{"id":213,"date":"2021-02-11T19:17:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T19:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dantejspado.com\/?p=213"},"modified":"2021-03-23T21:40:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T21:40:17","slug":"the-elo-album-that-could-be-a-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dantejspado.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/11\/the-elo-album-that-could-be-a-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"The ELO album that could be a movie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Dante Spado<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My favorite band is Electric Light Orchestra, or as they\u2019re more commonly known, ELO. Growing up, I was raised on Bruce Springsteen, Van Halen and other classic rock bands, like Aerosmith. ELO was never on my radar until I saw Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2<\/em> (fitting that my favorite band would come out of a movie I saw), which featured the song \u201cMr. Blue Sky\u201d in its opening sequence<\/a>. I was hooked on the song, but more importantly, I was hooked on their sound. Jeff Lynne\u2019s falsetto voice coupled with violins and guitars released an ungodly amount of serotonin in my brain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I looked into ELO more and found that I already knew their big hits \u201cDon\u2019t Bring Me Down\u201d and \u201cDo Ya.\u201d But I also fell in love with new songs I had never heard before, like \u201cMidnight Blue\u201d, \u201cSweet Talkin\u2019 Woman\u201d and, my favorite, \u201cTelephone Line<\/a>.\u201d Over the years, I cycled through all their songs and albums until I only had one left\u2014Time<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I need to start off by saying Time<\/em> is NOT like the other ELO albums. The orchestra is swapped out for a synth (hey! It was the \u201880s<\/a>), resulting in a new sound for the band. The album is also unique because each song bleeds into the next. If you listen to the whole thing straight through (and you should), there is never a moment of silence. You can tell when a new song starts, but there are always lingering instrumentals that bridge the gap between one track to the next. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I found a copy of Time<\/em>, in perfect condition, on vinyl at an antique store. Kind of ironic considering the whole thing is about the future.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The coolest thing about Time<\/em> is that it\u2019s a concept album that tells a story of a man taken from the 1980s to the year 2095. The whole thing is very futuristic, even by today\u2019s standards. It\u2019s also my belief that the album could be adapted into an awesome sci-fi movie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Between being transported to the future, having his wife replaced with an android version of herself, traveling to the moon, contacting his wife in the 80s through a dream and coming to terms with what it means to be a “21st Century Man,” the man in the album goes through some really interesting stuff. The kicker is, at the beginning and end of the album the man goes through a dream-like state, leaving the listener wondering if the man really was taken to the future, or if it was all just a dream. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The song “Yours Truly, 2095” always reminds me of Karen and Plankton, as it revolves around having a wife who “is an IBM.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Every time I listen to the album, I get this vivid imagery in my head, from the \u201civory towers and plastic flowers\u201d to having a robot wife who is \u201cthe latest in technology.\u201d I\u2019m confident that the album could be adapted to a movie, and that may be something I look into in my Introduction to Screen Adaptation class this semester. <\/p>\n\n\n\n


I imagine a lot of that sounded weird, and I\u2019d say that\u2019s fair; it\u2019s a weird album. But it\u2019s also really good. If you have time (ha) over the weekend, I recommend setting aside 40 minutes or so and listening to Time<\/a><\/em>. It might just transport you across another plane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Dante Spado My favorite band is Electric Light Orchestra, or as they\u2019re more commonly known, ELO. Growing up, I was raised on Bruce Springsteen, Van Halen and other classic rock bands, like Aerosmith. ELO was never on my radar until I saw Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (fitting that my favorite band would come out of a movie I saw), which featured the song \u201cMr. Blue Sky\u201d in its opening sequence. I was… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dantejspado.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dantejspado.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dantejspado.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dantejspado.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dantejspado.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dantejspado.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318,"href":"https:\/\/dantejspado.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dantejspado.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dantejspado.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dantejspado.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}