Somehow I'd never listened to Roy Wood's Boulders album until tonight. I suspect I will be making up for that in the future.
My dad like ELO. He also had a fair knowledge of the precursors to ELO, including Roy Wood's influence from The Move. But I've found that overanalysing it isn't the best approach. Just listening to it, and listening generally to any reaction seems to be best.
Here's Jeff Lynne's doin' disco (mid ELO I think) that I picked up in a thrift store.
"...not having to believe in a thing to be interested in it and not having to explain a thing to appreciate the wonder of it."
This is Halloween | The Nightmare Before Christmas (Danny Elfman) Night on Bald Mountain | Disney's Fantasia (Mussorgsky) Opening Theme | Dracula (1931) Night Journeys | Dracula (1931) Ghostbusters | Ghostbusters (Ray Parker) It's Only Forever | Jim Henson's Labyrinth (David Bowie) If I Apologized | Mirrormask (Iain Ballamy, Neil Gaiman) Suicide is Painless | M.A.S.H. (Johnny Mandel) Long Ago and Far Away | Pan's Labyrinth (Javier Navarrete) Time Warp | Rocky Horror Picture Show Science Fiction Double Feature | Rocky Horror Picture Show Tubular Bells | The Exorcist (Mike Oldfield) Imperial March | Star Wars (John Williams) The Empire Strikes Back Disco | Meco Nimue's Song | Camelot - (Lerner & Lowe) Smile | Charlie Chaplin (Orchestral Piece) Smile | Lyrics-John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons; preferably performed by Judy Garland Segue: Algeria Touchshriek | David Bowie The Witch Doctor Song | Davis Seville Ghostriders in the Sky | Johnny Cash Thriller | Michael Jackson Keep on Lovin' You | REO Speedwagon (I Always Feel Like) Somebody's Watching Me | Rockwell Planet Claire | the B-52s Rock Lobster | the B-52s Maxwell Edison | The Beatles Frankenstein | The Edgar Winter Group Hall of Heads | They Might Be Giants We Will All Go Together When We Go | Tom Lehrer Werewolves of London | Warren Zevon Excitable Boy | Warren Zevon Don't Let Us Get Sick | Warren Zevon Hall of the Mountain King | Peer Gynt (Edvard Grieg) Buffy the Vampire Slayer | TV Theme Song Casper the Friendly Ghost | TV Theme Song The Addams Family | TV Theme Song The Munsters | TV Theme Song Twilight Zone | TV Theme Song Molly Malone | (Irish Traditional - Sinead O'Connor) Puttin' On the Ritz | Young Frankenstein (Irving Berlin) Young Frankenstein Opening Theme | Young Frankenstein (John Morris) Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber) | Complete Soundtrack Wicked | Complete Soundtrack
All on my Desktop PC.
Also, I am sure, available on YouTube and ITunes.
“I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal.” -- Groucho Marx
Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol on audiobooks. Driving a truck now, radio is shit, stations buy their programming from the same guy all over the nation. Same shit all the time.
Damn you, you kids! Get off my lawn or I'm callin' tha cops!
Some "Come on, Eileen" reminiscing in the Shoutbox inevitably made me think of Dexys Midnight Runners' quirky but compelling cover of Van Morrison's "Jackie Wilson Said".
I wish I knew how to embed like all of you cool kids do but I can't so I'm just going to post this link.
I listen to so many Golden Oldie stations that I sometimes think I must have already heard every single old song out there and that there's nothing new for me to discover....
So when I hear a decades old song that I a) have never heard before; and b) instantly love, it's a bit like finding a mint condition of Adventure Comics #247 in a back issue bin filled with thousands of terrible 90s Image comics.
Such is how much I've fallen for this 1970 song by Dory Previn, an artist I'd never heard of before either.
But since hearing it in the final scene of the latest episode of Scream Queens about an hour ago, I must have listened to this song about 20 times! I. LOVE. IT.
The song has a fascinating background too! Google it if you're interested.
This was the previous old song that I only recently discovered and became immediately obsessed with.
The first time I heard it was about a week ago when it came on the radio as I was parking my car and I don't feel weird admitting that I had burst into tears by the end of it.
The song perfectly encapsulates my own emotional struggles at the moment.
It's by Roy Clark, who's probably well-known by most of the Americans here, but who is an unknown quantity to most Australians:
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