4 posts tagged “jeff lynne”

It is way too hot in Austin so I thought I would post some songs that either mention "rain" in their lyrics or sound like water/rain. I may have posted some of these before. Here is the current forecast for Austin, TX ...

Here is a song that I could play over and over again if I had to. It has a sort of submarine sound to it ...

Storm

Bjork

This next song actually mentions "rain" ...

02 Paranoid Android

Radiohead

"It's raining all over the world" (yeah, right) ...

05 Showdown

Electric Light Orchestra

This song has always sounded kind of underwater to me ...

10 A Warm Place

Nine Inch Nails

This last song takes place when a storm is coming in Bram Stoker's Dracula ...

06 The Storm

Wojciech Kilar

Also, here is a video from last summer in Austin, when it rained so much that they had to open up the floodgates at Mansfield Dam.

OK, there are three songs on Portishead's new album, Third, that make me think of others songs.

The first song is "Hunter", which makes me think of a song from the 1992 horror movie, Candyman, by Philip Glass called "Face to Razor".

Here are the two songs ...

02 Hunter

Portishead

04 Candyman (1992) Suite: Face To Razor

Philip Glass

The next song on Third is "The Rip", which makes me think of the Pink Floyd song, "On The Run", from Dark Side of the Moon. You have to listen to all of "The Rip" to hear the similar sound. Here are those two songs ...

04 The Rip

Portishead

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03 On The Run

Pink Floyd

(If you play Dark Side of the Moon with The Wizard of Oz, "On The Run" plays a little bit after the above scene.)

The next song from the Third album that reminds me of another song is "Deep Water", which reminds me of the Ink Spots' "I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire". Again, you have to listen to the Portishead song for a while to see the similarity. Here are the two songs ...

07 Deep Water

Portishead

I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire

Ink Spots

OK, now here are three songs that I listened to or thought of recently that use the expression "lights go down" or "when the lights go down" in them.

John Stewart - Gold

Gold

John Stewart

Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) - The Lights Go Down

09 The Lights Go Down

Electric Light Orchestra

and finally Madonna's Heartbeat (from Hard Candy) ...

04 Heartbeat

Madonna

I just realized that it is Madonna's song "Give It 2 Me" that says "when the lights go down", but "Heartbeat" does have the phrase "that the light shines on" so it is a little topical. OK, I am done now. This post is way too random.

I have been listening to Electric Light Orchestra when I get ready in the morning. Everything Jeff Lynne ever touched turned to gold. On the album, Secret Messages, there are many, many great songs, but there are some I never listen to, such as "Letter From Spain". I don't know why I never listen to it, it is a great song, and here it is ...

09 Letter From Spain

Electric Light Orchestra

Whenever I see the title for Tori Amos' new song, Big Wheel, I think of a song by Electric Light Orchestra. To illustrate my point ...

Big Wheel

Tori Amos

Here is an interesting article about whether or not radio stations will be able to play Big Wheel.

10 Big Wheels

Electric Light Orchestra