Electric Light Orchestra: "Telephone Line" - Vinyl Friday #60
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
- Welcome to our second week of an ELO-extravaganza! This time we're deep diving into what may be my favourite Electric Light Orchestral piece.
In this episode: we visit musical moments in Jeff Lynne's childhood, dance interpretively with our hands, demonstrate exactly why George Harrison got sued, and learn the acoustic properties of the humble telephone!
Special thanks to @DavidBennettPiano for sharing his extensive knowledge of uncomfortable chords, and to my friend Stephen for lending his teaching skills to this week's episode!
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Thanks for the shout out! 😊
Thanks for breaking the stigma around diminished chords! 😆
Hi David. I'm subscribed to your channel and it was nice to see you featured here. Keep up the fantastic work.
I think your videos are some of the best RUclips. You have a great presence and you are very well schooled in the subject of music which makes it a pleasure to watch and learn. Nice one and thanks for the highly entertaining Videos .
I did it again. I went to post a long winded comment... and it disappeared.
I will just say that you made so many great points about so many wonderful parts of this excellent song. I loved all 23 minutes and 41 seconds of it. Love how you are so affected by the song - the chords - the vocals - the strings... Your descriptions of the specific things you love - are so well worded. It is so much fun to watch you enjoy it... and hear exactly why this part moves you... and that part brings you so much joy. The way you use your hands to describe some part of the song like the vocals or the strings (something you do often and expertly) makes me think it would be great fun to watch you conduct an orchestra.
Probably the best part for me (18:58 - 19:55) was your amazing description of how much you love Jeff's vocal on the third part of the song. Beautifully said I agree completely with how much this part grabs your heartstrings. That vocal part is so special. But I also love the little descending string part that comes between "I'll just sit tight" and "through shadows of the night". Then you add in that "Maybe not all day" as some comic relief. Pure Fathom.
And this part (20:40 - 21:33) was another highlight - as you gave us your in depth reasons as to why "this song is a master class in evoking a mood". Your thoughts and insights are delivered so expertly... and it is all so entertaining.
You leave us with this nugget... "All together this song leaves you with a strong and complex set of emotions to be dealing with. He's moved on to the next song - and you're busy disentangling your past relationship."
"Call Me Back Again" McCartney 1975
There are lots of reactors who explain how songs have the effect on us they do. But you're the only one who is intelligible to those of us who know nothing of the language and technicalities of music. Because you avoid jargon and often demonstrate physically what you mean, you get through to us the full extent of what the composer is doing. You've become the only music dissector that I listen to and I just wish I'd discovered you sooner. Thank you.
Thank you for that, I appreciate it! Glad you're here. :)
This my favourite ELO song. It is so beautiful and quite affecting as you say. I inherited a copy of that ELO Greatest Hits you have. Unfortunately, it's not in the best condition, but I'll always keep it.
Answering Machine by The Replacements is a good phone song.
Very cool! One silver lining to being unwell is I have time to watch RUclips haha. Love these analyses you do. And a really awesome song.
Thank you, and get well soon :)
Another Kinks telephone song: Long Distance & a failed telephone conversation in the Beatles You Won't see me.
Mr Telephone Man New Edition!
You have a gift for appreciation that makes me appreciate all that much more. Thank you.
Thank you very much, this made my day. 😊
Fathom, can we find your music on one of the streaming services ?@@fathommusicnz
Another sublime analysis. ELO sends me on Pink Floyd tangents - would love to know the connection: 1. Compressed range on intro to Wish You Were Here + telephone intro to Young Lust ... and 2. The signature Jeff Lynne vocal melody (by Roy Harper?) on Have A Cigar .. "We call it riding the gravy trai-------ay--ah----ayayahhhh(n)." Practically identical to ELO's Eldorado. My brain hurts!
Memphis Tennessee by Chuck Berry is another great old telephone song.
That's the one which immediately sprang to mind for me as well - it's the earliest one I can think of
Another telephone song: "I tried to telephone. They said you were not home. No reply."
Here's a left-field example: I believe that Laurie Anderson's surreal hit O Superman is largely a telephone conversation with someone who sounds like her mother but isn't. "And I said, Who is this really?" Is one of the eeriest lines in a song for me
I hope you do a Vinyl Friday for “Can’t Get it Out of My Head” by ELO.
bless the telephone by labi siffre can be added to the SOTTECU (songs on the telephone extended cinematic universe)
I can't tell you how much I love that dear old Labi has made the list.
Great episode.
Regarding telephone songs, two I can think of are: LOU REED "New York Telephone Conversation" and THE REPLACEMENTS "Answering Machine". I'm sure there are dozens more.
Chuck Berry: "Memphis, Tennessee,"
Glenn Miller: "Pennsylvania 6-5000,"
Pink Floyd: "Nobody home,"
The Nerves (later covered by Blondie): "Hanging on the telephone,"
Blondie: "Call me,"
Labi Sifre: "Bless the telephone,"
There you go 🙂@@jonathanbrowne7213
Some top-notch picks here!
here's two more phone songs to theoretically submit for the montage! Operator by the Grateful Dead and 5-7-0-5 by some 70s group I'm not sure who
Dr Hook - Sylvia’s Mother
Oh, good one! I can't believe I didn't think of it.
Lionel Ritche Hello…
iv'e discovered that i do have a fav on this album. livin' thing. the opening to telephone line promises maybe a more emotive song than the one we get. ELO sometimes feels like the carpenters in that the arrangement is the star of the show: but then the carpenters had Karen. joni mitchell excels at layering her own voice with choir effects behind the main vocal line.
i've sneaked the days of pearly spencer by david McWilliams into the game about telephone themed songs. there is a telephone in the video and the voice compresses in the chorus to get that end of the line thing. it's a good one hit wonder single (might be doing him a disservice). i mean it depends on if you are going to apply your vinyl friday rules very strictly or just allow me to play like a good sport!
I don't know if you plan to return to the album: i think the most iconic of the greatest hits might be mr blue sky.
Alan - I have to disagree with your take that "the opening to telephone line promises maybe a more emotive song than the one we get." This song hit me hard when it was out... and it can still make me cry today. There was a reason that this song was the one that became their best charting single in the US through 1978 and was their first song to become a #1 song (in Canada and Ireland).
@@aBeatleFan4ever i know that you make well considered comments and they are a massive band.
there is a signification of emotion for me which isn't quite the same thing as a transmitted raw emotion. one of my consistent responses to their music is that i'm listening to a very talented producer and arranger. that something maybe gets more and more complicated when it could do with a little distillation. my take on his voice is that he really wants to be John Lennon: compare the track we're talking about to Lennon's performance eg. on don't let me down. i'd also point out that what I was saying about the carpenter's (trying to!) was that the real nuts and bolts of communication there was Karen's voice.
it's 4:30 in the morning here. you're talking to a disconnected man! ( but not 4ever eh?).
@@alanclayton9277 - All I am saying - is that we see the song quite differently. It hits me in the feels very strongly... and I'm sure Nancy feels the same. It's fine that you do not connect with it the same way. As George Martin would say... "Horses for courses".
@@aBeatleFan4everdon't know if you'll remember the person we had a bit of a ding dong with regarding Paul McCartney as a lyricist? they've resurfaced on another comments page. I seem to remember them demanding respect. Well surprise surprise they can't summon respect for others clearly. I'm awaiting a reply. we'll see.
And New Zealand! To quote the Jeff Lynne Song Database, "In addition, Telephone Line was a monster hit in New Zealand, sitting in the #1 spot for six weeks from September 24 to November 5, 1977."
This one is a bit of a cheat: there is an untitled early They Might Be Giants track which is a literal telephone conversation - two confused New Yorkers who had left a message on their answering machine. Though calling it a song would be a bit of a stretch
Jeff lynne is god!
Blondie?
Yep! Two big Blondie hits about telephones - Call Me and Hanging On The Telephone
Love this song for all the reasons you went through - thanks for such a fun video! Subscribed. BTW, XTC is my favorite band, full stop. So, nice shirt!
Here's another phone song, courtesy of C. Berry:
ruclips.net/video/w5ezeUM6c74/видео.html