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| From | "Michael Bennett" <mrhonorama@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Melony's ELO jones |
| Date | Mon, 12 Jul 2004 07:22:13 -0500 |
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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... ;)
Mike Bennett
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>From: "Sager, Greg" <greg.sager@bankofamerica.com>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: "'audities@smoe.org'" <audities@smoe.org>
>Subject: Melony's ELO jones
>Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 04:36:40 -0500
>
>Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 01:41:34 -0500
>From: "Michael Bennett" <mrhonorama@hotmail.com>
>To: audities@smoe.org
>Subject: Re: ELO fans -- ponder this
>Message-ID: <BAY19-F22RJimGzZFlF0002a318@hotmail.com>
>
>Excellent point. I think that Lynne, from his Idle Race days, has certain
>melodic things that are unique to him. And I hear artists whose music
>picks up on that -- it's all over the second half of the A.C. Newman album
>and Melony had a big E.L.O. jones, and there are others.
>
>
>I don't agree with Mike regarding Melony having an ELO jones. Or even an
>ELO
>johansson, for that matter. Speaking as a huge Melony fan who's memorized
>their (skimpy) catalog backwards and forwards, I don't hear ELO in them at
>all. Their grab-bag of influences tends towards the glammy and Britpop
>(with
>a dollop of the Pixies) more than anything else, and their arrangements and
>production certainly aren't reminiscent of Lynne's easily-identifiable
>work.
>And if there's any left-field melodic influence within Peter Kvint's
>songwriting, it's not ELO -- it's probably Abba (which may not be all that
>left-field an influence for a Swedish band, unless we're talking about the
>Backyard Babies or the Hellacopters).
>
>Then again, Mike and I seem to have an affinity for arguing about how to
>play "Where's Waldo" with Jeff Lynne. ;)
>
>
>Gregory Sager
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