Out of the Blue (Electric Light Orchestra album)

Occupation

Out of the Blue (English for " Out of the Blue ") is the seventh studio album by British rock band Electric Light Orchestra. It is the first double album and also the most commercially successful work of the band 's history.

  • 3.1 Turn to Stone
  • 3.2 Sweet Talkin 'Woman
  • 3.3 Concerto for a Rainy Day 3.3.1 Standin 'in the Rain
  • 3.3.2 Big Wheels
  • 3.3.3 Summer and Lightning
  • 3.3.4 Mr. Blue Sky
  • 4.1 album
  • 4.2 Singles

Background

Jeff Lynne wrote the songs on this double album within three and a half weeks in the summer of 1977 in a chalet in the Swiss Alps. Another three months needed the tape for recording in the Munich Musicland Studios. 4 million albums were pre-ordered, so that the album could be very quickly awarded a platinum record even before the album's release. The album's success exceeded even the success of the previous album A New World Record. Four singles such reached the top ten of the UK Singles Chart. In Germany, the singles do not get beyond a 27th place for Mr. Blue Sky.

The album was first released on CD in 1987, first as based on the double - LP as a double - CD set in a box on Fat Jet Records CD JET 400 However, the 2- CD version sold due to the high price of time 69,95 DM sluggish. Ultimately, each CD had a playing time of approximately 35 minutes; the album was finally transferred to a single CD (CD JET 400 / EPIC 450885-2 ).

To mark the 30th anniversary of the show took place in 2007, the release of the album on CD in digital revised version with 3 additional bonus tracks. In Japan, there was the reissue version again as a 2- CD set in the MINI - LP replica format, including Space Station construction paper and was labeled with the Jet logo, even though the album belongs to the EPIC / Legacy label.

For the cover of the album a spaceship was designed corresponding to the logo of ELO. This spacecraft was copied later for the concert tour to the album for the stage. The spacecraft was incidentally also enclosed the vinyl album as a cardboard kit.

Title list

Side A

Side B

Page C

The third side of the album was given the title Concerto for a Rainy Day

Page D

Bonus Tracks ( 30th Anniversary Edition )

Individual songs

Turn to Stone

Turn to Stone opens the album and it was also the first song that was released as a single. In the UK, the single went up to 18th place and stayed 12 weeks in the charts. However, it was the only single off the album that did not come in the top ten in the UK. The song was just like Mr. Blue Sky and Do not Bring Me Down ( from the album Discovery ) in the episode " Love & Monsters " of the British science fiction series Doctor Who sung.

Sweet Talkin 'Woman

Sweet Talkin 'Woman was the third single off the album, reaching the UK on the 6th place in the singles charts. Originally the song Dead End Street should be called. While the studio recordings of songs in Sweet Talkin 'Woman was changed to be perhaps not to be confused with the hit Dead End Street Kinks. This was 1966, a Top Ten hit for the British band. The intro of the song is a throwback to the film music to the Miss Marple films of the 1960s.

The song has been covered by the Christian ska-punk band Five Iron Frenzy 1998. This version appeared on the EP Quantity Is Job 1

Concerto for a Rainy Day

Concerto for a Rainy Day is a musical suite that fills the entire third page of the double album. The four songs are seamlessly into one another. The suite is about the influence of weather on people's moods.

Standin 'in the Rain

Standin 'in the Rain is the first song of the suite and begins with the sound of rain and light keyboard sounds, which are then peeled off after about 30 seconds of a thunder and incipient strings. Jeff Lynne took the rain outside the studio in Munich. With Standin 'in the Rain, the band opened their concerts on the album Out of the Blue. The single Standin 'in the Rain reached the 6th place in the British charts.

Big Wheels

Big Wheels receives already the musical theme of the final songs of the suite Mr. Blue Sky in the transition sequence of Standin 'in the Rain. The working title of the song was in the studio bathroom Salad, a pun on Sad Ballad. Big Wheels never appeared as a single, not even as a B-side.

Summer and Lightning

In Summer and Lightning is as with the song Standin 'in the Rain and Big Wheels continues to be the dominant issue in the rain. The mood is optimistic by the text, however, than in the previous songs and thus lead already in the finals to Mr. Blue Sky.

Mr. Blue Sky

Excerpt: "Mr. Blue Sky is living here today ". The sky is breaking up and the blue sky brings the suite to a optimistic end. The song is peppered with references to the role models of Jeff Lynne: The Beatles. The polyphonic chorus parts are reminiscent of the vocal harmonies of the Fab Four. The orchestral end is very close to the finale to A Day in the Life. The song is also considered a hymn to the English Midlands and before every home game of the football club Birmingham City played to honor the friendship between Jeff Lynne and the former Birmingham Senior Trevor Francis. The single Mr. Blue Sky reached the 6th place of the UK Singles Chart as the second release off the album.

Charts

Album

Singles

Awards

Golden Record

  • Germany (1979 )

Platinum record

  • UK (1978)
  • USA ( 1977)
Record label Genre Bass guitar Reminiscence Extended Play The Midlands Birmingham City F.C. Media-Control-Charts Billboard 200
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