Electric Light Orchestra, Telephone Line - A Classical Musician’s First Listen and Reaction
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I like this Bruce Eder quote about "Telephone Line”: “it might be the best Lennon-McCartney collaboration that never was”. Agreed!
Here’s the link to the original song:
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Don’t just listen to Mr. Blue Sky, listen to the whole Concerto for a Rainy Day, which starts with Standing in the Rain and ends with Mr. Blue Sky. I TRULY think it would be something surprisingly enjoyable for you!
"Concerto for a Rainy Day" - 4 songs
@@MadMax-pu1kj That’s it! Thanks!
Very much so. The individual parts of Concerto For A Rainy Day are intended to be listened to together. Most people only know Mr Blue Sky, which is a huge shame - they are missing out on a greater piece of music. I think the concerto approach will be particularly appreciated by a classical musician.
Absolutely! Has to be the whole Concerto for a Rainy Day. Takes you on an incredible, cinematic musical journey that makes Mr Blue Sky complete, showcases the immense talents of Jeff and the band - all inspired by the weather! Perfect music for getting lost in.
Blue sky is a wonderful song, but it doesn’t really highlight the musicianship of Jeff Lynn I probably listened to this sweet 100 times
Jeff is one of the best melodic songwriters of the past 50 years. Endless memorable melodies.
Best Ever !
This song hits close to home. My wife passed away a couple of years after this song came out. I can relate to the line "Let it ring forever more". I too would let the phone keep ringing, hoping that one day she would answer...
😥
The Song is simple….It’s a yearning to reconnect with the past. A wish to be with a long lost love, to be able to relive one’s youth…A need to escape from the reality of a mundane life, that creeps up on us as we age.
Mate you just made me cry
It's kind of a crime you haven't listened to Mr. Blue Sky yet, it IS one of the happiest songs you will ever hear.
True, but Mr. Blue Sky is experienced best as the final track of the 4-song Concerto for a Rainy Day
@@GarrettEulett agreed, and Amy may enjoy it fully that way, and oddly enough, I had the same thought minutes after posting.
It's overrated
@@stefanbaumgartner4878I agree. When compared to their earlier work it just feels “okay”. For anybody else it would be an outstanding piece, but we’re talking about ELO here. There were good tracks on “Out of the Blue” but *Mr. Blue Sky* isn’t one of my personal favorites. Although I do understand why some might have a greater appreciation for it.
@@stefanbaumgartner4878 It's a good song, but there are a good number of ELO songs I personally prefer over it.
This was the 70’s when it was always about the music. One of the most beautiful love songs ever written. Glad you enjoyed it.
Pasterallll
And... I haven't reached the end of the Beatles..
OH HELP ME..JK
The telephone ring sound is an almost perfect match for: Analog, 1975, long-distance ring tone; The voice is spot on with the tin-ish, single-ear, mono sound. The only thing missing is the 2-3 second delay between when you speak and they hear it. *On a side note before answering machines, you could call any number and it would ring until either you hung up or they answered, hours, days, or weeks later.
A world that is long gone, I have a nephew who is now 35, a number of years ago I was telling him about the time of my youth in the 70's, three tv channels that closed down late in the evening and didn't reappear until late in the afternoon, fixed telephones and no mobiles or computers in the home, he couldn't comprehend or grasp it, that lived experience was so foreign to him.
Fun fact: when one person calls another on a landline, the call doesn't really end until the originator hangs up. If the receiver hangs up and picks up again quickly, the call will reconnect. I haven't tested how long this effect lasts, but it still works. The voice sounding "tin-ish" replicates the analog phones compression (clipping the lows and highs due to the massive capacitance of MILES of twisted copper wire). This can be replicated in a studio with a variable bandpass filter which can produce the effect heard when it gradually opens up the bandwidth to his full singing voice. I always love hearing that transition from compressed to full spectrum.
Yes! I remember that sound.. just let it ring... lol
That transition from dead mono telephone squawk to a full-bodied orchestral sound. Makes you wonder how they did it.
With station to station calls having the switch board operator still on the line.
"Can't Get It Out of My Head" It´s a great ELO´s song too
Please forgive my bad pun, but I "Can't get it out of my head".
Fire On High!
@@hoon_sol The music is reversable, but time is not.......go back......go back!.......GO BACK!!.....
"Can't get it out of my head " is where I hear Lennon. I hear McCartney in this song.
On the same album as the brilliant Eldorado!
For many of us old fogies, ELO is ‘nostalgic support therapy’! Emotional, complex and satisfying. See Jeff Lynne in concert before it’s too late.
I saw Jeff Lynne’s ELO in Washington DC on the farewell Over and out Tour. During this song thousands of fans waved their phones with the light on. I am a boomer, 71, and can honestly say ELO transcends age. In addition to many boomers, all age groups were represented! Jeff Lynne = Musical Genius.
This song is just pure genius. While listening to every nuance, all the instruments, and all the parts that were created to come together to make this deeply complex composition, you have to wonder how Jeff came up with it all. He wrote every note and word. He did that for the entire 2 album set.
“… she loves the way Puccini lays down a tune
and Verdi’s always creeping’ from her room”
ROCKARIA - Jeff is always so original and innovative.
"Wei..! Oops!"
In my opinion, one of the top five songs ever produced. Take you through an emotional journey of reaching out to someone from the past and not being able to connect. A true genius artist.
The most beautiful expression of unrequited love in any song ever written.
I have always loved how music can evoke emotions and memories. My dad introduced me to ELO back in the late 70's when we were living in the UK and this song brings me back as if I were still there. We moved to the US in 1981 and 8 years later, as an adult, I moved back. I sparked a relationship with a young lady and her favorite group was ELO. Many times we sat in her tiny flat listening to this music. Eventually that relationship came to an end but I will always remember her and her love for ELO. Good memories.
I love your reviews because they let me find new ways to appreciate songs i've been listening to for 5 or 6 decades. These old songs are fun for me again, and I'm listening again. Thank you so much.
The nostalgia of this song brings be back, and brings a tear to my eye.
ELO’s “Shangrila” is simply the most achingly beautiful song I’ve ever heard.
I always spend 80% of the song just waiting for the outro. 😀
The ending of that song is nothing short of mesmerising, easily the best outro i've heard.
A brilliant end to a masterpiece album
I'd pick One summer dream, but ELO in any case.
@@therealdeal9600Agreed. That repeating outro chord sequence feels like it never should stop. “Faded like ELO on Shangri-La…”
ELO "Can't Get It Out of My Head". The melody of the chorus was stuck in my head for decades since I first heard it to the point that I actually thought I invented it because I haven't heard the song since I was a kid
Yes, same experience here. In fact, it’s a great experience to listen to Eldorado Overture and the fade into Can’t Get It Out of My Head. What a well written piece.
Welcome to the rabbit hole of ELO..
So many different styles.
My favorite is the album TIME. A concept album that must be listened to in entirety. Twilight is a theme. A departure from their previous works.
It's so great watching your face as you fall in love with ELO in real time!
Probably the best ELO song
💡This song ALWAYS chokes me up as the gateway to E.L.O.🛸
48 years ago i fell in love with ELO, through this album, "A New World Record."
It started via the first two songs, "Tightrope, and Telephone Line," which i played over and over. Couldn't believe the creativity, and beauty! Eventually the entire nine song album became one of my top three ever!!
Thanks so much for your passionate review!! ❤
Tightrope is an incredible song
As someone who tremendously appreciates Jazz scat, I can't begin to tell you how brilliant the "Doo Wah Doo Lang" sound is in this song. The key to vocal improvisation is that it captures an emotion that otherwise can't easily be translated into a single word yet does it in just a syllable or two. It's creating a whole new language unique to the song. In this case, the syllable "lang" is like a reluctant but patient acceptance of circumstance. When you hear that syllable, you can almost envision a person sighing, slumping their shoulders, sitting down and waiting. I was a huge ELO fan when I was young, and "Doo Lang" became part of my lexicon, anytime something stopped me in my tracks and I had to wait without knowing if I could reach or achieve my objective.
However that portion is "Doo Wop" not Jazz. Rgds
@@jorgeestomba9888 I can't tell if you deliberately ignored that they're both forms of improvisation in order to troll me, or if you just couldn't connect the dots.
"Pastoral". Best description of this song I have ever heard.
John Lennon said that, had the Beatles continued into the 1970s, they'd have most likely sounded like ELO.
¡Menos mal que no se dio el caso! Y esto lo digo aún gustando mucho del pop de la E.L.O. (en el mismo estilo me gusta mucho más la ELO que Queen, grupo que aborrezco). Es solo mi opinión...Creo además que no se puede poner en el mismo nivel a George Martin, su elegancia y musicalidad clásicas, con Jeff Lynne y su interesante, pero un poco tosco, trabajo de artesanía y manufactura.Y que fue un error hacer algo así cuando se trataron las últimas canciones de los Beatles. Es mi opinión. Perdón por no usar el inglés.
John had quite an ego going.
@@mkshffr4936 success went to his head, like a bulle... Oh... Lol, loser druggie
@@mkshffr4936yes he did
I highly doubt it. They were a pretty simple band.
Jeff's 2017 ELO concert at Wembly is a monument to his career, and should be in everyone' collection. Especially the video.
The 2014 Hyde Park concert is better as they had the whole string section of the BBC Concert Orchestra on stage with them !
I’m seeing them live in two weeks. Can’t wait! It is their final tour.
i`m not jealous , nope not me !
@@babyfacemichael1 Likewise!
Saw them back in August. They were amazing!
I just saw them a few days ago and the concert experience is awesome
I am soooo very jealous. I looked and Jeff will be nowhere near me :-( But I saw ELO in the 80's for their Time Tour and it was WONDERFUL!
I can't tell you how much I enjoy these videos with a host who is able to intelligently speak about music. After listening to this song for literally decades, your observations still help me hear something new!
Great tune for those of us that still remember telephones on walls.❤
Hi Amy, Hi Vlad...I was 15 when I first heard this in 1976. I have talked to many folk about this song and the consensus, is that it is a beautifully painted, melodically simple 'emotion' container. It's one of the few songs that make me cry on first listen. Full of pathos and I'm not afraid to say that now, 48 years later, (as I listen and write) my chest has risen and a tear has formed in my crumpled old eye. Yes, I'm a big sap but what can I say except, thank you.
The sound of Lynne's voice at the beginning of the song transitions from only picking up mid range tones, to getting the full timbre of his voice by using a recording trick. Old telephones that were in use when the song was recorded had the effect of compressing all highs and lows into that mid range tone. I read somewhere it was because they had a specific type of microphone, but I'm no expert on that.
When he is singing "lonely, lonely, lonely" the recording shifts from a telephone style microphone sound to a studio microphone sound. I always thought that was a cool effect.
Telephony was very much clipped to 300Hz to 3.4Kz, making Jeff's Brummie accent sound similar to the more northern Scouse accent 😉
Lynne was in The Travelling Wilburys with Harrison (and Dylan, Orbison, and Petty).
I'm glad you like ELO, Jeff Lynn is one of my favorites from the 70s.
I'm a huge ELO fan, and "Telephone Line" is one of my very favorites.
I can not WAIT for you to experience their "Mr. Blue Sky"!!
💡”Can’t Get it Out of My Head”!🛸
Finally ELO. I adore this band. I really look forward to hearing your insight into more songs from them.
I look forward to more ELO reactions, you are in for a treat and more than just a few surprises.
If this is the first time you’ve ever heard this, your analysis is quick and amazing.
I saw Jeff last weekend on his "Over and Out" tour! A spectacular concert!! One of the best i've seen in this this surprisingly long life lol ❤
Wow, what a privilege. 👍
MichaelNorman, our time to see them on their "Over and Out" tour is coming up for us on the 25th of October! We are so excited to see them. I am glad to read you enjoyed a spectacular concert! Peace☮
@@janethernandez724 I'm not exaggerating when i describe this band, as one of the finest touring bands ever assembled!! Jeff has 8 others contributing to the vocals, 3 to guitar, 3 to keyboards, (one goes back, and forth between the two) 2 cellists, 1 violinist, 1 bassist, and the great Donavan Hepburn on drums! It's such a full, and rich sounding band!!
Hope you have as wonderful an experience as us!!
PS The opening act, "Rooney" was was also highly enjoyable!!
@@janethernandez724 How was the concert?!
I always appreciate your intelligent, well considered reactions, Virgin Rock.
The ELO album Time is one of my top ten favorites of all time. Looking into the past at artists looking into the future is interesting and the song The Way Life's Meant To Be really hits hard today.
Time is an astonishingly good album that, while not hitting great commercial heights when released, has aged exceptionally well. The world of reaction videos is helping to expose it as something of a masterpiece. Well worth a deep dive.
YES!!
You have peeked my interest in deep diving the music I enjoy so much. I love your energy. Thank you so much.
I’m not sure if you lived long enough to hear a LAND LINE telephone, but the “distant” sounding voice on the opening phone ring is what it sounded like long distance. Very “tinny”….like you were talking to somebody on the moon.
Correct.
I love ELO and grew up listening to their music on the radio as well as my older sister's album collection. At 13 I finally received ELO's Discovery album and I have loved their music ever since! My sister was 6 years older than me and got to see them live in Concert! I would have loved to see them live in the 70's, and 80's. I love their new album called Zoom and their Zoom concert is phenomenal!! Thank you!!
Really enjoy your insights into songs I know very well. Music is magic to me and it’s fun to hear about how you see it.
Again thanks.
So glad you gave ELO another listen. By far my favorite band. "Telephone Line" is one of their best produced songs, but believe me there are many, many others. Jeff Lynne is a true musical genius. Try "Shangri-La" or "Mr. Blue Sky" next.
I only hear a _little_ bit of Beatles in this - but a WHOLE LOT of 10CC! 😀 Same era too, I guess 🙂
Everything about this song tugs my heartstrings every time. From nostalgia to referencing moments in time, to the song song melody of the chorus to the melancholy overall. Just hits you.
Another excellent telephone motif song is Operator by Jim Croce!
"Sylvia's Mother" by Dr. Hook has to be added to the list.
Loved this band since I was in HS in the 70s. This song and others of theirs were awesome on headphones, especially to my then 15 yo ears. I bought a shirt at Tower Records. Some girl at school who didn't know them yet asked, "What's El-O?" Seeing Jeff Lynne's ELO for the 1st time end of this month. I heard they have great sound and visuals, including lasers. John called them "Sons of the Beatles." Jeff produced Real Love, Free as a Bird and helped with Now and Then. Can't wait to see them.
I started watching your videos this week and love your takes on these classics I grew up with. As a 66 year old man, I'm learning about these songs and meanings that I never considered. Excellent job, thank you!
It's so good to watch and listen to a reaction where the reactor actually offers a good interpretation of the music and a deep understanding of the both the lyrics and context of the song.
In the complete oeuvre of Jeff Lynne's work - and that's a lot, you will find no more than half a dozen songs which could be regarded as second-rate. The rest are many levels above most, if not all of what we hear today and maybe of what we heard back in the day!
It's a good time to get program play don't leave you can play the same crap over and over again? Why are they doing the same nonsense question mark how much money do they make because it's not for them it's for us, not for them
@@chrischerrie3337 They're all English words and to paraphrase Eric Morcambe, 'They're all the right words but not necessarily in the right order.' I'm sure there's a meaning to your comment but it's not coming through, I'm afraid.
Concerto for a Rainy Day.❤
I loved it! I have been eagerly waiting for you to return to ELO, and this was a great choice. I was waiting with great anticipation for you to say the words, "I love this," since I really thought you would. Perhaps you have found your new favorite song on your journey. I remember being mildly disappointed that you didn't appreciate "Livin' Thing" as much as I had hoped, although you did like it. I can see though why you would like this better, but you should listen on your own to "Livin' Thing" again, with the studio version this time. I think with your greater exposure you will enjoy it more now. I am so glad you want to explore more ELO in the future. They have several great ones for you to enjoy. You should also check out more of Jeff Lynn's other collaborations (you have heard him collaborate with Roy Orbison, along with George Harrison, on "You Got It"), but still haven't heard his work with the Traveling Wilburys (Jeff, George Harrison, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison), or the very popular cover of George Harrison's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" with Jeff, Tom Petty, Prince and Steve Winwood.
beautifully described visual from sound..👌
"Telephone Line" and "Mr. Blue Sky" are two of my favorite songs of all time and genres. As a classical cellist I always loved ELO and Jeff Lynne for their ability to bring classical themes and instruments into a pop sound.
Jeff Lynne also plays the cello.
I will play the clash, stranglers, the pistols & the ELO and have zero problem, because Jeff Lynne was a master composer & arranger. Yes they were a band, but they played to the beat of his drum .
Oh, my goodness Amy, this is a wonderful reaction to ELO's "Telephone Line" It is one of my favorite songs by them from my preteen years to this very day. I am surprised to know that this is your second Electric Light Orchestra song you have listened to. I took a tiny peak at your reaction to "Livin' thing" and it surprises me it was a live version instead of the original studio recording. I will get back to that reaction in a little bit. Jeff Lynne was heavily influenced by the Beatles, in fact, he had the opportunity to meet them while they were recording their "White Album". We have the opportunity to see them perform live in their "Over and Out" tour on 10/25/24, ELO is retiring. In my opinion there is a lot of music to enjoy listening to when it comes to Electric Light Orchestra. You may like "Shangri - La" oh and a personal gem of mine that I think you may enjoy by ELO is "Concerto for a Rainy Day", "Mr. Blue Sky" is an upbeat, feel-good song I think you might enjoy listening to and then there is "Rockaria" Another upbeat song that starts off with an Opera singer for the opening. My favorite line from that song is 🎵"She's sweet on Wagner, I think she'd die for Beethoven, she likes the way Puccini lays down a tune, and Verdi's is always creeping from her room "🎵 does that catch your attention? Another favorite is "Last Train to London", oh, and "Twilight" is another favorite of mine, there is so much more though. I enjoyed your reaction. Peace. ☮
You have such a beatiful smile, delicacy, charm and attention to detail... ❤❤ I'm also a musician and happy to be lost in your channel ❤❤
I love these, it would be great to see even more!
Me gusta tu mundo!!!...Words....palabras traducidas....sentirlas....with music es pasión!!!!
Amy!... You should check out the fun song 'Rockaria' by ELO - here... check out some of the lyrics - "She's sweet on Wagner, I think she'd die for Beethoven, She loves the way Puccini lays down a tune and Verdi's always creeping from her room..." Go on, you know you want to😉
Could be Amy herself : )
I would *love* to watch Amy react to the song telling the story of her own experience!
Love the false start of the opera singer on that song.
@@eightballsidepocket9467 Yeah! 😅
@@eightballsidepocket9467 I’d forgotten that. Totally original and bizarre - brilliant!
Always loved this song, so evocative, I mean we've all been on that end of the phone at sometime right? Thanks for this🙏
Mr. Blue Sky, absolutely brilliant piece of music and a masterpiece of studio recording technique.
Imagine its 1976 and you hear this for the first time on vinyl,. Jeff lynne is a musical genius.
Yup. The guy is a genius…This music wil never die…
No need to imagine. I was in WH Smiths in Sloane Square when this was played, I'd bought it before the song finished. How many songs can you remember first hearing so exactly?
I was 13 at the time. I can hear any one of the songs on that record, and instantly hear the entire album in my mind...
This is such an emotionally-charged piece of music, I think you must not be hearing it the right way. It is about the stark, devastating loneliness of being left by your lover and not being able to reach them by telephone. I think you should wait and listen to this song if you ever have a broken heart, because then you will understand it. Classical music might exist within its own realm, separate from any personal connections. Great popular music doesn't; it expresses the yearnings of living, loving, and losing in a visceral way that is instantly felt by listeners.
💡Well put- excellently articulated!
The question is why can’t he reach her? Why doesn’t she pick up the phone ever? It’s because she’s gone. Forever. Just let the phone ring operator, let it ring forevermore.
The strings in this are just wonderful.
And surprisingly as a classical musician she didn't even seem to notice the strings. She was mostly focused on the sound effects and story line.
Ah great great memories a sad song but yet great joy the genius Jeff Lynne thanks for your reaction
Love your passion,
love your passion, great analysis
Was introduced to ELO and this song by Steve Buscemi putting on lipstick. Haven't looked back. The best.
I'm glad to be back to your channel. I love the musical instruments in the background. They pull me in. Thank you for your musical reactions.
The start is the sound of a land line making an international connection in the olden days.Jeff still doing great things and have enjoyed fifty years of his genius.
In 1988, under the pseudonyms Otis Wilbury and Clayton Wilbury, Jeff Lynne co-founded the supergroup Traveling Wilburys with George Harrison, which also included Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty.
Over the years I've sometimes wondered when I learnt to play the guitar. Now I know it was 1977. This was the first song I learnt to play. An absolutely lovely song. I'm not surprised it went to No. 1 in NZ as being a Kiwi, I remember it being played on the radio - all the time!
My favorite ELO song among many.
If you like ELO can I recommend "Wild West Hero" - very clever song. Great review 🙂
This is my absolute favourite song from this band.great reaction
Thanks for another great reaction. Please forgive the “stream of consciousness” comment I’m about to leave, but here goes. Yes, absolutely you need to listen to Revolver. It was pivotal. Also, Jeff Lynne worked extensively with George Harrison after the Beatles split up, and was also part of a later super band, the Traveling Wilburys, with George (and others you will no doubt recognize but I won’t spoil that reaction by saying who ). Finally, for another and very different take on telephone calls, try Jim Croce, Operator.
i remember listening to several tracks from this album on the radio when it first came out, including this song, and they blew me away. outstanding album from an outstanding band
Hello, how are you, was perfect telephone etiquette back in the day.
This song is pure genius - great video
This is a great song, ELO did a lot of fantastic music, please listen to Concerto For A Rainy Day from the Out of the blue album, it is a group of four songs that includes their biggest hit.
GENIUS.......it is the correct and only way to describe Jeff's art.
One of the best songs of that era. I remember riding in my dad's VW going to school one morning when this first was released, right after it they played Jim Croce's Operator. I'm sure it was deliberate by the DJ, so epic that to this day I can smell the classic VW interior when I hear this song, and I'm already disappointed I won't hear Jim's heartbreaking voice right after it :(
Great song,
loved your reaction. I hope you have the song Fire on High by ELO on your list. No other song like it and one of the best introductions in music !
This absolute MUST HEAR Classic will surprise you in all the best of ways,,
Electric Light Orchestra "Tightrope"...
Please trust me on this one. ❤
"OK, so no one's answering. Can you just let it ring a little longer, longer..." So powerful and painful. Who hasn't been there? Who hasn't felt that pain? This is the saddest breakup song that I can think of. It certainly reminds me of one of my breakups, and the heartbreak of no one picking up on the other end. Just beautiful.
I worked in telecommunications for a number of years. Tones similar to this were used in old analogue telephone networks to control switching between numbers, exchanges, and especially long distance calls. Sometimes when you made a long distance call you could hear those tones in the background when your call was connected or especially when switched by an operator a few decades back. You were never meant to hear these tones when you made a call but sometimes you could. It will depend what country you are in. This is definitely my favorite ELO song of all time 😀 Craig - Australia
I remember reading about phone phreaks who would use tones to connect themselves around the world. One guy was holding 2 phones and talking to himself in each ear after the signals had gone around the world😅
This song always makes me smile and happy that music exists.
that is because you think someone is calling you.😃
LOVE ELO!! LOVE WATCHING YOUR REACTIONS! With all the bands and types of music you have listened to I can not believe you haven’t listened to DREAM THEATER one of the founders of Prog Metal.
"Ticket to the Moon" off beat but very poetic and delightful, like a fine wine so to speak. Worth a listen and breakdown thx.. cA
I did like your review of this song! Howdy from western Colorado!
I think the song has a real warmth about it. The whole album "Time" is a classic.. first songs i used to sing along too, when i was 6 years old in 1981 with my dad and sister
A very concise analysis of the song. Jeff wrote many great tunes. One of his best ballads is Midnight Blue which is unfortunately rather underrated.
ELO is simply one of the best! Great reaction...thanks!
It's a pleasure to see someone with good music level and taste appreciate the quality and the originality of Jeff Lynne's music.
People know him for a few popular basic rock songs like Mr Blue Sky, but he composed so many other masterpieces people never talk about...
If I should make a selection from the past to now, I would advise you to listen to :
- Can't get it out of my head (1974)
- Eldorado (1974)
- Nobody's child (1974)
- Night rider (1975)
- Sweet talking woman (1977)
- Night In The City (1977)
- Starlight (1977)
- Big wheels (1977)
- Shine a Little Love (1979)
- The Diary of Horace Wimp (1979)
- Last train to London (1979)
- Rain Is Falling (1981)
- Here is the news (1981)
- Take Me On and On (1983)
- Stranger (1983)
- Alright (2001)
- Moment in Paradise (2001)
- It Really Doesn't Matter (2001)
- A Long Time Gone (2001)
Truly a wonderful elo song. Thank you for your analysis.
Watch him sing it live at Wembley Stadium AMAZING
I watch that video a lot when I'm having a bad day. It turns my mood right around!
Amy the thing I think we all like about your videos is how they recall for we viewers the effect of hearing these things for the first time ourselves - I was 7 or so years old in the 70s when I first heard Telephone Line on a very basic red "record player in a box" and, alongside things like Bohemian Rhapsody, Art for Art's Sake (10CC), The Devil Went Down to Georgia (Charlie Daniels Band) and Wuthering Heights (Kate Bush) it felt truly magical - more accessible as a child than classical music, but still with some of those subtleties and thematic developments in the music that is informed by classical music but lost in much of standard rock and pop music. Jeff Lynn was a real master of that even though he also loved tub thumping rock and roll too.
May I strongly recommend that you consider something from 10CC, Kate Bush and The Moody Blues for your upcoming videos - in view of what you've listened to so far I'm certain you won't be disappointed.
As someone has said before about you, come to the UK and we'll make you a National Treasure (bring Rick Beato too!)
Your innocent breakdown of the song is absolutely charming. Not sure if you are in the 20th Century!, but it doesn't matter. It's a classical viewpoint and a classical viewpoint is very different. It's a very brave interpretation that I'm not sure was ever there. But I love your innocent approach., far braver than any review I'd give. Kudos to you for being so brave in giving your opinion, it's valid, and interesting and not condescending. Great review! more power to your elbow. Such an open review from a classical viewpoint. I love it from a different viewpoint.