Discovery - ELO

...Amazon or CD-NOW. DISCOVERY Jet 1979 POSTSCRIPT: In response to a query from Okkaraoke (Who is Bruce in the song "Don't bring me down") I did a little research on the internet. The word as printed in the CD insert is 'grroosss'. I found the following explanation on the Asian Electric Light Orchestra web site (http://admiralty.pacific.net.hk/~bluesky/best/elo_306e.htm#3) “This question pops up from time to time and many discussions have taken place ...
...a greeting in German or Danish. Then we have our friends in Australia who say Jeff sings ‘Bruce’ not 'Groosss'. Kelly Groucutt once answered it was a fun word without any meaning, however it is confirmed by Jeff Lynne in the Flashback notes (Discovery) "No kids, Lynne’s not singing 'Bruce' in the backing vocals for the album’s inspired rocker 'Don’t Bring Me Down'".”No, it’s ‘groos’ – just a word I made up in the studio to fill up this hole. Everybody ...

Newfloridian 20.12.2002 (21.12.2002) · Read full review
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Review of Discovery - ELO

The word games with the title of what proved to be ELO's best-selling album ever (straight into No. 1 in the UK album chart, where it stayed for five weeks) are appropriate. Whereas the group, or rather front man/writer/producer Jeff Lynne, had broken new ground with every previous set, by now they were becoming formularised and following musical trends rather than carving out their own distinctive path. While the opening track "Shine a Little Love" ...
...best of the dance floor competition in '79 from Abba, the Bee Gees, Blondie et al, and "Confusion" is a decent enough pop song, it goes downhill from that point. A succession of pale retreads of past glories like the 'very discoish' "Last Train To London", which is little more than "Evil Woman" Mk II, the intensely irritating novelty story song "The Diary of Horace Wimp", a bastardised shadow of "Mr Blue Sky", and a succession of mushy ballads that ...

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