Shine a little love electric light orchestra

Shine a Little Love / Jungle

• A Shine a Little Love 4:09

• Total length: 8:01

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• 1979  Vinyl 7" Jet / ZS8 5057  

• 1979  Vinyl 7" Jet / ZS8 5057  

• 1979  Vinyl 7" Jet / JS 007  

• 1979  Vinyl 7" Jet / JET 144  

• 1979  Vinyl 12" Jet / S JET 12144  

• 1979  Vinyl 7" Jet / JET 144  

• 1979  Vinyl 7" Jet / JET 144  

• 1979  Vinyl 7" Jet / JET 144  

• 1980  Vinyl 7" Jet / 5153  

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• Release view [combined information for all issues]

• 1979  Vinyl 7" Jet / ZS8 5057  

• 1979  Vinyl 7" Jet / ZS8 5057  

• 1979  Vinyl 7" Jet / JS 007  

• 1979  Vinyl 7" Jet / JET 144  

• 1979  Vinyl 12" Jet / S JET 12144  

• 1979  Vinyl 7" Jet / JET 144  

• 1979  Vinyl 7" Jet / JET 144  

• 1979  Vinyl 7" Jet / JET 144  

• 1980  Vinyl 7" Jet / 5153  

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• Jeff Lynne
  producer
• J. Lynne
  songwriter

"Shine a Little Love" was the second Electric Light Orchestra single i heard that i knew was Electric Light Orchestra. Very atypical of their earlier works, but i didn't know that at the time, considering i was just a punk kid who hadn't really discovered music yet at the time. Not my favorite song by the band now, but i fairly liked it at the time. Nor do i particularly dislike it now, and there's certainly a bit of nostalgic justification for this one. Good b-side too. A thr-r-r-ree.

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both tracks written by Jeff Lynne
produced by Jeff Lynne
1979 Jet Records ZS8 5057
a-side from the album Discovery
b-side from the album Out of the Blue
acquired some time at some place
RYM review 04 Dec 2006

Published

It seems weird to say that this is one of the more lightweight ELO singles, as if he's tackling Third World governmental abuses on his other ones. But this is a frothy mixture of clompy drums and hyperkinetic vocals. (One friend misheard the title phrase as "you sound a lot like my wife".) Dock a half star for the intro, which is intriguing but seems to have zilch to do with what follows.

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By this time Jeff Lynne was rewriting his own, never mind The Beatles old songs - here "Turn To Stone" gets a make-over with its fade-in and charging intro repeated, with sprinkled over synth-drops, handclaps, fruity strings and plenty of "Wooo's" in the background to jazz it up. It works a treat in actual fact, making it the obvious first single from "Discovery".
Bev Bevan contributes some nice drum-fills too.

Published

Great, happy piece of roller disco pop. Nobody overproduces a track like Jeff Lynne. He makes Yes sound like a garage band. And I love him for it. (I also love Yes. And garage bands.)

And MUCH LOVE for the B-side, "Jungle", which my kids absolutely adore as a happy, dancing sing-along.

Published

Immaculate swirling disco pop. For me this is high energy pop perfection. Lasers zap, synthesizers pulsate, funky guitars drive it all home. Just a blinding rotoscoped color explosion of sound. Let down your pretensions and you will be carried away.

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