re: Been on an ELO kick all day

Love ELO.

At my last job, I was the only person in the building for the first 4 hours of the day and the building was locked because business hours weren't utnil that later time. So I would throw on an album while starting my work. I don't like SUPER early ELO that much, nor much of discovery onward, but I would slap wear out On the third day, eldorado, FTM, NWW, and OOTB on a weekly basis. So many awesome songs that didn't get the radio play that their others did.

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I don't like SUPER early ELO that much,



And I think its their best stuff.

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Yep, they were getting pretty dodgey with Out of the Blue, and it was over then, as far as I´m concerned.

I was listening to The Move- Message from the Country today in the car. The Move, of course, was the band Jeff Lynne joined a few years before ELO with the expressed purpose of eventually forming an ELO type band with Roy Wood. They only made the one ELO record together (No Answer), before Roy Wood left. Probably best for all involved, too much talent between the two, one had to leave. ELO II started the band most know today because with that album they became solely Jeff Lynne's band. Actually, ELO II is a very good album. Some long songs & their first hit in America (Roll over Beethoven). You could tell from II that Jeff Lynne was onto something big and yes, by their 3rd album, 'On the Third Day' they became the band that started their run of greatness.

Jeff Lynne was/is a very underrated song writer and musician.