Mike from Portage, MiELO has been one my top all time favorite bands, both musically and lyrically.David from Shepparton, AustraliaEvil woman made Number 790 in "The Definitive 1000 Songs Of All Time".I think that ABBA ,ELO and ALAN PARSON PROJECTS are the three all time great bands musically and technically (sound-engineering ) not surpassed since their demise ,there is TOTO in the eighties and nineties who brought such perfection but the three (abba elo and parson) are undethronable! īut it seems that ELO hasn't fulfill that yet ,the recognition they deserve and the success of true revival,personally i think that Abba was such an anti-conformist music act that this lead to that ,on the other hand even though ELO had its own touch ,they were one of the British Us rock acts ,so they didn't get a special place in the mess (some people dare to compare Abba with boney M and bee gees which is stupid !) and ELO with some seventies prog rock bands ? Bratt Pid from Algiers, AlgeriaELO just like ABBA was very hard criticized during their heydays for making the turn to disco ,they were supposedly pop-rock acts ,studio wizard making the best pop music ever and suddenly in the late eighties they both were forgotten in the media to the joy of rock critics but Abba enjoyed a great revival during the nineties (since 1992) due to a faithful army of fans (I'm one of them !) and the success of Mamma mia ! of course.Revisit also the lyrics to Staying Alive to relieve yourself of any doubts that they were also literate. It would be wise to revisit the entirety of the band's five decade career and also to listen more closely to their pre-Saturday Night Fever 70s recordings like Jive Talking and Nights On Broadway. Matt from Phoenix, AzI agree with BRATT in Algeria about everything except his dismissal of the Bee Gees.
Evil woman by electric light orchestra free#
Ryman from Tarragona, AndorraI guess you made a mistake writing about the composers: there is a song with this title and these composers, but it's another song from the band Little Free Rock.Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn June 25th 1976, the Electric Light Orchestra performed "Evil Woman" on the NBC-TV program 'The Midnight Special'.Įight months earlier on November 9th, 1975 it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #87 and on February 8th, 1976 it peaked at #10 (for 2 weeks) and spent 17 weeks on the Top 100.īetween 19 the group had twenty-five Top 100 records seven made the Top 10 with "Don't Bring Me Down" being their biggest hit, it peaked at #4 (for 2 weeks) on September 2nd, 1979.Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind You destroyed all the virtues that the Lord gave youīut you better get your face on board the very next train (train)īut now you're tryin' to wail a different song There's a hole in my head where the rain comes inīut a fool and his money soon go separate ways Here are 10 of those best moments-scenes that not only include an ELO song, but are elevated by them as well.So just make some miles between here and there That’s why, in the right hands, it can make for something that’s cinematically iconic almost right away. We know Jeff Lynne’s work as soon as we hear it, and we know how different it is from pretty much everything else released during his heyday. So when a director or music supervisor decides to pluck an ELO song from beneath the sonic umbrella of its respective LP, it’s a very bold move. Those strings wouldn’t be there if the song wasn’t building toward something larger.
While something like “Boy Blue” rides on stadium-sized hooks, what really makes it soar are those strings, a trait that comes entirely from Lynne’s baroque pop and album-oriented sensibilities. It’s the classical thread that ties all of Eldorado(and most of ELO’s discography) together. Sure, Lynne was a hit machine throughout the ’70s and ’80s, but those hits always sounded so colorful and different because they were part of a larger puzzle. Those two things complement each other more than you’d think. In his review of Alone In the Universe, the first Electric Light Orchestra album in almost 15 years, our own Dan Bogosian correctly pointed out that, even though Jeff Lynne‘s music has become best known for its use in other pop-culture mediums, ELO is also very much an album band.
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