Electric Light Orchestra: "Evil Woman" - Vinyl Friday #59
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- čas přidán 31. 01. 2024
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One of my favourite things about doing Vinyl Fridays is that my enjoyment of the selected song grows the more I pick it apart. At this stage it probably goes without saying, but I really love this week's song. I'm glad it's in my collection, because I've had a truly wonderful time picking it apart for you all.
In this episode: a disproportionate amount of time is spent on this song's introduction, a little light boogie-ing takes place, and a rogue interloper comes for the piano correspondent's job!
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Hey everyone! The choose-the-next-Beatles-album poll is now up! You can find it on the communities tab of my channel. Happy voting!
Yasss. The genius of Jeff's minimalism cannot be overstated. He helped elevate Tom Petty's three chord classic "Free Falling" to perfect pop classic status.
Since I was a wee lad... I have loved rock n roll songs with piano and guitar (beginning with 50's stuff like "Johnny B Goode" and "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On". The combo of those two sounds - still gets me all these years later.
[Sorry for double-dipping on comments]
It would be a shame if children missed out on your work.
As my Grade 3 classmates and I grooved to The Doors and the new Abbey Road album (!) our homeroom teacher unleashed her Music Appreciation class on us. T'was a chronological deep dive into classical composers, beginning with Haydn. Equipped with a war-torn upright piano, she demonstrated the structure and emotions of signature pieces, and threw in some lascivious gossip about the composers. By the end of each class, her cheeks were flushed, the bobby pins had flown from her hair, and kids from other classes had snuck into the back of the room.
Childhood friends have since verified that those animated lessons made a lifelong impression on us. Classical music was as "square" to us as boomer rock is to the current 'Generation Alpha.' If only today's kids had an engaging grown-up with hella music cred - and maybe video lessons already in the can - to set them on a life's journey of musical rewards. Hmm ...
This video has cat!!! FABULOUS!!! Another excellent video. Thank you!!!
great video! i think that backwards phaser-ed string section you mention is heard forward around 3:18 in Nightrider on Face The Music
My friend told me that for many years she thought the song was called Believe a Woman, and now I can’t unhear it that way.
Face the Music was a big favorite album of mine as a kid. Especially loved One Summer Dream.
Loved all the Beatles connections to Jeff Lynne/ELO that you cover at the beginning.
mired deliciously... that's some fine wordsmithing.
My title for your section about the song's opening... "You say you want a Resolution".
Your cat just wants an opportunity to show what it can do...
"She was a working girl..." Come on, Nancy... you're letting down all the working girls...
deliciously acrimonious... you did it again.
"How good are those 'ha ha's'..? So petulant. Love it." Reminds me of the "Ho ho ho, he he he, ha ha ha" from some other song I've heard somewhere.....
I thought maybe... it was an anvil strike...
"I love this song!" Me too...
"They're going for the caveman." ; )
Guitar correspondent.... excellent demonstration.
Your vocalization of the strings.... so good. (That too, is out of my range.) so funny.
Love the comments on how Jeff change's his phrasing of the same lyric from one part of the song - to another. Made me think of the all time greatest exercise in vocal phrasing - which is "Why Don't We Do It In The Road". I think McCartney sings it differently every time throughout the song.
Excellent catch on how he rhymes his backing vocal to the vowel of the last word in the lyric.
You may be just slightly... a tiny bit... overthinking it. ; ) Or not.
"A master class in how to make a potentially boring song - fantastic."
That's not a canon.... It's a Howitzer.
That string part at 19:27 may be my favorite moment of the song.
Your vocalization of the phasing... fantastic.
This song deserves to have a "sinister tinge" to it...
Yikes... can't unsee that Pussycat Dolls part.
21:37 Love how he sings that line. So glad you mentioned it.
Your bloopers are always bloop-tatsic. I think your cat deserves a shot at being the piano correspondent. Might surprise you....
Oh.... I love this! Educated enthusiasm... I will look into your while channel. Very nice. Good taste, too.
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Bonus Beatle'ism: ELO's 1973 symphonic cover of the Beatles' cover of Chuck Berry's Roll Over Beethoven - one of the first "45s" I bought with my own money!
I would love to hear the piano correspondant's thoughts on the chord sequence behind "Who are you and who am I" on Mission (A World Record)!
As always with you presented the history on the artist you are spotlighting . I have many of their albums on the vinyl and CD formats. They were part of the soundtrack of my life and I still listen to their music today. It seems to me for their early album that they were looking for a sound which they finally found on the 1976 release A New World Record. They stayed with that sound for then on. While they have been compared to The Beatles and yes Jeff did barrowed ideas from them, ELO had their own sound. I will not go into an music examination of ELO because my knowledge of music is very limited they are credited with bring heavy elements of classical music into rock and popular music such as The Beatle did with Eleanor Rigby and other songs during the Revolver though Magical Mystery tour period. ELO's music is very polished and melodic. The only compliant I have with Jeff's production is it did not change, he did not try something now. When you hear a ELO album, Lynne solo album or him producing another artist album you know what to expect.
As for Jeff production work for other artist, my favorite is George Harrison's Cloud Nine album. While it was very polished to the point of if it was a floor and you walk on it you would slide. Jeff did bring out something in Harrison that has been missing in his solo album after All Thing Must Pass. Tom Petty's Full Moon Fever is another example. Then there was his work on Flamming Pie. Also with him producing Free As A Bird and Real Love, he has earns him a place in the 5th Beatles club.
I like to bring up the 2001 ELO album Zoom which was criminally overlooked. Yes Harrison while in his last days does play guitar on it and Ringo also makes an appearance as well. Since you are using their Greatest Hit it is interesting that one of their most popular piece is not included on it nor is it on any of their compilations. It is the instrumental piece Fire On High from Face the Music. Back in the 1970s our local rock station K-94 used Fire On High as a back drop when they did the midnight FCC requirement of identifying themselves. It was done in a very cool way. Here is a link to it if you like to give it a listen. Late night listeners to K-94 late would hear a DJ who seemed stone on pot with a laid back voice and odd selection of songs they played ha ha. Again great informative entertaining video. Here is the link czcams.com/video/llNA6CAebOY/video.html
Thanks for the link! I'll have a listen right now. :)
Is that a zero 100? My brother had one way back in the 70's.😊😊😊
White album ! You’ll be doing it for weeks
@fathommusicnz I so look forward to all of your uploads. I really enjoyed the 2023 look back. As a result I went back. I love that you did A Chorus Line. Growing up right outside of Manhattan and being raised by New Yorkers my parents went to that play several times. Enough so that I once gifted them the cast sound track. Being a kid, I didn't get to go on the Broadway date nights. So I too was only exposed to the movie and can just about sing every song beginning to end even though I haven't seen it in decades. ANYWAY! I just wanted to give you a heads up in case you didn't know or no one else said it. But CZcams has 'Mr Blue Sky. The Story of Jeff Lynn and ELO'. It isn't too long and it's really enjoyable. Keep up the great content and I'll look for you next Friday!
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Along with my long winded comment which is in a separate comment that I just made, I like to add that the short clip of modern popular music in your video shows how sad that things have deteriorated since the era of ELO. Yet there are many great newer artist who are worthy of more notoriety. While they have been successful by going the indie route in releasing their music and developing fan base by playing small venues they do not get the public attention they deserve. One of these artist I like bring to your attention. He is brilliant. Please let me know if your interested in knowing who this artist is and I will provide you the information. Good Day:) Lawrence
I absolutely agree - there is a veritable wealth of great new music out today! The issue is that the music industry has changed so dramatically in the last 30 years that it's much rarer to find something novel, progressive, or experimental in mainstream popular music. I'm listening to ELO's cover of "Roll Over Beethoven" right now at the recommendation of one of the other commenters. It's so inventive - it's playing with musical ideas and twisting them in on themselves, while traversing multiple periods in Western music's history. This is the kind of thing I'm not seeing in mainstream music (but which is happening all the time in independent music, as you rightly point out).
Hit me with your recommendations, absolutely! I love to hear them.
@@fathommusicnz If Michael Kiwanuka is not on your music radar then he should be. Below are links to some videos from this third album entitled Kiwanuka released in the fall of 2019. It is a masterful work. The first video is a live performance of one of the songs from that album. This is amazing. The string arrangements are stunning along with the female backing vocals are amazing as well. The song has a great sad melody with nice melodic keyboard lines. Michael has a old school soul to his music along with a has great soulful voice and a lyrical sensibility of the late Bill Withers. Below I have posted a number of other songs from this album. If you like these links then the Kiwanuka album needs a full detail listen. What is so cool about the album is instead of seconds of silence between each song he creates these short instrumental interludes to connect the songs. The album is old school soul but done in a modern way that does not sound dated or stale. Fresh ideas using vintage music styles you can say. Give these links below a listen and once you take it all in send my a short reply with some thoughts.
The Art Gallery is a cool setting for this video. The keyboard playing has a Led Zeppelin No Quarter feel to it.
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A very happy optimist song with Caribbean style drums and interesting backing vocals. Lots of other cool things going on as well. Nice fade out with the melody line.
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Again I love how back up vocals are used on this album as in the opening of this song, the La La Las. A very soulful song. See what I mean about Bill Withers?
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Old School Funk going here. Like the Temptations when they went psychedelic. Brake out the lava lamp for this one. The song gets cut off at the end.
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This song closes the album. I would describe it as a cosmic folk piece.. Love the use of the backing vocals especially when they dissolve at the end like putting cycle kool-aid in a pitcher of water. The vocals fade out like they are traveling in infinity though space like the ending of A Day In The Life.
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That is the last link to the Kiwanuka album I will post. Still lots of goodies on it. No skip over tracks. Also please read The Guardian review on the album which receive 5 stars.
I like to leave you with a song from Michael's previous album. This one has the Marin Gaye What's Going On vibe to it. Michael create a groove and repeats it over and over that you never get tired of hearing. Hearing Michael and band play this song is like hearing a message from God, it is that good.
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Thank you so much for letting me share this wonderful artist with you. I think he is one of the musical genius of this century. Also think you for letting me run my mouth in responding to your videos and replying to them. You are very knowledgeable about music and your a great artist in your own right. Your videos are very informative, entertaining and very creatively put together.
Just one think I ask, again once you take the Kiwanuka album in please send me a short reply giving your thoughts. Perhaps you might consider doing a video on it. Be nice to promote a newer artist. I have a few more artist I like to share if your interested but that is for a later time. Take care and I always look for your videos to view near the end of the 5 day week. Lawrence :)
The ‘Pan-o’ correspondent… SORRY I HAD TO
roy wood is an important figure in the formation of the band and for the concept of a rock band with strings. the moody blues concept album days future passed had a symphony orchestra on the album but it was a case of band and orch. taking turns: strings and band weren't melded together as with ELO.
you hear so much detail in your listening. I can find them a little overcooked sometimes and that's true here. their tunes though stick and are very singable companions when you aren't listening to the records. in this case a greatest hits option is maybe the best way to go. imagine the ambition in taking this band on the road, the cost!
nice question concerning what we want, in terms of our expectations, from music. do like me a descending arpeggio on electric guitar: so now i'm scared using terms to someone so skilled as yourself but those descending shapes you get on abbey Rd. cream's badge. that sort of thing. vocals too are my area of interest. the history of bands and string sections is fascinating and that's also a predilection of mine. fair play to ELO for integrating this with the permanent band. one of my favourite examples of group and orchestra is mocking bird by Barclay James Harvest: music possibly outreaching it's grasp but still achieving an enchanting beauty.
I can definitely appreciate your point here - I tend to prefer ELO in a "greatest hits" format, over full albums. I've listened to a few of them many times over and haven't been able to completely fall in love, but I do have a lot of fondness for many of their hits.
@@fathommusicnz yes. I like the crazy baroque (?) choir in Mr blue sky. I think they deserve their place in a record collection.
Whenever I listen to ELO I’m reminded of what an absolute perfectionist Jeff Lynne is. I always think of him as a very clever writer and arranger, but sometimes I feel his productions can be too manicured and lack a bit of freedom/passion as a result. They’re great songs but it’s kind of like there are no real ‘moments’ of performance captured as everything is perfected and crafted so tightly.
Slightly off topic, but I also felt the ‘Jeff Lynne sound’ was too present on the Beatles work he did. You could instantly tell it was a Jeff Lynne production, which didn’t really suit the songs - Phil Spector all over again.
Even more off topic, I have a theory that his hair, sunglasses and nose are all connected and can be removed in a split second to reveal the real man underneath. He’s actually been wearing a disguise for 50 years.
I've definitely heard that complaint levelled against Jeff Lynne with respect to the Anthology singles. I can appreciate that, certainly - it sounds "different" in a way that I think Giles Martin's Beatles work doesn't. Although Giles does leave a signature that's hard to put your finger on, it still feels...Beatley. Jeff's signature is far heavier than Giles'.