This song is all over the place. It starts off with a rocking guitar riff. It drifts into a slow ballad. It changes pace several times. It has great use of that early Electric Light Orchestra orchestration.
It really is a song that sounds like no other song.
It comes from the album "On the Third Day," which I think is a fantastic album from beginning to end. It's also the album that has the cover with all of the members of ELO exposing their belly buttons.
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| The infamous "Belly-Button" album cover! (If you look closely enough, you might even see some lint.) |
While it's not exactly the greatest album cover ever, it is actually pretty funny. (I had owned the album, on cassette, for several years before I noticed all the belly-buttoning. I'm not always the most observant person in the room, but in my defense the picture on that cassette was pretty small.)
Unfortunately, as the years went by Jeff Lynne had a falling out with almost everyone else who was ever in the band. (More on that when I finally get around to writing "The Brief (Ha!) History of ELO and the ELO Family Tree of Musical Acts.") And, because of this falling out, when Lynne released the album re-issues in recent years, he changed the album cover, removing all of the belly-button pointing in favor of posing himself as God. Here's the new album cover:
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| And on the third day, Jeff Lynne eliminated his bandmates. And he was much pleased. |
Sorry, but I prefer the belly-buttons. (If you don't believe me, just ask Barbara Eden.)
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