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Your favourite songs by Electric Light Orchestra, Fleetwood Mac and Roxy Music.

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TheTecknician · 15/09/2023 21:20

Mine are Turn To Stone, Oh Well (part one) and Over You.

Not easy to pick just one, given their respective considerable back catalogues.

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SisterAgatha · 15/09/2023 21:47

Telephone line
crystal
in every dream home a heartache

Mochudubh · 15/09/2023 21:48

Landslide. My. DM had been rushed into hospital a couple of hundred miles away and I got the train to see her because it was very snowy and I didn't want to drive. As I passed snow covered hills the lyric "I saw my reflection in the snow covered hills" kept popping into my head.

My DM died a few months later and Landslide always makes me think of her.

SwedishEdith · 15/09/2023 21:50

Telephone Line or Sweet Talking Woman
Go Your Own Way (not original but is their best song)
This is Tomorrow Calling or Same Old Scene

SoIinvictus · 15/09/2023 21:51

Hold on Tight

FM1- Sara FM2- Mystified

More Than This.

SwedishEdith · 15/09/2023 21:52

Rubber Bullets if were picking 10cc

toadasoda · 15/09/2023 21:53

ELO - Livin Thing. (Hate Mr Bluesky!)
FM - The Chain
RM - More than this (love love this song)

FayCarew · 15/09/2023 21:56

Mr Blue Sky
Don't stop thinking about tomorrow
Jealous Guy (BF not RM)

I thought that ELO was just one person but wiki says not

Eyesopenwideawake · 15/09/2023 21:58

Roll Over Beethoven
Tusk
Love is the Drug

And from 10cc I'm Mandy, Fly Me

DahliaMacNamara · 15/09/2023 22:01

Wild West Hero
Sara
Dance Away.
Not much of a Roxy Music fan, so I don't really listen to them much, but I think that's their best.

ageingdisgracefully · 15/09/2023 22:02

ELO: Mr Blue Sky. So uplifting.
RM: Street Life. The early songs were better, IMHO.
FM: Rhiannon.
10cc: tricky but I think Wall Street Shuffle. Such a clever band.

30not13 · 15/09/2023 22:07

Huge elo fan here

Secret messages
Shine a little love
Xanadu (cheating a little!)

FayCarew · 15/09/2023 22:09

@Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g , Top notch 1970s chart toppers has to include Stayin' Alive

HowardKirksConscience · 15/09/2023 22:12

well today it’s:

Telephone Line
Gold Dust Woman
Avalon

HowardKirksConscience · 15/09/2023 22:13

10cc has to be The Things We Do For Love!

975zyx · 15/09/2023 22:13

I can only speak as to Roxy Music, In Every Dream Home a Heartache

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TheTecknician · 15/09/2023 22:16

Xanadu isn't cheating. It is ELO with a guest vocal by Olivia Newton John, bless her.

I don't remember mentioning 10CC or the Bee Gees! Good bands though.

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Coconutbutt · 15/09/2023 22:16

Evil woman
The chain
Love is the drug

HRTQueen · 15/09/2023 22:18

Fleetwood Mac - Dragonfly it’s so beautiful and dreamy next favourite is Need Your Love So Bad. I also love Keep Going On it’s from the album Mystery To Me I love the album. Rumours is of course brilliant after Rumours a art form Big Love I can’t think of a song of theirs I like. Tusk and Everywhere are so far removed from how Fleetwood Mac originally sounded

ELO - Sweet Talkin Woman. Not particularly a fan of them but really like this song

Roxy Music - not a fan at all but love Angel Eyes

10cc - I’m Mandy Fly Me (as pp mentioned them) love this song and Art for Art’s Sake

EL8888 · 15/09/2023 22:22

Telephone Line
The Chain
If there is something (can’t believe no one has mentioned this!)

I nearly got called Rhiannon as my mum was a big Fleetwood Mac fan. Luckily my dad point blank refused this name

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TheTecknician · 15/09/2023 22:27

Roxy Music recorded two versions of Angel Eyes. One for the Manifesto album and a single version. Equally good but quite distinct.

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HRTQueen · 15/09/2023 22:28

TheTecknician · 15/09/2023 22:27

Roxy Music recorded two versions of Angel Eyes. One for the Manifesto album and a single version. Equally good but quite distinct.

I shall pop over to Spotify

Sarvanga38 · 15/09/2023 22:35

So tough … I’ll go these three, might give different answers tomorrow!

Sweet Talkin’ Woman
Go Your Own Way
Dance Away

Phos · 15/09/2023 22:36

Sweet Talkin Woman
Everywhere
Dance Away

CrunchyCarrot · 15/09/2023 22:36

Very hard to choose a Fleetwood Mac song because I love so many, but here are my top picks:

Evil Woman
Never Going Back Again
Love Is The Drug

Sarvanga38 · 15/09/2023 22:37

I am by far a bigger ELO and Fleetwood Mac fan than a Roxy Music one, but these lyrics are sublime …

Yesterday, well it seemed so cool
When I walked you home, kissed goodnight
I said "it's love" you said "all right"
It's funny how I could never cry
Until tonight and you pass by
Hand in hand with another guy
You're dressed to kill and guess who's dying?