Juliana Hatfield Sings ELO, by Juliana Hatfield

Juliana Hatfield Sings ELO

by Juliana Hatfield

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Dan Sexton I really like Juliana Hatfield, and I've liked her Police and Oliva Newton John albums, three groups I would not get excited about, but add Juliana and I'm in. Favorite track: Can't Get It Out Of My Head.

hostesssnowball Phenomenal cover of Showdown alone! The arrangements are brilliant throughout the entire album. Favorite track: Showdown.

kristenhg Why on earth did I love this song as a kid? No idea. But I still love it. Favorite track: Telephone Line.

crd560 A wonderful reworking of ten ELO classics. Juliana respects the original arrangements but streamlines them to bring out the beauty in Jeff Lynne's songs that was sometimes buried under over-elaborate production on the original albums. Great song selection, too! Favorite track: Ordinary Dream.

mbkornacki Brilliance by definition!

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1.	Sweet Is The Night 03:30	buy track
2.	Can't Get It Out Of My Head 04:18	buy track
3.	Showdown 03:31	buy track
4.	Strange Magic 03:56	buy track
5.	Don't Bring Me Down 03:59	buy track
6.	Telephone Line 04:44	buy track
7.	Secret Messages 03:59	buy track
8.	Bluebird Is Dead 04:24	buy track
9.	From The End Of The World 03:14	buy track
10.	Ordinary Dream 03:25	buy track

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ELO songs were always coming on the radio when I was growing up. They were a reliable source of pleasure and fascination (except for “Fire On High” which scared the heck out of me). With this album of covers I wanted to get my hands deep into some of the massive ‘70’s hits but I am also shining a light on some of the later work (“Ordinary Dream” from 2001’s “Zoom” album, “Secret Messages” and “’From The End Of The World”, both from the ‘80’s).

Thematically, I identify with the loneliness and alienation and the outerspace-iness in the songs I chose. (I have always felt like I am part alien, not fully belonging to or in this Earth world.) Sonically, ELO recordings are like an amusement park packed with fun musical games with layers and layers of varied, meticulous parts for your ears to explore; production curiosities; huge, gorgeous stacks of awe-inspiring vocal harmony puzzles. My task was to try and break all the things down and reconstruct them subtly until they felt like mine.

Overall, I stuck pretty close to the originals’ structures while figuring out new ways to express or reference the unique and beloved ELO string arrangements. An orchestra would have been difficult or impossible for me to manage to record, nor did I think there was any point in trying to copy those parts as they originally were. Why not try to reimagine them within my zone of limitations? In some cases, I transposed string parts onto guitars, or keyboards, and I even sung some of them (as in “Showdown” and “Bluebird Is Dead”).

Recording the album was a kind of complicated and drawn-out process since I was doing all of my tracks at home in my bedroom (drums and bass were done by Chris Anzalone and Ed Valauskas, respectively [in their own recording spaces]), and I kept running into technology problems that would frustrate me and slow me up. But eventually I got it all done. A labor of love. -Juliana

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released November 17, 2023

Produced by Juliana Hatfield
Mixed by Pat DiCenso
Mastered by Sean Glonek at SRG studios

Guitars, vocals, keyboards, and percussion played and recorded by Juliana
Bass guitar played and recorded by Ed Valauskas
Drums played by Chris Anzalone* and recorded by Chris and Ed
Additional editing by Ed
*Drums on Sweet Is The Night were done by Jed Davis and extra drums in parts of “Don’t Bring Me Down” were played by Juliana and recorded by James Bridges
Lead vocal and acoustic guitar on “Sweet Is The Night” were originally recorded by Andy Chase

Artwork design and illustration by Nicole Anguish at Daykamp Creative

All songs written by Jeff Lynne
Published by EMI Blackwood Music Inc and EMI April Music Inc.

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Juliana Hatfield Boston, Massachusetts

singer/guitarist/songwriter; co-founder of Blake Babies, Juliana Hatfield Three, Some Girls; ½ of Minor Alps, ½ of the I Don't Cares; quasi Lemonhead

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