ELO!
Guilty pleasure time!
I’ve been hearing more and more ELOish sounds about; I heard an indie tune on the radio that used a reminscent synth swirl, and of course, the fantastic ispydiamonds posted Starlight a few weeks back. So it’s about time for a revival post…
This tune was what got me hooked in the first place, part of the brilliant “GTA: Vice City” soundtrack:
There’s little in games that can beat tooling around Vice City doing wheelies on a fast bike with that blasting. What a game ;)
Similarly uptempo, but a little better-known:
But the real gems (IMO) are on their “Time” concept album. As Wikipedia describes it –
The album tells the story of a man, circa 1981, who is taken away by time travelers to the late 21st Century. Once there, he marvels at the wonders that the future offers, but is also increasingly amazed to find that he longs for his own time (the past) and the woman he left behind because of his journey forward. Although he has been provided a robot woman, who obeys his every command without question, he quickly realizes that this is a poor substitute for his lost love: the robot companion can never love or be loved by him.
I posted this back in May, but it’s expired and it bears reposting, being just about the best track ever recorded on the subject of sex with robots:
Also, “Here Is The News” is cute — filled with samples from a supposedly late-21st-century news broadcast, but recorded in early-80’s Britain, it has a kind of “Blake’s Seven” dated scifi feel with talk of strikes in space and so on:
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