In 1984 I bought this album with my own pocket money. I remember playing this track in my bedroom on my record player. My dad came into my room. "Where did you get this from?" (He got me into ELO but we didn't have this album). "I bought it, Dad. It's brilliant." "That's my boy," he said. Love you dad. RIP.
A lot of people here are talking about when they were in their teens in the mid 70s, and they heard this album for the first time. For me, however, I wasn’t even born until the early 2000s. I fell absolutely in love with the Beatles in mid 2019, and that summer we visited my grandfather, where I discovered that he had a full collection of the Beatles discography on vinyl, that he had bought in his youth. I spent almost more time listening to the records than I spent with him, and when we went home I knew I wanted to collect records of my own. So me and my parents bought a record player, and my mom brought out her old records, amongst which I found this, ‘A New World Record’. This was the first album I ever listened to all the way through on vinyl, and I’m very proud that it is. I love this album, and it’ll always be one of my favorites, and it’s easily up there with the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Queen, and Pink Floyd that are also in my collection.
thats awesome. I just listened to mr blue sky and I found myself really encaptured in the ending. it was nothing like I had ever heard before and so I listened to their albums. they're my favorite band of all time and this is easily their best album
The Electric Light Orchestra was the first band I saw live. Actually, as there were three on the bill, a singer-songwriter named Elliot Murphy w/ his band was the first act. The second supporting act was a band that I had never heard of before and we didn't really know anything about their origins until after hearing them that night. They really made an impression on me and my friends you know I was like, let me see '76, I was 13 years old, and the friends were 3 brothers that were in college and high school. I had "A New World Re- cord" because I played the guitar and well I figured out the song "Do Ya" because it was just a really killer song and it was on the radio you know and I wanted to play popular music so when ELO came to Evansville with the first laser light tour well okay there's a little controversy I think maybe Blue Oyster Cult may have also had lasers in 1976 but I think ELO was actually first. But the reason the second band made such an impression was because there was this a guy in this blue lamé jumpsuit with an afro that must have been about 3 ft. in circumference no kidding and when he would rock his head back and forth this afro would Rock forward and backward like a good two and a half feet I mean it was pretty outrageous. The dude's name was Neal Schon. He and his buddy Greg had just left a band where they played with a gentleman named Carlos.
I guess this beautiful and in swing key song is hardly influenced by " Raumpatrouille Orion " (A german science fiction TV series - 1966) soundtrack by Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra and the danish science fiction clasic movie "Journey to the Seventh Planet ( 1962 ) ´s love theme .
I get extremely emotional when the last chorus comes in, "Watching all the days roll by / Who are you and who am I? / How's life on Earth?" as the strings carry the melody, the choir swells, great vocal harmonies, with the beat of the drum to lead them on. What a great song, and album.
I was 8 years old when this album came out . My dad bought this album back in 1976. I would sit on the veranda, outside the house, underneath the open living room window enjoying my Dad play this. I could sing softly (and loudly) to myself to each and every tune. Wonderful childhood, fantastic songs that I can still recall word for word 40 years later. I have tried in vain over my lifetime to find another album that is as good, or better than this one. Am still searching !
I guess this beautiful and in swing key song is hardly influenced by " Raumpatrouille Orion " (A german science fiction TV series - 1966) soundtrack by Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra and the danish science fiction clasic movie "Journey to the Seventh Planet ( 1962 ) ´s love theme .
My story is similar to yours. And I was the same age too in 1976, except it my older brother who owned albums like this and Moody Blues, Neil Young and other classic rock. He had an album that I also remember fondly and made a huge impression on me. It was by The Pretty Things, the album is Parachute from 1971. You've gotta listen to it in its entirety if you haven't heard it before. absolute classic!
@@sci_pain3409He didn't say his life was perfect. He said it was good - expressing gratitude and humility for the good things in his life. Sorry to have to explain this subtlety to you.
I guess this beautiful and in swing key song is hardly influenced by " Raumpatrouille Orion " (A german science fiction TV series - 1966) soundtrack by Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra and the danish science fiction clasic movie "Journey to the Seventh Planet ( 1962 ) ´s love theme .
Just an amazing album.. No filler tracks.. perfect production.. WAS it a new world record? For ME, it was a record leading to a new world.. My only regret is that I never got this on vinyl when it first came out...(Discovery was the first).
When i graduated high school in 76, i liked the cover art, bought it, and and 46 years later i am still amazed at how great this sounds. A New Worlds Record, Out of the Blue and Time, all classics.
@davidcambiano I graduated the same year. I have the same albums, plus Discovery and Face The Music. As soon as I can find some replacement components for my old stereo, I'm hitting the vintage vinyl store for te rest of their vinyl. We older folks do have good taste, don't we?😊
I acquired a copy of A New World Record in the spring of 1977, when I was 14. I remember, upon my first audition of the album, how blown away I was by the incredible mix of rock and roll, classical and electronic music. Prior to that point, I'd had very little exposure to classical and electronic music at that stage in my life, so the experience of listening to the album was truly new. If I had to sum up the album as a whole, I'd say it was trippy, cinematic, otherworldly and ethereal all at once.
The planet Earth from way up there it's beautiful and blue and floating softly through a rainbow but when you touch down things look different here at the mission of the sacred heart
I guess this beautiful and in swing key song is hardly influenced by " Raumpatrouille Orion " (A german science fiction TV series - 1966) soundtrack by Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra and the danish science fiction clasic movie "Journey to the Seventh Planet ( 1962 ) ´s love theme .
It's rare a song or composer can connect with your inner soul... Jeff Lynne is one of the few amazing talents to do that through ELO. Goosebumps listening to this is an understatement- Who are you and who am I is the never-ending question.
Thank you, Jeff, for giving us so much fantastic music throughout the years. Whether the longs are happy and upbeat, or the saddest songs ever written, you have always produced perfection. Now that you are on your final tour, i just wanted you to know how much your music means to your real fans. Ive been one since the early 70s and i always will be.❤
Jeff Lynne is other-worldly .Bev Bevan is one of the greatly under-rated drummers of the seventies . The other members of the band are geniuses in their own right .
I remember listening to ELO when I was 15 and totally love their music. Jeff Lynne is a lyrical genius. I am now 63 and listen to these timeless classics over and over again. The music of today will never compare to the music of my generation. Thank you Jeff Lynne for such wonderful memories.
To all you contemporary songwriters out their pressing buttons, layering generic vocal tracks, hitting keys on your computers as you create the same old formulaic tunes - take a lesson in songwriting from one the greatest of all time. Just listen to how this songs ebbs and flows, builds and drops. The vocals, searing with an overwhelming sense of sorrow and disappointment. This is song writing in all of its dynamic brilliance. As brilliant now as it was when I first bought the album in 1976. Listen and learn.
Exactly! I've said this before: Jeff Lynne is like a car mechanic who sees all the parts of the cars on the garage floor. He puts the car back together and it's a Ferrari!! ❤
The song an album take me back to when I was 14 way back in 76',my sister an could listen to this album from beginning to end,I'm 60 yrs now awesum memories,always loved elo but this album brings back to best memories❤️❤️
Cuando tenía 6 años me volvían loco 7 canciones, no sabía quiénes eran y cuando cumplí 11 años gracias a una radio descubrí que todas eran de ELO, desde ahí soy un Fanático hasta los huesos, Jeff Lynne es uno de los mejores compositores del Universo!!
I ve never seen a group as constant as the Elo, it’s incredible how impossible is to find a single bad song, all are perfect and with its own essence. One of the most underrated groups in history
It is very likely that the constancy is even longer than you are aware of. If you don't know Jeff Lynne's work before ELO you have some great songs to look forward to.
i think jeff lynne really reached a peak with this album. after "out of the blue" things were different. this being the last song on side 1 made it really special. the strings,the funky '70's keyboards,the vocals,the hamonies,the choir. wow ! that's a lot of stuff in there ! and it all works so effortlessly. good job jeff. a masterpiece.
The first time I knew about this song, I loved it. Time after, one dear familiar was sick in the hospital. I were everyday here to have a little time with she and every journey I heared this song until she died. Going to the funeral, this songs also were here. My mission is to see you again, R.I.P.
It's incredible to think this song is already 44 years old. It still sounds as incredible today as it did back then. My Dad is a huge ELO fan and introduced me to their music as a young boy and they have been one of my all time favorite bands ever since. I was 10 years old when this album was released. Hopefully the young people today and tomorrow will carry on listening to ELO far into the future long after we are all gone. This music will become the new "classical" music in a hundred years from now.
IMHO. Top two ELO albums. Out of the blue and this right here. What a captivating piece of work. Jeff Lynne is a very underrated musical genius. I basically grew up with ELO and his music. Had all their albums when I was a kid. Listening to them in my bedroom on my turntable stereo. The stuff just moves you right to your soul. And it's great to see Jeff still out there performing his magic.
I was 13 when I first heard this album, a friend of mine at school leant it to me. The same friend had an older brother at uni, he leant me lots of his brothers records: Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, Rush. Whilst most of the kids at school were raving about the Sex Pistols, the Stranglers, the Clash and the other punk bands of the day, I was falling headlong into prog rock and hard rock. 45 years have passed since those glorious days of my youth, but despite the changes in how we live, the music from that time has never gotten old.
Jeff Lynne, you are a musical genius and awesome songwriter. Your songs are my "go-to" when it comes to relaxation time. :) Thank you for all of the beautiful music!!!!!
This is Yerffej Ennyl calling you from planet Earth For many days, we travelled from a distant place and time To reach a place they call the planet Earth There was to be a celebration On the mission of the sacred heart The planet Earth from way up there is beautiful and blue And floating softly through a rainbow But when you touch down, things look different here At the mission of the sacred heart Watching all the days roll by Who are you and who am I? How's life on Earth? (Living on the Earth, living on the Earth Living on the Earth, living on the Earth) When all the stars above Lay icy fingers down on me (Living on the Earth, living on the Earth Living on the Earth, living on the Earth) On a dirty worn-out sidewalk, sits a mother with a baby; In her vale of tears, she sees no rainbow And someone's singing from a window In the mission of the sacred heart Watching all the days roll by Who are you and who am I? How's life on Earth? (Living on the Earth, living on the Earth Living on the Earth, living on the Earth) And when the stars above Lay icy fingers down on me (Living on the Earth, living on the Earth Living on the Earth, living on the Earth) There's a building on a corner, in a city, in a land On a place they call the planet Earth My orders are to sit here and watch the world go by From the mission of the sacred heart Watching all the days roll by Who are you and who am I? Watching all the days roll by Who are you and who am I? How's life on Earth? What is it worth?
i first heard this when this album was bought for my brother at Christmas. we played the whole album and it was awesome. my brother has since passed.i turned on the radio and a new rock station that’s playing a lot of songs another competitor does not play , at my husband’s Birthday party and people were asking who is this , what is this? i said that’s ELO , Electric Light Orchestra. young and old people were looking it up . Very awesome to hear it again on the radio station!
Jeff, all indications are that New World Record was timely, music being a universal reality, you were born to turn the key, to unlock at precisely the right moment in time, the juxtaposition of time in reality, to cross meanings with your music, the unfolding of your Divine Destiny, this planet's spiritual upliftment, note by note, time-to-time, Love to you Jeff, for all your good works, still inspiring to -the-nines
I guess this beautiful and in swing key song is hardly influenced by " Raumpatrouille Orion " (A german science fiction TV series - 1966) soundtrack by Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra and the danish science fiction clasic movie "Journey to the Seventh Planet ( 1962 ) ´s love theme .
Many here have highlighted the perfect harmonies of ELO's vocals, but without mentioning the importance of Kelly Groucutt in this context. The first album he worked on was Face The Music (1975). R.I.P.
A New World Record came out my junior year of high school, and as it was popular with two girls I liked, Gita and Linda, I took a detour from my accustomed classical and Beatles music to give ELO a try. As the first ROCK song opened with an ORCHESTRA, I felt drawn into some strange, new world (without the aid of soma) from which I might never return. In a sense I haven't since I still love ELO some half a century later, and never really stopped listening to it in between. I once asked Linda if she or Gita still listened to ELO, but got no reply, which I took to mean that what had, thanks to them, become a staple in my life, turned into just a passing fancy in theirs! “Mission (A World Record),” remains one of my favorite songs, as I relate to the loneliness of its protagonist. As a child I told people that I came from Pluto, and it has often felt like I'm an alien watching the world go by, unable to act to improve it. In recent years, although not religious, I've considered that the lyrics might also depict a lonely angel, sent to report on Earth, but unable to intervene lest he interfere with humans' free will. It seems like with just a little more compassion, a little more patience, humans might make Earth a veritable paradise, with hardly more than the flap of angelic wings, yet humans often seem more happy when they have someone to hate. The ease of hate compared to compassion remains, six decades after my arrival, too large a part of my answers the questions of my superiors: How's life on Earth? What is it worth?
The Devil is in charge of the Earth at the moment and this is why nothing can change but he is going to get his butt kicked very soon and then we will see how Earth was meant to be. Good luck to you sir.
This takes me back to 1976 when me and a few classmates did an assembly on the theme of Neil Armstrong and we played this full blast for the entire school to listen to.
I have loved elo since I first bought one of their records whilst at high school sweet talking woman since then have listed to every single record they made and still do in fact nearly every night I go to sleep listening to them so relaxing I just love them
I guess this beautiful and in swing key song is hardly influenced by " Raumpatrouille Orion " (A german science fiction TV series - 1966) soundtrack by Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra and the danish science fiction clasic movie "Journey to the Seventh Planet ( 1962 ) ´s love theme .
Haunting and beautiful. Jeff, you are so immensely gifted and talented. Your music is magical to me and it really does move me - you work magic in the studio. :) You are on fire...will always love you and your music forever and ever on. :) Well done, sir. I do hope to meet you one day when we get through all of this world mess. Stay safe!!!!!!
i am the 2004 kid. first time i heard bout ELO, was from The Guardian of The Galaxy OST - Mr. Blue Sky.... now, I already heard every songs from them. I love 'em so muachh
I lived in Rachel NV(Next door to Area 51) for a few years and would blast this song out into the desert(and at the guards who I knew were watching me) as I camped just outside the perimeter of the base. Got a real X-files vibe doing that at night but it was appropriate for the setting. Love this song.
Jeff Lynne surely must be one of Rock and Roll greats. Not only a phenomenally talented musician but also an incredibly gifted music writer. E.L.O is still my wife's and I top favorite groups of all time.
For many days we traveled from a distant place and time, To reach a place they call the planet Earth, There was to be a celebration, On the mission of the sacred heart The planet Earth from way up there is beautiful and blue And floating softly through a rainbow, But when you touch down things look different here, At the mission of the sacred heart Watching all the days roll by Who are you and who am I? How's life on Earth? On a dirty worn-out sidewalk, sits a mother with a baby, In her vale of tears she sees no rainbow And someone's singing from a window In the mission of the sacred heart Watching all the days roll by Who are you and who am I? How's life on Earth? And when the stars above, Lay hazy fingers down on me There's a building on a corner, in a city, in a land, On a place they call the planet Earth, My orders are to sit here and watch the world go by, From the mission of the sacred heart Watching all the days roll by Who are you and who am I? How's life on Earth? What is it worth?
In 1984 I bought this album with my own pocket money. I remember playing this track in my bedroom on my record player. My dad came into my room. "Where did you get this from?" (He got me into ELO but we didn't have this album).
"I bought it, Dad. It's brilliant."
"That's my boy," he said.
Love you dad. RIP.
This is one of my favorite posts anywhere. RIP to your dad.
@@driski90 Bless you. Thank you 😊
This brought a tear to my eye. I miss my Dad too 💔
Dad knew best bless him 😊
So much love♡♡♡♡ may your dad rest in peace
This is one of my favorite depressing songs, about an alien posted to Earth, alone and with no hope for the future.
There is always hope.
Perfect song for 2020
as long as there is Jeff Lynne, there IS hope
Nothing depressing about this song this is the mission of the sacred heart
@@billybynorth7467 would you agree that this is a song about compassion?
A lot of people here are talking about when they were in their teens in the mid 70s, and they heard this album for the first time. For me, however, I wasn’t even born until the early 2000s. I fell absolutely in love with the Beatles in mid 2019, and that summer we visited my grandfather, where I discovered that he had a full collection of the Beatles discography on vinyl, that he had bought in his youth. I spent almost more time listening to the records than I spent with him, and when we went home I knew I wanted to collect records of my own. So me and my parents bought a record player, and my mom brought out her old records, amongst which I found this, ‘A New World Record’. This was the first album I ever listened to all the way through on vinyl, and I’m very proud that it is. I love this album, and it’ll always be one of my favorites, and it’s easily up there with the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Queen, and Pink Floyd that are also in my collection.
thats awesome. I just listened to mr blue sky and I found myself really encaptured in the ending. it was nothing like I had ever heard before and so I listened to their albums. they're my favorite band of all time and this is easily their best album
Leaves everybody standing especially queen
Mostly how I got into pro rock. I mean it's called pro rock for a reason.
Check out Roger Waters first 3 solo albums.
The Electric Light Orchestra was the first band I saw live. Actually, as there were three on the bill, a singer-songwriter named Elliot Murphy w/ his band was the first act. The second supporting act was a band that I had never heard of before and we didn't really know anything about their origins until after hearing them that night. They really made an impression on me and my friends you know I was like, let me see '76, I was 13 years old, and the friends were 3 brothers that were in college and high school. I had "A New World Re- cord" because I played the guitar and well I figured out the song "Do Ya" because it was just a really killer song and it was on the radio you know and I wanted to play popular music so when ELO came to Evansville with the first laser light tour well okay there's a little controversy I think maybe Blue Oyster Cult may have also had lasers in 1976 but I think ELO was actually first. But the reason the second band made such an impression was because there was this a guy in this blue lamé jumpsuit with an afro that must have been about 3 ft. in circumference no kidding and when he would rock his head back and forth this afro would Rock forward and backward like a good two and a half feet I mean it was pretty outrageous. The dude's name was Neal Schon. He and his buddy Greg had just left a band where they played with a gentleman named Carlos.
This is easily in my top 5 albums. Is it me or is ELO the most underated band of the 20th century...
hehe benis :DDDDD
I guess this beautiful and in swing key song is hardly influenced by " Raumpatrouille Orion " (A german science fiction TV series - 1966) soundtrack by Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra and the danish science fiction clasic movie "Journey to the Seventh Planet ( 1962 ) ´s love theme .
@@yo1347 And a very George-Harrisonian use of augmented fourth...
@@yo1347 Twin sister song: ua-cam.com/video/AVu6nPTVbBQ/v-deo.html
42awww they were highly rated for many years so dunno
That last chorus…a masterpiece of a song.
I get extremely emotional when the last chorus comes in, "Watching all the days roll by
/ Who are you and who am I? / How's life on Earth?" as the strings carry the melody, the choir swells, great vocal harmonies, with the beat of the drum to lead them on. What a great song, and album.
Beautiful! Jeff Lynne the Grand Master of Harmonies.
very prophetic given what is going on this year, when we all have had to sit and watch the days go by
Mellow funk shift so smooth
magical ♡
Couldn’t agree more
Years have not aged this great track
ONE OF THE BEST ALBUMS OF ALLTIME...
I was 8 years old when this album came out . My dad bought this album back in 1976. I would sit on the veranda, outside the house, underneath the open living room window enjoying my Dad play this. I could sing softly (and loudly) to myself to each and every tune. Wonderful childhood, fantastic songs that I can still recall word for word 40 years later. I have tried in vain over my lifetime to find another album that is as good, or better than this one. Am still searching !
I guess this beautiful and in swing key song is hardly influenced by " Raumpatrouille Orion " (A german science fiction TV series - 1966) soundtrack by Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra and the danish science fiction clasic movie "Journey to the Seventh Planet ( 1962 ) ´s love theme .
My story is similar to yours. And I was the same age too in 1976, except it my older brother who owned albums like this and Moody Blues, Neil Young and other classic rock. He had an album that I also remember fondly and made a huge impression on me. It was by The Pretty Things, the album is Parachute from 1971. You've gotta listen to it in its entirety if you haven't heard it before. absolute classic!
@@yo1347 Yeah, hardly *:-D*
me that hearing this song while I'm 15 on 2022 :
I was 19 in '76 and I remember quoting the lyrics " how's life on earth? " and now I'm 62 and life's been good.
where were you when you were 19? mars?
That’s awesome!!
@@sci_pain3409He didn't say his life was perfect. He said it was good - expressing gratitude and humility for the good things in his life. Sorry to have to explain this subtlety to you.
This is their best album!!
A New World Record was the first ELO album I heard. I've loved them ever since.
I guess this beautiful and in swing key song is hardly influenced by " Raumpatrouille Orion " (A german science fiction TV series - 1966) soundtrack by Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra and the danish science fiction clasic movie "Journey to the Seventh Planet ( 1962 ) ´s love theme .
Back then; I didn't feel the subtle anger in TELEPHONE LINE
All grown up; it makes a lot more sense
It was my first ELO album too. I always identified with the sad, lonely alien sitting and watching the world go by.
Just an amazing album.. No filler tracks.. perfect production.. WAS it a new world record? For ME, it was a record leading to a new world.. My only regret is that I never got this on vinyl when it first came out...(Discovery was the first).
_ 2020 ,no flying cars ,or jet-packs to get to future work ,but STILL have ELO -- : )
This song gives me goosebumps
This is my favorite ELO song and album.
When i graduated high school in 76, i liked the cover art, bought it, and and 46 years later i am still amazed at how great this sounds. A New Worlds Record, Out of the Blue and Time, all classics.
What about Discovery or Face the Music?
@@potatoesforlife1234Yes. So many fantastic songs. Jeff is a true genius.
@@davidcambiano He's gotta be one of the best songwriters ever. Not something I've thought about a lot though, so I can't be sure if he's in my Top 5.
@davidcambiano I graduated the same year. I have the same albums, plus Discovery and Face The Music. As soon as I can find some replacement components for my old stereo, I'm hitting the vintage vinyl store for te rest of their vinyl. We older folks do have good taste, don't we?😊
The vocal flange on the last 'Who are you and who am I?' makes it like 1000% more emotional for some reason.
I acquired a copy of A New World Record in the spring of 1977, when I was 14. I remember, upon my first audition of the album, how blown away I was by the incredible mix of rock and roll, classical and electronic music. Prior to that point, I'd had very little exposure to classical and electronic music at that stage in my life, so the experience of listening to the album was truly new.
If I had to sum up the album as a whole, I'd say it was trippy, cinematic, otherworldly and ethereal all at once.
Perfectly put sir 😊👍
and now im here, 14, discovering an album that im confident will be one of my favorites.
The planet Earth from way up there it's beautiful and blue and floating softly through a rainbow but when you touch down things look different here at the mission of the sacred heart
Good Bye Richard Tandy thank you and Jeff for all the Amazing music 😨😰🎵🎶!
Richard Tandy passed away 😢😢?
this song is epic... this song is heavenly ... people are stupid for letting this slip by
+bleebloe Not everyone let it slip by :)
bleebloe I wouldn't say stupid
I guess this beautiful and in swing key song is hardly influenced by " Raumpatrouille Orion " (A german science fiction TV series - 1966) soundtrack by Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra and the danish science fiction clasic movie "Journey to the Seventh Planet ( 1962 ) ´s love theme .
This is one of the less recognize songs on the album. But nonetheless one of the best. Another Jeff Lynne extravaganza.
Ron Myers true!
My orders are to sit here and watch the world go by.
...at the mission of the sacret heart...
This album is ELO's masterpiece and a favorite of mine since childhood.
It's rare a song or composer can connect with your inner soul... Jeff Lynne is one of the few amazing talents to do that through ELO. Goosebumps listening to this is an understatement- Who are you and who am I is the never-ending question.
You said it all...an absolute masterpiece of a song
Yes... The only question. Goosebumps each and every time I listen to this 😊
An amazing track. Still listen to it frequently, always gets inside me somehow and brings back many happy memories
Dude... I can’t even... like ELO is so amazing!! Every single song on this album is just so good!
Thank you, Jeff, for giving us so much fantastic music throughout the years. Whether the longs are happy and upbeat, or the saddest songs ever written, you have always produced perfection. Now that you are on your final tour, i just wanted you to know how much your music means to your real fans. Ive been one since the early 70s and i always will be.❤
What a song! What a band! What an album!
Что-то неземное .... очень красиво. Спаибо за такую музыку...
People who dont like Elo have never really listened to them. Its as simple as that.
Well said!
You couldn’t be more right
Who are you.. and who am I... Good question.
Have you ever heared about opinion?
@@Shyniex339 ELO > opinions
I really love this song...
a new world record was the first rock album I owned. I was in 7th grade in 1976, had a black T shirt with ELO in a lightbulb logo and an afro. 💡
Jeff Lynne is other-worldly .Bev Bevan is one of the greatly under-rated drummers of the seventies . The other members of the band are geniuses in their own right .
Their best album. Every track is just brilliant. 👍
It doesn't matter how old you are.
It doesn't matter where you were born.
It matters whether you see, hear an' feel this Electric Light... 😀🖐🏻🥁✌️🏻
Yes very true
Unless, one million other things mess it up ... but yeah, but NO. But yeah.
I remember listening to ELO when I was 15 and totally love their music. Jeff Lynne is a lyrical genius. I am now 63 and listen to these timeless classics over and over again. The music of today will never compare to the music of my generation. Thank you Jeff Lynne for such wonderful memories.
Mam podobnie...63 lata, słucham od roku 1976 i...nie przestanę...Mieszkam w Polsce.
To all you contemporary songwriters out their pressing buttons, layering generic vocal tracks, hitting keys on your computers as you create the same old formulaic tunes - take a lesson in songwriting from one the greatest of all time. Just listen to how this songs ebbs and flows, builds and drops. The vocals, searing with an overwhelming sense of sorrow and disappointment. This is song writing in all of its dynamic brilliance. As brilliant now as it was when I first bought the album in 1976. Listen and learn.
Exactly.
Exactly! I've said this before: Jeff Lynne is like a car mechanic who sees all the parts of the cars on the garage floor. He puts the car back together and it's a Ferrari!! ❤
Jeff Lynne is absolutely brilliant! There will be no other!
that bassline is tight af
The song an album take me back to when I was 14 way back in 76',my sister an could listen to this album from beginning to end,I'm 60 yrs now awesum memories,always loved elo but this album brings back to best memories❤️❤️
He is a genius! Can you hear it? Can you feel it? ❤️ Iove it so much since it was published
God bless Petra if you understand Jeff you understand the world
One of the best albums of all time
This was their best album!
Cuando tenía 6 años me volvían loco 7 canciones, no sabía quiénes eran y cuando cumplí 11 años gracias a una radio descubrí que todas eran de ELO, desde ahí soy un Fanático hasta los huesos, Jeff Lynne es uno de los mejores compositores del Universo!!
I ve never seen a group as constant as the Elo, it’s incredible how impossible is to find a single bad song, all are perfect and with its own essence. One of the most underrated groups in history
It is very likely that the constancy is even longer than you are aware of. If you don't know Jeff Lynne's work before ELO you have some great songs to look forward to.
i think jeff lynne really reached a peak with this album. after "out of the blue" things were different. this being the last song on side 1 made it really special. the strings,the funky '70's keyboards,the vocals,the hamonies,the choir. wow ! that's a lot of stuff in there ! and it all works so effortlessly. good job jeff. a masterpiece.
They went from ELO to Alien rock
obviously you havent listened to balance of power
I just listened to it...I miss the strings, but it does have some catchy tunes
The best ELO record bar none! Nothing previous or afterwards comes anywhere close to it!
@@kedrigenn while I agree it is more consistent beginning to end Eldorado is right up there.
this deserves way more views
RIP Richard Tandy, Kelly Groucutt.🇬🇧
And also the late, great Louis Clark who did the orchestral arrangements on this album and several of their others. Very underrated talent!
@@rickmontgomery3037 totally agree.from Birmingham England, home of ELO.best wishes Rick.
I can't stop this song. It is in my head all day every day. I can't sleep. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, then you should listen to 'Can't Get It Out Of My Head' as well 🙂
What an album! Every track so well crafted!
It's 1978,I have this on 8 track!! I am 16, I listened to this album every day... It is an amazing , amazing album , so brilliant!!
Buy it again on a decent format.
God I love this man's music!! Its my favorite band of all time. ELO rules the Universe!!! ❤👍🔥
Jeff Lynne is _King Of The Universe_ - and he knows "A".
The first time I knew about this song, I loved it. Time after, one dear familiar was sick in the hospital. I were everyday here to have a little time with she and every journey I heared this song until she died. Going to the funeral, this songs also were here.
My mission is to see you again, R.I.P.
It's incredible to think this song is already 44 years old. It still sounds as incredible today as it did back then. My Dad is a huge ELO fan and introduced me to their music as a young boy and they have been one of my all time favorite bands ever since. I was 10 years old when this album was released. Hopefully the young people today and tomorrow will carry on listening to ELO far into the future long after we are all gone. This music will become the new "classical" music in a hundred years from now.
I knew back then that "A New World Record" was a forward thinking album at 4 years old. It sounded like the future...with strings!!!
En mi cabeza desfilan unas 1000 canciones que a lo largo de la vida he escuchado y disfrutado...ésta es la número 1
One of my favorite ELO songs. The way the siren goes from speaker to speaker.......
Possibly the best sounding piece of vinyl I have
Como sucede con este álbum , unos de los mejores de la música , cualquiera de sus temas son genialidades.
IMHO. Top two ELO albums. Out of the blue and this right here. What a captivating piece of work. Jeff Lynne is a very underrated musical genius. I basically grew up with ELO and his music. Had all their albums when I was a kid. Listening to them in my bedroom on my turntable stereo. The stuff just moves you right to your soul. And it's great to see Jeff still out there performing his magic.
Time. Another excellent one.
I was 13 when I first heard this album, a friend of mine at school leant it to me. The same friend had an older brother at uni, he leant me lots of his brothers records: Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, Rush.
Whilst most of the kids at school were raving about the Sex Pistols, the Stranglers, the Clash and the other punk bands of the day, I was falling headlong into prog rock and hard rock.
45 years have passed since those glorious days of my youth, but despite the changes in how we live, the music from that time has never gotten old.
Jeff Lynne, you are a musical genius and awesome songwriter. Your songs are my "go-to" when it comes to relaxation time. :) Thank you for all of the beautiful music!!!!!
There are a few special "albums" that you can put on and walk away...this is one of them for sure...amazing experience all the way through
THE KINGS OF THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Yo creo que esta es la mejor cancion del disco, por lejos !
One of ELO's greatest songs.
“My orders are to sit here and watch the world go by...” Can do, Jeff, can do.
This is Yerffej Ennyl calling you from planet Earth
For many days, we travelled from a distant place and time
To reach a place they call the planet Earth
There was to be a celebration
On the mission of the sacred heart
The planet Earth from way up there is beautiful and blue
And floating softly through a rainbow
But when you touch down, things look different here
At the mission of the sacred heart
Watching all the days roll by
Who are you and who am I?
How's life on Earth?
(Living on the Earth, living on the Earth
Living on the Earth, living on the Earth)
When all the stars above
Lay icy fingers down on me
(Living on the Earth, living on the Earth
Living on the Earth, living on the Earth)
On a dirty worn-out sidewalk, sits a mother with a baby;
In her vale of tears, she sees no rainbow
And someone's singing from a window
In the mission of the sacred heart
Watching all the days roll by
Who are you and who am I?
How's life on Earth?
(Living on the Earth, living on the Earth
Living on the Earth, living on the Earth)
And when the stars above
Lay icy fingers down on me
(Living on the Earth, living on the Earth
Living on the Earth, living on the Earth)
There's a building on a corner, in a city, in a land
On a place they call the planet Earth
My orders are to sit here and watch the world go by
From the mission of the sacred heart
Watching all the days roll by
Who are you and who am I?
Watching all the days roll by
Who are you and who am I?
How's life on Earth?
What is it worth?
Thank you leirbaG Ladiv 👍😊
watching all the days go by*
@@sci_pain3409 *roll
Wait it spells jeff lynne backwards
@@PaulOutdoors Yeah sroodtuo luap
Almost 23 thousand plays... 0 dislikes.. Enough said.
+Duane Wente I was just thinking that XD
Sadly, someone that doesn't have soul disliked.
Philippe Rossel Probably just to piss me off.. They know the truth though lol
I’m thumbing it up, half because I should, half in spite of the ones who have thumbed it down.
Absolutely classic. I absolutely wore this album out!!
i first heard this when this album was bought for my brother at Christmas. we played the whole album and it was awesome. my brother has since passed.i turned on the radio and a new rock station that’s playing a lot of songs another competitor does not play , at my husband’s Birthday party and people were asking who is this , what is this? i said that’s ELO , Electric Light Orchestra. young and old people were looking it up . Very awesome to hear it again on the radio station!
Jeff, all indications are that New World Record was timely, music being a universal reality, you were born to turn the key, to unlock at precisely the right moment in time, the juxtaposition of time in reality, to cross meanings with your music, the unfolding of your Divine Destiny, this planet's spiritual upliftment, note by note, time-to-time, Love to you Jeff, for all your good works, still inspiring to -the-nines
I guess this beautiful and in swing key song is hardly influenced by " Raumpatrouille Orion " (A german science fiction TV series - 1966) soundtrack by Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra and the danish science fiction clasic movie "Journey to the Seventh Planet ( 1962 ) ´s love theme .
That's right.
Spot on Don 😊
Many here have highlighted the perfect harmonies of ELO's vocals, but without mentioning the importance of Kelly Groucutt in this context. The first album he worked on was Face The Music (1975). R.I.P.
My GOD! What a FUCKING GREAT ALBUM!! Jeff Lynne IS.......The Electric Light Orchestra!
Eldorado, Face The Music, A New World Record-And Out of The Blue are masterpieces. But I love their albums.
Fabulous musicianship!!!! Jeff Lynne was obviously influenced by The Beatles. Good!!!
A New World Record came out my junior year of high school, and as it was popular with two girls I liked, Gita and Linda, I took a detour from my accustomed classical and Beatles music to give ELO a try. As the first ROCK song opened with an ORCHESTRA, I felt drawn into some strange, new world (without the aid of soma) from which I might never return. In a sense I haven't since I still love ELO some half a century later, and never really stopped listening to it in between. I once asked Linda if she or Gita still listened to ELO, but got no reply, which I took to mean that what had, thanks to them, become a staple in my life, turned into just a passing fancy in theirs!
“Mission (A World Record),” remains one of my favorite songs, as I relate to the loneliness of its protagonist. As a child I told people that I came from Pluto, and it has often felt like I'm an alien watching the world go by, unable to act to improve it. In recent years, although not religious, I've considered that the lyrics might also depict a lonely angel, sent to report on Earth, but unable to intervene lest he interfere with humans' free will. It seems like with just a little more compassion, a little more patience, humans might make Earth a veritable paradise, with hardly more than the flap of angelic wings, yet humans often seem more happy when they have someone to hate. The ease of hate compared to compassion remains, six decades after my arrival, too large a part of my answers the questions of my superiors: How's life on Earth? What is it worth?
Jesus is God
The Devil is in charge of the Earth at the moment and this is why nothing can change but he is going to get his butt kicked very soon and then we will see how Earth was meant to be. Good luck to you sir.
A classic 70's rock album amongst the best...hard to beat
This takes me back to 1976 when me and a few classmates did an assembly on the theme of Neil Armstrong and we played this full blast for the entire school to listen to.
I have loved elo since I first bought one of their records whilst at high school sweet talking woman since then have listed to every single record they made and still do in fact nearly every night I go to sleep listening to them so relaxing I just love them
I guess this beautiful and in swing key song is hardly influenced by " Raumpatrouille Orion " (A german science fiction TV series - 1966) soundtrack by Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra and the danish science fiction clasic movie "Journey to the Seventh Planet ( 1962 ) ´s love theme .
Literally the entire song is the best part of the song
In my top 3 albums of all time. Long live Jeff Lynne's ELO!!!
This song is 🔥🔥🔥
The mathematics alone from any song on this LP can teach you the future!!!!! Most cannot hear the correct message. Listen again, and again.
This song foreshadowed the Time album
Listening this album again, it was one of my favorites in my youth, end seventies.
Słucham ELO prawie 50 lat i nigdy nie przestanę
Ja również od niemal pół wieku slucham ELO i jestem po wrażeniem geniuszu Jeffa.
The album that started my love for this band...
ELO is the best Band ever!
My favourite E. L. O song 💚
Simplemente genial gracias por existir ELO
E.L.O. = eletrical magic.
Incredibly beautiful understanding of Life. 🙏
Haunting and beautiful. Jeff, you are so immensely gifted and talented. Your music is magical to me and it really does move me - you work magic in the studio. :) You are on fire...will always love you and your music forever and ever on. :) Well done, sir. I do hope to meet you one day when we get through all of this world mess. Stay safe!!!!!!
i am the 2004 kid. first time i heard bout ELO, was from The Guardian of The Galaxy OST - Mr. Blue Sky.... now, I already heard every songs from them. I love 'em so muachh
I lived in Rachel NV(Next door to Area 51) for a few years and would blast this song out into the desert(and at the guards who I knew were watching me) as I camped just outside the perimeter of the base. Got a real X-files vibe doing that at night but it was appropriate for the setting. Love this song.
Hahahahaha, that's awesome!!!
Intro; 'This is Yerffej Ennyl calling you from planet earth' (Jeffrey Lynne backwards)
holy shit, how have i never realized that lmao. lynne jeffrey tho
Gracias por compartir buena Música de mis tiempos de joven Saludos 🇲🇽🎼☮️❤️💖👍
by far my favorite music of my life, beautiful memories
Jeff Lynne surely must be one of Rock and Roll greats. Not only a phenomenally talented musician but also an incredibly gifted music writer. E.L.O is still my wife's and I top favorite
groups of all time.
I get a chill hearing this
The Soundtrack of a fellow lost alien
Even if nobody can live up to Jeff artistically, you got t applaud anyone who would endeavor to try.
For many days we traveled from a distant place and time,
To reach a place they call the planet Earth,
There was to be a celebration,
On the mission of the sacred heart
The planet Earth from way up there is beautiful and blue
And floating softly through a rainbow,
But when you touch down things look different here,
At the mission of the sacred heart
Watching all the days roll by
Who are you and who am I?
How's life on Earth?
On a dirty worn-out sidewalk, sits a mother with a baby,
In her vale of tears she sees no rainbow
And someone's singing from a window
In the mission of the sacred heart
Watching all the days roll by
Who are you and who am I?
How's life on Earth?
And when the stars above,
Lay hazy fingers down on me
There's a building on a corner, in a city, in a land,
On a place they call the planet Earth,
My orders are to sit here and watch the world go by,
From the mission of the sacred heart
Watching all the days roll by
Who are you and who am I?
How's life on Earth?
What is it worth?