The Minnesota Vikings aren't going to win the Super Bowl this year. The Utah Jazz aren't winning the NBA Championship, either. And the Electric Light Orchestra is not going to have a #1 hit.
This was the biggest hit ELO ever had, making it up to #4 on the Hot 100. It was also the first song recorded by ELO to not feature any violins. It was their biggest hit, and also kinda marked the beginning of the downfall of ELO. (Without the Orchestra, they're just the Spanish word for "the.")
(What the "EL?")
It's a rocking tune with pounding drums, pounding piano, and pounding vocals.
Jeff Lynne filled in the chorus with a nonsense sound, "grooosss." (I'm not sure if I have the correct amount of "o's" or "s's" in there or not.) People generally don't like nonsense sounds that they can't understand in their songs, so they tried to make sense of it. People will line up for days to sing "Ooga-chocka, ooga-ooga," even if they don't know what it means, because they can understand the sounds that are being said. But they weren't sure if Jeff was singing "grooosss," or "Bruce."
Apparently, enough people thought it was "Bruce" that in concert Jeff would actually sing "Bruce" himself. No wonder people were getting the "lyrics" confused!
The chorus repeats more often than in some songs, but Jeff does a great job of spicing things up a bit at the end with some hand-claps, and some extra "no-nos" and some extra "don'ts." Good stuff.
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