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Electric Light Orchestra — Fire On High
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evansdad
(CT)
Posted: Feb 27, 2013 - 08:48
 
 vicariance wrote:
"groundbreaking work" can suck my balls.  This is not music.  This is scraps of music put in a blender and peed on.
 
{#Lol} times one billion.

coloradojohn
(A Mile High and then some, Cherry Creek, Denver)
Posted: Feb 27, 2013 - 08:44
 
Still get thrills at the beginning...kinda sounds like he's saying 'Latimer Kaiser Soce!' but I seem to recall that when we were all cueing it up on turntables at home it sounded like he said something like 'Music is reversible, but Time isn't' backwards...It was COOL in its time!

MinMan
(Bay Area, CA)
Posted: Dec 26, 2012 - 17:15
 
 msymmes wrote:
Jeff Lynne is a genius.
 
Uh... maybe not.

richlister
(Here, there, pretty much everywhere.)
Posted: Nov 25, 2012 - 08:56
 
I take it he drank the blook like it was lemonade? Not that the blood was like lemonade? As an embolism is some serious sh1t.

RoaldSchuring
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Posted: Sep 23, 2012 - 11:24
 
this sounds like porcupine tree on ecstacy... awesome

msymmes
(Toronto, CA)
Posted: Sep 23, 2012 - 11:22
 

I agree !! 

msymmes wrote:
Jeff Lynne is a genius.
 
 



Segue
(Almost Paradise)
Posted: Aug 22, 2012 - 23:29
 
Intro STILL scares the shit outta me. Had to turn it off!!

treatment_bound
(Duluth to Madison)
Posted: Jul 22, 2012 - 13:44
 
If you put the needle down on the original vinyl LP of this opening track and manually spun it backwards, the "gibberish" in the intro. actually turns into a sentence. If I recall correctly, it's something like "The music is reversible" or "The music is backwards". It's been years since I did this. Can anybody back me up on this with additional info./input?


sandpebble
(near Paradise)
Posted: Jul 22, 2012 - 13:43
 
 msymmes wrote:
The theme for CBS Sports Spectular in the 1970's.  I kid you not.

 
 

I remember a Formula 1 car seem to jump straight up out of the pack and flip backwards. I bet Jackie Stewart remembers!

KurtfromLaQuinta
(Deep in the heart of South California)
Posted: Apr 18, 2012 - 13:31
 
 lemmoth wrote:


Fortunately for you the band with the most talent and the best songs one.
 
I taint the best with words out there... but I caught this won. {#Lol}

aelfheld
Posted: Apr 18, 2012 - 13:30
 
 jocelynsart wrote:
horrid :-(
 
Mantovani on drugs.

And not very good ones at that.

smackiepipe
(Western North Carolina)
Posted: Apr 18, 2012 - 13:27
 
Love it. Always have.

hobiejoe
(Still in the tunnel, looking for the light.)
Posted: Apr 18, 2012 - 13:26
 
Dear PT,
 
This is how you do portentious prog.
 
Sincerely,
 
HJ.

msymmes
(Toronto, CA)
Posted: Apr 18, 2012 - 13:24
 
Jeff Lynne is a genius.
 

oldviolin
(Esse Quam Videri)
Posted: Jan 14, 2012 - 08:29
 
 tutakea wrote:
there is a lot of argument for calling this "horrid", yes.
the shamelessly profanising use of classical music themes, here transformed to total kitsch, is so over-the-top you can either hate this or laugh out aloud. to call this "eclectic" is really too harmless...
otherwise, i have to admit that i really like the outcome, on an emotional level, although my "intellectual self" is saying "horrid! keep away! this is barbaric!" my feelings say "whow!" 
 
this record and the one before; Eldorado, certainly have a conceptual timbre that lends itself to a more musically deliberate context 
when the entire albums are listened to. A cursory familiarization with the band bio might also be most interesting to music lover such as yourself. By the way, is that "horrid" as expressed by, say, Edvard Munchs The Scream, or more say, the intense emotion experienced by the virtual image of runny eggs languishing on a tepid stack of rocks? ;)



tutakea
Posted: Jan 14, 2012 - 08:16
 
there is a lot of argument for calling this "horrid", yes.
the shamelessly profanising use of classical music themes, here transformed to total kitsch, is so over-the-top you can either hate this or laugh out aloud. to call this "eclectic" is really too harmless...
otherwise, i have to admit that i really like the outcome, on an emotional level, although my "intellectual self" is saying "horrid! keep away! this is barbaric!" my feelings say "whow!" 

oldviolin
(Esse Quam Videri)
Posted: Jan 14, 2012 - 08:14
 
 vicariance wrote:
"groundbreaking work" can suck my balls.  This is not music.  This is scraps of music put in a blender and peed on.
 
your caption seems to belay your insight...



oldviolin
(Esse Quam Videri)
Posted: Jan 14, 2012 - 08:11
 
time machine

jocelynsart
Posted: Jan 14, 2012 - 08:09
 
horrid :-(

G_Raffa
(How far is all the way?)
Posted: Dec 13, 2011 - 13:57
 
The intro reminds me of "Scars" by Basement Jaxx- which I've actually been thinking would be fun to hear again.

RedGuitar
(Iowa, USA)
Posted: Dec 13, 2011 - 13:55
 
I liked this album and its predecessors, but they started to lose me real fast with the subsequent ones.

msymmes
(Toronto, CA)
Posted: Dec 13, 2011 - 13:51
 
The theme for CBS Sports Spectular in the 1970's.  I kid you not.

 

lshinkawa
(Berkeley, CA)
Posted: Nov 11, 2011 - 20:52
 
Had this as a '45 on purple vinyl once upon a time. Thank for throwing it out Mom and Dad.

finoufk
(Bordeaux - france)
Posted: Oct 11, 2011 - 07:37
 
evrything is good in that song !  the quicky played guitar , the aerial atmosphere , the breaking drums, the frightening intro, please ENCORE !   {#Clap} 

too bad , jeff Lynne is way out underrated in the pop rock history ...

lemmoth
(NYC)
Posted: Oct 11, 2011 - 07:34
 
 efaulkjr wrote:
This brings back memories.  In 1975 I was wavering between Queen, Sweet & ELO.  Queen ultimately won out.  I was only 13.
 

Fortunately for you the band with the most talent and the best songs one.

mandolin
(...drifting...)
Posted: Oct 11, 2011 - 07:32
 
 WonderLizard wrote:
Actually, the traditional caution is against ending a sentence with a preposition. What's the world coming to?
 
...that's why "up yours" is considered proper grammar...


vicariance
(awesome like a billion hot dogs)
Posted: Oct 11, 2011 - 07:30
 
"groundbreaking work" can suck my balls.  This is not music.  This is scraps of music put in a blender and peed on.

On_The_Beach
(The Blue Planet)
Posted: Oct 10, 2011 - 02:28
 
 treatment_bound wrote:
Somehow you've mistaken Musburger with this guy...
 
D'oh! My apologies to Brent.


treatment_bound
(Duluth to Madison)
Posted: Sep 27, 2011 - 14:20
 
 On_The_Beach wrote:

You bite my back and I'll . . .

 

Somehow you've mistaken Musburger with this guy...





On_The_Beach
(The Blue Planet)
Posted: Sep 09, 2011 - 21:18
 
 treatment_bound wrote:
You are looking LIVE at Soldier Field in Chicago!

 
You bite my back and I'll . . .


handyrae
(Zero Point Field)
Posted: Aug 09, 2011 - 12:12
 
Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

WonderLizard
(2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise)
Posted: Aug 09, 2011 - 12:08
 
 rabbi_phil wrote:
I want to apologise to my 7th grade english teacher,Mrs Nardone, for starting sentences with a preposition. Yude-ah thunk she'd learned me more better.
 
Actually, the traditional caution is against ending a sentence with a preposition. What's the world coming to?



daedalus
(Over your hill)
Posted: Jul 09, 2011 - 03:38
 
Flashbacks and memories aside, I find this a seriously uninspired mishmash of musical phrases evoking a picture of someone bundling together a basketful of rejected clips without any overall coherence.

David Bowie was reputed to have written down collections of unrelated words, thrown them into a bin, and written songs based on the order in which they came out... If true, at least he did it with imagination. 
{#Eek}
This is sadly mediocre. 

tg3k
(The Jungle - 459.62 miles south of Paradise, CA)
Posted: Jul 09, 2011 - 03:31
 
Hearing this song brings back happy flashbacks of strawberry incense, Mexican dirt weed, and Coors. Put a lot of miles on this album back in the day. Cool to hear this cut again. Thanks, Bill.

nate917
(2,815 miles from home)
Posted: Jun 07, 2011 - 12:08
 
 rabbi_phil wrote:


What? His feelings aren't valid? He doesn't have a right to his own opinion? ( irrespective of how it's stated). He may be 'direct' but at least it's not vulgar. I kinda appreciate those who aren't afraid to hang it out there. At least we know exactly where they  stand. Do I agree with what they say or how they say it? Maybe and maybe not. Besides they haven't harmed anyone,it's just radio PLAYTIME. Why so serious? With what most of us have to deal with on a daily basis between our work,business and personal lives it can be fun to interact in a public forum without the need of (within reason) a behavioural or moral compass. Can't have Angels without Devils; Can't have the Beatles without the Stones.

I want to apologise to my 7th grade english teacher,Mrs Nardone, for starting sentences with a preposition. Yude-ah thunk she'd learned me more better.

 
It's perfectly OK to start sentences with a preposition.  I think you mean starting them with a conjunction, and even that is grammatically acceptable.  The so-called rule to the contrary was created by grade school teachers attempting to teach narrative style without beginning each sentence with a conjunction.  (And then....   And then.....   And then....)  But there is nothing grammatically wrong with sentences that begin with conjunctions, including this one.


crockydile
(Outer Spiral Arm, Milky Way)
Posted: Jun 07, 2011 - 12:03
 
 rabaak wrote:
When I think of 70s prog rock, I think of Genesis, Pink Floyd, ELP and Yes.  Not ELO. At least not the stuff they had as hits on the radio anyway.  Songs like BRING ME DOWN had me hunting for another radio station when it got played. Maybe the other stuff on their albums might be considered prog rock. I don't know. What I heard on the radio never made me want to spend money on buying any of their albums.

 ianmoff wrote:

I beg to differ.
3 simple words.
70's Prog Rock
 

 
Don't Bring Me Down is to ELO fans as Ewoks is to Star Wars fans. New World Record and Out of the Blue are more in-line with what you're talking about. As long as you're bringing up ELP, let's talk about Karn Evil 9...{#Roflol}



audiophelia
(Pennsylvania)
Posted: Jun 07, 2011 - 11:58
 
OMG, this was such groundbreaking work when it came it out back in the day! It stands the test of time in being something truly unique and different. You know EXACTLY who it is once it starts playing.

xtalman
(What dimension?)
Posted: Jun 07, 2011 - 11:57
 
 rabaak wrote:
When I think of 70s prog rock, I think of Genesis, Pink Floyd, ELP and Yes.  Not ELO. At least not the stuff they had as hits on the radio anyway.  Songs like BRING ME DOWN had me hunting for another radio station when it got played. Maybe the other stuff on their albums might be considered prog rock. I don't know. What I heard on the radio never made me want to spend money on buying any of their albums.

 ianmoff wrote:

I beg to differ.
3 simple words.
70's Prog Rock
 

 
There early stuff, this included, definitely is prog rock.  There later stuff not so much.  I think the change was when they went from being known as the Electric Light Orchestra to just ELO.


OzFan
(Skye, Melbourne, Australia)
Posted: May 06, 2011 - 21:57
 

If you don’t like it, you just weren’t there.


Play it again Bill...and again.

DD rabbi_phil
(beach)
Posted: Apr 05, 2011 - 07:20
 
 Cynaera wrote:

Please feel free to go away if you don't like the music. I don't like YOU. Oh - haven't seen your posts for awhile, so never mind. And thank you.

Yep, I'm having another of those very emotional days. Unfortunately, I don't censor myself during these times, so anything can (and usually does) show up very blatantly. Personally, I LOVE "Fire On High," because it scares me into stutters. I really do picture a walk through Alcatraz, with the echoing footsteps, the haunted voices, the building drama...

This song should be a soundtrack for the scariest movie ever made. Alcatraz, or Bergen-Belsen. Anything with concrete, underground, metal grates, dangling wires, and at least one staircase that goes down and gets narrower and shabbier - with a bare light-bulb dangling from a cord, and when a person reaches the bottom, there's one door with a window, and that door opens into a room with a concrete floor and a corner where a fire blazes - and in that fire are bodies stacked like cordwood.

This song always elicits nightmares for me when I hear it, and I've shared a few frames from those horrible dreams. Still, I love ELO because of their talent. It's just this one song that freaks me out.

 

What? His feelings aren't valid? He doesn't have a right to his own opinion? ( irrespective of how it's stated). He may be 'direct' but at least it's not vulgar. I kinda appreciate those who aren't afraid to hang it out there. At least we know exactly where they  stand. Do I agree with what they say or how they say it? Maybe and maybe not. Besides they haven't harmed anyone,it's just radio PLAYTIME. Why so serious? With what most of us have to deal with on a daily basis between our work,business and personal lives it can be fun to interact in a public forum without the need of (within reason) a behavioural or moral compass. Can't have Angels without Devils; Can't have the Beatles without the Stones.

I want to apologise to my 7th grade english teacher,Mrs Nardone, for starting sentences with a preposition. Yude-ah thunk she'd learned me more better.


ccwcool
(O-HI-O)
Posted: Apr 05, 2011 - 06:19
 
{#Dancingbanana}

oldviolin
(Esse Quam Videri)
Posted: Apr 05, 2011 - 06:15
 
I'm quite fond of this record...

treatment_bound
(Duluth to Madison)
Posted: Mar 24, 2011 - 08:49
 
 johnjconn wrote:

The NFL on CBS ?
 
You are looking LIVE at Soldier Field in Chicago!



Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal)
Posted: Feb 01, 2011 - 12:15
 
 ulibcn wrote:
When I came back into the room and heard this piece I asked myself: WHAT THE HECK IST THIS???
Then I saw the label and had no more questions. ELO is so, so, so, so unbelievably BAD.
I already knew that.
What I didn't know was that they sucked THAT MUCH
The reason is simple. I've never heard this piece of crap before Have mercy, Bill!
 
Please feel free to go away if you don't like the music. I don't like YOU. Oh - haven't seen your posts for awhile, so never mind. And thank you.

Yep, I'm having another of those very emotional days. Unfortunately, I don't censor myself during these times, so anything can (and usually does) show up very blatantly. Personally, I LOVE "Fire On High," because it scares me into stutters. I really do picture a walk through Alcatraz, with the echoing footsteps, the haunted voices, the building drama...

This song should be a soundtrack for the scariest movie ever made. Alcatraz, or Bergen-Belsen. Anything with concrete, underground, metal grates, dangling wires, and at least one staircase that goes down and gets narrower and shabbier - with a bare light-bulb dangling from a cord, and when a person reaches the bottom, there's one door with a window, and that door opens into a room with a concrete floor and a corner where a fire blazes - and in that fire are bodies stacked like cordwood.

This song always elicits nightmares for me when I hear it, and I've shared a few frames from those horrible dreams. Still, I love ELO because of their talent. It's just this one song that freaks me out.


rabaak
Posted: Feb 01, 2011 - 11:23
 
When I think of 70s prog rock, I think of Genesis, Pink Floyd, ELP and Yes.  Not ELO. At least not the stuff they had as hits on the radio anyway.  Songs like BRING ME DOWN had me hunting for another radio station when it got played. Maybe the other stuff on their albums might be considered prog rock. I don't know. What I heard on the radio never made me want to spend money on buying any of their albums.

 ianmoff wrote:

I beg to differ.
3 simple words.
70's Prog Rock
 


Baby_M
(a 100+-year old building in downtown Akron, Ohio)
Posted: Feb 01, 2011 - 11:17
 
Up until the acoustic guitar kicks in, I'm hearing a narrator in my head: "In a world where hope is lost . . . where justice no longer exists . . . where movie trailers like this one have soundtracks like this . . .an unlikely band of heroes will rise.  A man with a dark past . . . a young woman with extraordinary powers . . . and a plucky computer-generated sidekick . . .will defy the odds . . . and discover love . . . and save the world . . . with the power of progressive rock.  From the director of Ben Hur II: Chariots of Fresno . . . the producer of  Heaven's Gate III . . . and the writer of Ballistic: Reagan Versus Gorbachev . . . come's this summer's most epic adventure . . . . . . . ."



efaulkjr
(San Antonio TX)
Posted: Feb 01, 2011 - 11:11
 
This brings back memories.  In 1975 I was wavering between Queen, Sweet & ELO.  Queen ultimately won out.  I was only 13.

GeneP59
(Depressionville N.E.)
Posted: Feb 01, 2011 - 11:10
 
Kcab nrut ,kcab nrut ,kcab nrut ,kcab nruT  {#Lol}

Darlington
(Columbia, South Carolina)
Posted: Feb 01, 2011 - 11:09
 
 johnjconn wrote:

The NFL on CBS ?
 



Yep from way back in the day. This song reeks of my Jr. High School years, but in a totally good way.

Sasha2001
(Where the last of the union men run free)
Posted: Feb 01, 2011 - 11:08
 
 JGM wrote:
This song came out when "Good Times" was a hit - for the longest time as a kid I thought they were singing "Dy-no-mite". . . .
 
It's amazing how music and images blend together when you are a kid and these associations seem to solidify over time. I think Jung had something to say about that.