Mike Simmons

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Member Since: 2/11/2004
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Other Mixes By Mike Simmons

Electric Light Orchestra - Sing Along With This

Artist Song
Electric Light Orchestra  One Summer Dream  
Electric Light Orchestra  Dreaming of 4000 
Electric Light Orchestra  Laredo Tornado 
Electric Light Orchestra  Big Wheels 
Electric Light Orchestra  Momma (flashback edit) 
Electric Light Orchestra  Above the Clouds 
Electric Light Orchestra  King of the Universe 
Electric Light Orchestra  Starlight 
Electric Light Orchestra  It's Over 
Electric Light Orchestra  Mister Kingdom 
Electric Light Orchestra  Need Her Love 
Electric Light Orchestra  Bluebird is Dead 
Electric Light Orchestra  Sweet is the Night 
Electric Light Orchestra  Helpless 
Electric Light Orchestra  Lonesome Lullabye 
Electric Light Orchestra  Waterfall 
Electric Light Orchestra  Moment in Paradise 
Electric Light Orchestra  Wild West Hero 
Electric Light Orchestra  Shangri-La 

Comment:

I just felt like making this one day... mostly so I could hear a string of my absolute favorite ELO tunes in succession and share these more obscure songs with a few friends. I'm all about indoctrinating new ELO nuts. Of course, I avoided any "hits" just to make it a bit more special. It's a bit on the ballady-side, but these are the songs which make me officially goosebumpy. Most of the tracks are segued as creatively as I found energy to do so, and flow really well for the most part... with the string parts that usually buffer ELO songs flowing together as if they were one piece. It's pretty fun. And just to be a cheeky bastard, I put together some artwork for it... mind you it's SUPPOSED to look like ugly CBS/SONY boilerplate artwork with the big white space on the back and the ever-present red spine font. I got the pictures from stuff people were selling on ebay that day, and tried to make it look as cheezy as many of the slapshod ELO compliations have in the past. Altogether a fun time & a great listen.. I just can't believe how much I adore this music. If the artwork doesn't appear on this page, see it at:
http://www.michaelsimmons.org/elocomp.htm
image for mix

Feedback:

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bloodredbird
Date: 3/12/2003
what's an ELO mix without "mr. blue sky" - hit or no hit?
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Mike Simmons
Date: 3/12/2003
Q: what's an ELO mix without "mr. blue sky" - hit or no hit?

A: Still Great! :)

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Larry JJ
Date: 3/13/2003
You're heavy on the 70s
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Jana
Date: 3/13/2003
This is really nice. I've been into ELO lately, but I only have a few albums.
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Jeff Cooper
Date: 3/14/2003
Very very cool. I love the artwork.
Nice job Mike!!

Jeff
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Jason Todd
Date: 3/24/2003
AboveThe Clouds
Wonderful -- no one seems to mention this much - I wish it there were a couple of more verses.
Rain is Falling would have gone well between Sweet is the Night and Helpless
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Muzag
Date: 2/13/2004
Nice mix - definitely one of the top 'guilty pleasure' bands. Great artwork too - love that 10538 barcode ;-)