There are a lot of gems on this LP. Right around the time I started listening to Ian. I've got a couple copies, no idea what pressing.
This is an album that you can listen to all the way through, both sides. Bastard and When The Daylight Comes are my two favorites as stand alone songs.
The only reason I know what pressings these albums are is because I've got to be 100% correct about listing these puppies for sale. Down to the font on the labels sometimes. What is amazing is how many 1st pressings I have. Didn't know WTF you were getting back then and didn't really care that much as long as it was scratch free. Going deep into what's left and pulling out stuff that has sat for 30 to 40 years. The cherry picked good stuff is pretty much gone. Right now I've got to fill my store up with as much as I can to hopefully catch some of those impulsively spent tax refund dollars.
Radio station prize from WMMS. Ground zero for the Cleveland Rocks part. Same with the Neil Young album. I was caller # for a whole bunch of things. Speed dial was brand new back then. Cleveland Rocks got real hard to take as it was airplayed to death. There is a London Rocks version out there somewhere. Haven't found it yet.
There are a lot of gems on this LP. Right around the time I started listening to Ian. I've got a couple copies, no idea what pressing.
Both this and Eldorado were older brother/sister favorites. I was young enough to be a bit scared by Fire on High. My sister would turn out the lights in her room at the appropriate moments for effect. Then CBS started using it for the CBS Sports Spectacular theme music...and fear turned to excitement.
Because I liked listening to my older sibs albums, my father one Valentines Day picked up a few albums for me... erroneously selecting ELO's first album (the bulb...) and The Yes Album (correctly) as the first albums I ever truly owned.
I had a high school friend (Steve Berniard) and when Evil Woman came on he’d starting exclaiming “the ha ha song!” He looked like Tom Cruise. Would shatter a shot glass and eat it. Made business cards for the two of us when we went to college. Came into our dorm room drunk and bullied me. Went on to be a lawyer, have a son. Called me out of the blue after decades, said something about “well, when things go bad…never mind” and hung up. Killed himself a bit afterwards.
Music is a strange mistress. There is a reason a hook is called a hook. Just got to Evil Woman, played Side B first for some reason. The ha ha song, never would'a thought about it that way until I heard it again and read the lyrics. Yeah, ok. Music is one thing that is so many things to so many different people all at the same time. Inspired by memories of the composer, creating new ones in the listener that are more often about something else than the music itself. Like events. Or be the inspiration for events. To mention a few. And created from the universal harmonics that run this plane of existence.
I saw your comment about the synthesizer. That was pretty revealing about how some of us are really into music while others just have it in the background as nothing more than some static.
I just reversed the first 30 seconds of Side A to play back the backward masked bit. It says clear as a bell, "the music is reversable, but time ... turn back ... turn back ... turn back ... "
Someday I'll get around to reversing some of The Beatles stuff and listening to what they actually said.
Haven't played this in 40 years. Saw them for the Out Of The Blue tour complete with the flying saucer set. Amazing how Jeff Lynne has been so much in and out of my musical life from The Move through The Wilbury's. Got Eldorado and Out Of The Blue to do yet. They have all sat this long.
I had a high school friend (Steve Berniard) and when Evil Woman came on heâd starting exclaiming âthe ha ha song!â
He looked like Tom Cruise. Would shatter a shot glass and eat it. Made business cards for the two of us when we went to college. Came into our dorm room drunk and bullied me. Went on to be a lawyer, have a son.
Called me out of the blue after decades, said something about âwell, when things go badâ¦never mindâ and hung up. Killed himself a bit afterwards.
I've got a '79 issue of that. I bought it back in... '79.
Radio station prize from WMMS. Ground zero for the Cleveland Rocks part. Same with the Neil Young album. I was caller # for a whole bunch of things. Speed dial was brand new back then. Cleveland Rocks got real hard to take as it was airplayed to death. There is a London Rocks version out there somewhere. Haven't found it yet.
A college buddy drove from Baton Rouge to Atlanta to catch a show on this tour. Mind blown.
He got lucky, real lucky. You never know what he's gonna do. I saw him solo around the time of the Unplugged stuff hoping for something like this. Nope, he was in a mood and played stuff that made you wish you were somewhere else listening to one of his albums instead.
I've seen him with CSNY quite a few times and that was fun.
1979 US 1st
1979 US 1st
1980 US 1st press
