CONFESS!!!!! You secretly are a HUGE Electric Light Orchestra Fan!!!!

[LynneSin]

How can you not be??!!!

I've been rocking out to all the albums today in historic order. I'm up to 'Out of the Blue' right now.

This band is fricking AWESOME and how Jeff Lynne is not in the Rock & Roll hall of fame baffles me!

Post here what your favorite ELO song is!

[OriginalGeek]

1. Secretly?

Hell naw. Loud and proud ELO fan right here.

[PennyK]

2. Not exactly a HUGE fan but I like them

Heard "When I Was a Boy" and it's lovely...great video goes with it.
I think ELO's biggest fault is the sameness of so much of their work.

[LynneSin]

4. Not really.

I started with 'No Answer' which was the first ELO album and it's a far cry from what I'm on now which is 'Out of the Blue'

They have evolved but I do like that they have that sound.

I'm absolutely in love with 'When I was a Boy'. I love the line 'When I Was a Bed, Music would start to fill my head'. That was pretty much me as a young girl and even today.

[Trajan]

3. I remember when Jeff was with 'The Move' in the early seventies

He showed definite promise as a rock innovator then ... ELO has some great stuff ...

My favorite: Mr Blue Sky

[LynneSin]

5. My absolutely favorite Non-Led Zeppelin related song!!!

That song is HUGE to me!!!

[DawgHouse]

6. This is my favorite ELO song. It's genius!

[shanti]

7. they were one of the first

concerts i ever went to. i saw them at anaheim stadium in the 70's.

here's a favorite:

[Iggo]

8. This one.

[Doc_Technical]

9. Yes, I've heard of them.

[Frank Cannon]

10. Too many favorites to select just one.

But this is the song that got me into them.

Can't wait to get the new album. The new song "When I was a Boy" gives me chills every time I hear it. It's like NO time has passed in 40 years.

[Blue_Tires]

11. Whatever that song is on the closing credits of "Boogie Nights"

[LynneSin]

12. Enjoy!

[greendog]

13. I had completely forgotten what they sounded like...

...so I listened to some of the clips in this thread.

Now I know why I forgot what they sounded like.

[kentauros]

14. No.

I did see them when I was younger for their UFO tour (I think that's what it was called.)

Right now I'm listening to Deuter (Album: East of the Full Moon. Cut: Black Velvet Flirt)

[mackerel]

15. No but my sister is

[yuiyoshida]

16. ONE OF Japan's biggest and best DRAMA was called "Densha Otoko"

which means "Train Man". Guess what song was used for this DRAMA???

Subtitles can be turned on.

[blueknight]

17. sometime in the late 70's

Riverfront coliseum, Cincinnati Ohio, went to ELO concert, what a magical night! I will never forget it!

[Miles Archer]

18. Although I bought every one of the vinyl albums upon release, back in the day...

...the last album that really grabbed me was "Out Of The Blue" in 1977. from the Xanadu period forward, even though I still followed the band, I was more of a casual observer than ardent fan.

I really enjoyed the first album, when Lynne's bandmate from The Move, Roy Wood, was still in the mix. He's the one who really brought the "Orchestra" to "Electric Light Orchestra." He had a few fun and eccentric solo albums but never got anywhere near the success that Lynne had with ELO. The "Eddie And The Falcons" album he did with his band Wizzard is still a ton of fun, very similar to what Zappa did with "Cruising With Ruben And The Jets."

[6000eliot]

22. I love this album!

Roy Wood was huge in England, just not the rest of the world.

[tonekat]

19. Do Ya

In my vinyl collection is a copy of the ELO that has "Roll Over Beethoven" on it. Not sure what possessed me to buy that. But, sure, I like some of their stuff.

[progressoid]

20. Ah, summers at the swimming pool.

But later switched to Elvis Costello, Peter Gabriel, Talking Heads etc

[6000eliot]

21. No secret about it. I've loved ELO since the early '70s.