Re: ELO - Discovery (1979).

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Apr 02, 2021 8:05 pm

Hints of Great Balls of Fire.

by Nightjar Fri Apr 02, 2021 8:05 pm

I'm not as much of a fan of this song as other people. aristojar

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Apr 02, 2021 8:05 pm

by Nightjar Fri Apr 02, 2021 8:06 pm

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Apr 02, 2021 8:06 pm

This is absolutely made by Bev. box

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Apr 02, 2021 8:06 pm

Falsetto.

by Nightjar Fri Apr 02, 2021 8:06 pm

by Nightjar Fri Apr 02, 2021 8:07 pm

John Bonham/Phil Rudd eat your hearts out.

Both of them.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Apr 02, 2021 8:07 pm

"Bruce!"

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Apr 02, 2021 8:07 pm

by Nightjar Fri Apr 02, 2021 8:07 pm

by Nightjar Fri Apr 02, 2021 8:08 pm

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Apr 02, 2021 8:09 pm

Hints of Stuck in the Middle With You.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Apr 02, 2021 8:09 pm

Shock ending.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Apr 02, 2021 8:10 pm

It is over.

That was completely gear, from start to finish, and ended on a high.

Now to look back at the thread and see what everybody else made of it. Excited

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Apr 02, 2021 8:10 pm

I shall give it 4 stars.

by Nightjar Fri Apr 02, 2021 8:13 pm

Every album ever made should end with a completely over-egged multi-tracked gated echo.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri Apr 02, 2021 8:18 pm

Nightjar wrote:What the fudge is this song about?

Boy meets girl.
Boy falls in love with girl.
Boy asks girl to marry him.
Girl says yes.
Boy has panic attack on wedding day and does a runner.

by Nightjar Fri Apr 02, 2021 8:21 pm

I can't ignore various prejudices I have about this album.

Really, even if I wanted to.

Despite my ill will (born of having to listen to it all the time AT THE TIME), it's just not that good an album.

In fact, the ELO sound at this time had started to become aggressively overripe.

Supremely assured from a technical perspective, but jarringly abrasive and charmless.

Still, beneath the aural ugliness and the production a-aesthetic-ality, there are actual songs - real Jeff Lynn songs, like what we all can't help but like and enjoy and dance about to.

Still...

by Nightjar Fri Apr 02, 2021 8:25 pm

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:
Nightjar wrote:What the fudge is this song about?
Boy meets girl.
Boy falls in love with girl.
Boy asks girl to marry him.
Girl says yes.
Boy has panic attack on wedding day and does a runner.

Ohh, even when I was 10 I was overthinking it.

Probably. Colbert

For me it was all about a rolling, unceasing existential crisis that Wimp could never outrun due to his fundamental lack of self-worth.

Basically, his subconscious eggs him on to higher things and then eggs him on further once he's achieved said 'things' resulting in an endless, albeit ultimately destructive, dash upwards and upwards and so on and so on...

Unto death.

ObvZ

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