On no not Susan-Electric Light Orchestra

[borgduck]

Prog Rock at its fab!

[kurbkrawler000]

I remember I saw ELO who were touring with King Crimson in 1974...I regarded KC as the favorite,,,before the night was over...I was a ELO fan....

[Sooty65]

• As a 14 year old who first encountered this album in 1979 this was a truly gripping song (it still has the same effect today) It formed part of a wonderful Side 1 to an album which, for me in truth fell away on Side 2, but which in the end became the first in a truly magnificent trilogy. It's as if 3 light years was the joint A side album to Out of the Blue, different but equally magnificent. Lennon was on to something when he called ELO 'son of Beatles'; brilliant musical evolution.

[jpkyker]

Her money. Her place..

They just don't mean a fucking thing.

[ELOfan13]

To me On the Third Day and Out of the Blue are ELOs greatest albums. In Out of the Blue there is a good mix of cliché hits and other impressive tracks like Jungle and Sweet is the Night. On the Third Day has some hits that weren't as well known as well as two of my favorite songs in general: Oh No Not Susan and New World Rising/Ocean Breakup. It's a shame that these two are not more well known. It also sucks that, being 14, no one cares or knows who ELO is even though Jeff Lynn is a genius and

[lifeson46]

@ELOfan13 I grew up with them and on the 3rd, Eldorado and face the music in my opinion is some of the best stuff jeff lynne ever wrote.

[hunga224]

Jeff Lynne / guitar, vocals Bev Bevan / drums and percussion, backing vocals Melvyn Gale / cello Kelly Groucutt / bass, vocals Mik Kaminski / violin Hugh Mc Dowell / cello Richard Tandy / piano, moog, guitar Louis Clark / string arrangements Mike Edwards / cello Mike de Albuquerque / bass, backing vocals Wilf Gibson / (violin) Colin Walker / (cello)

[susankhamilton]

RIP Mike Edwards.

[Quinnellea]

My great uncle was the drummer in this band.

this song is about his fiance selfishness, Susan who committed suicide after he left her to come to America to become famous.

[ELOfan1982]

@Quinnellea Oh wow, your great uncle was Bev Bevan. I met him once in Toledo Ohio. E.L.O. Part II was playing at the Stranahan theatre.

[oktobercat]

This reminds me of a susan i thought i knew, did susan know susan....? the memory and the lesson , from the tree of woe came the fruit of wisdom.

[Erekose2023]

To me, this song feels as though its about Susan from CSLewis' CON reflecting on the path her life has taken.

(probably was never intended to be.. but to me the words and feeling seem to fit)

loveley song

[stretchmark8]

Fantastic stuff,jeff is a genious

[USABG58]

Don't suppose "Susan" was a girlfriend of Jeff's in real life?

[gothus48]

I LOVE THIS SONG!!!!!!!!

[dontermo]

te-ma-zo

[ELONut]

got to love that F-BOMB he sneaked in there even had it played on the radio back in the day lol

[britfrenir]

My copy of the album which featured this song had the words to the songs on the record jacket.

[ELONut]

my first copy was the white belly button cover and the the vinyl was clear coloured

The lyrics where on the sleeve minus the offending ''F''

[britfrenir]

There is another song called "Do-Ya "which is off A "New World Record" that has the offiending "D" word on it..

[Redsox06]

To you Trish, who taught me the true meaning of emptiness.

[stretchmark8]

I am a long time ELO fan but hadn't heard this one,i think it is ELO at their rawest before the studio polished them into a mainstream band with mass appeal. i think jeff's earlier work is his best,"face the music" being my favourite album.

[Zipster08]

This song is brilliant as was the entire album!!

[meikelkorleone]

it's taken from the 73 album .on the 3rd day.

i heard it for the first time back in

1984 on the radio and i still got that very tape.

(vinyl and cd too, for sure)

[britfrenir]

I did not know this was on the radio. I did not know which songs from this album were hits though.

[ELONut]

Ma-Ma-Ma Belle was a hit in Britain and Daybreaker in the US plus Showdown but that track was not included on the UK version

[britfrenir]

Does your copy of the vinal have the words or lyics of the songs on the record jacket? It was white and the album was also white with the photo of the group on the cover.

[meikelkorleone]

yeah, a white album with a b/w band pic on the front, but no lyrics on the record.

and,

that radio thing was a unique kind of special performance, it wasn't a question of "do they have some hits"... it was more a radio show with some djas who's playing good records.

[mongdog1]

I think the white cover with "belly button" band pic was the US release, although I have it in clear Vinyl but without showdown which was omitted from the UK version so ??????

Thieir best Album with Eldorado and Face the music a close third

[mca19580]

Her money and her place, they just don't mean a f'ing thing...

[rheso]

La canción excelente. los acordes serian mas menos :

Sol Sim do re - Sol sim lam re

Mi m do Mim do Sol mim do Sol sim

lam re lam re lam re mim lam do sol Todo se repite Saude  RHESO

[blueeyesofice]

i love it when foreigners write text comments... oonst koonst kinski and scloobity doo, fa fa fa. HAHA!!

[merolillo]

big works, on the beginings.. of the band

[Maneachicken]

'It don't mean a fucking thing...'

True it did, but it got a hell of a lot of airplay. And its one of the Best ELO songs. Its how ELO should sound.

[blueeyesofice]

then you must not be thrilled with the direction jeff took after this cd was the last of it's kind them elo. sounds more like 10cc to me. nice tho.

[Maneachicken]

Oh I love the early progressive E.L.O then from around ANWR to D'very its 'alright' - but Time has something great about it!

[stevehale197]

a favourite for my wife......very samey to me

[ELONut]

the song that escaped the bbc censors with that unnoticed F Bomb