As a loyal ELO fan for 37 years it is amazing how the older albums just get better and better with time. I used to overlook these albums when playing my albums but my goodness how these are masterpieces The suite at 3:33 is beautiful
Well, maybe it's like with old wines...they tend to mature. On the other hand, haven't you heard the intro before somewhere? Seems to me some snippets of other music are inserted here and there.
A lot of people say they don't like the later albums. I have one word for you all...eclectic. This band has done it all and the world loved it, As do I. from the early Progressive and experimental music that everyone pays homage to today to the soft meaningful songs and the very painful and surreal music. this is one of the greatest bands in rock history
The great Jeff Lynne is still with US and will do a major US and European Tour in 2018... Let's enjoy his greatness while he is still alive....Jeff Lynne is the most talented Music God ever. He will be 71 in 2018 and his voice is Gold. All his live concerts sound as good if not better than the original recordings...Not many bands and musicians can match that. Just have a listen from Jeff Lynne's ELO at Wembley Stadium June 24 2017... Can't wait to see Jeff Lynne's ELO on the 2018 Europe and North American Tour
Jeff Lynne is a Genius.... That might be too easy to say. No words can describe how creative and versatile this Musician, Singer, Songwriter, Composer and fantastic Producer is. No one is allowed to have so much talent! Long Live Jeff Lynne!
I have been a fan of this legendary band since I was 14 44 years ago. I loved the newer albums (Eldorado, Face the Music, A New World Record any my all time favorite Out of the Blue. When Jeff dumped the strings I became disenchanted. But the lyrical genius just kept on writing masterpieces. I discovered the first three albums in college and WOW the strings are surreal and I came to like the last three albums after college. The greatest band in the world
Toda la ELO son super-instrumentistas. Bev Bevan en batería super!! Bevan tiene una particularidad en golpes en batería, ese remate multiple de bateria en varios momentos, estilo que lo adopto el bateriaJohn Bogham de Led Zeppelin, ya que ambos ensayaban juntos en casa de Bevan .,los autores de cuerdas supers!! Richard Tandy que venía de tocar el bajo, lo ubicaron en teclados y synth y es espectacular su dominio en esos instrumentos.
It's really is interesting how so many people comment on how they didn't like the early ELO music when they were younger and now have an entirely different opinion years later. I feel exactly the same way. The older stuff really speaks to me now. If only radio stations would play THIS stuff!
.I prefered the old stuff and still do 50 years later. I like some of their later albums, especially Face The Music, but they completely lost me after A New World Record.
How good is this?! ELO has always been so underrated. I love both this early experimental and the overly produced later stuff. It's too bad Roy and Jeff couldn't have put aside their creative differences, because there is something about the blending of their unique talents that was unique. This is wonderful!
Saw these guys outdoors in Phoenix AZ a week before Thanksgiving 1973. My first R n R show. Marvelous experience. Played this, Kiuama, and Roll Over Beethoven from this album. That's all I remember."On the Third Day" had just been released. Never much liked another album by them, but I sure loved this my whole life.
This WHOLE album is so frikken great......i mean tons of chills throughout and Bev Bevans drumming......everything so beautiful and kickin......Roll Over Beethoven in fucking deed !!!!!!!!
I personally have a lot of select sings I dearly do love but I would have to say as I have diligently and very carefully listen with a very fine tuned and exteme ear whole heartedly have one great very best of all ELO'S work and this song has totally stole my heart and soul and it is called I, NEED HER LOVE !!!! OMG HOW VERY TOUCHING VEERY DEEP INSIDE THE HUMAN SOUL !!! GO EXAMINE THIS CAREFULLY FOR YOURSELVES ...👑
Nicely done--this was the first ELO LP I bought, mainly for "Roll Over Beethoven" but this track soon became a favorite as well. Very nice that all these years later Roy Wood got credit for his work on this album.
After the legacy he left us The Beatles, E.L.O. is the only major band that has left traces in the history of music, these issues deserve to be heard._
Beautiful. My first concert at 14 in 1973. War opened for them in Phoenix. Cost $5.25 I think to get in. Sue & Debbie (the older girls) had to panhandle to get all of us in. How I remember this song and Roll Over Beethoven. Now I can't hear this without time-traveling. Lisa too, How I'd listen to this song and look at the sunset and miss you---Me I never liked the new stuff. After the third record--phooey. Too close to pop & disco. Jeff lost his way.
These songs grow and grow on you as you get older. When I bought the ELO2 album it was 1980 and I was listening to Discovery and Out Of The Blue etc. I hated this song and the album it came from. Now I love the early stuff.
This is a great track, with Bill Hunt playing French Horn and trumpet on the track as well. It's a shotgun marriage of baroque classical and boogie-woogie rock and roll.....
In college, this album used to trip me out without the use of mind-altering substances. Ok, perhaps a little "no frills" powdered iced tea. Great music when traveling rainy roads with the system up.
People criticise the production on ELO 2. Certainly it's far from perfect and nowhere near as polished as their later albums but that's what I love about it! I much prefer the raw grinding sound of the cellos to the mpre orchestrated stuff. Get hold of an original UK pressing and turn up the wick on a good vinyl playback system and you'll see what I mean...........
Have loved this tune since the first time I ever heard it as a teenager back in the mid 80's. Needless to say, banging this out on the stereo at that time wasn't exactly fashionable. Just had to do it though. Still doing it now, still loving it!!
@FinnMove Here's what Rob Caiger says about the Boogies: "I think Bill [Hunt] is in there [on the ELO 2 Boogies] somewhere on piano and there's certainly more French horn played on the session, but not included on the final mix. ...The bass parts are all Roy. Colin [Walker] is on the Boogies, From The Sun To The World especially, which has a beautiful orchestral intro featuring the string section and Roy on cello, which sadly wasn't included in the final mix."
This is one of my great favourites of ELO when I came to know the band in late 1970´s. It was originally called Jeff´s boogie no 1. It was played in concert in 1972 in different version. Someone has it ?
Jeff Lynne belongs to an exceptional generation of artists and maybe he's the best english composer of the past century. But to appreciate the music of a genius like Jeff you must have certain acceptable iq else you will ignore it, that's what happens with the new crowds, their minds understand very little about music. Besides, each generation applauds its own artists no matter how good, mediocre or terrible they are.
The same thing is about In Old England Town. The other "boogie". I think the only answer is that the lyrics in the early days of ELO were unommonly poetic and conceptual. They are not to be explained. Believe Me or not. But I guess the lyrics are about the Earth in threat to collapse. Like the work title of the album ELO 2 was "The Lost Planet".
Does anybody else besides me notice alot of elo songs have hidden meaning and secret messages thus the song secret messages lol. I just think they could make a epic movie based off alot of these songs
great composition by a great band that did not got the honer they deserved. i would say timeless, but the song is written to take as long as it takes sunlight to reach Earth. so the light that leaves the Sun with the first note arrives on Earth at the end of the last note. i loved it from the first time i heard it
I heard before in an written statement from Jeff Lynne that he always composed the music and added lyrics afterward. Perhaps in his earlier writing days, he attached some poignant meaning to the words, but in general, he was a musician first, activist far second.
Listen to me sister, I got news from the governor And i heard people shouting from the towers in the city While their babies grow in test tubes over night Run and fetch the priest, 'cause there's a light on in the building And there's sounds blowin' out in the music of the night And we should try to get the people out alive Movin' 'cross the ocean with the flag of death a-flyin' And the demon butcher pointin' out the message on the tide And the demon light a-sailin' by his side Stormin' down the airwaves comes the protest and the prayin' And the love that shone down from the sun to the world No longer could support the life it gave
Well im just royally pissed! I finally got the old school amp that i wanted. I got my huge speakers, the kind with the about 14" woofers that will blow you out of the house, and i got a brand new turntable just like my old one. Now, my amp is fried again. I can listen to all the songs on RUclips, but its not the same as my old components. I have 500 albums just sitting there not being used. DAMMIT.😢
@tevevid It wasn't bad mainstream though. Just poppier melodies. I'd have to say that Out of the Blue is a better record then ELO II even though I love ELO II much more. There's something so haunting and surreal about more frayed and intricate prog, especially when you get that combination of classical, blues and folk like this track.
The best ELO song ever, in my opion. Only their two first records are really good with their second album the best IMO, after that they became rather mainstream.
Could someone please tell me what the main melody of this song is? It seems to me as if it is a traditional Russian (or possibly Jewish) folk song, and it's driving me nuts. If anybody knows, please...
This sort of stuff was the real aim of the ELO ...not Do Ya, Dont Bring Me Down, Hold on Tight etc.... up until New World Record, then the aims changed and the band became lighter in style
I know re Do Ya. I have the recorded version here as a Move single B side..... Think it may have been to "California Man" but would need to check. It wasn't great then and it was later, in my view, a very weak ELO track. I'm very supportive of Jeff's work but think the likes of Louis Clark should be very highly praised for his high grade contributions to the music that made a lot of ELO work so distinctive
@@windymiller6908 hard to disagree..don't really blame Jeff but wish it hadn't been the case ....he also says defrauded of huge sums by which must bring it's own pressures to stick to popular mainstream management etc. I suspect Jeff tired a bit of the orchestral backing style too....
I don´t think Bill Hunt is playing in that slow middle- section. It is moog nearly with 100 %. And that is the only minus in the whole ELO 2 album. I think Jeff should have included real woodwind and brass players. Brilliant music !
As a loyal ELO fan for 37 years it is amazing how the older albums just get better and better with time. I used to overlook these albums when playing my albums but my goodness how these are masterpieces The suite at 3:33 is beautiful
+Randy Greb I whole heartedly agree !
Agreed. I love the whole concept of ELO
Well, maybe it's like with old wines...they tend to mature. On the other hand, haven't you heard the intro before somewhere?
Seems to me some snippets of other music are inserted here and there.
@@RealmoftheBlackShadow I think a lot of this came from Nellie Takes Her Bow. The strings are haunting in both songs
@@coltsnation7816 Any example of that?
A lot of people say they don't like the later albums. I have one word for you all...eclectic. This band has done it all and the world loved it, As do I. from the early Progressive and experimental music that everyone pays homage to today to the soft meaningful songs and the very painful and surreal music. this is one of the greatest bands in rock history
Very well said! Jeff Lynne is very best ever!
The great Jeff Lynne is still with US and will do a major US and European Tour in 2018... Let's enjoy his greatness while he is still alive....Jeff Lynne is the most talented Music God ever. He will be 71 in 2018 and his voice is Gold. All his live concerts sound as good if not better than the original recordings...Not many bands and musicians can match that. Just have a listen from Jeff Lynne's ELO at Wembley Stadium June 24 2017... Can't wait to see Jeff Lynne's ELO on the 2018 Europe and North American Tour
Randy Greb Totally agree
Jeff's later work is pleasant enough, but it doesn't make the hair stand up on my arms like this one...
Randy Greb agree Randy, have been an ELO fan for over 40 years, pure delight
I love early ELO, this track is just brilliant!
Jeff Lynne is a Genius.... That might be too easy to say. No words can describe how creative and versatile this Musician, Singer, Songwriter, Composer and fantastic Producer is. No one is allowed to have so much talent! Long Live Jeff Lynne!
RIP RICHARD TANDY 🙏✝️💞
The sound is so good for a 1972 album. The greatness of Jeff Lynne and ELO.
This song is incredible. The band's early sound was unreal.
Jeff Lynne was 24 when he wrote this Song. Wow.
Truly the best band of all time. And I'm 20!
11 years later I’m still saying this, ELO will never die
Beer for you!
I have been a fan of this legendary band since I was 14 44 years ago. I loved the newer albums (Eldorado, Face the Music, A New World Record any my all time favorite Out of the Blue. When Jeff dumped the strings I became disenchanted. But the lyrical genius just kept on writing masterpieces. I discovered the first three albums in college and WOW the strings are surreal and I came to like the last three albums after college. The greatest band in the world
Toda la ELO son super-instrumentistas. Bev Bevan en batería super!! Bevan tiene una particularidad en golpes en batería, ese remate multiple de bateria en varios momentos, estilo que lo adopto el bateriaJohn Bogham de Led Zeppelin, ya que ambos ensayaban juntos en casa de Bevan .,los autores de cuerdas supers!! Richard Tandy que venía de tocar el bajo, lo ubicaron en teclados y synth y es espectacular su dominio en esos instrumentos.
It's really is interesting how so many people comment on how they didn't like the early ELO music when they were younger and now have an entirely different opinion years later. I feel exactly the same way. The older stuff really speaks to me now. If only radio stations would play THIS stuff!
.I prefered the old stuff and still do 50 years later. I like some of their later albums, especially Face The Music, but they completely lost me after A New World Record.
How good is this?! ELO has always been so underrated. I love both this early experimental and the overly produced later stuff. It's too bad Roy and Jeff couldn't have put aside their creative differences, because there is something about the blending of their unique talents that was unique. This is wonderful!
Saw these guys outdoors in Phoenix AZ a week before Thanksgiving 1973. My first R n R show. Marvelous experience. Played this, Kiuama, and Roll Over Beethoven from this album. That's all I remember."On the Third Day" had just been released. Never much liked another album by them, but I sure loved this my whole life.
This WHOLE album is so frikken great......i mean tons of chills throughout and Bev Bevans drumming......everything so beautiful and kickin......Roll Over Beethoven in fucking deed !!!!!!!!
This song is one of ELO's very best. It sounds very modern compared to other songs of its era.
I wish Jeff would write and produce more songs like this.
I grew up with elo im 60 years old every album is a classic if you listen to the lyrics hard enough it brings to the eyes
Maravillosa, Bella, Emotiva, Alucinante, Sentimental, Profunda. Por Dios, para mí es la Obra Maestra Musical más perfecta que he oído!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bueno yo opino eso mismo pero de la de Ocean breakup/King of the universe. Pero esta también me gusta mucho, es muy buena.
The length of this song is how long it takes light to go "From the Sun to the World".
Now thats attention to detail
I personally have a lot of select sings I dearly do love but I would have to say as I have diligently and very carefully listen with a very fine tuned and exteme ear whole heartedly have one great very best of all ELO'S work and this song has totally stole my heart and soul and it is called I, NEED HER LOVE !!!! OMG HOW VERY TOUCHING VEERY DEEP INSIDE THE HUMAN SOUL !!! GO EXAMINE THIS CAREFULLY FOR YOURSELVES ...👑
I never get tired of this song. Keyboards are exquisite, a.k.a. fucking awesome!
ELO II Side Two - maybe best Prog Rock ever...Headphones @2:30am in the dorm room...watching the lights bounce on the equalizer...
This song is so awesome. This is high class music.
Nicely done--this was the first ELO LP I bought, mainly for "Roll Over Beethoven" but this track soon became a favorite as well. Very nice that all these years later Roy Wood got credit for his work on this album.
After the legacy he left us The Beatles, E.L.O. is the only major band that has left traces in the history of music, these issues deserve to be heard._
Storming down the airwaves comes the sound of The Electric Light Orchestra.
Beautiful. My first concert at 14 in 1973. War opened for them in Phoenix. Cost $5.25 I think to get in. Sue & Debbie (the older girls) had to panhandle to get all of us in. How I remember this song and Roll Over Beethoven. Now I can't hear this without time-traveling. Lisa too, How I'd listen to this song and look at the sunset and miss you---Me I never liked the new stuff. After the third record--phooey. Too close to pop & disco. Jeff lost his way.
Richard Tandy a magnificent talent over this classical masterpiece
Unbelievable song . so haunting a real masterpiece from a truly magnificent band.
Another Masterpiece from ELO, that's all.
This is the song that introduced me to elo
I absolutely love this song!
These songs grow and grow on you as you get older. When I bought the ELO2 album it was 1980 and I was listening to Discovery and Out Of The Blue etc. I hated this song and the album it came from. Now I love the early stuff.
Brillante, perfecta, música extraordinaria.
I love this song!
Music OF EPIC PROPORTIONS!!
Jeff Lynne’s Electric Light Orchestra is the best and most versatile band ever Musically.
This is a great track, with Bill Hunt playing French Horn and trumpet on the track as well. It's a shotgun marriage of baroque classical and boogie-woogie rock and roll.....
No, Bill Hunt didn't play on ELO 2, the brass instrument sounds are made by Richard Tandy on a Moog synthesiser.
Years to hear this again! Thanks, Jeff and all the others!
In college, this album used to trip me out without the use of mind-altering substances. Ok, perhaps a little "no frills" powdered iced tea. Great music when traveling rainy roads with the system up.
People criticise the production on ELO 2. Certainly it's far from perfect and nowhere near as polished as their later albums but that's what I love about it! I much prefer the raw grinding sound of the cellos to the mpre orchestrated stuff. Get hold of an original UK pressing and turn up the wick on a good vinyl playback system and you'll see what I mean...........
I hate music that’s too polished!!!
Would be fun to hear Jeff Lynne re-record this song to see how it would sound today. Great song.
Yes, especially with the original full band intro featuring the string section (and Amy Langley on cello, filling in for Roy Wood).
I love the early stuff , Elo 1 , 2 , elderado up to new world record was Jeffs finest work , and of course Roy on the 1st
Roy plays bass guitar and cello on this track, he wasn't credited with playing on it until 2003, thirty-one years too late in my opinion.
@@davidmacgregor5193too right!
Richard Tandy passed away on May 1st 2024. Bev Bevan did a nice radio tribute to him....
Have loved this tune since the first time I ever heard it as a teenager back in the mid 80's. Needless to say, banging this out on the stereo at that time wasn't exactly fashionable. Just had to do it though.
Still doing it now, still loving it!!
@FinnMove
Here's what Rob Caiger says about the Boogies:
"I think Bill [Hunt] is in there [on the ELO 2 Boogies] somewhere on piano and there's certainly more French horn played on the session, but not included on the final mix. ...The bass parts are all Roy. Colin [Walker] is on the Boogies, From The Sun To The World especially, which has a beautiful orchestral intro featuring the string section and Roy on cello, which sadly wasn't included in the final mix."
Classical meets boogie woogie
This album is amazing, much better than No Answer and better than On The Third Day!!! In fact this album is one of their top five!
Electric Light Orchestra pasará a la historia de la humanidad.
E.L.O is into the Boogie move,🔥♥️🔉🔊👍
This is one of my great favourites of ELO
when I came to know the band in late 1970´s.
It was originally called Jeff´s boogie no 1.
It was played in concert in 1972 in different
version. Someone has it ?
awesome!
Elo is extraordinary
What is your first ELO album and favorite song?
Out of the blue.
So many great songs...In my book Jeff Lynne's ELO is the most versatile and talented band ever.
Hard to pick a song or album but fav album is On The Third Day.
NO ANSWER Dreaming of 4000
My mates don't believe me when I say ELO were a Prog Rock band when they started up........
The first album was Baroque, not Prog Rock.
@@davidmacgregor5193 Baroque, but technically as a genre - prog.
well have them listen to The Move
temaso, pedazo de canción..
Wspaniały utwór ! Czekam na kolejne w tym starym dobrym stylu Jeff !
Jeff Lynne belongs to an exceptional generation of artists and maybe he's the best english composer of the past century. But to appreciate the music of a genius like Jeff you must have certain acceptable iq else you will ignore it, that's what happens with the new crowds, their minds understand very little about music. Besides, each generation applauds its own artists no matter how good, mediocre or terrible they are.
The same thing is about In Old England Town. The other "boogie".
I think the only answer is that the lyrics in the early days of ELO were unommonly poetic and conceptual. They are not to be explained. Believe Me or not. But I guess the lyrics are about the Earth in threat to collapse. Like the work title of the album ELO 2 was "The Lost Planet".
Does anybody else besides me notice alot of elo songs have hidden meaning and secret messages thus the song secret messages lol. I just think they could make a epic movie based off alot of these songs
They literally have a whole album called secret messages that is littered with em
That would be neet
i think about it a lot but i have no idea what they mean.
Jeff is always the best
Orange rusted carrot caked bars can't hold this hunger imprisoned for long.
great composition by a great band that did not got the honer they deserved.
i would say timeless, but the song is written to take as long as it takes sunlight to reach Earth.
so the light that leaves the Sun with the first note arrives on Earth at the end of the last note.
i loved it from the first time i heard it
Thought it took 8 minutes from the sun to the earth ? What’s a few extra seconds eh? Lol
ELO, Yes, ELP, and all the other three letter bands. Great stuff. Great time.
Yup I agree, besides ELO, I'm also a fan of BTO.
I heard before in an written statement from Jeff Lynne that he always composed the music and added lyrics afterward. Perhaps in his earlier writing days, he attached some poignant meaning to the words, but in general, he was a musician first, activist far second.
can`t say nothing else,i humbly agree
Listen to me sister, I got news from the governor
And i heard people shouting from the towers in the city
While their babies grow in test tubes over night
Run and fetch the priest, 'cause there's a light on in the building
And there's sounds blowin' out in the music of the night
And we should try to get the people out alive
Movin' 'cross the ocean with the flag of death a-flyin'
And the demon butcher pointin' out the message on the tide
And the demon light a-sailin' by his side
Stormin' down the airwaves comes the protest and the prayin'
And the love that shone down from the sun to the world
No longer could support the life it gave
Well im just royally pissed! I finally got the old school amp that i wanted. I got my huge speakers, the kind with the about 14" woofers that will blow you out of the house, and i got a brand new turntable just like my old one. Now, my amp is fried again. I can listen to all the songs on RUclips, but its not the same as my old components. I have 500 albums just sitting there not being used. DAMMIT.😢
Me encantaria un aria para una opera good melody.........
es el tema de la elo que mas me gusta ,una obra de arte
@probrojeffro hey hey! these are the bands I have been getting into lately :D
Wonder if Ira Newborn was listening to this when he made "Geek Boogie" for the "Sixteen Candles" soundtrack?!
@tevevid It wasn't bad mainstream though. Just poppier melodies. I'd have to say that Out of the Blue is a better record then ELO II even though I love ELO II much more. There's something so haunting and surreal about more frayed and intricate prog, especially when you get that combination of classical, blues and folk like this track.
The best ELO song ever, in my opion. Only their two first records are really good with their second album the best IMO, after that they became rather mainstream.
Could someone please tell me what the main melody of this song is? It seems to me as if it is a traditional Russian (or possibly Jewish) folk song, and it's driving me nuts. If anybody knows, please...
this ain't your daddys beatles...this progressive rock.. just like ELP or Rush.. or Yes...it is so RAW!!!!!!.. i gonna break some shit!!!!!!
Это вообще - супер вещь !!!!
@Thepennies same here I lived same situation
This sort of stuff was the real aim of the ELO ...not Do Ya, Dont Bring Me Down, Hold on Tight etc.... up until New World Record, then the aims changed and the band became lighter in style
He should have stuck with it, but money beckoned and who can blame him.
Do Ya was originally a Move song from 1972.
I know re Do Ya. I have the recorded version here as a Move single B side..... Think it may have been to "California Man" but would need to check. It wasn't great then and it was later, in my view, a very weak ELO track. I'm very supportive of Jeff's work but think the likes of Louis Clark should be very highly praised for his high grade contributions to the music that made a lot of ELO work so distinctive
@@windymiller6908 hard to disagree..don't really blame Jeff but wish it hadn't been the case ....he also says defrauded of huge sums by which must bring it's own pressures to stick to popular mainstream management etc. I suspect Jeff tired a bit of the orchestral backing style too....
Defrauded by management
prophetic, no?
4:16
;)
Kocham ELO
Przebój Electric Light Orchestra z drugiej płyty .
That's what it sounds like to me...LOL
I don´t think Bill Hunt is playing in that slow middle- section. It is moog nearly with 100 %. And that is the only minus in the whole ELO 2 album. I think Jeff should have included real woodwind and brass players. Brilliant music !
WTF??? Peter Purves from the Daleks Master Plan???!
baroque ? maybe Grieg ?
Now there is not melody that's, clasica.
ok tell me please what this song is aboot
Or 'about'. ;-)
It sounds like something apocalyptic to me.