ELO Pt 2 and Moment of Truth rereleased on vinyl Kelly on CD

[Timeblue]

I'm always guilty of not reading the t+c's

[lasttrain929]

Nov 8, 2021 20:09:54 GMT Timeblue said:

I'm always guilty of not reading the t+c's

Or the one I hate not reading,  Uses stock photos.... caught out a couple of times.

[Horacewimp]

A interview with Mik Kiminsky and Eric Troyer

www.goldminemag.com/columns/fabulous-flip-sides-update-reissues-and-re-recordings-electric-light-orchestra-part-ii-tiffany-and-natalie-schlabs

[Timeblue]

"Mik, my best friend John and I are huge ELO fans....."

So big that he constantly spells his name Kiminsky

[trekkielo]

Dec 2, 2021 15:56:25 GMT Horacewimp said:

A interview with Mik Kiminsky and Eric Troyer

www.goldminemag.com/columns/fabulous-flip-sides-update-reissues-and-re-recordings-electric-light-orchestra-part-ii-tiffany-and-natalie-schlabs

Dec 2, 2021 16:49:56 GMT Timeblue said:

"Mik, my best friend John and I are huge ELO fans....."

So big that he constantly spells his name Kiminsky

Kaminsky, really?! Come on man! 

PS

Thank God, they just corrected it.

[livinthing]

Spelt like this on an issue of the LP Face the Music.

[Timeblue]

I wonder where Miks surname originates from? Certainly not a typical Yorkshire name....

[Timeblue]

Just looked and it's of Polish origin...

[Timeblue]

Plenty of Polish in Yorkshire at the moment but 70 years ago?

[Horacewimp]

I think quite a few Poles settled in the U.K. after WW2 I guess Mik’s family was one of these.

There was a Polish tv repair engineer we knew as kids who must have arrived here after the war, his name was Boris and would always say “I fix it” when you took him a faulty tv, he was right he did sort it.

[Timeblue]

Yeah, looking back we had a Polish family in our street when I was a kid...

[Timeblue]

It would be interesting to learn about Mik's family history and why they settled in the UK...

[Timeblue]

[Timeblue]

Seems such a long time ago...

[disgruntledfilament]

It's great that these are finally receiving reissues. While I find Part II's material to be heavily inconsistent - as I'm generally drawn to ELO's discography for its ability to synthesize Beatles-esque melodic sensibilities with a vibrant, atmospheric, almost Brian Wilson-esque plaintiveness, I'm not personally a fan of the harder arena rock-inspired elements of both the debut and, particularly, "Moment of Truth" despite the quality of the vocals and Louis Clark's excellently bombastic arrangements - the group's nonetheless a significant component of ELO history (particularly as a touring band; Eric Troyer's rendition of "Telephone Line" is definitely underrated) and produced several songs I'd easily consider among the best post-"Time" output from the ELO conglomerate ("Honest Men" evokes the exhilarating mini-epic aesthetic of the group's late-70s output near-impeccably, "Power of a Million Lights" is majorly elevated by both the momentum of its chorus and Groucutt's infectious backing vocals and "Blue Violin", regardless of its brief runtime, is a legitimately gorgeous track that could easily have been cribbed from an Out of the Blue session).