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Post by Helmut83 on May 14, 2020 21:41:17 GMT
I love The Whale. I'd squeeze it into a 2 side album even if the needle ran onto the label. Be careful, squeezing The Whale might cause the rage of ecologists. Heck, it's been some time since I last made a terrible joke. Feeling like myself again.
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Post by queenofthehours on May 19, 2020 13:58:50 GMT
I'm sticking with the track list I came up with the last time I thought about this -
Side One - Turn to Stone - It's Over - Sweet Is the Night - Steppin' Out - Wild West Hero Side Two - Standin' In The Rain
- Sweet Talkin' Woman - Jungle - Big Wheels - Mr. Blue Sky
I think I first heard, or at least first noted, 'MBS' in about 2005 when M&S started to use it for their adverts. I loved it but now I know it better some of the joy has gone out of it. I think this is because my interest lessons after the terrific intro. However, whenever I hear the song in the wild it is always exciting especially when heard in unexpected places.
OOTB isn't my most favourite ELO album but I appreciate it more because of 'Jungle'. It spices the record up a bit.
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Post by Timeblue on May 19, 2020 15:22:21 GMT
I'm sticking with the track list I came up with the last time I thought about this -
Side One - Turn to Stone - It's Over - Sweet Is the Night - Steppin' Out - Wild West Hero Side Two - Standin' In The Rain
- Sweet Talkin' Woman - Jungle - Big Wheels - Mr. Blue Sky
I think I first heard, or at least first noted, 'MBS' in about 2005 when M&S started to use it for their adverts. I loved it but now I know it better some of the joy has gone out of it. I think this is because my interest lessons after the terrific intro. However, whenever I hear the song in the wild it is always exciting especially when heard in unexpected places.
OOTB isn't my most favourite ELO album but I appreciate it more because of 'Jungle'. It spices the record up a bit. Arghhhhhh,she mentioned the 'J' word!!!!
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Post by lasttrain929 on May 19, 2020 18:34:36 GMT
I'm sticking with the track list I came up with the last time I thought about this -
Side One - Turn to Stone - It's Over - Sweet Is the Night - Steppin' Out - Wild West Hero Side Two - Standin' In The Rain
- Sweet Talkin' Woman - Jungle - Big Wheels - Mr. Blue Sky
I think I first heard, or at least first noted, 'MBS' in about 2005 when M&S started to use it for their adverts. I loved it but now I know it better some of the joy has gone out of it. I think this is because my interest lessons after the terrific intro. However, whenever I hear the song in the wild it is always exciting especially when heard in unexpected places.
OOTB isn't my most favourite ELO album but I appreciate it more because of 'Jungle'. It spices the record up a bit. Arghhhhhh,she mentioned the 'J' word!!!! I’m reading between the lines here timeblue but I get the feeling you don’t like J***** smileys-whistling-823718
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Post by Timeblue on May 19, 2020 20:20:56 GMT
Errrr....don't know what you mean matey?
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Post by queenofthehours on Nov 3, 2020 18:51:39 GMT
Songs of the Humpback Whale was released in 1970 and went multi-platinum, becoming the best selling environmental album of all time. But it also became emblematic of the West’s shifting attitudes towards environmentalism, inspiring a global movement to save the whales which continues to this day.
Marking the 50th anniversary of bioacoustician Roger Payne’s unlikely smash hit, this programme considers the legacy of sounds that caught the imagination of the world.
'The Whale' makes a lot more sense to me now than it did before I heard that programme. Perhaps Jeff heard the album and wanted to write something ecological? Knowing that Jeff may have had a reason for writing 'The Whale', that other people were writing music based around whales at the time, that whale-song was popular back then, makes the track a little bit less strange.
Here's Judy Collins using whale song as mentioned in the radio programme -
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Post by StrangeMagic on Nov 7, 2020 6:23:02 GMT
Songs of the Humpback Whale was released in 1970 and went multi-platinum, becoming the best selling environmental album of all time. But it also became emblematic of the West’s shifting attitudes towards environmentalism, inspiring a global movement to save the whales which continues to this day.
Marking the 50th anniversary of bioacoustician Roger Payne’s unlikely smash hit, this programme considers the legacy of sounds that caught the imagination of the world.
'The Whale' makes a lot more sense to me now than it did before I heard that programme. Perhaps Jeff heard the album and wanted to write something ecological? Knowing that Jeff may have had a reason for writing 'The Whale', that other people were writing music based around whales at the time, that whale-song was popular back then, makes the track a little bit less strange.
Here's Judy Collins using whale song as mentioned in the radio programme -
There was also this homage to whales by Crosby and Nash from 1975. It doesn't use natural whale song as extensively as the Judy Collins piece does, though. Anyone know what Jeff thinks of CSN & Y?
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