Long Wave



1) She (George Shearing? Charles Aznavour?)
2) If I Loved You (Rodgers-Hammerstein)
3) So Sad (George Harrison? Everly Brothers?)
4) Mercy Mercy (Don Covay)
5) Running Scared (Roy Orbison)
6) Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered (Rodgers-Hart)
7) Smile (Charlie Chaplin)
8) At Last (Gordon-Warren)
9) Love Is A Many Splendored Thing (Fein-Webster)
10) Let It Rock (Chuck Berry)
11) Beyond The Sea (Charles Trenet)

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008Y5OW20/?tag=imwan-20

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Mr. Blue Sky: The Very Best Of Electric Light Orchestra



1) Mr. Blue Sky
2) Evil Woman
3) Strange Magic
4) Don't Bring Me Down
5) Turn To Stone
6) Showdown
7) Telephone Line
8) Livin' Thing
9) Do Ya
10) Can't Get It Out Of My Head
11) 10538 Overture (40th anniversary edition)
12) Point Of No Return

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008OJ291W/?tag=imwan-20

I LOVE Jeff Lynne/ELO, but I was hoping for new music and I'm not crazy about him re-recording ELO classics ala KISS. I'm curious as to what other surprises he's talking about.

Album of cover versions
1) She (Geoge Shearing? Charles Aznavour?)
2) If I Loved You (Rodgers-Hammerstein)
3) So Sad (George Harrison? Everly Brothers?)
4) Mercy Mercy (Don Covay)
5) Running Scared (Roy Orbison)
6) Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered (Rodgers-Hart)
7) Smile (Charlie Chaplin)
8) At Last (Gordon-Warren)
9) Love Is A Many Splendored Thing (Fein-Webster)
10) Let It Rock (Chuck Berry)
11) Beyond The Sea (Charles Trenet)


1) Mr. Blue Sky
2) Evil Woman
3) Strange Magic
4) Don't Bring Me Down
5) Turn To Stone
6) Showdown
7) Telephone Line
8) Livin' Thing
9) Do Ya
10) Can't Get It Out Of My Head
11) 10538 Overture (40th anniversary edition)
12) Point Of No Return


The 2 new albums of Jeff Lynne are planned for 26 September in Japan and 03 October in Europe:
- Jeff Lynne: "Long Wave" (solo album of cover versions) (Shm-CD + CD + Vinyl)
- ELO: "Mr. Blue Sky - The Very Best Of" (ELO hits re-recorded by Jeff Lynne) (Shm-CD + CD + Vinyl)

"Hi, This is Jeff Lynne, and I've got a bit of news for you!
To anyone who has been waiting for me to release some new recordings... thanks for waiting, you're the best. I know it's been way too long again, but I'm hoping you'll think it was worth the wait. I have two new albums and some other surprises coming shortly! It's true, honestly. (I'm not kidding). Really! Both are very unusual and I'm excited to share them with you. It was a real pleasure to work on these projects. They may have taken a few years to complete, but I can tell you it was some of the best musical fun I've ever had. Stay tuned."
(message sent by Jeff Lynne to The Showdown Mailing List and posted on Face The Music)

This is kind of my fault.

Since Lynne put September Song and Stormy Weather on Armchair Theater in 1990, I've been wishing that he'd put out an album of standards.

And I can't get enough versions of him singing Do Ya and Can't Get It Out Of My Head. So the ELO redux album is my fault too.

Sorry guys.

*&^%$#@

ELO songs have appeared in so many movies and TV ads over the past few years, I can't blame Lynne too much for wanting a bigger piece of the licensing pie. In fact, we saw Savages this weekend, and "Do Ya" is used for a big action sequence. In the end credits, it said "performed by Jeff Lynne," no mention of ELO. In that case, it was a note-for-note rerecording.

Did it sound diffrent Jimbo?

Great, now I have to see another goddamn Oliver Stone movie.

Thanks Jimbo.

It sounded a bit more juiced up, but not very different. And I run hot and cold with Stone as a director, but the movie is actually good.

Jeff's fans on the Showdown List are the first in the world to see this! ftmusic.com will have a full graphic version shortly. ENJOY!!
- Lynn


August 1, 2012


JEFF LYNNE
RETURNS OCTOBER 9 WITH TWO ALBUMS
ON FRONTIERS RECORDS:
THE SOLO ALBUM "LONG WAVE"
AND THE NEWLY RECORDED
'MR. BLUE SKY-THE VERY BEST OF ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA'

"It all comes down to what you truly love doing, and what I love
doing is overdubbing and making new sounds out of things that are
sometimes quite ordinary on their own, but when you put them
together, they make something new--or something that sounds new. Just
discovering things like that musically is a pleasure." --JEFF LYNNE,
2012


JEFF LYNNE, one of rock's most iconic figures, is returning to make
some new waves and shed a little electric light.

The creative force of ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA and the singularly
accomplished singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer will release
two albums on October 9 via Frontiers Records: the solo disc LONG
WAVE, a heartfelt and vivid tribute to some of the very songs that
originally inspired him, and MR. BLUE SKY-THE VERY BEST OF ELECTRIC
LIGHT ORCHESTRA. For the latter album, the British artist has
artfully revisited and re-recorded--at his home studio in Los
Angeles--the greatest hits of Electric Light Orchestra, actually
improving on some of the most classic and beloved recordings ever.

The release of LONG WAVE and MR. BLUE SKY-THE VERY BEST OF ELECTRIC
LIGHT ORCHESTRA mark the 40th anniversary of ELO. LYNNE's legacy
will further be celebrated with releases in 2013 including ELO Live!
plus expanded reissues of the ELO's 2001 album Zoom and LYNNE's first
solo album in 1990, Armchair Theater. For up to date info on all
things JEFF LYNNE and ELO, go here: http://www.elo.biz

LONG WAVE powerfully celebrates the music of a time when LYNNE's
lifelong passion for music began, evoking an era back when old
standards were just giving way to rock & roll. He somehow makes
pre-rock standards like "Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered," "Smile"
and "Love Is A Many Splendored Many Thing"--along with a few of his
favorite gems from the Sixties such as the first single "Mercy,
Mercy," "Let It Rock" and "So Sad"--his own with these loving
versions. LYNNE's deeply felt and musically brilliant one-man-band
takes add up to an inspired love letter to music itself--and an
exquisite reflection of the way songs grace and change our lives.

"I call this new album Long Wave because all of the songs I sing on
it are the ones heard on long wave radio when I was a kid growing up
in Birmingham, England," LYNNE explains. "These songs take me back to
that feeling of freedom in those days and summon up the feeling of
first hearing those powerful waves of music coming in on my old
crystal set. My dad also had the radio on all the time, so some of
these songs have been stuck in my head for 50 years. You can only
imagine how great it felt to finally get them out of my head after
all these years."

MR. BLUE SKY-THE VERY BEST OF ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA is a powerful
testament to LYNNE's enduring artistry and his singular desire to get
things right once and for all. Featuring such classics as "Evil
Woman," "Don't Bring Me Down," "Livin' Thing" and "Mr. Blue Sky," the
result is, in effect, a kind of showdown between JEFF LYNNE today and
his extremely illustrious past, and thanks to improved technology and
recording artistry, LYNNE somehow comes out on top again. It's a
fresh chance to hear these extraordinary songs sounding sharper and
clearer than the old versions.

"There was a big reason I wanted to re-record these ELO songs," says
LYNNE. "When I listen to the old versions they don't sound the way I
thought they did when I first wrote and recorded them. I wanted to
use the experience I've gained producing records ever since and have
a completely new try at them. I'm not saying the old versions aren't
good; I like them very much. We were doing our best, but experience
and technology also play a big a big part, and these new ones sound
much more solid and tight."

The album includes a never-before-heard bonus track, "The Point Of No
Return," and a very special version of "10538 Overture" that's a nod
to ELO's 40th anniversary.

The songs that JEFF LYNNE wrote and sang--and the recordings that he
so expertly arranged and produced for ELO--have endured beautifully
and are perhaps even more beloved today than they were back in the
Seventies and Eighties. By any standard whatsoever, ELO is one of the
most remarkable success stories in rock history. Consider just the
facts: ELO has sold over 50 million records worldwide, and continues
to be a remarkably popular catalog. Between 1972 and 1986, LYNNE
wrote and produced 26 Top Forty hits in the United Kingdom, and 20
Top Forty hits in the United States, including 20 Top Twenty smashes
in the UK and 15 Top Twenty smashes in the U.S. Even more remarkably,
the ELO catalog continues to have tremendous impact, as demonstrated
powerfully when the compilation All Over The World: The Very Best of
Electric Light Orchestra was released in 2005 and became a Top Ten
album in a number of international markets including England.

Outside of the success of ELO, LYNNE has led a remarkable career that
has found him taking the lessons learned leading ELO and using them
to help produce and collaborate with many of the greatest musical
artists of all time, including a number of LYNNE's all-time heroes
including Roy Orbison, Del Shannon, George Harrison, Paul McCartney,
Ringo Starr, and remarkably, even the Beatles themselves, as well as
contemporaries like Tom Petty and Joe Walsh, whose new album Analog
Man LYNNE recently helped produce. Together with Harrison, Orbison,
Petty and Bob Dylan, LYNNE was, of course, a member of the Grammy
award-winning Traveling Wilburys--a super group like no other.

"I've been in love with music since I was probably just five years
old," says LYNNE. I was made for music then--and I still am today."

Here are the track Listings for LONG WAVE and MR. BLUE SKY-THE VERY
BEST OF ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA:

LONG WAVE
1. She
2. If I Loved You
3. So Sad
4. Mercy, Mercy
5. Running Scared
6. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
7. Smile
8. At Last
9. Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
10. Let It Rock
11. Beyond The Sea

MR. BLUE SKY-THE VERY BEST OF ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA:
1. Mr. Blue Sky
2. Evil Woman
3. Strange Magic
4. Don't Bring Me Down
5. Turn To Stone
6. Showdown
7. Telephone Line
8. Livin' Thing
9. Do Ya
10. Can't Get It Out Of My Head
11. 10538 Overture
12. The Point Of No Return

Anyone hear if Jeff is bringing Tandy back in for either of these?

There is no mention of any other muscians on these albums.

He's been saving snippets of tracks from all of his producer gigs since the 90's. Roy and George may make an appearance on these discs.

I was having lunch in Rubio's earlier with my youngest daughter, and what appeared to be the new version of "Mr. Blue Sky" came on over their system. Couldn't hear it too well but it was NOT ELO, yet probably was Jeff Lynne. The tempo was obviously faster and even at low volume in a noisy eatery it was easy to discern it from the original. Didn't like it much.

I may be in the minority, but I absolutely loved Armchair Theater. This set is odd, but I can't blame him and I'll buy it for sure.

I only wish there was a third disc of originals as well...

The new jefflynne.com website is up and running with Jeff and Richard Tandy doing Evil Woman. I can't see it here at the office, so someone please take a look and give their opinion.

Mark

You might not be. I did too.

I think the album has its share of fans. If you liked the Wilbury sound and what Lynne was doing with those guys on their individual albums, you would've liked Armchair Theater.

It's almost amazing what kind of BS musicians can come up with as reasons for re-recording their old stuff.At least Def Leppard was honest about it."They don't sound the way I thought they did..."?Uhhhhh, OK.
Look-these are his songs and recordings, and I suppose he can do what he wants, but I usually find this kind of thing doesn't do it for me.

As for the "standards" album-that I'll give a shot to.It can't be any worse than Kisses On The Bottom

For two guys playing in someone's den, they sounded great to me. Lynne's voice hasn't changed in forty years. Evil Woman would be better as a trio with Bev on drums though.

I always thought Jeff has one of the best voices in music...

Bump: Added pre-order links to the first post. Both albums are going to be released domestically on October 9th.

Well, Jeff can do what he wants-these are basically his songs. As for the standards album, I despise every one of those songs so I'll pass. The re-recordings? Maybe, but not likely. Sounds like Lynne doing the gtr, bass, keys, drums, vox. Sounds like the original strings, but these days you can fake an orchestra so maybe not. I can't tell.
This is all about liscensing no matter what he says. ELO Part II were actually quite good and Jeff has done the same thing over the years. Big difference-Jeff wrote everything!
I'm looking forward to the long-delayed Zoom remaster more than anything-that was a good album. Shame the ELO tour got cancelled, but that ELO was actually far less than what ELO Part II were.
Wish the guys could just make friendly, but that seems highly unlikely.