This would make an incredible film soundtrack, you can almost envisage the guitar section at 2:40 in some kind of car chase scene or something like that! =-D
Great job considering how tough this song would be to recreate live. I would prefer the acoustic guitar part to the electric version here but perhaps they wanted a Live Feel so Jeff chose to go electric. A lot of bands won't even attempt to do a song like this live for fear that it would sound like total garbage.
I'm an out of shape, old fart now, but back in 1990 I weighed 128 pounds, could run a 1/2 marathon in 6:30 miles, could crack raw eggs on my theigh muscles, (could spell better, too!), and I downed three giant esspressos, and ran the 1990 Bay to Breakers and came in 596th out of 120,000 runners. The rush of being in shape and all that caffine, always reminds me of this song. It's a sustained rush I hear. Power. Excitement. Life straining at the leash. Thanks Jeff!!!!
I wish Jeff would just take a time out from being a rich old lazy git and have another go at writing something as ambitious, grandiose and magical as Fire On High.
Play this song to ANY age NFL Sports fan and they will say they have heard it. Ask how many know it's ELO, and few will. I think it is the greatest instrumental songs ever. It is ageless and it's sound will always feel current with the times, you absolutely cannot date it. Pure genius in every song, yet terribly underrated. This is from the days when you didn't need FF or REW because every song on the album was good. Other groups also were, but now I can only count a few that can do that.
to all the people talking about the secret messages, here's a piece of advice...if you spend your life looking for the devil, you will find him. Try doing something different.
If people are talking about the "satanic" words starting at 0:26, I played this backwards on vinyl in the 70's. It says "Time is reversible, but time is not. Turn back, turn back, turn back", played backwards of course.
@Bodebodango Sounds like just guitars to me, unless you are suggesting that Jeff was an evil Satanist and purposely made those guitars "talk". If your brain is really looking out for "satanic messages" in a song, it will find them and most likely other people will not hear it unless you point it out and says it says this. Unless it was intentional like with the first part of this song. I've listened to this song dozens of times and have not even been tempted to "worship Satan" or whatever.
I got the 1st 2 as a phenomenon called paridola. its what the ghost hunters call matrixing. It's when you here something or see something and your brain being the amazing computer, tries to identify a pattern in the infomation its given, and you here it as that. is just there is moer than one news caster and you here that pattern. Basicly, Its just wishfull thinking.
@fraghawk42 The second example sounds like a secoend news caster saying something about details. like all the tiny details or something. The syllable count for hold me tight satan just isn't there. the third I couldn't find after 15 listens trough.
This song is not satanic at all. The backwards masking says, "The music is reversible, but time is not, turn back, turn back, turn back.' Then ELO uses a "Honor God" chorus. So unless God means satan . . .
OOOh big man behind the computer screen, all you did is prove my point about people being to sensitive with everything. people like you give religous people and america a bad name. good job! hahahahaha
oooooh big man behind a computer screen LMFAO grow the fuck and think outside the bible. I do believe in god myself. Im trying to prove a point that people take shit way too seriously.. HAHA YOUR A FUCKIN JOKE BODE!
ok this song is deffinatly NOT satanic, but if satanism has done one thing right is made music better! SATAN ROCKS!!!!!!!...........but thats about it lmao
Because dumb asses like yourself deny it! And I can prove that this is not the only song by them that is satanic! And I agree satan has made rock better, unfortunately he has also made listeners like yourself into dribbling cum guzzling satanic dick suckers and pole smugglers! LMAOBT!
@fraghawk42 Don't need to post it u can go listen too it any time! And its not backwards its at normal speed, and is so hidden that it took me probably hundreds of listens until one day I said what the hell did I just hear? Nad when I play it for prople and say right there they still don't hear it until probably 5 tries! So if your really interested I will tell u the song and at what time reference u can find it! It happens 3 times! Im sure you will hear it in the news some day!
@Bodebodango Have listened to this song every day for six months. No message besides the intended. I use ear buds and extremely good speakers. I don't listen to it at a ridiculously high volume or quiet volume. The particular recording is encoded a 195kbs. Tell me the time of the message and I will prove you wrong by putting that section on loop for 15 minuets straight with my earbuds in. I've also been a muscian for 8 years, so I have good hearing.
@fraghawk42 Dude are u smokin crack? I never said it was in this song! Matter of fact I gave you a little hidden message in my last post, but your too bust blowing smoke up your own arse to be paying attention! I have been in music longer than that, and that is why I found it in another song! Re-read what I last wrote, and you will find the hidden message and then you may be worthy enough too train your bionic ears on the song in question!
@fraghawk42 You got my message I dont know where you are located but I have already directed people towards that song! Let me know what time you wanna meet on here tonight and I will show you where it is, and at what time signature!Im on Pacific time and I should be home at around 11PM my time if you wanna meet on here? Im not bull shitting about this and trust me when I say I listened too this song100 times before I myself heard it! Later,Ognadobedob
@fraghawk42 I just tried to post it on your page and I erased it Im telling you the truth about this does not want out! One more try and the short version! 2:05-06 You will here now claiming too be "Satan he is a very good friend of mine!" Next one is at 2:20 and you will hear The latest report from the people and at 2:22 "Hold me tight Satan"! Completely different sinister voice from the broadcaster, and you will wonder how you ever missed it! Then in the far background starting at 3:11 u will
@Bodebodango Satan,Satan,Satan! If I had my uber head phones Im sure I could find more but they are broken! I listened to this song a million times and never heard a thing and then one day while driving I said what the hell did I just hear? Let me know what u think!
This song is awesome. Has to be one of the greatest songs of all time. Reminds me of the Paul McCartney & Wings song. It changes mood many times, but never loses your attention. Jeff Lynn is a musical genius.
you must record the part from 0:25 to 0:42 (only the sound) and reverse it! you can hear him saying: "the music is reversible, but time´s not ... turn back ... turn back ... turn back"
Know why? People started accusing rock bands of putting satanic messages in music, so they made this one to sort of mess with those people. It's one of the best backwards messages ever.
My god why hasn't this recording been remastered and rereleased? It's so rare that I find a live clip of ELO that doesn't sound like garbage 'cause it was a bootleg. Jeff must have a clean copy of this somewhere!
This CD is a 2 disc affair and the disc this track is on is so disappointing as it it mixed far too low. The first disc has better sound. Even better still is the BBC sessions album recorded around 1973.
here are the lyrics to this song.........." The music is reversible, but time is not! Turn back, turn back, turn back."
mrterryb101 2 months ago
By far the best of Jeff Lynne..... CBS sports even used it for their intro many years ago
airbornebob101 5 months ago
This would make an incredible film soundtrack, you can almost envisage the guitar section at 2:40 in some kind of car chase scene or something like that! =-D
rorymacve 5 months ago
AMAZING!
jperillo09 5 months ago
this is good , even without song.
HBriver 6 months ago
One of their best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TheLaluna1 6 months ago
Great job considering how tough this song would be to recreate live. I would prefer the acoustic guitar part to the electric version here but perhaps they wanted a Live Feel so Jeff chose to go electric. A lot of bands won't even attempt to do a song like this live for fear that it would sound like total garbage.
sentry221 7 months ago
from 2.40 it's already history ;)
fanebabanu19 8 months ago
crazyyyyyyy. BIG ART still.
MrJuha82 9 months ago
I used to know the words as well!
MrDrj777 1 year ago
Best live version of this song I have heard to date!
bpotter53029 1 year ago
fucked up song backwards
gallys1007 1 year ago
I'm an out of shape, old fart now, but back in 1990 I weighed 128 pounds, could run a 1/2 marathon in 6:30 miles, could crack raw eggs on my theigh muscles, (could spell better, too!), and I downed three giant esspressos, and ran the 1990 Bay to Breakers and came in 596th out of 120,000 runners. The rush of being in shape and all that caffine, always reminds me of this song. It's a sustained rush I hear. Power. Excitement. Life straining at the leash. Thanks Jeff!!!!
USABG58 1 year ago
ELO---"FIRE ON HiGH BBC*
www41WorldUSAcom 1 year ago
total genious, as we all know jeff lynne is!!!!
jeff new album please?????? asap
mathie1967 1 year ago
I wish Jeff would just take a time out from being a rich old lazy git and have another go at writing something as ambitious, grandiose and magical as Fire On High.
Sadly, I feel that day will never come.
doncool69 1 year ago 2
@doncool69 Haha.
Perktube1 1 year ago
Very entertaining me. Basta.
The fuck with devil-shit .To hell with that hole-with-no-ass-at-all!
FREE! TOLIVE ALL THE RIGHT WAY! HERE! NOW! FOREVER!
Bernard!
labora4best 1 year ago
Sends shivers down your spine - as it was meant to!
SteveWalker56 1 year ago
@SteveWalker56 Body's aching all the time?
fraghawk42 1 year ago
Great song! Great work by the entire band on this.
HazMatCFO 1 year ago
Play this song to ANY age NFL Sports fan and they will say they have heard it. Ask how many know it's ELO, and few will. I think it is the greatest instrumental songs ever. It is ageless and it's sound will always feel current with the times, you absolutely cannot date it. Pure genius in every song, yet terribly underrated. This is from the days when you didn't need FF or REW because every song on the album was good. Other groups also were, but now I can only count a few that can do that.
rrussell39 1 year ago
to all the people talking about the secret messages, here's a piece of advice...if you spend your life looking for the devil, you will find him. Try doing something different.
ivory1029 1 year ago 5
I thought this would be video of them. Darn.
lonstar70 1 year ago
There's nothing satanic about this song.
no1elofaniknow 1 year ago 3
It says, "The MUSIC is reverseable, but time is not. Turn back! ..."
no1elofaniknow 1 year ago 3
If people are talking about the "satanic" words starting at 0:26, I played this backwards on vinyl in the 70's. It says "Time is reversible, but time is not. Turn back, turn back, turn back", played backwards of course.
Some people have overactive imaginations.
segdirb7 1 year ago
make the song reverse :)
iibKaradesh 1 year ago
@Bodebodango Sounds like just guitars to me, unless you are suggesting that Jeff was an evil Satanist and purposely made those guitars "talk". If your brain is really looking out for "satanic messages" in a song, it will find them and most likely other people will not hear it unless you point it out and says it says this. Unless it was intentional like with the first part of this song. I've listened to this song dozens of times and have not even been tempted to "worship Satan" or whatever.
Scarfermezzo 1 year ago
Anyone posting difficulty's may have a wee problem ....do not forget we ..ARE NOT ALONE..on this small planet.
trianglepoints 1 year ago
There's 2 explanations.
I got the 1st 2 as a phenomenon called paridola. its what the ghost hunters call matrixing. It's when you here something or see something and your brain being the amazing computer, tries to identify a pattern in the infomation its given, and you here it as that. is just there is moer than one news caster and you here that pattern. Basicly, Its just wishfull thinking.
fraghawk42 1 year ago
@fraghawk42 The second example sounds like a secoend news caster saying something about details. like all the tiny details or something. The syllable count for hold me tight satan just isn't there. the third I couldn't find after 15 listens trough.
fraghawk42 1 year ago
Hear Is the news. Good try :)
fraghawk42 1 year ago
To all of you who still believe in the devil, you need to learn about the reactive mind.
Also, Satan is not the devil. The devil is a Christian concept.
Satanists do not like devil worshipers.
brantlyful 1 year ago
wow... pretty crazy pics... very nice though...
Starlitblond 2 years ago
To all the subliminal message believers:
Please stay on your medications!
rnasap 2 years ago
This song is not satanic at all. The backwards masking says, "The music is reversible, but time is not, turn back, turn back, turn back.' Then ELO uses a "Honor God" chorus. So unless God means satan . . .
bernini62 2 years ago
OOOh big man behind the computer screen, all you did is prove my point about people being to sensitive with everything. people like you give religous people and america a bad name. good job! hahahahaha
zombiesnatcher82 2 years ago
oooooh big man behind a computer screen LMFAO grow the fuck and think outside the bible. I do believe in god myself. Im trying to prove a point that people take shit way too seriously.. HAHA YOUR A FUCKIN JOKE BODE!
zombiesnatcher82 2 years ago
ok this song is deffinatly NOT satanic, but if satanism has done one thing right is made music better! SATAN ROCKS!!!!!!!...........but thats about it lmao
zombiesnatcher82 2 years ago
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It is Satanic!
Bodebodango 2 years ago
how the fuck is it satanic you dumb shit!
zombiesnatcher82 2 years ago
Because dumb asses like yourself deny it! And I can prove that this is not the only song by them that is satanic! And I agree satan has made rock better, unfortunately he has also made listeners like yourself into dribbling cum guzzling satanic dick suckers and pole smugglers! LMAOBT!
Bodebodango 2 years ago
@Bodebodango ok then prove it. Go on. post a video. see if you can.
fraghawk42 1 year ago
@fraghawk42 Don't need to post it u can go listen too it any time! And its not backwards its at normal speed, and is so hidden that it took me probably hundreds of listens until one day I said what the hell did I just hear? Nad when I play it for prople and say right there they still don't hear it until probably 5 tries! So if your really interested I will tell u the song and at what time reference u can find it! It happens 3 times! Im sure you will hear it in the news some day!
Bodebodango 1 year ago
@Bodebodango Have listened to this song every day for six months. No message besides the intended. I use ear buds and extremely good speakers. I don't listen to it at a ridiculously high volume or quiet volume. The particular recording is encoded a 195kbs. Tell me the time of the message and I will prove you wrong by putting that section on loop for 15 minuets straight with my earbuds in. I've also been a muscian for 8 years, so I have good hearing.
fraghawk42 1 year ago
@fraghawk42 Btw, I listened to this for 8 hours driving from Amarillo to Austin. I estimate Ive heard it at least 100 times.
fraghawk42 1 year ago
@fraghawk42 Dude are u smokin crack? I never said it was in this song! Matter of fact I gave you a little hidden message in my last post, but your too bust blowing smoke up your own arse to be paying attention! I have been in music longer than that, and that is why I found it in another song! Re-read what I last wrote, and you will find the hidden message and then you may be worthy enough too train your bionic ears on the song in question!
Bodebodango 1 year ago
@Bodebodango You are the 2nd person to say there is a message in that song.
fraghawk42 1 year ago
@fraghawk42 You got my message I dont know where you are located but I have already directed people towards that song! Let me know what time you wanna meet on here tonight and I will show you where it is, and at what time signature!Im on Pacific time and I should be home at around 11PM my time if you wanna meet on here? Im not bull shitting about this and trust me when I say I listened too this song100 times before I myself heard it! Later,Ognadobedob
Bodebodango 1 year ago
@Bodebodango Why not just post the time here or pm me and I'll let ya know what I find, ok?
fraghawk42 1 year ago
@fraghawk42
Bodebodango 1 year ago
@Bodebodango I just tried to post this and it wouldn't let me! Everytime I try talking about this it says error!
Bodebodango 1 year ago
@fraghawk42 I just tried to post it on your page and I erased it Im telling you the truth about this does not want out! One more try and the short version! 2:05-06 You will here now claiming too be "Satan he is a very good friend of mine!" Next one is at 2:20 and you will hear The latest report from the people and at 2:22 "Hold me tight Satan"! Completely different sinister voice from the broadcaster, and you will wonder how you ever missed it! Then in the far background starting at 3:11 u will
Bodebodango 1 year ago
@Bodebodango Satan,Satan,Satan! If I had my uber head phones Im sure I could find more but they are broken! I listened to this song a million times and never heard a thing and then one day while driving I said what the hell did I just hear? Let me know what u think!
Bodebodango 1 year ago
@Bodebodango The 2nd one sounds like the time will tell or all the tiny details or only tiny details. I hear a y sound.
fraghawk42 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
@Bodebodango You made It sound like it was this song with the comment: It is Satanic!
And I dont want to start a flame war bud, i just want the time refrence to where its at in here is the news. k
fraghawk42 1 year ago
gud song :)
margiec1996 2 years ago
@margiec1996 .. very good song..
Starlitblond 2 years ago
I was probably 11 or 12 the first time I heard this song. The intro gave me nightmares.
DinsdalePiranha67 2 years ago 3
wow.. the beginning there sounds a little satanic..
Starlitblond 2 years ago
It's supposed to.
wpw2 2 years ago
@Starlitblond no, its avant grade!
fraghawk42 1 year ago
I think this was the song for Wide World of sports the agony of defeat.
Rtc36 2 years ago
Absolutely loved this...Incredible! Thank you!!!
wevetra13 2 years ago
Absolutely terrific. Were there any more from this set?
trossachs2003 2 years ago
Hey man i though you were posting a video with the band playing this great instrumental live -- just pictures not video what a disappointment-.....
MyRickyz 2 years ago
back master it
kyvonj 2 years ago
This song is awesome. Has to be one of the greatest songs of all time. Reminds me of the Paul McCartney & Wings song. It changes mood many times, but never loses your attention. Jeff Lynn is a musical genius.
crylo2000 2 years ago 15
@crylo2000 Absolutely. As a writer, a producer, a musician, Jeff is the best.
mouhot 2 years ago
Cool video with the volcanoes..
queenofpeace1 2 years ago
Yea You shoud Try Pink Floyds Emty Spaces Message
OxannaRoC 2 years ago
turn back
happyface4444 2 years ago
never heard this version
shaftsbury94 2 years ago 3
It's like Revolution 9, but more concentrated!
Hitari0 3 years ago
What are you saying ? Revolution 9 was bullshit in its worst way. I think you have not heard this track only once or twice. This is
MUCH BETTER than that crap Revolution 9.
FinnMove 2 years ago
With this song, 30 years ago, I knew ELO, and I falled in love with his music.
One of the best songs ever made.
victorchestra 3 years ago
fire on high is for me one of the most remarkable instrumental songs ever made
steamloco1705 3 years ago 24
@steamloco1705 Its like 4 songs in one, just too good.
aioffreda 1 year ago
@steamloco1705 i have to admit before i heard this my fav was frankenstein....but that is history
mumupy 1 year ago 2
you must record the part from 0:25 to 0:42 (only the sound) and reverse it! you can hear him saying: "the music is reversible, but time´s not ... turn back ... turn back ... turn back"
Messerschmitt262a2a 3 years ago
Know why? People started accusing rock bands of putting satanic messages in music, so they made this one to sort of mess with those people. It's one of the best backwards messages ever.
AdrenalineAddict610 2 years ago 2
@ Messerschmitt262a2a you wrote "the music is reversible, but time´s not ... turn back ... turn back ... turn back"
but I heard " music is the first of all, but time ... turn back ... turn back ... turn back"
but the realy strange bit is that the album started with the dutch term for "turn back", and i turned it back.
perhaps it is an invitation to the preceding albums !
just ask Jeff
grolum 2 years ago
My god why hasn't this recording been remastered and rereleased? It's so rare that I find a live clip of ELO that doesn't sound like garbage 'cause it was a bootleg. Jeff must have a clean copy of this somewhere!
schalker331 3 years ago
Live at the BBC is the one CD that has escaped my collection it is so rare to find a copy which is affordable Nice vid btw
ELONut 3 years ago
This CD is a 2 disc affair and the disc this track is on is so disappointing as it it mixed far too low. The first disc has better sound. Even better still is the BBC sessions album recorded around 1973.
bobby666666 3 years ago