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The Move - The Move

The Move 1968

Maybe many of you have heard of Electric Light Orchestra before and are even fans of them, but do you know ELO was a band called The Move?
It seems to me even may fans of ELO don't know this fact.

And that's why I wanted to pick up their album here lol.

This album is the band's debut and was arranged by Tony Visconti.   Roy Wood played an important role in this album as he wrote most of the songs except Weekend (this is Eddie Cochran's cover), Hey Grandma (this is Moby Grape's cover) and Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart.   
Also, they were particular about the recordings (you can see that from the sue of the reverse tape technique), and thus this album was experimental in my opinion.

Though some songs like Flowers in the Rain and Cherry Blossom Clinic were controversial at that time, they succeeded to make this album more fun to listen to.
As for their sound, several songs were similar to The Who in the 60's, but it can't be helped because this album was released in the late 60's as well. 

My favorite songs are Flowers In The Rain, Useless Information, Yellow Rainbow, and Fire Brigade.
I post these songs here for y'all.


I guess you will love "Flowers In The Rain" if you like psychedelic music in the 60's because this song indeed sounds like psychedelic.   So 60's lol.







The reason why I wrote that their sound was similar to The Who is because I listened to "Useless Information" and "Fire Brigade."  Though these two songs are my favs, they sound like The Who, just give them a listen! And let me know what your opinion is.


The reverse tape technique is used in "Yellow Rainbow" and it is the first song of this album, so it was the most impressive song in it at least to me when I first listened to this album.

It seems many kinds of music (doo-wop, rockabilly, and standard number) are mixed here, so you can see Roy Wood was influenced by various genres of music.
The Move - The Move

  1. Yellow Rainbow
  2. Kilroy Was There
  3. (Here We Go Round) The Lemon Tree
  4. Weekend
  5. Walk Upon The Water
  6. Flowers In The Rain
  7. Hey Grandma
  8. Useless Information
  9. Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart
  10. The Girl Outside
  11. Fire Brigade
  12. Mist On A Monday Morning
  13. Cherry Blossom Clinic

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