When Time Stood Still - By ELO

[thepofmeister]

silent running. great movie! great idea to use it as a vid! : )

[tonycdrive]

@thepofmeister,Thank you.

[norgedidi]

You`re tight, I realized 2 seconds after i wrote it. I remembered the final scene when this one guy surfed to a planet on a plank of the roomship...

[norgedidi]

...from the movie Dark Star

[tonycdrive]

@norgedidi,This is Silent Running. Dark Star is a sci-fi comedy.

[ProfessorHooligan]

Good tribute to the song, which I didn't remember until now. I heard a little tribute to John Lennon in the singing style.

[pinkwrld]

"Time and El Dorado" mm mm good:)

two of my absolute favorite elo cds Listening to them makes you want to have an.....

Ciao buddy

Leonard

[technocrash09]

Huey, Lewy and Dewy!

[tonycdrive]

@technocrash09 ,i love those guys! i mean robots.

[technocrash09]

@tonycdrive That movie was so cool!

[tonycdrive]

@technocrash09,Yeah it is!

[technocrash09]

Excellent movie choice! ELO goes without saying!

[tonycdrive]

@technocrash09,Thank you.

[lordeck007]

has to say .. there is MAGIC in this song

[tonycdrive]

@lordeck007,The song is pretty cool.

[lendmeyourears]

Jeff is believed to be near completing his new solo album which was originally due to be released in June 2010. Was recently finishing off backing vocals.......

[tonycdrive]

@lendmeyourears ,Cool,thank you for the info.

[cushlinkes]

This is one of my favorite ELO songs... I think it should have been an actual track on Time, instead of just a b-side.

[tonycdrive]

@cushlinkes, You're right...it should've been on Time.

[jcamontflor]

podríamos tener una versión como esta subtitulada al español??, gracias.

[tonycdrive]

@jcamontflor,Perdóname, no tengo.

[oktobercat]

Music that feeds the soul, not many groups can provide like elo, i can,t recall a bad song ever by them and this is going back to days of vinyl . good video , great music match, thanks.

[tonycdrive]

@oktobercat, You're right. I can listen to a whole album without skipping a song. Thank you for your comment.

[briofisa]

che bello risentire brani del genere... ti riportano indietro nel tempo!!!!!

[freqferwfee]

Hey TonyC... I just finished watching Silent Running because I had never seen it before and this video you made got me interested. I have put together some of my own music videos using movies myself and you did it perfectly!! What made you decide to use this film for the ELO song?

[tonycdrive]

This was one of my first videos. And i have no idea why i used this film for this song. Sometimes i create images of movies in my head when i listen to a song.

[tonycdrive]

Thank you. I appreciate your comment.

[gatagui]

Gracias, buscaba hace mucho esa película y recordarla junto a la música de ELO me transporta a mi niñez. Gracias por subirla.

[tonycdrive]

de nada

[elsappo1800]

Nice work there...it all fits together very smoothly! A good movie and a Great song!

[tonycdrive]

Thank you

[lovencare62]

nice video and i like the song

[tonycdrive]

Thank you

[talos124]

excellent choice of video to another Jeff classic.

[tonycdrive]

Thank you.

[fralegro]

Takes me back to the 80`s...

great feeling..

god bless Jeff and Del

Franky

[elofan14]

This song shows what the future might be and one of my favorite songs.

[tonycdrive]

yeah,this song I just ..."can't get it out of my head"

[ksd319]

ELO and Styx were always my favorite.

[tonycdrive]

they're really good

[flicklefish]

So... the million dollar question: What's Jeff doing now??

[tonycdrive]

Lynne said in an article on April 23rd 2009, that he has finally been working on the long awaited follow-up to his 1990 solo debut album "Armchair Theatre" with a possible tentative release date of "later this year".

[tonycdrive]

where's my million dollars?

[flicklefish]

@tonycdrive I dont got no million dollars... but damn. What could he be up to lately? I heard something at some point about him doing video game soundtrack work. You hear anything?

[tonycdrive]

@flicklefish ,Just google his name...Jeff Lynne. click the wiki link and scroll down to see what he's been up to. It has dates of 2009 at the bottom.

[flicklefish]

I had tickets to see Jeff perform in Chicago in 2001. The Zoom Tour. God, how I wanted so bad to go to that... small theatre... right up close. Believe it or not, the date was closed due to not enough ticktets bought. On top of that, 9/11 happened. Doubly screwed. Glad the music lives on.

[tonycdrive]

what a bummer. man, that would have been great.

[djminimoto]

Does "When Time Stood Still" have any connection to E.L.O's "Time" album? It sure sounds like it.

[tonycdrive]

Originally it was not in the "Time" album but in 2001, the album was remastered and reissued on CD with three additional bonus tracks..."The Bouncer"..."When Time Stood Still" and "Julie Don't Live Here"

[RICKD790]

It's the B side of Hold on tight, and quite a brilliant track it is too. Thanks for uploading.

[tonycdrive]

you're welcome

[djminimoto]

This is just one of E.L.O's underrated & way too underplayed gems!

[flicklefish]

I've always thought there was something very personal about this song. Which is why I belived Jeff was reluctant to just put it out there at the time he wrote it. Its a little masterpiece. Very sad... very meloncholy... very beautiful. "No submarines or plastic flowers". Makes me think he's mourning the passing of the Beatles glory days.

[tonycdrive]

you might be on to something

[Milgust]

Nice song, thanks for posting.

[tonycdrive]

you're welcome

[racookster]

Beautiful song. Beautiful film.

[tonycdrive]

thank you

[brugglesby]

Hey Tony C, Thanks for liking ELO!

[tonycdrive]

you're welcome. i grew up listening to them on the radio,since the 70's.

[brugglesby]

At 3:04 The voice change. Jeff at his finest.

[tonycdrive]

yep

[Heezey]

someone want to chat

looking for friends tf

[andytetlow]

thanks for giving me some wonderful memories....i loved this tune. i was just leaving school. great vid too. this was actually a 'b' side, if i remember rightly.

[ghostmanlostsoul]

Nice!

[tonycdrive]

thank you

[frankie1138]

Great song of a genius.

[tonycdrive]

Yes, he is Awesome.

[meikelkorleone]

Oh my God.

I got this on 45,

and haven't heard it for a long, long time, almost 15 years. But everything is still here in my mind. Every word, every chord, it's just like if time stood still. (Like Lynne said: I wish I was back in 1981 - we laughed about that line in those days, but sometimes we tried to imagine our future. When time has come to say that line again)

[tonycdrive]

It is weird for him to say that in 1981. It makes more sense to say that now!

[lendmeyourears]

as jeff once referred to him on one of his album sleevenotes (cant remember which) 'the majical fingers of Richard Tandy' are so evident here. Great song. Great production. "I wish I was back in 1981".

[MisterQuebec]

"as jeff once referred to him on one of his album sleevenotes (cant remember which) 'the majical fingers of Richard Tandy' "

Out of the Blue.

[caballerogroovy]

Hermoso tema de la electric light orchestra, son unos genios del romanticismo!!!!

[yoyichero]

no mater what ... jeff lynne you ll always be a genius master.. "from the end of the world" chile

[firecatc79]

Great atmosphere in this song. Beautiful, dreamy and sad. One of my favourites by Jeff<3

[ronnieneo]

sorry for the misspelling of jean michel jarre, no offence jean!

[ronnieneo]

The reason i choose time as my favourite elo album, is because of its unique sound. He seems to have combined a theme, sci-fi, and great catchy tunes all in one. Albums like oxygen by jan michelle jar, have the same sought of sound but dont have that "feel" that jeff acheives here. Listening to it, you realy feel like your in the future, its where it takes you, thats why i love it. Its genius. What a soundtrack this would make to a good sci-fi movie, ooooooooh yes please!!!!!

[mre4nygma]

i agree one of the best albums so under rated even by lynne himself

[markomarten]

I think after the global success of Out of The Blue,it was not going to be easy to keep the momentum up. I think Time was meant to be a double album but the record company pushed Jeff to do a single album instead!

[laineycrusoe]

Are you sure Time was going to be a double album? I'm 100% sure it was Secret Messages that was going to be a double album.

[ronnieneo]

This song should have been on the original release of TIME because it fits in beautifully. TIME is the greatest album ever, Electric Light Orchestra the greatest band ever.

[tonycdrive]

yes, it should have been on that album. but the way each song goes into each other without a space in between, where would you place this one?

[ronnieneo]

Your right it would be difficult, but it has that same amazing eerie feeling as the rest of the time tracks that it simply should be there. But where? Possibly the reason he left it out, i don't know, i wish he had made it a double album as he had planned, who knows what other gems he might have given us?

[laineycrusoe]

You're absolutely right. True, it's on the 2001 reissue, but it should have been on at the time it was originally released.

[frankie1138]

They will listen to it even in 1000 years.

Their music has often Beatles quality.

[escudjo]

The song fits exactly for the spirit of the movie, sad and melancholic. What's the title of the ELO song?

Thanks for posting

[escudjo]

I don't know the reason why this film has been unfairly underrated and forgotten by public and criticists...perhaps it wasn't commercial enough??

I consider it one of the top 10 sci-fi flilms.

I love the 3 robots and hope the survivor toke care of the boisphere and survived forever.

[frankzito1]

yes i love this one from the first time i heard it. i used to try and figure out the words all the time. its not so hard anymore

[yoyichero]

this song makes me fly jeff lynne you are an absolutely genius...since I was a boy Iwas seeking this song

[SirOliverNorwell]

ELO and Jeff Lynne are amazing! If you're going through terrible times - ELO music can heal your soul! I wish I knew that people will still listen to them in two or three hundred years!

[tonycdrive]

the album "Time" is timeless

[Stevetheperformer]

@SirOliverNorwell I agree 100%