Confusion, it's such a terrible thing

Yes, another ELO reference. Currently listening to the albums I downloaded from eMusic!

I'm currently listening to their first album, released waaaaaaaaaaaaay back in March of 1972, and it's quite the trip. For a background, it grew out of Jeff Lynne and Roy Wood's wanting to do a side project outside of The Move...basically a more string-oriented prog-rock thing than their sort-of-psychedelic Move stuff. The only track I knew from this one was "10538 Overture", which was their first single (as well as a b-side on some US single), so this was an interesting experience.

My first two reactions was A)an interesting cross between the Moody Blues and ELP, with a little bit of, well, latter-day ELO thrown in, and B)This HAD to be in Melora Creager's record collection when she was a kid, because this totally sounds like a Rasputina album. :p

Next up: Eldorado! As I didn't get to download II or On the Third Day (I missed those two plus Balance of Power due to running out of points), that one's next. I think it's considered their Brain Salad Surgery to some extent, from what I've read. :p