Electric Light Orchestra - Showdown [HQ]

[74142kokopelli]

Love this version. If you like this try the Odia Coates cover.

[fricsaid]

Chuck Norris don't even be messin' with ELO. Lynn is pure genius.  Thanks for taking me back. :o)

[fuzzyhead1945]

they got this skate 2

[tr1ck0]

i love the fact that the dude singing has hair as crazy as bill and woody hahahaha

[PerfidiousMeridius]

What's the sugar for, Mr. McCracken?

Didn't I tell you to call me Ernie, or Big Ern.... It's for my morning coffee.

[luciernagaval]

que ritmo tienen!!!

[Kich159]

BEST SKATE SONG EVER !!!!!!!!

[leegeddyfan]

Lynne's fro is just goddamn epic !

[shehd1983]

Ernie McCracken vs Roy Munson

[cafeconlecce]

American Translation.

[XxAiRPoiSoNxX]

Skate 2.....

[Hidalgowind]

good old days for me, love it!!!

[Viper1Squad]

Love this song

[slaphaddalztick]

They sure loved their hair in them days!!

[therocklabels]

Kingpin!!!

[sk84lif3luis]

The weatherman was like: its raining all over the world then i just started singing this song

[g35288]

this song always gives me the munson's....

[bluemechin]

skaters are losers

[74142kokopelli]

I like the Odia Coates version but this is the original and the best.

[apbouch]

Skate 2 also brought me here

[daveandodrummer]

Bev Bevan looks cool as fook on this video!

[Jammmmmmma]

I'm 19 years old, and Skate 2 bought me here...

[divisorplot]

solar maximum Jan24/2012 bull pulp 4 days elo polar aurora's

[jb260683d]

The song reminds me of my dad,and the places we lived,and the showdowns we had.



[snowlauncher79]

HOLY SHIT!!!

[TheSeekerOfAll]

Roy Munson

[jb260683d]

mike dalton. r.i.p , droitwich, bromsgrove. warrington,liverpool . love you always dad x

[JimmyKeefe49]

@jb260683d wat?

[unseenlock]

jeff lynne -

30% face

70% hair

100% rock n roll

[16wani]

@unseenlock

And 20 % shades :-)

[jandrews270]

Cool

[papakilatube]

tight



[MrCotopaxi]

odlichno

[ml1968lf]

That's one crazy hair do man ....

it goes great with the chrome guitar :D

[heter221]

Didnt I TELL you to call me Big Ern?

[borellpeter]

Save me......yeah.....from Birmingham. Briliant....like always from Jeff. Like velvet around your body.

[luciernagaval]

Can we be in heaven?

Since we've got songs like this, I think so.

I'm almost crazy. But I can't live without beeing a bit crazy.

[luciernagaval]

@luciernagaval Love is great. Life is wonderful. God exists

[Hypatia4242]

I love the level of cool comfort the band exudes while playing. A masterpiece that came naturally, casually.

[GAMERcal360]

Skate :D

[light654321]

best song of 2011 for me

[jacsobrien]

mmmm nice at 3.30....I LIKE:)

[VladimirRocker]

@jacsobrien It enchants me and captures my attention from the very beginning. As for me: the 1st climax point - 1:30 ( Save me, oh save me:), the 2nd - 2:06 ( guitar solo), the 3rd - 2:26 ( violin ). And, of course, the end is also pretty good.

[FemorChinoWee]

Is awesome

I like this song when i play skate2

[Zososg]

32 people can go for a swim

[VladimirRocker]

Unrivalled classical rock! A music for all times!

[slicknipper]

Jeff lynne with the amazing Hair BIG hair very cool

[slicknipper]

ELO is impossible not to get and love

[LittleBoyzClub]

Thumbs up if Skate 2 brought you here.

[danlektro]

Thanks for posting this one - with all the lens flare in the second half it reminds me a lot of the Magical Mystery Tour film, which makes sense because Jeff Lynne used to say that ELO wanted to pick up where I am The Walrus left off.

[NoStreetBs]

27 years after this video, in his 2001 ELO Zoom performances, Jeff Lynne still put most of today's "performers" who can't actually carry a tune without autotune effects or reproduce their own hits on stage to shame. ELO's music always had layers of depth in Lynne's arrangements.Even in his later years, Lynne still delivers top notch vocals and harmony.

[NoStreetBs]

Jeff Lynne (the main singer and genius composer behind ELO) is still around and supposedly working some with Joe Walsh. ELO had the Zoom tour in 2001. Although only Lynne and the keyboardist Richard Tandy. It was sadly canceled due to low ticket sales, but you can get the PBS concert of it on DVD, and it is really entertaining.

[mrdeathhawk1]

skate 2 actually

[jessluvsjonas]

are these guys still around?

[rodinabar]

HERMOXO TEMA , COMO ME ENCANTA , ME HACE RECORADAR MIS VIAJES POR TODO EL PAIS CON MIS TIOS Y MI VIEJO., PRECISAMENTE MIS TIOS ERAN KIENES COMPRABAN SUS DISCOS 45.RPM DE ESTE TEMA ,

[bfmv4evr88]

yur right man ....is a greate song!!



[jnc250]

coolest cat in town

[ElNowhereMan1985]

ELO is one of my fav bands! Jeff Lynne is a Legend!! thanks for posting this.. I never knew they made a video of this track!!!!

[whityfrd]

though i love music from these years, the absence of grooming is intolerable. im glad i grew up in the 80s.

[hamiltonradio1]

Nobody plays more ELO than us at

at hamiltonradioDotnet

Come for a song stay for hours.

[jeflynnenut]

LEGEND THAT IS LYNNE!!!

[skydiveNY]

The way this song was crafted, it is like a fine German or Belgium beer. All the rght elements that make a great song, or beer are there. The haunting melodies, (the taste), the inexplicable chorus, (the touch), of this song/beer is what makes us love our particlular song or tinted liquid. Ok, I can't continue the masquarade, I just like this song and beer.

[TucPaper]

Jeff is GOD

[xSilenTree]

i came here before skate 2, listened to it, and i'm like, ok, this is good music.

after playing skate 2 : this song is the best fuckin' song ever!!!!

[ELOMusicFan]

Favorite ELO track!

[xZM40A3Zx]

old but great

[collieman4202]

KINGPIN

[Johnnyradionic]

The points where the backup singers crash in dulls this otherwise well-produced, expertly written song. The lead singer alone was all this tune required. If the original master tracks still exist, and were recorded with adequate separation (between lead & backups), I would very much like to hear this song WITHOUT the backup singers.

[16wani]

@Johnnyradionic

The harmonies are kind of a big part of ELO..

[Johnnyradionic]

To16wani ,

Less would have been so much more. I cannot be proven wrong on this issue.

Your Friend,

JohnnyRadionicDOTcom

[16wani]

@Johnnyradionic

Well, that's a matter of taste, right? :-) All I'm saying is that Jeff Lynne and most of his work with ELO was more, not less. He did use a 30 piece orhcestra (and a choir) on Eldorado...

[skydiveNY]

@Johnnyradionic you know its rainin all over the world,,,,,

[Johnnyradionic]

To skydiveNY

"Know it"?!! I wrote it!!

Your Friend,

JohnnyRadionicDOTcom

[rhymepays]

Badass shades!

[nicholaswheeler]

video games get the music to younger generations

[Interloper83]

This is some real hip hop type shit i can not only relate to, but see as a sountrack to my life. These here true O.G.'s would have been adorned in full 23 inch solid gold chain link around the neck with about 2-4(each) hoes in close proximity where I live. Respect due to the Sun, Moon and Stars.

[maxeypad]

Keep 'em comin', sweets, I got a long drive. Do me a favor, will you? Would you mind washing off that perfume before you come back to our table?

[Interloper83]

@maxeypad The man who you refer to has had a bigger impact on my life than Pops. We are what humans are. He is what humans can become.

[maxeypad]

@Interloper83 The Big Ern is indeed a truly unique human being haha

[jjislaw]

Listen to I Heard It Through the Grape Vine by Marvin Gaye then this and you will see where this song comes from...

[urselauzi]

This video just furthered my undying love of elo! thanks

[miken489]

I read Mike was killed in a freak accident when one of those giant round hay bails rolled off a truck crashed through a hedgerow and crushed him in his car.

[Chitownrunthis]

Big Ern is finally above the law!

[royrashbrook]

I met Mike Edwards (the cellist - best seen at 1:50 - when I did a few concerts with him in the Devon. He has now sadly died - but he was the most delightful man - very happy to talk about his time with the band.

Also - this video seems oddly prescient - given current events involving a possible showdown outside St Paul's Cathedral.

[MegaROCKGUN]

Elo  is best

[Kich159]

Skate forewer !!!!! All for skate finger up !!

[jetershomie]

Big Ern Mckracken sent me here.

"Hi...not you...hi"

[ziiik0]

@jetershomie Wash the perfume off when you come back.

[Merely]

i just want to jump the drummers bones. 

[GoldenNakai17]

This is the best thing that Yahoo has given the internet 

[bergey1200]

Sick song for skateboard Edit !

[iamabirdnow2]

Beautiful

[snitchnstitch]

epic music of the gods

[aaronbenavidez]

THE "ROY MUNSON" ANTHEM

[pokesfan92]

ahhhh the good ole' '70's

[yamaksi123]

justib bieber made 28 youtube account to dislike this

[2656paul]

its elo from me and elo from him

[daiard]

So cool it hurts

[TheHernanPatricio]

Esta cancion gusto mucho al mismisimo John Lennon, segun cuenta la historia, incluso compro el album de ELO en 1974 aprox. y ahi dijo la frase: La ELO es hijo de los Beatles.. gran banda la talentosa e historica ELO

[cantonis]

pukka

[Stormendrang]

The song is great. But actually there's a little video error, just after mr. Lynn's guitar solo. Please refresh with a better version....

The winer....

[wallofvideo]

welcome to 1973.

[divisorplot]

n-ice lyrics haarp!

[HunterGrob]

On this basis, it's obvious that the drummer is a spy.

[taragosik]

This song brings me to a wonderful place and time .I love it .

[1987oldman]

god damn i love this song and i dont know why

[firecracker187]

ELO.. still rad

[JoeMorrow1996]

skate2 :)

[mikeizawsome]

that beard holds many secrets :}

[ech0dancer]

ee-ye-ow !

love this !

especially for #occupywallst :)

[YouxArexAllxLame]

R.I.P. Bev. Bevan ELO's great drummer, we miss ya buddy.

[Livetowin89]

drummer looks sexy here.

[Penguinclawz]

ELO are the best pop band of all time. For all young people please explore their magic. Jeff lynne is one of the best song writers ever......

[UnfeelingRug]

@Penguinclawz Well, there's a 14-year-old here who thinks their music is awesome. ELO all the way!

[LivingTOOgood]

Jeff Lynne has amazing vocal variety and range.

[EtownMurderJunkie]

28 ppl have been munsun.

[mikkykay]

He came to save me from a soul that ached

And I spread the poison from my heartbreak

So now there are two of us caught in this emotional crash

When I knew our friendship could not last

Its a powerful bound that draws the other near

And it is this fierce passion that I fear

He wanted me until he had me, and then he wanted to move on

But how does he do that and let me have a new dawn?

[thekiricouille]

thumbs up if SKATE 2 bring you here !!!

[jonnyRYhollywood]

@thekiricouille it take me to school too

[randybullcow]

Re:alphadoqstudio:I heard many years ago that it was Marc Bolan's Gibson Les Paul Firebird guitar.For years it was believed Marc played on this track himself,but he did however play on Ma-Ma-Ma Belle,Dreaming of 4000 and Everybody's Born To Die by ELO.I also heard that one of Marc's Fender Strats was used on Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells,but it's never been confirmed as such.

[MrBritishegg1]

One of the best Skate songs of all time.

[doowaditti]

@MrBritishegg1 Do you mean skate boards?

[UnfeelingRug]

@MrBritishegg1 I'm sorry, I have to correct you here. You accidentally added in the word Skate in that sentence. What you MEANT to say was:

One of the best songs of all time.

[GoDzxFuRy]

@MrBritishegg1 hell ya fool!

[Hometownclaymations]

SKATE 2

[Andrenionnthegreeat]

nice hair-do dude XD

[Syzygy60]

skip at 223 ... just wondering if I won a prize :(

[Jayhawker128]

Is it me, or whenever I listen to this song, I picture myself in a montage preparing for a fight or something?

[upinya25]

@Jayhawker128 i see myself bowling strikes

[Jayhawker128]

@upinya25 makes sense, haha. im just saying, great motivator

[Syzygy60]

@Jayhawker128 well,yeh,it's a freakin' "showdown"

[grayhounddogg402]

Tame that combover!

[somedkram]

AH the 70's.....When bands had their own sound insteadof everything sounding the same. diversity what a concept

[telemaster1953]

rock & roll cello's ah yeah

[terriersrule]

Really? I'm sure I recognised the opening bars. That's why I looked up this song... I may be wrong :/

[CheeziFeet]

I keep playin skate 2 hoping this song will come up next!!!

[SundayDaytripper]

Thank you for this. I love it !

[KIDBUU369]

@doblwood i know bro only song in my skate 2 playlist its so epic

[doblewood]

skate 2 yeah



[alphadogstudio]

What kind of guitar is he playing?

[robbavalos]

someone should do a cover!

[turbolivin]

caralho! 28 pessoas não gostam desse vídeo!!! cuzões....

fuck! 28 pepople dislike this video!!!! assholes........

[abcjc1]

Phil McCracken!!!!! yeah

[terriersrule]

Cowboys and Aliens - worth seeing just to hear THIS song in it!

[HunterGrob]

@terriersrule But there was no song in it. Looks like

[terriersrule]

@HunterGrob Oh, you're right - it was just the intro, wasn't it? I guess it would only mean something to people who know this song...

[HunterGrob]

@terriersrule I mean i didn't hear it there.

[HunterGrob]

M-M-M-M-MAXIMUM BEARD!

[16wani]

@HunterGrob

And the sunglasses, man, they are impossible to ignore :-)

[slyone1961]

awesome song brings me back to the good old days

[gruffy1214]

Jeff Lynn's a total bear WOOF

[richard19331]

me too dale

[96chino916]

my brother found this song on skate 2 great song.

[javier1970mustang]

Great Song!!!! :D

[Mietek412]

I found this in skate 2. best skate game ever. best game sountrack ever. sweet times.

[PUK015]

@WWWCWWWC How did you download this video from Yhaoo! Music?

[mrgoatlives2003]

I dropped my bong when I saw your vid: GREAT JOB!! :)

[moegdaog]

ERNIE MACHRACAN LOOOOOL...FUCKIN LOVE KINGPIN

[woundspooden]

cant believe how underated this band/guy is. they are up their with pink floyd and neil young to me. really great talent and a great band.

[kkrankie]

28 people dislike... 28 people who had hair when this song was popular and they're jealous of Jeff's flowing mane

[TheSTOOPKID12345]

one of the best songs on skate 2

[DigitalCyborg00]

KINGPIN

[strait836]

ELO are just pure art, and most pioneering good music originated in the UK..this is just me ofcourse!

[skullvulture]

Please remove your silly balloons telling us to rate and comment. This is too amazing of music for such trifles.

[lukehiseII]

@skullvulture I've got to agree...get rid of the balloons please

[vokeeffe]

Kingpin... amazing



[ABRONXTALE9]

I rule for listening too this

[Jamaco1995]

Im going to make this my skate song. Its an awesome song!

[GOD355OFWAR]

Now this is real MUSIC!!! Awesome!!!!!!

[HatsForEveryone]

Bev Bevan.

[rigrt]

<3 skate 2 <3