ELO - Hello My Old Friend

[salford1945]

beatles all over still love it

[JuanOmegaIota]

They have never disappointed.

[bunchie1966]

I can definitely hear the Lennon influence. ELO and the Beatles are my two favourite bands.

[pantaruja]

I'didn't know it. The first movement is pure ELO.

Maybe so large... but is ELO.

GOOD GOOD... and MORE.

Good Bye ELOFANS

[cobbity]

yes its off afterglow mandalay also on it i have it great isn`t it

[jcamontflor]

la musica de ELO es envolvente,si nada que sobre salga,la virtuosidad no es lo suyo,pero evidentemente creando melodias jeff es único,la época de "TIME" recuerdo,maravilloso el lp,desde el principio hasta el final,pero la que más me dió en el corazón fué ELDORADO. sin duda un grandioso trabajo. muy buenos arreglos y unas melodias que me acompañarán por el resto de mi vida.

[trvkent]

Amazing! I've never come across this one before - how on earth have I missed this? One of the better Jeff Lynne songs without a doubt... great stuff!

[Sportzzmadz]

Wow - never heard this before from an ELO fan, just shows what he said, carry on from the beatles!

[bobby666666]

A brilliant song which sounds like it could have come from the mid seventies. It is such a shame that Secret Messages was not released as a double album. The single album is so lame and with the extra songs would have been so much more immense.

[swarlock]

Another thing I like about the tune is the trippy Beatles part. When I hear I think I'm traveling through a time portal.

[kingmixer]

this sounds musically like a mixture of dear prudence and I am The Walrus

[swarlock]

Yes.

It was written as a last look at his hometown Birmingham. I know how he feels.

[GIMAGIMA70]

Thanks for sharing this song. A Great "Grazie" from an ELO'S fan.

[nollypra]

You think this sounds like the beatles. Bollocks!!

[jcamontflor]

the evolution of beatles their sound it shall be like ELO . my inglish is not good, I repeat you but in spanish.ok, la evolución de los beatles en su sonido hubiéra sido como la ELO.

[miguelonzky]

CASI CASI TE CREO! pero los beatles no tocaron tanto tiempo instrumentos como lo ha hacho ELO,

ELO ES ELO. super diferente, especiales, fuera de tiempo, adelantandose a su era con el album Time que esta tambien buenisimo!! sigo escuchando ELO desde finales de los 70s. Saludos

[jcamontflor]

evidentemente que eran diferentes,¿sabes unoa de las bandas similar que descubrí cual fué? pues fueron los moody blues en long distance boyager. una de las badsa bandas de esa epoca que compartí y son parte de mi vida.

[70sDreamer]

Thanks for posting this one! Even if I'm a big ELO fan, I didn't know this song at all... It's great!

[QueenGoofy]

You're very welcome 70sDreamer. I'm still happy to have found and posted this great song. It needed sharing with the world wide web for sure. If you'd like to hear the audio done 10 times better than mine, go to rayflute's post for this song. Not only is the audio better, it's a video showing Birmingham. The city Jeff is singing about.

[FinnMove]

A criminally underrated song.

Maybe the best in the 1980´s.

[FinnMove]

As a double album Secret Messages would have

been a fine one.

Hello My Old Friend and Mandalay are

the best ELO songs in 1980, s.

[endrizo]

this is a rarely and specially magical sounding tune by the great jeff the other one is mandalay.two obscure jewels

thanks and a hug my friend.

[QueenGoofy]

You're more than welcome, and thanks for posting. I think Mandalay is great as well. :D

[FinnMove]

I know why the double album Secret Messages

was not released. But I don´t know why

the best songs ( like this ) were cut off.

[FinnMove]

I just met these songs in 1994 with Afterglow.

Never had idea these kind of great songs exit.

[ELONut]

recorded for the proposed 1983 double album 'Secret Messages' but was axed froM the album along with a lot of other good songs, Great song! and No it doesn't sound like 'I am the walrus' open your ears guys

[QueenGoofy]

Thanks for the comment ELONut :)

I'm glad someone else said it finally. I thought maybe I wasn't a big music fan after reading the comments that I posted a Walrus remake. I like The Beatles, but I never heard it in this song. For me, this song is about a story. The opening lyrics are happy and the music is sad-ish, droning even, but just the opposite later. Everything he remembered from childhood is changed or gone, but the music is lifting. I don't know what he was saying, but I like it.

[swarlock]

Well, Yes and No. Towards the end Jeff throws in a Beatles riff in it.

[VictorianSquire]

What the Blue Bollocks is this?

This is fucking great. How come I haven't heard this before?

When did they do this? Sounds early.

[princesschrissy555]

a slower version of i am the walrus

[FarFromZero]

"I am the walrus" is based on the same effect, but is a harmonic song. This song is not, if you listen to the track at 4'30'' or 6'35'' you can hear a lot of very well aranged cacophony, but after some it turns into "harmonic cacophony" - which does not exist. This song is not just a slower version of "I am the walrus", it is a very creative, progressive successor. This song shows up, Jeff Lynne is an inspired songwriter and composer.

[princesschrissy555]

well yeah but in the beginning it sounds alot like it and im not saying that he isnt im just saying it sounds like a slower version of the song

[Gorgnop]

Excellent observation!

[41805230]

It's a great and moving song, and I guess Jeff wouldn't mind the comparison to Lennon's unique masterpiece, as you might remember Jeff saying that '10538 Overtures' takes over where 'I Am The Walrus' ends :-)

[andrewelo]

I think this is a great piece of music. I seem to remember reading that, inspired by Penny Lane & Strawberry Fields, Jeff wanted to do his own song about his childhood environment and came up with this.

[QueenGoofy]

I think it's a haunting tune, and a great one as well.

[Mrwirez]

No, it sounds like solo John Lennon. To me

[merolillo]

bueno similar a los beatles.. pero no igual .. sim embargo es el trabajo de LYnne siempre apegado a al estilo de los chicos de Liverpool

[BebopCoIa]

Im pretty sure I am the walrus came out '67. This doesnt just sound like i am the walrus this is i am the walrus but with different lyrics

[zurg13]

anyone notice how this SOUNDS almost exactly like The Beatles '69 hit "I Am The Walrus"???

[fr556]

i've never compared it directly to that song, but i've thought it sounded like a late beatles era song...a great unknown track, one of my favorite ELO/Jeff Lynne tracks

[walrus108]

Sounds more like a later Green Day song, not sure of the title. "On my own, here we go" or something like, that is the main lyric.