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Post by Horacewimp on Nov 18, 2014 22:05:13 GMT
My story is a bit like Horace's... I'd heard ELO singles like Evil Woman and Showdown, but I got hooked when my brother (also two years older!) borrowed A New World Record from one of his friends, around 1977! Incidentally, this friend, Lawson, told us that whenever he played ANWR at home, his Dad would burst into the room, shouting at him to "turn that jungle music down!" One wonders if this feedback ever reached the ears of the band, and if so, could it have inspired a certain track on their next album? Are you my sister in disguise
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Post by vlogdance on Nov 18, 2014 22:08:37 GMT
My story is a bit like Horace's... I'd heard ELO singles like Evil Woman and Showdown, but I got hooked when my brother (also two years older!) borrowed A New World Record from one of his friends, around 1977. Incidentally, this friend, Lawson, told us that whenever he played ANWR at home, his Dad would burst into the room, shouting at him to "turn that jungle music down!" One wonders if this feedback ever reached the ears of the band, and if so, could it have inspired a certain track on their next album? Are you my sister in disguise Heh! You never suspected, did you...! (And, wow, I'm a full member now.)
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Post by BSJ on Nov 18, 2014 22:15:04 GMT
Are you my sister in disguise Heh! You never suspected, did you...! (And, wow, I'm a full member now!!) That's great! Congratulations, vlogdance!
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Post by vlogdance on Nov 18, 2014 22:17:53 GMT
Ah, thank you
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Post by wilko on Nov 18, 2014 23:38:30 GMT
My first memory of ELO was seeing Evil Woman on Top Of The Pops and quite liking it but I fell head over heels when I heard Livin Thing on Radio 1. That was the song that made me a lifelong fan.
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Post by Helmut83 on Nov 19, 2014 1:39:49 GMT
Well, BSJ, you just appeared so it seems to work! Wait a minute! I'm Snooks and she Toots! I think?
I'm laughing so hard right now!
Ha! Well, if you are not sure, or at least it took you a good while to remember, how was I to know who was who?
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Post by unomusette on Nov 19, 2014 22:19:08 GMT
It doesn't really matter if you know who is who, but if you see this and it doesn't scare the pants off you there is something very wrong
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Post by unomusette on Nov 19, 2014 22:21:57 GMT
And supermassive congrats to vlogdance - nice work!
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Post by Horacewimp on Nov 19, 2014 22:22:08 GMT
Are you my sister in disguise Heh! You never suspected, did you...! (And, wow, I'm a full member now.) Many congrats vlogdance to celebrate I've done a Mik sign you can use
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Post by vlogdance on Nov 19, 2014 23:04:21 GMT
Ah, thank you both, Uno and Horace. And a special Mik sign, too. Enough to make my whiskerius twinkletus!
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Post by spike on Nov 21, 2014 18:09:22 GMT
I spent the 1970's hearing various singles being played on the radio. I had an intense dislike for Telephone Line, and even now don't really like it. I remember specifically watching Wild West Hero on Top of the Pops with my brother. at college a guy played me Out of the Blue on blue vinyl on this strange stand up record player. It wasn't until 1983 that I saw a bloke in a Time Tour sweatshirt, and shortly after that was in Woolworths with my girlfriend getting some old tat when I saw the brand new Secret Message cassette by the till which I bought. I then quickly bought the back catalogue and they have stayed with me since
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Post by spike on Nov 21, 2014 18:12:08 GMT
When I say they have stayed with me since I mean ELO, not the cassettes. All CD's now as I wore the cassettes out
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Post by lovemycars1 on Dec 17, 2014 1:43:30 GMT
I first heard them on Top 40 radio and it was spring of 1976 and 'Evil Woman' was on the charts. 'Strange Magic' was the song I fell in love with but I didn't end up buying anything by ELO until Discovery came out and I got into 'Last Train to London'. Then after that, I began to buy everything I could get my hands on and it was mostly on vinyl. I fell in love with Jeff and then Bev.
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Post by wolvesgirlgonewild on Sept 24, 2016 0:53:23 GMT
Thought this thread I found would give me a chance to show how I got into ELO as I'm still fairly new to their music, not quite reached up to my Beatles standard of knowledge yet Well my parents are fans of them because they remember them coming about and I can imagine it being quite an exciting time seeing a band like ELO come onto the music scene. A few years ago my Dad bought or we bought my dad The Very Best of ELO think it was a Father's Day present and I heard like the well known songs from that album. The first time I had properly heard them was off the Doctor Who episode Love and Monsters where the character called Elton's favourite band was ELO they played on that episode Mr Blue Sky, Don't Bring Me Down and Turn to Stone. Then not so long ago, I watched Jeff play Glastonbury back in June and I didn't know all the songs, my parents had to tell me some of them! Then my dad bought my mom The Traveling Wilburys CD both volumes I think and I just decided to listen more to ELO. It only took me recently to discover Jeff produced The Beatles songs Free as A Bird and Real Love!
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Post by fernandoamado on Sept 24, 2016 3:05:21 GMT
Well, this one is a lovely thread. How each of us got into this sensation, this movement, this soundtrack that the ELO spaceship represents... My story is similar to wolvesgirlgonewild 's one, I'm quite new to ELO aswell. When I was a boy I had a dream my dad would play his favourite music everytime we went on a trip, once a year. That means: Beatles, ELO, Alan Parsons, Enya ( ?), an Argentinian band called Vivencia, etc. To be fair, I never really cared about anything outside Beatles and couldn't remember any other song the day after. But my story with ELO is based on coincidences! Once I got into "ELO discografia" folder in my PC by mistake (56 kbps, 128 kbps dirty mp3 files) and ended up knowing one particular song: Ticket to The Moon, one of music's hidden gems, with its multi-choral arrangements and futuristic sounds. By particular events, I can recall Rock n' Roll is King and Hold On Tight, but couldn't tag it with ELO. I knew because of my disco addiction that Last Train to London, super-mega-hit here in Argentina, was an ELO track. This was at 6. When I was 8 I was gifted a PlayStation. I immediately bought GTA Vice City, because of its 80's setting (I've always been a huge fan of 80's music) and, after some hours of playing, I shouted out loud "DAAAAAAD, HEAR, AN ELO SONG!!". I still don't know how I recognised Four Little Diamonds. But I freakin' love that song since. Then, a huge hole for almost 10 years. In this time, I may have watched two or three ELO videos spontaneously. I couldn't tell the difference between this guy with short beard and sunglasses and the guy with afro and medium beard without sunglasses, dressed in white. Of course, they were Jeff in two different years. I use to think Melvyn Gale was a woman. Back in 2014, I wanted to hear a Joe Jackson song I really liked, "Steppin' Out". I quickly searched for it in my PC. Guess what, ELO's folder was still there, virgin, untouched for 10 years. I played the wrong song, luckily! It was the best song I had ever heard in my life. It still has a very emotional impact on me, as many ELO songs, because I tag them to things that happened in my life. 2015 then, where I study music, we started a students' band. I was capable enough, being it a jazz group, to make a place for Steppin' Out. We even sang it in two festivals. Also, playing with Facebook's famous people pages, I clicked on "Follow" over some guy called Jeff Lynne's profile (that was the third coincidence). Only to be surprised a month later with "Jeff signs with Columbia Records...!!". It was madness. By then, I had a fuzzy image of ELO in my head. Hell, my dad was only 12 when the first LP came out. And me, his son, with a 38-years age difference, was 18 and about to receive a new album, just like him, after years of silence from Jeff. Truly a beautiful lifetime picture. Before it came out, I had to know every album! Damn, I started with their first LP, what a risky decision. I waited through their prog rock era (which I now love) and got to hear almost everything before AITU was released. When I first heard When I Was a Boy, I cread a lot. So much like Out of The Blue and Steppin' Out... When I first heard the album along with my father, we both shed a tear. When I was watching BBC's show last year, my dad stared for some minutes and said "Hell, I feel a harsh shiver down my spine, he's just like when we were young". End of the main story. I've never been one of those "fandom girls" like Beliebers or... you know. Not even with The Beatles. But I just can't help it: Jeff's the master of masters, he knows how to evoke an emotion with his music. ELO's so much more than Beatles SOMETIMES. I'm from the new generation, you know, and from a non-ELO country. But I already turned a friend into a fan. And not through OOTB or ANWR. He loves AITU and ZOOM. He recognises this maestry, he feels peaceful when he hears Eldorado LP. Thank you, Jeff Lynne, for your music. Everybody in this forum will understand me.
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