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| From | "David Bash" <bashpop@earthlink.net> |
| Subject | Re: Melony's ELO jones |
| Date | Tue, 13 Jul 2004 08:11:43 -0700 |
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--- In audities@yahoogroups.com, "Michael Bennett" <mrhonorama@h...> wrote:
> 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.
>
> Now go back to your seven games out of first place ball club... ;)
I don't quite hear the ELO influence in Melony either, but I *do* hear it in
another Swedish band, Grass~Show. The songs "Freak Show" and, particularly,
"Illusion", from their excellent 1995 album Something Smells Good In
Stinkville, really reek of early '80s ELO.
--
Pop Rules!!!!!
Take Care,
David (who will go back to his seven games in front ballclub, as soon as the
All-Star break is over)
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