#063/420 - Electric Light Orchestra, “Turn to Stone” (it is hard to try to anglicize that sound but hopefully you know what I mean….)Ī fine song in the exaggerated thematic vein of "Run for Your Life" by the Beatles that almost topped my list, don’t sleep on ELO in the 80s! There’s literally “Diamonds” in the rough to find. Tandy (I presume?) has some great synth accenting here too, especially after “I looked around I climbed up high into the dawn but she was gone with the night.” TWEEDLE-LEEDLE-DEEDLE-LEE-DEEDLE-LEE. Well, I never saw her face since then.” (That seems appropriate to my situation.) “And if the law don't get her then I will.” (LOL, sounds about right.) “Four little diamonds.” (Okay, I’m not that rich, but the rest of it!) So I’m bumming on the bus, looking out the window, and all of a sudden, the voice of Lynne, “Okay, after four… four!” And I’m like, what is this? “She said she'd rather die than ever leave me. I was taking a bus through the mountains from Bogotá to Líbano and I had just figured out (details spared) and man did she make me feel like shit. Nonetheless, this track I didn’t even know I had wound up on my laptop during my second trip to Colombia and worked itself into my life at a very fitting time to lift me up a bit. I’m not even quite sure how this one ended up in my collection as I didn’t have this album and I don’t think it would have been on any “greatest hits” I would have had either. Their final album was one I had skipped over previously, but even without what made them iconic in their glory days, they could still turn out a good tune.Īlso, I am a big fan of this completely awesome and very, very 80s music video: So this song ended up as the leading track on my desert mix while carting around the desert for The Wayward Sun and it worked just as well in real life as it did in Larry Crowne. ![]() We could put 2011’s Larry Crowne in that “umm, give thanks for Hanks” category, but we should also put it in the “Lynne for the win” zone because somehow (“somehow”) Tom Hanks riding on a moped while this song plays and the end credits roll made me leave the theater thinking, “Hey, you know, that Larry Crowne wasn’t all that bad.” Thanks to Hanks with Lynne for the win. And as for many things in life, I have Tom Hanks to thank.īeing that Tom Hanks and I share a birthday, I try to see as many movies of his as I can, whether they are “good” or “bad”, they are always Hanks. (originally from 1986, “Calling America/Caught in a Trap”)įrom their last and least successful album since the start of the group, with a non-classic line-up, no orchestra, and only synth, this song overcomes the odds and ends up being one of my very favorites from ELO. #060/420 - Electric Light Orchestra, “Calling America” So this will not be the last in this countdown. This is a good headphone song, and generally ELO is a very good headphone band.Īnd also, now that I think about it, I think I’m actually pretty fond of what I consider jungle-themed songs in general too. Even better if that happens while crossing some epically tall bridge or winding some mountain bend with valleys below. It comes in very gradually and softly at first, so as I’m maybe half asleep on a night bus in Colombia somewhere, it lulls me in with the "bird" (monkey?) noises and all that but then, woosh, 30 seconds in and we’re grooving. Many great songs make it hard to choose just a few, “It’s Over” was what I originally envisioned ending The Amateur Monster Movie on for instance, but this song is one that’s grown into a particular favorite of mine over the years, popping up on my shuffle during many travels (partially because I accidentally added it to my library multiple times) where, well, “Jungle” was very fitting to where I was. ![]() ELO’s mighty double LP, Out of the Blue, contains much of their best work and what I would consider their peak output as a group.
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