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Electric Light Orchestra — Can't Get It Out Of My Head
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Giselle62
(many bear, big rock, estuary California)
Posted: Apr 19, 2013 - 12:10
 
Noon:   "Wow, this is a great song."

3 in the Morning:   AAAAARRRRRRGGGHHHH!!!!!!!

EdmoJoe
(Edmonton, Canada)
Posted: Apr 19, 2013 - 12:10
 
Time machine back to the '70s. Thanks!

kcar
Posted: Apr 01, 2013 - 23:51
 
 drews wrote:
On the subject of "Can't Get It Out Of My Head".......



Dante Autullo believed he was only grazed when nailgun went off and didn't believe doctors when they showed him X-ray

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/21/man-survives-shooting-nail-brain
 
Perhaps not the sharpest tack in the box... {#Dance}

FuryQuaker
(Denmark)
Posted: Mar 19, 2013 - 01:15
 
Oh great. Now I can't get this song out of my head!  {#Beat}

misterbearbaby
(Marina del Rey, California)
Posted: Feb 15, 2013 - 15:58
 
 ziakut wrote:
Nothing short of nostalgia for me.
 

Ah, but its really GOOD nostalgia...

ziakut
(Slightly North of Obvlivion)
Posted: Feb 15, 2013 - 15:55
 
Nothing short of nostalgia for me.

ambrebalte
(Wolxheim (France) - Dreaming about resuming my life in Beijing province)
Posted: Jan 15, 2013 - 08:18
 
 oldviolin wrote:
Time Machine
 
I'm there too

toterola
(Further)
Posted: Dec 14, 2012 - 23:26
 
 james_of_tucson wrote:

In those days, a band like ELO could say to a producer, "We need a string orchestra... AND a choir... AND a separate women's choir... AND an ARP Solina... AND a Polymoog..."  And fully expect to get all that.  Try it today and unless you're maybe Peter Gabriel you'll be laughed out the door... EVEN IF you are willing and able to pay for it all...
 
Or just buy ProTools, do it yourself, and tell the record companies to take a flying f*ck at a rolling doughnut. Or something to that effect...{#Bananapiano}

oldviolin
(Esse Quam Videri)
Posted: Dec 14, 2012 - 23:20
 
Time Machine

Imkirok
(The Arctic Hinter Land)
Posted: Nov 27, 2012 - 12:27
 
 fuzzy wrote:
Can't get her out of my head....would have been a better title.
 
Except that it might not be about a woman.

http://www.jefflynnesongs.com/cgioomh/

cmarcan
(Nanaimo, BC)
Posted: Nov 27, 2012 - 12:10
 
MORE CRAPPOLLA{#Beat}

bluecshells
Posted: Nov 13, 2012 - 14:32
 
Nice!

islander
(Seattle)
Posted: Nov 13, 2012 - 14:30
 
wow. wasn't expecting this one today.

suesblues
(Sydney, Australia)
Posted: Oct 13, 2012 - 05:40
 
Oh, I love ELO.  Especially as they are underplayed and underrated, n'est ce pas?  They are sunshine and niceness.  If one is in the right mood of course. All those naysayers with photos of nailguns in skulls - not appreciated!! {#Angel}

clive369
(Windsor, UK)
Posted: Sep 25, 2012 - 15:52
 
Good call - when ELO is played by most stations this isn't one of the tracks. Nice.

socalhol
(Seattle)
Posted: Jul 24, 2012 - 17:55
 
I have a had a new appreciation for the music of ELO ever since seeing The Troubies "OthE.L.O." show back in 2007.  Very entertaining!  May be hard to tell, taking this small scene out of context, but seeing the whole thing — a lot of fun. 

MaryM
(WeHo CA)
Posted: Jul 24, 2012 - 17:46
 
Didn't like it then, still don't

james_of_tucson
(Tucson AZ)
Posted: May 22, 2012 - 11:28
 
 AndyJ wrote:
There is a reason I have always referred to the 1970's as the "Decade Time Forgot".  Most of the music was bland and blenderized. Like pre-chewed food... This is the first time I've heard it in several decades. I find it's "quaint" now that I listen and heard the arrangement much more than the lyrics, rhythm, beat and mood... But still... another year and I'll listen and possibly enjoy it... Too bland for me. Like the music I hear when I have a high fever.... Otherwise, it's fine.

 
 
In those days, a band like ELO could say to a producer, "We need a string orchestra... AND a choir... AND a separate women's choir... AND an ARP Solina... AND a Polymoog..."  And fully expect to get all that.  Try it today and unless you're maybe Peter Gabriel you'll be laughed out the door... EVEN IF you are willing and able to pay for it all...

drews
(London, Blighty)
Posted: May 22, 2012 - 11:27
 
On the subject of "Can't Get It Out Of My Head".......


Dante Autullo believed he was only grazed when nailgun went off and didn't believe doctors when they showed him X-ray

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/21/man-survives-shooting-nail-brain

james_of_tucson
(Tucson AZ)
Posted: May 22, 2012 - 11:25
 
 copymonkey wrote:
A lot of their songs I like just because I'm a sucker for a hooky power-pop song. This one I like just because it's a really good song (except for the ridiculous Casio keyboard solo)
 
I'm 99.44% certain that's a Polymoog. 

acupunk
(West Hartford)
Posted: Apr 06, 2012 - 13:16
 
Brings me back to high school. The good part of it anyway...

Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Feb 17, 2012 - 07:13
 
 copymonkey wrote:
A lot of their songs I like just because I'm a sucker for a hooky power-pop song. This one I like just because it's a really good song (except for the ridiculous Casio keyboard solo)
 

Casiotone keyboards didn't exist until the 1980s, but I know what you mean about that sound.  Good tune - I'd like to hear "Turn To Stone" once in a while here.


dwlangham
Posted: Feb 17, 2012 - 07:11
 
I have a guilty pleasure fondness for EOL. Of all my sister's music from the '70's, ELO and Steely Dan still do something for me.

mineralBOB
(Germany/Saxony)
Posted: Feb 03, 2012 - 04:35
 
bittersweet, wonderful song.
love it. always will....

Imkirok
(The Arctic Hinter Land)
Posted: Jan 16, 2012 - 13:25
 
8 -> 9, if for nothing more than nostalgic reasons.  Actually, I think most of ELO stands up on its own even today.

aelfheld
Posted: Jan 16, 2012 - 13:24
 
 Baby_M wrote:
You can too get it out of your head!  You're just not trying hard enough.

{#Mrgreen}
 
.45 caliber - works every time.


(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Jan 16, 2012 - 13:24
 


Everybody in my hotel room loves this song...

 

divisionlane
(Seattle)
Posted: Jan 02, 2012 - 09:58
 
sigh....can we please put this in the bad song graveyard? As Randy Newman sarcastically said "I love that ELO"

msymmes
(Toronto, CA)
Posted: Jan 02, 2012 - 09:49
 
Still sounds good in 2012 ! 

shakitten
(Not where I want to be yet)
Posted: Jan 02, 2012 - 09:48
 
 msymmes wrote:
Not too often do I rate a song a 10.  But this has been a TEN for me for almost 40 years.
 
 


Completely agree! :)

msymmes
(Toronto, CA)
Posted: Dec 01, 2011 - 15:48
 
Not too often do I rate a song a 10.  But this has been a TEN for me for almost 40 years.
 

Baby_M
(a 100+-year old building in downtown Akron, Ohio)
Posted: Oct 13, 2011 - 14:01
 
You can too get it out of your head!  You're just not trying hard enough.

{#Mrgreen}

MiracleDrug
(Earth)
Posted: Oct 13, 2011 - 13:59
 
here...
hold STILL...
{#Beat}

finoufk
(Bordeaux - france)
Posted: Sep 29, 2011 - 07:53
 
I don't understand why RP only plays this tune ( a good one indeed) from ELO !!  there are so much other brilliant songs we'd love to hear or discover ;  Please  Bill and rebecca  , i'm begging you   ! {#Eek}

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Aug 28, 2011 - 22:34
 
 helgigermany wrote:
Beatles like!!
 
Yes, that is true...  this song is nice...




bachbeet
Posted: Aug 28, 2011 - 22:31
 
Good song from an earlier album of theirs.  I don't like all their albums but do like this one.

And, the Move were formed before Lynne joined.

ciaran
Posted: Jul 28, 2011 - 13:15
 
ELO - a brilliant contributor to the pop music manifesto.  Lynne captured the spirit of the Beatles when he helped form The Move in the 60's.  Showed his greatness more recently during Concert for George in UK, and in Grammy event live with Tom Petty, Prince and other luminaries. 

copymonkey
(in the northeast, but not near anywhere cool)
Posted: Jul 28, 2011 - 13:15
 
A lot of their songs I like just because I'm a sucker for a hooky power-pop song. This one I like just because it's a really good song (except for the ridiculous Casio keyboard solo)

dwlangham
Posted: Jul 11, 2011 - 08:02
 
 WonderLizard wrote:

IMHO they were a little over the top, tho' the idea of melding some components of rock to classical worked on occasion. My only complaint was when Lynne and Bev Bevan were interviewed on MTV during the ascendancy of punk, and Bevan said something about the music being rubbish and worse—essentially that it wasn't music. Mean and mean-spirited, not the sort of thing that musicians say about each other. The karmic consequence? Punk's influence vastly outweighed and outlasted ELO's.


 
Your critique sounds a little over the top. No one (except maybe ELO) confused ELO as being influential as the punk movement. It wasn't karma that caused this outcome. It was the fact that they were a listenable band, interesting at times and tuneful, but not of any great import like the Beatles, for example.


bluecshells
(EARTH)
Posted: Jul 11, 2011 - 07:58
 
ELO!!!! Love this!

philipburrows
(London, UK)
Posted: Jul 11, 2011 - 07:58
 
Cracking album, though not the best track from that album. Real surprise to hear ELO on RP...i don't know why...just is.



WonderLizard
(2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise)
Posted: May 26, 2011 - 12:31
 

IMHO they were a little over the top, tho' the idea of melding some components of rock to classical worked on occasion. My only complaint was when Lynne and Bev Bevan were interviewed on MTV during the ascendancy of punk, and Bevan said something about the music being rubbish and worse—essentially that it wasn't music. Mean and mean-spirited, not the sort of thing that musicians say about each other. The karmic consequence? Punk's influence vastly outweighed and outlasted ELO's.



rdo
(DC)
Posted: May 26, 2011 - 11:27
 
 Businessgypsy wrote:

 

I hate when that happens.

anabel
Posted: May 26, 2011 - 11:27
 
I am so sentimentally attached to this album that I could not possibly be objective about it... what a powerful and fascinating role music plays in our lives! 

a_genuine_find
(not me, Radio P) (3rd stone, sol, orion belt, milkyway)
Posted: May 26, 2011 - 11:25
 
 Businessgypsy wrote:

 

{#Roflol}

vandal
(arriving somewhere, but not here. . .)
Posted: May 26, 2011 - 11:24
 
mute

willmcnaught
(Eugene Oregon)
Posted: Apr 15, 2011 - 18:12
 

Just try to imagine hearing this band for the FIRST time in the early 70's, and maybe lucky enough to see live as I did 3 times and they always KNOCKED my socks off. They were sooooo good LIVE!



CasaE
Posted: Apr 15, 2011 - 17:58
 
BLAH, BLAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AndyJ
(Oregon)
Posted: Apr 07, 2011 - 10:28
 
There is a reason I have always referred to the 1970's as the "Decade Time Forgot".  Most of the music was bland and blenderized. Like pre-chewed food... This is the first time I've heard it in several decades. I find it's "quaint" now that I listen and heard the arrangement much more than the lyrics, rhythm, beat and mood... But still... another year and I'll listen and possibly enjoy it... Too bland for me. Like the music I hear when I have a high fever.... Otherwise, it's fine.

 

GeneP59
(State of Denial)
Posted: Apr 07, 2011 - 10:28
 
One of the few groups I own the box set of, and it was the very first one I bought too. {#Music}