ELO was my band in high school. While everybody else was into AC/DC and Led Zepplin, I was into this classical influenced rock band from Britain. I always did march to my own beat (literally)!
Of course, I was (am) hardly the world's only ELO fan. They were really popular during the '70's and had a lot of hits. My first ELO album was A New World Record; it's their best, in my opinion, and I still get it out and give it a spin today. That album was one of 12 I got from good old Columbia House. For those of you too young to remember Columbia House, it was a mail-order business that sold albums. You could get 12 albums for a penny for the first order, then you had to buy so many at the regular (inflated) price over a certain period of time. Got several good albums doing that.
"Don't Bring Me Down" is probably the best known today of ELO's songs. Like a lot of their music, it's a very catchy and upbeat song.
That video was from a more recent (semi)reunion concert. The one below is an earlier one, for Mr. Blue Sky.
There certainly was a lot of hair going on at that point!
Many hairstyles later, they were still making great music. And as every ELO fan knows, their music can chase the blues away. It's like my favorite line in "Tightrope" " ...somebody had thrown me down a line, stopped me drownin'".
Personal Faves:
- Don't Bring Me Down
- Do Ya
- Livin' Thing
- Rockaria
- Tightrope
- Can't Get It Out Of My Head
- The Jungle
- Turn To Stone
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