http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2007 by the authors Mon, 4 Jun 2007 05:09:08 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/09/20/002456.php#comment-598046 Probably one of The greatest musical talents of modern times. Surrounded himself with talented people in the studio and on stage.His music speaks volumes . No current Band (sorry karaoke group) can be looked on as a modern day equivelant. 598046@blogcritics.org Mon, 4 Jun 2007 05:09:08 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/09/20/002456.php#comment-565261 The problem is that people give too much of a continental with production. Yeah, sure, Jeff Lynne might go overboard with compression, limiting, overdubbing, sound effects etc.....but he has remarkable musical ideas. I don't really care if music has the clean production of Jeff Lynne, or the rough as guts production of Frank Zappa- just as long as the musical ideas are present!!! 565261@blogcritics.org Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:37:38 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/09/20/002456.php#comment-565024 Aw... I just don't like his production. Too processed or something. I dunno - most of the time I can't even sit though an album's worth of his productions to identify what exactly it is I don't like, which is unlike me. I guess you can't like everything. 565024@blogcritics.org Fri, 23 Mar 2007 21:56:55 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/09/20/002456.php#comment-564970 The fantastic attribute that Jeff Lynne brings to music is a great sense of melody. Virtually no one can construct a melody as well as the big JL (Paul Macartney coming in at a close 2nd). He also has a great sense of arrangement.My theory as to why ELO relied on the odd lip sync is not because they were insufficient as musos. Every musician in ELO was superb. The fact of the matter is that Jeff would utilise a 40 piece string orchestra in all his albums from 1975-1981. Trying to replicate the sound on stage would have been difficult. When the stage act consisted of two 'cellos and a violin,it became a shit fight to cover parts. 564970@blogcritics.org Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:49:22 EDT