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  • 1977 - Ahh, 1977, I was but 11 going on 12 (october), now I'm 46. and I still love this (and the entire Out Of The Blue album) song. Jeff Lynne knows how to turn out a good song. Plenty here to enjoy.

  • To TheMaster974:A heartfelt thank you!

    

  • Instead of ELO<Rock N Roll Hall of Fame..... It should be, ELO=Rock N Roll Hall of Fame

  • Dance to this at last years job christmas party.

  • Brilliant!

  • 70-80's a BLURRRR ! An AMAZING TIME !

  • I came here because of Doctor Who... and then I saw the the uploader's name is The Master.

  • @ShadowTerra13 let me think............you looked up mr. blue sky cause you heard it in that one episode and started watching E.L.O. am i right :3

  • I am a huge fan of many great bands, but ELO is without a doubt the best of all time. I absolutely love them, I hope and pray that they can tour down under to AUSTRALIA one day.. Love you Jeff Lynne and ELO..Thanks for the music you have brought into my life..It truly takes me back to a beautiful time when life was less complicated and fun..

  • @lenapaco Bev Beven the drummer died a few years ago, don't think they tour anymore. Wish i could see em too \m/

  • @YouxArexAllxLame Wrong person srry Carl Wayne is the one who died. Again sorry for the mistake \m/

  • @YouxArexAllxLame I heard about that and was so sad to hear it..I had always hoped they would tour again..I'll keep my fingers crossed.

  • @lenapaco Me too, theres always hope \m/

  • ELO is really one of the best bands of their time. They have a very diverse set of songs, all songs are meticulously perfected, and they have the BEST back-up vocals I've ever heard (this is coming from a die-hard Aerosmith and Van Halen fan). They are just plain epic.

  • The very beginning sounds like Dr. Who!!! XD

  • This is one of their best efforts. I was a 6 year old when this song came out. Lucky for me my elder sister who was 14 at the time got the record. What a wonderful early experience of music i had. Excellent. :D

  • awesome song. definitely futuristic for the time, still doesn't really sound too dated for a 70s tune. 'Telephone Line' is another great ELO tune. "Strange Magic', another... oh, and 'Living Thing', and ...

  • Love this song as well as a bunch of ELO's songs. Fantastic Band!!!

  • I can listen to this song on loop for unusual amounts of time.

    Does anyone else have a hallucination of traveling through space faster than the speed of light while sitting in a lazyboy planted on the head of a giant space octopus that's smoking a joint while watching the stars be born?

    Ok yeah, I know I'm weird.

  • It's the amazing technology that allows an "artist" to: Slap together a track, Sing about crack, Loop back-to-back, then Play it all back (in less than an hour), that *in itself* instills the sort of laziness that's heard in some new music. ELO's Jeff Lynne was known to compose his "pop" songs -- treating them as real evolving compositions. Any artist can make love with the passion that is their art, or simply slam it against the wall -- the proof is 25+ years later if we're still listening...

  • u sooo very  right !!

  • OLE~

  • This really is a wonderful track.....The music is superb.

  • @NarutorRasengan: sorry, but it was awesome! But this everyone/everywhere phenomenon of social media combined with graphic media has ruined it.

  • This kind of nostalgia will MELT YOUR FACE OFF!!!!

  • E.L.O. will always br the most underrated group of all time !! feel sorry for the people who've never experienced music like this !! what a musical genius Jeff Lynne is !! i had the pleasure of seeing them live in the 80's !! wish everyone now a days could have appreciated this kind of music instead of all the pure crap they play now !!!!

  • @1967teej I was about to post a comment using the word underrated to describe ELO. I feel the band and Jeff Lynne never got their props.

  • @1967teej I couldn't agree with you more. I have 3 young children and i have introduced them to this amazing band and they absolutely love them..My 12 year old went shopping the other day with my sister and came back home with an ELO cd and was i so proud of her..My job is done haha..

  • This is an absolute masterpiece!!

  • anyone else tired of seeing obama ads on youtube.

  • @sirwankify one word; adblock - use it and be happy! no more ads, on webpages or videos. so the answer to your question is 'no', since i haven't seen ANY ads on the internet since i installed adblock, yay!

  • @jamesedwardtheobald heh, cool, the 'captcha' 'word' was 'singings' ELO is quite good at 'singings, lol!

  • I still listen to this. So awesome

  • @NarutorRasengan...good luck. we are awesome in too many ways to count.

  • Great hearing this again...Whats with the sound?

  • Jeff Lynne i first saw you when i was 16 when you were in the Idle Race...and i still love ya..greatest talent to come out of Birmingham xxxx

  • its the 1970s

  • Was this not the greatest record of all time!!!!!!

  • im jealous of the old people. they get to live in such badass decades while us young ppl live in the new shitty millenium >:(

  • @NarutorRasengan the old people made their decades badass, my friend. we can do the same thing for ours.

  • @MrGreglander But how can we top, partying, drinking, having unprotected sex, smoking a joint while listening to great songs that have nothing to do with the phrase "Down with corporations, man!" We're gonna need a miracle to top THAT!

  • @NarutorRasengan Ya can't top any of it!! So glad I was there to experience all of that era, it was a good time!

  • @NarutorRasengan too right mate

  • @NarutorRasengan silly. there is plenty of good music out there; new and old, you ain't looking hard enough! internet killed the radio star, so there is no excuse for nostalgia, that shit will make you OLD, man. click on my name and look at my profile picture ; that is me from last year (when i was 44, my hair is short now and i look even younger now) as you can plainly see i have not aged since i was 25; why? because i don't believe in nostalgia! relate to the past wisely...

  • @NarutorRasengan ///music was great but not being a infantryman in Nam. They drafted everyone in 65/66/67/68

  • @NarutorRasengan That's why we have to take it back from the Beibers of the world and show the masters that we know how to rock too!

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  • @grissomc1218 People like this? Well you truly think highly of yourself. I posted that comment in admiration of the great music of their time. Sure we have innovative technology to gloat about but it's because of that that makes us lazy and unwilling to pick up a book and read about things we don't know other than googling it. And by your comment, it's like your implying that older generations are less advance and practically dumber.

  • @NarutorRasengan Good on you! You are so right!

  • @grissomc1218 And also, I thank the old people not by them fucking up our earth, it was the use of resources to give us younger folks a better lifestyle. They learn their mistakes by destruction, so that experience was passed down, not because they're dumb. You have no respect for your elders at all. Are you saying that your parents are less intelligent too? I doubt you even think that. Think before you speak.

  • @NarutorRasengan how does it feel to be stupid lolz i love catching people speaking their ignorant minds hahha if you comment back youll only prove your brain truly is miniscule

  • @NarutorRasengan So true!

  • Yes a superb record,wrote so many good songs did out Jeff

  • this reminds me of a girl i like

  • 1977 forever!

  • its like a mix of beatles and queen

  • oh ok.. i thought it was.....

    "Turn to Stoned"...

    Turn to Stone...that is a good name to

    great video...

    5 stars

    ok where was i going...

    oh yeah...

    wal mart...

  • lemons?

    

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  • Jeff Lynne is a genius.

  • @martafterglow A FOREIGN genius. Another critical piece of evidence that America is a contradiction. To itself.

  • Yes, for BEAR.

  • love it!

  • I FRICKING LOVE THIS SONGGGGGG

  • For Bear

  • I still have their Best Of CASSETTE! Right next to my Alice Cooper Best Of.

  • RIP Mike Edwards... cellist for ELO...

  • what a boss tune \o/

  • My Friend Scott...growing up as kids...Loved him man and he's gone now from Cancer...He loved this album and I'll always think of him when i hear this stuff...RIP Scott...

  • @rockisthebest1000 umm ok

  • jeff lynn and elo,awesome

  • @chreesh127 I think Muse sounds like this..... actually. But that was quite funny!

  • I turn to stone when I'm in a position to converse with my dad on an equalibrial level something that very rarely ocurse although he is the man who inspires me to the man that i am.I can not by any stretch of the imagination talk to him as though he is my equal.Despite all this his taiste in music is and I know this now having doubted this for many years is awe inspiring.

  • @Daniel28H Have you told him this?

  • One of my all time favorites!

  • This was one of my all time favorite bands when I was a kid in the late 1970's and early 1980's. They were so unique and super cool. They deserve their respect today. I like all of ELO'S songs they can put my bad mood back into a happy one. Reading many others comments in here the one of edseljim dedicating to his friend Bear was cool. I will dedicate this to his friend Bear too.

  • A time when they made good music for the mind, unlike today. Today's music is used as a tool for mind control. Watch " Dr Colin Ross on C.I.A mind control" Learn the truth behind all the evil in today's evil minded society. Peace out.

  • @7711ish That is so true, there is a Canadian dude on youtube going viral talking about how youtube has taken all the local bands off of the music page and only has pop artists' music up now. Btw I use the term "artist" very liberally in this comment! To prove so many points let me say this, how is beyonnce a musician? No melody, shit lyrics, how is this bitch in music???

  • @mmaaxx1198 Because she's pretty and shakes her ass. i guess that's all that's all that's required these days. I still don't know how GaGa is so popular.

  • @ToddSweeneyOnce I'm disagreeing with you that beyonnce is pretty, dumb bitches are not pretty to me, the lack of brains, the biblical whores, turn me off, kills all "skin deep" beauty!

  • @mmaaxx1198 You have a point and this country is full of them!

  • @mmaaxx1198 true. no such thing a "music" anymore. nothing like the oldies. even the ramones and the beach boys can't be beaten by anyone or enything. hence the reason why all these new artists copy old music

  • yes..the days when AM radio was still king....and most artists were famous and liked because of indiviual talent, songwriting skills , vocal skill and musicianship.

  • Grate song .. but your google ad is really fake.......

  • Anyone know the lyrics to the fast spoken bridge? I can't quite get all the words...And after that, maybe you can help me out with the words to "Louie Louie"...haha... Thanks for posting this great song..ELO rocks...All hail...

  • @fab4fan4ever64 All Hail indeed.

  • sad to see what the music industry has become, a huge self replicating lump of oatmeal, tasteless and featureless, cranking out the same boring, bland crap over and over and over again.

    people have been force fed crap music for so long they have been desensitized, unable to tell good music even if it bit them in the ass.

    if you dislike this song, or anything from the 70's or 80's, then I'm afraid your one of those people.

  • THEY WERE THE DAYS,BRILL

  • This is music of substance and style. It took thought and creativity to make it. This is the dividing line between what we had and what is dropped steaming on the ground for us these days. Where are the powerful, creative minds that once were? I mourn our collective loss while enjoying this excellent work.

  • Love it :) Thank you !

  • I agree that rap is crap. It takes very little talent to do since you don't need to know musical notes. Rhythm is fine but I just think that people that say they don't like music like ELO are obviously deluded and like crashy crap...like Bullet for my valentine...that's not even music...it's anger riding on the coattails of Nirvana!

  • ELO still ROCKS!!!

  • I agree with wejustgotcolortv. Yea, most of the music today is horrible (that Justin Beiber, Miley Cyrus, and popular hip hop starts like lil wayne and Drake). However, as far as music these days goes, the good rap stars as describes below really do make good music. These stars talk about political activism.I am a huge fan of the golden oldies, and other bands such as ELO, the kinks, Bob Dylan, to name a few.

  • I'm not surprised to see Hate Tanks on YouTube, but I am surprised to see Hate Tank ELO fans. This music is great but so is a lot of Hip Hop. A Tribe Called Quest, Wu-Tang Clan, KRS-One, De La Soul, Public Enemy, just to name five. Free your mind and your ass will follow!

  • @WeJustGotColorTV ..i can't argue with that....Public Enemy , KRS_One, Run Dmc, L.L. Cool . J (his 80's 90's stuff) 3rd Bass yep i hear you..that also goes for alot of the "metal" stuff like "Iron Maiden","Ozzy' and Guns  and Roses

  • this is one of the best from elo maoworks2

  • good music almost became extinct nowadays

  • R.A.P Retarted African Poetry

  • @Scarface565410 ..."OMG I LOVE IT"...LOL

  • I have this theory of why entertainment/fads/technologie­s are the way they are now. Because of the internet and the closest the world has been to reachable instant communication has made a kind of melting pot of eras. anything recorded within the last 100 years can be instantly accessed. People say (mostly older people but me too..er...i try not to anymore) that music is no longer creative or of quality but i believe that this type of music is a kind of bad response the era melting pot? idk hmm

  • thank the niggers for the shit music,Rap=crap

  • music is like candies; you have to get rid of all the rappers before you can enjoy it

  • @rockisthebest1000 music is like candy, you have to get rid of all the rappers!

  • @rockisthebest1000 ...HAHAHAHA.... that's hilarious.

  • @rockisthebest1000 wow you really have a hate on for rap

  • @rockisthebest1000 best music-related analogy ive ever heard

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  • @rockisthebest1000 holy shit that's genius!

  • @rockisthebest1000 Ok you can get rid of the rappers but never a hip hop artist

  • @rockisthebest1000 can i steal this saying from u and post it on stupid new music songs???

  • @rockisthebest1000 Or you could just enjoy as many different types of music that appeal to you..kinda like candies also. ;)

  • @rockisthebest1000 Good one

  • @rockisthebest1000 Hah I had to read this like 30 times before I got it.

  • @rockisthebest1000 Do you mean Wrappers or Rappers as in Gangster Rap?

  • @bertyUK That's the joke. Wrappers as in sweets and rappers as in music. You have to get rid of both them to get great food/music.

  • i found it thx

  • @MSavage59 shut the fuck up retard

  • @coolplomp

    HEY!....be nice.

  • @coolplomp wow youre an ass! XD

  • I can't find this MP3 :(

  • @GalaxyJazzGirl its on the album oll send it to you if you want

  • yall don't like a certain type of music tell the record companies who actually ask for it and put it to market. blame the right people fora change.

  • rap should end likedisco. they r one in the same. crap

  • Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music, And E.L.O. my true favorites of the `80s

  • Every single person is entitled to their own taste in music 4 cripe sakes! It ain't cool to judge other peoples taste. Take it from someone who's been taking a history of rock and roll class and who happens to a hard core musical genius

  • No 1 called u pussy. Take a chill pill.

  • c'est trop malade !

  • Jeff is a genius!

  • you ROCK ELO

  • AWESOME!!!song cant stop listening to it!

  • I had to buy this album twice cause I wore out the original. It had the coolest album art.

  • LOVE THIS SONG!

  • @stupidgenius>>>Paul Davis was the 80s guy behind songs like "i go crazy" and "cool night" and "65 love affair"....great artist......and by the way....he's dead..

  • it;s over 9,000!!!

  • On the upside...

    Great Song! ELO !

  • @ BlazerT10

    Who the fuck do you think you are calling me a pussy for liking a song... first of all what song was it and aint the pussy who comments on someones profile then blocks them from commenting back you twat!

  • True dat

  • love it so much!

  • Awesome Band !

  • If there's only one band as good as the Beatles, it has to be -- ELO!

  • @rin3guy

    How About RUSH!!!!

  • @rin3guy Just wondering...what do u think about "Queen" (the original one)?

  • Queen does rate quite highly on my list, at #4! Right behind ELO, the Beatles & ABBA (in that order). And rounding out my Top 10 musical acts:

    5. Hall & Oates

    6. Foreigner

    7. Styx

    8. Fleetwood Mac

    9. Chicago

    10. Bee Gees

  • I've got a playlist for that.

  • ELO was my friends favorite as we were growing up. Everytime I hear ELO, I think of him. It has been 14 years since he died. His name was Steve, but we all called him BEAR. This song is for you BEAR.

  • @edseljim1 thats really sweet man. sorry for you. it's a really nice song too

  • I saw this tour when I was young...I'll never forget it!

  • I had a teacher in the 80's say their concert changed his life. I never understood why though. I knew another lady who said the same thing about Herman's Hermits. Never got that one either.

  • Me too & of all the bands I've ever seen live-ELO has a special place in my heart & always will.

  • I'm so jealous. I'm 17, so I never got that chance. However, I was lucky enough to catch Rush, AC/DC, and Earth Wind and Fire before they all fell off the face of the planet.

  • I'm sorry, dude. It was gr8 growing up with this music. Love ELO and EWF! I bet u would also love Boston, Kansas, Journey, Foreigner. Oh, and for a little variety, try Paul Davis. He may be one u haven't heard b4.

  • I really like Boston and Foreigner and I like some Kansas and Journey. I've never heard of Paul Davis though. Thanks for the suggestion.

  • Totally different style of music with him, but some really cool hits back then. I 4got to mention that if u like EWF, u should listen to Brothers Johnson doing Stomp and Strawberry Letter 23. Enjoy!

  • It's not surprising to see songs like this and others from that era coming back into popularity. But the one thing I do miss is the Album art and liner notes - CDs and iTunes have done away with that, and if you're my age, you miss it. The album art was a way to continue the theme of the album or just give a mood. Now it's a thumbnail image.

  • Bruhe, you are so right. The album sleeve was something extra. I miss that too. x.

  • Makes want to roll in my competition orange Corvette in my members only jacket. I think this came out before my re-incarnation. Love it!

  • they're so retro yet futuristic. I was born in 91 and I still love it.

  • i was born in 89

    this song is ahead of its time, i love it

  • Love the video. The song is a classic.

  • its no that hard to appeal to everyones liking of rap

    - to stupidgenius107

  • yeah theres good music today.......its just hard to see amost the miilions of tons of rap crap and todays pop

  • I don't really like rap and pop and stuff like that much... I stick with this!!! :D

  • My previous comment was in response to TheOReport1994's claim that today's music is crap.

  • ELO is odd in that they are were a rock group, but also a simply pop group. The pop stations played ELO all the time back in the day, but rock stations didn't play them as much back then. "Turn To Stone," "Telephone Line," & "Strange Magic" were on the Rock channels, but songs like "Shine a Little Love," "Living Thing," "Sweet Talking Woman," &"Mr Blue Sky" stayed primarily on the pop channels. Hall and Oates did something similar in that they crossed the line between Rock, Pop & R&B/Soul.

  • I'm 16 and the only modern stuff i listen to is metal........yes i like elo and metal is that a problem?

  • Nope

  • @mirror94 me too :D

  • im 14 and i remember listening to elo jim croche and stuff like that and i love it

  • Seriously....80s music truely dominates today's music...Elo and this song proves it.