[Music] ELO Lovers what is your favourite song ?

[Dave the OAP]

Showdown

 

[OzMike]

Midnight Blue.

 

[chip]

 

[alanfp]

Standing in the Rain
Across the Border

Both from Out of the Blue but I don't think that either of them were singles

 

[marlowe]

Very difficult to pick one over others, but if I really had to I would choose Mr Blue Sky because I have it as my feel good song.

I never really used to be into ELO or this song particularly but when I hear it now it really does actually lift my spirits

 

[B-right-on]

Very difficult to pick one over others, but if I really had to I would choose Mr Blue Sky because I have it as my feel good song.

This.

I remember Jeff Lynne being interviewed years ago talking about writing the song. He said it had been raining for ages and then suddenly the sun broke through and the sky turned blue. It inspired him to write the song and he banged it out in some ridiculously short time (can't remember how long). Always added a bit extra to the song for me, that image along with the words.

What a talented bloke he is. Can't believe that it's 47 years ago it was released. Mad.

 

[Han Solo]

Not a big ELO fan but as a funk/disco fan I've always liked this one:

 

[Man of Harveys]

This. But they’re all great. Love ‘em.

 

[Randy McNob]

Enola Gay

My ex wife was Japanese and she liked that song but didn't realise what Enola Gay referred to. I didn't tell her

 

[Man of Harveys]

If anyone’s interested this is a fine review of the great man’s Hyde Park show a few years back:

The Jesus Of Uncool Is Risen: ELO Live, By Simon Price | The Quietus

Of all the mythic heroes rock & roll has thrown up, the lead singer of the Electric Light Orchestra may, on the face of it, seem an unlikely candidate to adopt as a role model. Nevertheless, when I was a child and I imagined myself as a grown-up, Jeff Lynne was the grown-up I imagined […]

thequietus.com

 

[Charlie Blackdown]

So many great tunes.. I am with Mr Solo though can’t beat Last train to London for busting out some moves on the dance floor.

 

[MTSeagulls]

 

[Uh_huh_him]

They never really registered much on my radar.
I had always assumed they were some kind of Supergroup, like the Travelling Wilburys, that got together for an album once in a while.
Were they actually a band in their own right?

Seem to remember one of the band members was the Uncle of Miles Hunt from the Wonderstuff.

 

[GrossTurn]

Tightrope is a belting way to open an album:

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

They never really registered much on my radar.
I had always assumed they were some kind of Supergroup, like the Travelling Wilburys, that got together for an album once in a while.
Were they actually a band in their own right?

Seem to remember one of the band members was the Uncle of Miles Hunt from the Wonderstuff.

9 top 10 albums and 26 top 40 singles

 

[banjo]

 

[GrossTurn]

This was my second choice.

 

[dazzer6666]

This.

I remember Jeff Lynne being interviewed years ago talking about writing the song. He said it had been raining for ages and then suddenly the sun broke through and the sky turned blue. It inspired him to write the song and he banged it out in some ridiculously short time (can't remember how long). Always added a bit extra to the song for me, that image along with the words.

What a talented bloke he is. Can't believe that it's 47 years ago it was released. Mad.

 

[dazzer6666]

These are a good documentary

 

[Cheshire]

10538 Overture, with the brilliant Roy Wood.

10538 Overture the one that started it all. But so many good songs including the more obscure ones.