"Standing In the the Rain" is one of four magnificent compositions that together comprise "Concerto for a Rainy Day" that should be listened as one continuum... Will blow your mind. A superb reaction gents. 👍😊
Great to see your reaction. Such a shame you didn't carry on for the whole concerto for a rainy day - has to be played as a suite. Standin' in the Rain flows into the sublime Big Wheels - an incredible transition - then Summer and Lightning takes you to Mr Blue Sky. As good as the ending to Mr Blue Sky is - it reaches another dimension when you arrive after the journey of the entire Concerto. Thanks for the reaction.
Jeff Lynne is simply a humble genius. Check out the super group, The Traveling Wilburys. Members are Jeff Lynne (ELO), George Harrison (Beatles), Bob Dylan, Tom Petty (Heartbreakers), Roy Orbison. These musicians are considered legends in their own right. Sadly, the only two remaining with us on this earth are Jeff Lynne and Bob Dylan. Check out their songs, "Handle With Care" and "End of the Line".
I’ll stick my neck out here guys out of the blue is up there with pet sounds and sgt. peppers Concerto for a rainy day is 19 mins of pure joy, keep reacting to ELO guys, peace and love from the 🇬🇧🇬🇧
This son is the start of Rainy day Concerto, so there are 3 songs more to be considered after this one as an only piace. If you don't, please listen all the four songs of the side of the record. Cheers!
You guys have now heard half of Concerto for a Rainy Day - this being the opener, Blue Sky the last. In the middle is 'Big Wheels" then 'Summer & Lightning' & you're done!
I bought Out Of The Blue just after it came out as a double vinyl album. About a year later I had to buy it again as I had worn out side 3 "Concerto For A Rainy Day" as I was constantly playing it. It is a brilliant four/five track piece of music. I say five piece because the opening overture before Standing In The Rain should have its own listing among the tracks.
The whole Concerto, that side, is one story. Metaphors, blue, rain, sun, feelings. We put it on with headphones, get wine, and have an "ELO coma." The spaceship is actually a speaker from an old jukebox turned into a spaceship. Jeff taped the rain sounds from a window. Louis Clark did the orchestrations for the strings on this and other ELO songs. RIP Louis.
Lynne was born in Erdington, Birmingham[citation needed] to Nancy and Philip Lynne and grew up in Shard End, Birmingham, England, where he attended Alderlea Boys' Secondary School.[3] As a native of Birmingham he still has his Brummie accent.[4] His father bought him his first guitar, an acoustic instrument, for £2.[5] He was still playing it in 2012.[5] In 1963 he formed a group with Robert Reader and David Walsh using little more than Spanish guitars and cheap electrical instruments. They were originally named the Rockin' Hellcats, then the Handicaps and finally the Andicaps. They practised at Shard End Community Centre and performed weekly.
If you have ever been ghosted by a girl,listen to this one,LOL...."Telephone Line"....it was released in 1976,they did a live performance in 2017,I know you guys love string's,you'll see how they mix the orchestra with there music!...in the live Wemberly Stadium concert in 2017!
My all-time favorite group. Please check out "Night in the City" from OUT OF THE BLUE. It's one of their most underrated songs. You'll LOVE it, I promise!!!!
This is part 1 of a four part "concierto" called Concierto for a Rainy Day. The second part is Big Wheel, the third part is titled Summer and Lightning and it ends with Mr Blue Sky. You need to listen to all four parts together.
Jeff Lynn is such a talented musician and singer. He was heavily influenced by The Beatles back in the day. He actually finished, (along with Dhani Harrison), former Beatle George Harrison's final album after his passing in 2001. Such a cool dude! THANKS BOYZ !☮
"Shangri-la", is a *great* song to hit next! That commenter, Richard Smith, who recommended it last time knows the score. Most ELO fans rate it higher than, "Standin' In The Rain", and on par with, "Tightrope". It's a more mellow vibe than those 2 songs, but is exquisitely beautiful. Here is the link: *"Shangri-la"* by ELO, the last song on their 1976 album, A New World Record: ruclips.net/video/gRZnw6GPe8o/видео.html
@@kaledmasterme We're talking about songs, not albums. Unless you mean Eldorado's title track (which I doubt, as it is not a song suitable for reaction without having heard the rest of the album first).
@@Cosmo-Kramer - you'll have to post again on Shangri-La because RUclips ate your whole thread while I was trying to post another reply to it! Sorry, mate. It only happens to the best of us.
Just discovered your channel and subscribed. Glad you're enjoying ELO - they filled the void in 1970 created by The Beatles breaking up and John Lennon even called them "son of Beatles", so Dad was absolutely on the money in your Mr Blue Sky reaction. Tightrope is one of my favourites, it's the opening track on A New World Record - that album was recorded in Munich, Germany during the 1976 Olympic Games there, and keyboardist Richard Tandy came up with the album title. It was the first album to use the Wurlitzer jukebox inspired ELO roundel on the cover, and a Japanese artist turned it into a space station on the next album cover, Out Of The Blue - both album covers were designed by English art director John Kosh, and the space station was drawn by Shusei Nagaoka, with the shuttle plane inspired by the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. The closing track on A New World Record is Shangri-La, it's been recommended to you before as the best ever outro, and I thoroughly endorse that recommendtion. It even references The Beatles' Hey Jude in the lyrics. Got to be your next trip down the ELO road? Greetings from the city of Birmingham in England, the home of The Move - which became ELO in 1970, The Moody Blues, Black Sabbath and Duran Duran. Best wishes on your continued journey into the best music all over the world.
ELO did a soundtrack. Side two of Xanadu. ONJ did side one. The album was my very first rock album and is one of my favorites. ELO songs “I’m Alive and The Fall” are favorites to this day and rarely heard of or reviewed.
Jeff wrote this while spending some time in Switzerland & it just wouldn't stop raining. You mention Beethoven at the end, find ELO's version of Roll Over Beethoven & then Rockaria
Jeff went to the school where may Dad was music teacher. He joined the school choir (which my Dad ran) apparently to avoid normal lessons. While I do still dream that my Dad had some influence on him, it was Jeff's Dad who taught him about harmony by singing notes into a big pipe on a building site (a story Jeff often tells). Jeff apparently left school at the earliest opportinuty, as far as I'm aware, without any qualifications - but who needs them when you have his kind of talent!
Hi guys, great reaction. If you're so into ELO's strings, you shouldn't miss Eldorado, the title track off the album of the same name segueing effortlessly into Eldorado Finale.
Jeff has a documentary about him released a couple years ago. It’s Mr. Blue Sky: The Story Of Jeff Lynne And ELO. RUclips has parts of it you can watch.
It's definitely worth watching. It's very good and features Jeff singing some of his favorite songs with just an acoustic guitar and Richard Tandy on the piano.
Not quite the same but do check out the films related to the Beatles, A Hard Days Night, Help and the recent film Yesterday (2019). Let It Be was the Beatles' final major feature film. Directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, it is a documentary film that documents the group rehearsing and recording songs for their twelfth and final studio album Let It Be. It was shot over a four-week period in January 1969, and includes an unannounced rooftop concert by the group, which was their last public performance. The documentary - originally intended to be a chronicle of the evolution of an album and the band's possible return to live performances - captured the prevailing tensions between the band members, which would ultimately lead to their break-up.
Well Xanadu is as close as it comes to doing a whole movie soundtrack. A whole half of the album are ELO songs. Besides Xanadu, I’m Alive and All Over the World were also hits off that album soundtrack and fantastic songs. He also had 2 songs in Electric Dreams with Jeff as a solo artist.
"ELO always makes you feel good!", I guess you've not heard "Telephone Line", "Don't Walk Away" and "Getting to the Point"; breakup songs at their best
@@linus98765 Agree, Prologue/Twilight would be a fantastic choice! I'm putting in a vote for Shangri-La, and Can't Get it Out of My Head as future options, as well. Thanks guys, for the ELO love 💕 Btw, you're right, he does. Above the Clouds! 😄
I think it’s fair to say that Louis Clark should take a lot of credit for the arrangements during this period of ELO. Jeff was inspired during this album and this period in general, but without Louis, it is definitely less good.
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So glad to see ELO and Jeff Lynne being recognized and appreciated by modern audiences.
I’ve been listening to this album since its debut in the 1970’s . My favorite album of all time. My favorite band of all time. True.
ELO showed just how awesome it can be when you use a full orchestra in a pop song.
"Standing In the the Rain" is one of four magnificent compositions that together comprise "Concerto for a Rainy Day" that should be listened as one continuum... Will blow your mind. A superb reaction gents. 👍😊
Couldn't agree more.Do the full concerto it will blow your mind.
Best four songs on the album I think but the album is a masterpiece
A masterpiece
The best side three of an album ever❤
Great to see your reaction. Such a shame you didn't carry on for the whole concerto for a rainy day - has to be played as a suite. Standin' in the Rain flows into the sublime Big Wheels - an incredible transition - then Summer and Lightning takes you to Mr Blue Sky. As good as the ending to Mr Blue Sky is - it reaches another dimension when you arrive after the journey of the entire Concerto.
Thanks for the reaction.
Loving the young dude just “getting it”!
This is my favorite ELO tune all time. Glad you both are appreciating it.
Jeff Lynne is simply a humble genius. Check out the super group, The Traveling Wilburys. Members are Jeff Lynne (ELO), George Harrison (Beatles), Bob Dylan, Tom Petty (Heartbreakers), Roy Orbison. These musicians are considered legends in their own right. Sadly, the only two remaining with us on this earth are Jeff Lynne and Bob Dylan. Check out their songs, "Handle With Care" and "End of the Line".
I’ll stick my neck out here guys out of the blue is up there with pet sounds and sgt. peppers
Concerto for a rainy day is 19 mins of pure joy, keep reacting to ELO guys, peace and love from the 🇬🇧🇬🇧
This song was part of the Concerto for a Rainy Day a four track trip through Jeff's genius
This son is the start of Rainy day Concerto, so there are 3 songs more to be considered after this one as an only piace. If you don't, please listen all the four songs of the side of the record. Cheers!
I've listened to this song off and on for over 40 years and yall have brought newness to my mind! Great reaction video! 😎 👍 👏! ❤️
Pure ELO! Next: "Big Wheels". Masterful.
You guys have now heard half of Concerto for a Rainy Day - this being the opener, Blue Sky the last. In the middle is 'Big Wheels" then 'Summer & Lightning' & you're done!
Obra maestra de esos genios llamados Lynne & Clark.
I agree listen to the whole Concerto for a Rainy Day in one listen. Out of the Blue as a whole is one GREAT album!
I bought Out Of The Blue just after it came out as a double vinyl album. About a year later I had to buy it again as I had worn out side 3 "Concerto For A Rainy Day" as I was constantly playing it.
It is a brilliant four/five track piece of music.
I say five piece because the opening overture before Standing In The Rain should have its own listing among the tracks.
Classic. That entire album is a masterpiece
The whole Concerto, that side, is one story. Metaphors, blue, rain, sun, feelings. We put it on with headphones, get wine, and have an "ELO coma." The spaceship is actually a speaker from an old jukebox turned into a spaceship. Jeff taped the rain sounds from a window. Louis Clark did the orchestrations for the strings on this and other ELO songs. RIP Louis.
How can you fell so wet and miserable and fed up while being just so darn happy at the same time, thats Jeff's magic.
Thank you for making my Sat afternoon, love Elo, love from Darlington uk x
There concerts were crazy with the best light show! The best of ELO you miss so much!
Jeffs favourite word is BLUE he uses it in so many of his songs
All of ELO is incredible!
Try "Big Wheels" next. It's the song after "Standin' in the Rain" and is absolutely gorgeous.
Yes, Big weels is like the other piece of the puzzle
8:23 Jeff's afro is secretly hiding that big music brain of his 🤣
Lynne was born in Erdington, Birmingham[citation needed] to Nancy and Philip Lynne and grew up in Shard End, Birmingham, England, where he attended Alderlea Boys' Secondary School.[3] As a native of Birmingham he still has his Brummie accent.[4] His father bought him his first guitar, an acoustic instrument, for £2.[5] He was still playing it in 2012.[5] In 1963 he formed a group with Robert Reader and David Walsh using little more than Spanish guitars and cheap electrical instruments. They were originally named the Rockin' Hellcats, then the Handicaps and finally the Andicaps. They practised at Shard End Community Centre and performed weekly.
Can i make a suggestion?
The ELO single no one ever reacts to. It's called Nightrider. The album it came from is Face The Music
If you have ever been ghosted by a girl,listen to this one,LOL...."Telephone Line"....it was released in 1976,they did a live performance in 2017,I know you guys love string's,you'll see how they mix the orchestra with there music!...in the live Wemberly Stadium concert in 2017!
ruclips.net/video/XKElk9zTB04/видео.html
My all-time favorite group. Please check out "Night in the City" from OUT OF THE BLUE. It's one of their most underrated songs. You'll LOVE it, I promise!!!!
This is part 1 of a four part "concierto" called Concierto for a Rainy Day. The second part is Big Wheel, the third part is titled Summer and Lightning and it ends with Mr Blue Sky. You need to listen to all four parts together.
My favorite vinyl album of all times. Especially this disc 2 A side .
I used to sing ELO songs to my kids while they were in their mother. Now they love the group.
I did that too
, plus Nina Simone. They now love both of them & many other kinds of great music 😊
Jeff Lynn is such a talented musician and singer. He was heavily influenced by The Beatles back in the day. He actually finished, (along with Dhani Harrison), former Beatle George Harrison's final album after his passing in 2001. Such a cool dude! THANKS BOYZ !☮
On their first album, they did a Roll Over Beethoven homage, they are remnants of the 60's group The Move. Check all ELO out.
Bev bevan had a spell drumming for black sabbath tour 1984.
Also check out fire on high from Elos face the music album
"Shangri-la", is a *great* song to hit next! That commenter, Richard Smith, who recommended it last time knows the score. Most ELO fans rate it higher than, "Standin' In The Rain", and on par with, "Tightrope". It's a more mellow vibe than those 2 songs, but is exquisitely beautiful. Here is the link:
*"Shangri-la"* by ELO, the last song on their 1976 album, A New World Record: ruclips.net/video/gRZnw6GPe8o/видео.html
Shangri-La might be my favorite ELO song of them all
@@michaelriffee4526 It's in my Top 5, for sure!
Eldorado is up there for sure
@@kaledmasterme We're talking about songs, not albums. Unless you mean Eldorado's title track (which I doubt, as it is not a song suitable for reaction without having heard the rest of the album first).
@@Cosmo-Kramer - you'll have to post again on Shangri-La because RUclips ate your whole thread while I was trying to post another reply to it! Sorry, mate. It only happens to the best of us.
Brilliant guys ❤
Just discovered your channel and subscribed. Glad you're enjoying ELO - they filled the void in 1970 created by The Beatles breaking up and John Lennon even called them "son of Beatles", so Dad was absolutely on the money in your Mr Blue Sky reaction.
Tightrope is one of my favourites, it's the opening track on A New World Record - that album was recorded in Munich, Germany during the 1976 Olympic Games there, and keyboardist Richard Tandy came up with the album title. It was the first album to use the Wurlitzer jukebox inspired ELO roundel on the cover, and a Japanese artist turned it into a space station on the next album cover, Out Of The Blue - both album covers were designed by English art director John Kosh, and the space station was drawn by Shusei Nagaoka, with the shuttle plane inspired by the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The closing track on A New World Record is Shangri-La, it's been recommended to you before as the best ever outro, and I thoroughly endorse that recommendtion. It even references The Beatles' Hey Jude in the lyrics. Got to be your next trip down the ELO road?
Greetings from the city of Birmingham in England, the home of The Move - which became ELO in 1970, The Moody Blues, Black Sabbath and Duran Duran. Best wishes on your continued journey into the best music all over the world.
you both get it....great review
ELO did a soundtrack. Side two of Xanadu. ONJ did side one. The album was my very first rock album and is one of my favorites. ELO songs “I’m Alive and The Fall” are favorites to this day and rarely heard of or reviewed.
Jungle is crazy
Jeff wrote this while spending some time in Switzerland & it just wouldn't stop raining. You mention Beethoven at the end, find ELO's version of Roll Over Beethoven & then Rockaria
Jeff went to the school where may Dad was music teacher. He joined the school choir (which my Dad ran) apparently to avoid normal lessons. While I do still dream that my Dad had some influence on him, it was Jeff's Dad who taught him about harmony by singing notes into a big pipe on a building site (a story Jeff often tells).
Jeff apparently left school at the earliest opportinuty, as far as I'm aware, without any qualifications - but who needs them when you have his kind of talent!
Great reaction!
Standing in the rain through Mr. Blue Sky. It's a concerto about weather
I just added the link to our Mr Blue Sky Reaction - That was the start of our ELO journey! ruclips.net/video/kU6BI-VgSjQ/видео.html
Hi guys, great reaction. If you're so into ELO's strings, you shouldn't miss Eldorado, the title track off the album of the same name segueing effortlessly into Eldorado Finale.
Excellent reaction, fellas. I grew up on a diet of ELO.
Remember: "Night in the City"!!!
You guys are hilarious!
Listen to the rest of "Concerto for a Rainy Day." You'll love it! "Big Wheels" is one of my favorite songs.
ELO did do a movie soundtrack - XANADU
If you guys go down the ELO rabbit hole you’ll loose yourselves it’s very deep and fantastic
You described it perfectly @7:15💥
I saw this live at Wembley stadium 2017
Rest assured this song will NEVER be remade by anyone.....Don t know how it would be possible!
Yes. There is a song about clouds! Short and sweet. "Above The Clouds".
You say you're sure Jeff has written a song about clouds...you are spot on.Check out "above the clouds" on the album "A new world record"
Jeff has a documentary about him released a couple years ago. It’s Mr. Blue Sky: The Story Of Jeff Lynne And ELO. RUclips has parts of it you can watch.
It's definitely worth watching. It's very good and features Jeff singing some of his favorite songs with just an acoustic guitar and Richard Tandy on the piano.
Next in your ELO journey, I'd love you to go back to their first album and take a listen to 10538 Overture that will surely blow your mind.
"Mr. Blue Sky" " The Story ofJeff Lynne is a video from I think the BBC . It is amazing video. It is available on RUclips.
Across the border is one of my favs
The drums at the end...!
Not quite the same but do check out the films related to the Beatles, A Hard Days Night, Help and the recent film Yesterday (2019).
Let It Be was the Beatles' final major feature film. Directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, it is a documentary film that documents the group rehearsing and recording songs for their twelfth and final studio album Let It Be. It was shot over a four-week period in January 1969, and includes an unannounced rooftop concert by the group, which was their last public performance. The documentary - originally intended to be a chronicle of the evolution of an album and the band's possible return to live performances - captured the prevailing tensions between the band members, which would ultimately lead to their break-up.
Jeff Lynn is a genius ❤❤❤
Well Xanadu is as close as it comes to doing a whole movie soundtrack. A whole half of the album are ELO songs. Besides Xanadu, I’m Alive and All Over the World were also hits off that album soundtrack and fantastic songs.
He also had 2 songs in Electric Dreams with Jeff as a solo artist.
elo also had some songs on movie soundtrack 'electric dreams'
He has a song about clouds. Above the clouds fron New World Record You've got to react to it!
10:08 that would be ‘Above the Clouds’ ;)
"ELO always makes you feel good!", I guess you've not heard "Telephone Line", "Don't Walk Away" and "Getting to the Point"; breakup songs at their best
all from Eldorado album and dont walk away
you want some classic ELO, then check out, in the hall of the mountain king, now thats classical.
go take a listen to, Fire on high, now that will blow your mind into another realm.
the album was written in a month, the arrangements were arranged by, loui clarke,
What should the next ELO reaction be?
Definitely do "Prologue+Twilight" next off ELO's Time album.
@@linus98765 Agree, Prologue/Twilight would be a fantastic choice! I'm putting in a vote for Shangri-La, and Can't Get it Out of My Head as future options, as well. Thanks guys, for the ELO love 💕
Btw, you're right, he does. Above the Clouds! 😄
Fire on high.
Xanadu was ELO’S only ever number 1 song in the charts
Big wheels ,clouds is track 2 ,summer and lightning track 3 then Mr blue sky
check out summer and lightening , from same album
Give The Diary of Horace Wimp a listen , different but a feel good sweet song 🎵
RUclips has The Story of ELO
ELO foreeeeevvvveeeerrrr
I think it’s fair to say that Louis Clark should take a lot of credit for the arrangements during this period of ELO. Jeff was inspired during this album and this period in general, but without Louis, it is definitely less good.
Watch the video by Jeff Lynne, “When I Was a Boy”. It’s about him.
JEFF LYNNE:GENIUS.AS GREAT AS LENNON/McCARTNEY.
If you played this for Beethoven no reaction from him. He was deaf.😅
Do ELO's "Prologue+Twilight" next. ruclips.net/video/tqNHb3BFwIM/видео.html
Couldn't agree more!
Jeff Lynn=Virtuoso
Listen to big wheels
DON’T INTERRUPT THE SONG!
React to carry on till tomorrow by bad finger it’s a good song
You gotta listen to I'M ALIVE"! It is off the Xanadu soundtrack
ruclips.net/video/xda2RU_SWNY/видео.html
Wow, reaction channels really are just the latest low-effort welfare for basketball Americans. Really bottom-of-the-barrel "content".