A Box of Their Best is the first US box set by Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), released in 1980. It consisted of the albums A New World Record (with the sides reversed), Out of the Blue and Discovery. Also included was Jeff Lynne's first ever solo single, "Doin' That Crazy Thing". This single, a one-sided single that was marked as a promo, was not in all releases of the box. The box set is almost identical to the UK release Four Light Years, released the same year. All songs written by Jeff Lynne.
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Electric Light Orchestra. Lynne was still a member of The Move, alongside Roy Wood and future ELO drummer Bev Bevan, when he wrote what became the very first ELO song, 10538 Overture. With Wood playing a cheap Chinese cello, multi- tracked by Lynne, it sounded to Wood like: a monster heavy metal orchestra. 10538 Overture soon became the new group’s mission statement, the opening fanfare on a debut album described by Melody Maker as a gas.
Electric Light Orchestra best tracks. Include tracks from compilation albums Exclude tracks from compilation albums The same track can appear on multiple albums, so excluding tracks from compilation albums helps to remove duplicates from this list. Such an excellent band.
It was the first album I heard where I liked every single song. Plus Tightrope is like the greatest intro song ever, and Shangri-La is the greatest closing song ever. Though there is a lot to be said for their other albums.
Electric Light Orchestra discography. Below is the complete Electric Light Orchestra discography including imports, videos, and hit singles. ELO's back catalogue is unusual since their compilation albums far outweigh their studio output in number, owing to the large number of hit singles primarily written by Jeff Lynne.
Larkin, Colin (e. (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th edn). Dont Bring Me Down is the ninth and final track on the English rock band the Electric Light Orchestras 1979 album Discovery. It is their highest charting hit in the United States to date, Dont Bring Me Down is the bands second highest charting hit in the UK where it peaked at number 3 and their biggest hit in the United States, peaking at number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The Move’s Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne first conceived their side-project Electric Light Orchestra as a way to pick up where the Beatles left off by bringing classical instruments into their songwriting, but their early experiments lurched lopsidedly between the two. Though the first ELO song, 10538 Overture, perfected the formula from the off, their 1971 debut album let the classical dominate; pop hooks played second fiddle to lengthy baroque evocations of English civil war battles that couldn’t have been more prog if they’d pulled on a fox’s head 24 minutes in and announced supper.
