I recently got back into ELO and then subsequently The Move. The last two Move records? Awesome. 'Looking On', though is where it's at for me.

This riff kills me.



Dirty, drugged out sex groove? Check!





Anyone else?

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Yes indeed, sir. : ) Great stuff.

Very good band overall. I really dig their Shazam LP and consider it a major classic. Seriously, I wish everyone could hear that album- it's fabulous. The only bad thing is the CD has been re-released with bonus tracks (all covers, I believe) which don't stand up to the quality of the original work, so if someone is unfamiliar with The Move, they might tend to rate them lower than the band deserves. Oh, The Move's cover of Folkie Tom Paxton's 'The Last Thing On My Mind' (from the original album) is sublime, though.

The Move's main man, Roy Wood, was a cool, creative musician/writer/producer/singer; but everyone in the band was an interesting figure.

Another sweet track from Shazam... more of the 'Heavy' variety.

OK, this one turned out to be a cover, too. I must confess I was ignorant of this matter.




Those ultra-fat sounding guitars must be Les Pauls.
Don't Make My Baby Blue

Cherry Blossom Clinic Revisited !









And the (earlier) song that it referenced, Cherry Blossom Clinic:

And Turkish Tram Conductor Blues. These cats were extremely heavy for their time.

Ah! I'm glad someone else out there gets them. I'm not into too many 60's psychedelic bands -- But I suppose The Move's connection to Black Sabbath and just the general heaviness and (for lack of a better term) fucked up quality make them extremely appealing. Even more so than Syd Barret era Floyd.

I love the first ELO record ('No Answer') as well and it makes me sad in retrospect that Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne couldn't have done one or two more records like it. Based on what I've heard of Wood's post ELO projects (Wizzard and such) he was the one who liked weird fucked up instrumentation and arrangements, even if he himself could do full-on pop as good or better than Lynne (See "See My Baby Jive" by Wizzard).

Think I'm about to go on a little Move binge, after listening to this again. Note the differences between The Move version and the ELO version.

The Move's version is a 100% better. ...and I like the ELO version A LOT. If you want to look up the very definition of power-pop -- this is it.

The Move's main man, Roy Wood, is a cool, creative musician/writer/producer/singer; but pretty much everyone in the band was an interesting figure.