be seen playing it at the beginning of Queen's making of One Vision featurette.
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Post by Grroosss on Dec 19, 2019 7:19:48 GMT
You're right, I can't listen to Twilight without the Prologue either... Spotify splits them up and I hate it. It splits up Eldorado Overture and CGIOOMH too...
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Post by Timeblue on Dec 19, 2019 8:55:40 GMT
You're right, I can't listen to Twilight without the Prologue either... Spotify splits them up and I hate it. It splits up Eldorado Overture and CGIOOMH too... It's the same with CDs too,the only way to listen to Time is through the vinyl...
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Post by Timeblue on Dec 19, 2019 9:52:34 GMT
Speaking of YT2095, are the pinball sounds generic or do they come from a particular pinball machine? if so, I'd love to play that pinball... Pretty shure it's the pinball machine at Musicand studios at the time. Brian May can be seen playing it at the beginning of Queen's making of One Vision featurette. Harlem Globetrotters!
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Post by Horacewimp on Dec 19, 2019 12:11:18 GMT
Spotify splits them up and I hate it. It splits up Eldorado Overture and CGIOOMH too... It's the same with CDs too,the only way to listen to Time is through the vinyl... I deliberately bought a CD player with gapless playback so Time and Eldorado play correctly.
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Post by BIuebird on Dec 19, 2019 13:23:06 GMT
Spotify splits them up and I hate it. It splits up Eldorado Overture and CGIOOMH too... It's the same with CDs too,the only way to listen to Time is through the vinyl... If you burn them onto a CD with iTunes, it allows you to choose no breaks between the songs. I just did this with the original Time tracklist that ShardEnder gave us not long ago!
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Post by queenofthehours on Dec 19, 2019 18:18:33 GMT
Pretty shure it's the pinball machine at Musicand studios at the time. Brian May can be seen playing it at the beginning of Queen's making of One Vision featurette. Harlem Globetrotters! After seeing Bohemian Rhapsody I've taken a greater interest in the pinball machine as one appears in a movie scene. It's not the same machine and I wondered why the BoRhap makers didn't use the Globetrotters one. Perhaps it was because they wanted to be more subtle in referencing 'One Vision' as that song comes well out of the scope of the film. I'm just really smug that Jeff got to discover the potential of the pinball machine before Brian did .
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