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| From | "Sager, Greg" <greg.sager@bankofamerica.com> |
| Subject | Re: Melony's ELO jones |
| Date | Tue, 13 Jul 2004 03:18:15 -0500 |
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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 07:22:13 -0500
From: "Michael Bennett" <mrhonorama@hotmail.com>
To: audities@smoe.org
Subject: Re: Melony's ELO jones
Message-ID: <BAY19-F16U1YImWd1Go0003085e@hotmail.com>
Greg --
Two songs of theirs are soaking in ELO like Madge's customers fingers in
Palmolive -- "Let's Make a Rainbow" on the first album and especially
"Nobody's Coming Home" on the second album. I'm not saying it's the essence
of their sound, and maybe they never listened to ELO -- but those songs have
melodies that are very Jeff Lynne.
Hmm, don't hear it. "Let's Make a Rainbow" is, to these ears at least, an
undiluted slab of Britpop straight out of 1994. I could definitely envision
that song being a Suede b-side back when Brett Anderson and Bernard Butler
were still thick as thieves. "Nobody's Coming Home", which I think is a
rather ill-considered mess of a song, sounds like David Bowie's "Blue Jean"
at half speed crossed with an old *Wonderful World Of Disney* tune whose
name I can't recall at the moment. Again, it doesn't sound ELOish at all.
Aside from our difference of opinion, I don't think that I'm following your
larger point. How could Melony have a big ELO jones if you concede that it's
possible that they (or, more precisely, Melony songwriter Peter Kvint) never
even listened to Jeff Lynne & Co.? In songwriting terms, it's the difference
between influence and independent parallel development.
The shame of all this is that you and I are apparently a lonely two-man crew
of Melony enthusiasts on Audities. Any other takers on the list for this
magnificent power pop trio from Stockholm? I put one of my favorite songs by
the band, "Everyday Girl", on my recent SOTT contribution, and I'm hoping
that it elicits some positive feedback from the other members of the SOTT
consortium.
Now go back to your seven games out of first place ball club... ;)
Heh, last summer I told another friend of mine who prefers the off-brand of
Chicago baseball, after he had gleefully rubbed it in that his Men In Black
had once again won the crosstown series against the Cubs, that he who crows
in July often eats crow by the end of September. I hereby dust off that
remark and offer it up again for 2004. ;)
Gregory Sager
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