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Artist:The Move [ more ]
Song:Message From The Country
Album:Message From The Country [ album info ]
Released:1971
Last Played:Nov 03, 2009 - 14:33
Avg. Rating:5.3    (Total Ratings: 143)
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Ratings Dist:
1 votes: 10 (7%)2 votes: 16 (11%)3 votes: 15 (10%)4 votes: 9 (6.3%)5 votes: 15 (10%)6 votes: 20 (14%)7 votes: 37 (26%)8 votes: 11 (7.7%)9 votes: 9 (6.3%)10 votes: 1 (0.7%)
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Stingray
(Cologne)
Posted: Nov 03, 2009 - 14:39 

 rtkmusic wrote:


The Move and Black Sabbath did tour together - check the wikipedia link
 

...and why not?
Elderly people should have fun too...

lysisphere
Posted: Nov 03, 2009 - 14:38 

Just walked into the middle of the song - sounds like Yeasayer ==> a modern band that sounds like classic rock, but with a fresh modern feel.
Stingray
(Cologne)
Posted: Nov 03, 2009 - 14:38 

Roy Wood had much-much better songs than this!

64 years ago!

shutter
(You can't get here from there)
Posted: Jun 30, 2009 - 06:16 

Much better than ELO, I thought.
Tim_in_N_FL
(Florida)
Posted: Mar 27, 2009 - 06:14 

 Frater_Kork wrote:
Yep, that really sounds like ELO back in the bad old days.

After reading a bit I understand why.

The Move (personnel)
1970 - 1971

* Roy Wood: guitar, vocals
* Jeff Lynne: guitar, piano
* Rick Price: bass
* Bev Bevan: drums, vocals



Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Mar 27, 2009 - 06:12 

 bcorcoran wrote:
Definitely more like ELO than the Beatles.
 
there's a logical reason for that

Frater_Kork
(Uppsala, Sweden)
Posted: Mar 27, 2009 - 06:09 

Yep, that really sounds like ELO back in the bad old days.

After reading a bit I understand why.
rtkmusic
(SoCal)
Posted: Feb 23, 2009 - 17:32 

 realsleep wrote:


I guess, if you consider 1971 (when this album came out) to be well before 1968, when Ozzy and Black Sabbath formed.
 

The Move and Black Sabbath did tour together - check the wikipedia link
rtkmusic
(SoCal)
Posted: Feb 23, 2009 - 17:28 

The Move - Message From The Country
Vision Thing - Barcode

Nice seque...

Absolutely LOVE this song. When I was in grade school, I used to borrow a Move compilation from the library so I could hear this and a few others...


g4ege
Posted: Feb 23, 2009 - 17:26 

Ozzy is that you?
lmic
(Sacramento, CA)
Posted: Dec 22, 2008 - 13:28 

Yes meets the Beach Boys
patrick_larson
(Austin, TX)
Posted: Dec 22, 2008 - 13:28 

This is awesome. At first I thought it was some lost Black Sabbath song.
K-BILLY
(Rockin' in a Cube)
Posted: Dec 22, 2008 - 13:27 

 bcorcoran wrote:


Definitely more like ELO than the Beatles.
 
Agree...Came here to see if it was an ELO song I had not heard before.  {#Angel}

F1
(Pacific NW (gotta get back to Chicago))
Posted: Sep 18, 2008 - 19:05 

Is the phrase "heavy" still in use?  The Move were a heavy group.  Nice nostalgic 1-2 punch with Donovan here.
spanishboots
(Helsinki, Finland)
Posted: Jul 17, 2008 - 14:05 

Always good to hear anything by Roy Wood. Saw him in Turku Rock Festival way back in 1973. For some reason he unfortunately stopped playing after two songs. His band was called Wizzard, then. Maybe that unfortunately very short set happened to be just because of the fact that he really is a genius. And geniuses are what they are, unpredictable if anything.

It was also nice to see the American cover of the Move album concerned here in Radio Paradise. The cover is very much different from the European one.
realsleep
Posted: Jul 17, 2008 - 14:02 

Monkeysdad wrote:


This was well before Ozzy!




I guess, if you consider 1971 (when this album came out) to be well before 1968, when Ozzy and Black Sabbath formed.


apd
(Toronto, On)
Posted: Jul 17, 2008 - 13:58 

phillips wrote:
I was thinking late Beatles at first...

...so where they...

(Hey-yo!)

rickhoran
(Eastern PA)
Posted: Jul 17, 2008 - 13:57 

what a great "smoking" set.

1:53 pm - The Move - Message From The Country
1:51 pm - Donovan - Wear Your Love Like Heaven
1:47 pm - Vision Thing - Barcode
1:44 pm - Hooverphonic - We All Float


lazylemming
(City of the Angels)
Posted: Jun 16, 2008 - 01:15 

Always good to hear early Jeff Lynne. Would love to hear The Moves' version of "Do Ya" sometime! Thanks!
tiggers
Posted: Apr 14, 2008 - 02:23 

UltraNurd wrote:
Why is this one getting such a rating smackdown?


Maybe because it is positively mediocre!
1wolfy
(Mission Viejo California)
Posted: Mar 13, 2008 - 14:50 

good questionUltraNurd wrote:
Why is this one getting such a rating smackdown?

UltraNurd
(Boston, MA)
Posted: Mar 13, 2008 - 14:49 

Why is this one getting such a rating smackdown?
bcorcoran
(Alexandria, VA)
Posted: Mar 13, 2008 - 14:48 

1wolfy wrote:
...and I thought ELO


Definitely more like ELO than the Beatles.
zipper
Posted: Jan 10, 2008 - 16:21 

still a 1
1wolfy
(Mission Viejo California)
Posted: Jan 10, 2008 - 16:17 

...and I thought ELOphillips wrote:
I was thinking late Beatles at first...

phillips
(a beach near you)
Posted: Dec 10, 2007 - 06:54 

I was thinking late Beatles at first...
Roverfish
(Tucson, AZ - Thanks for visiting...now go home!)
Posted: Oct 08, 2007 - 11:21 

Respectable, Chris Squire-esque bass from Jeff Lynne around the same time as The Yes Album...interesting. I've never found Lynne to be particularly original (and, for the record, I love ELO), but what he does, he does well...be it Beatles, Edmunds, Petty/Harrison, etc. Certainly early roots of prog rock showing here...for that, it's a 6.
More_Cowbell
(North of Chicago, IL, USA)
Posted: Oct 08, 2007 - 11:13 

Is that Jeff Lynne I hear? ELO
Monkeysdad
Posted: Oct 08, 2007 - 11:12 

Imkirok wrote:
Ozzie, is that you?


This was well before Ozzy!
Imkirok
(The Arctic Hinter Land)
Posted: Oct 08, 2007 - 11:10 

Ozzie, is that you?
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