Dads of the world, UNITE! How do you follow the Beach Boys? Well, apparently it’s by covering Electric Light Orchestra. Going from one grandad band to one dad band seems to make a crude kind of sense, even if immersing oneself in the music of ELO is…difficult.

 

Not because they’re terrible. No no no. They are by no means a terrible band. Some of their music has aged well whereas some of it certainly has not (we’re looking at you Discovery). One example of the former is their ridiculous foray into synth-pop with their ninth album, Time.

Chosen by guest Alexander Volz from the wonderful podcast Every Album Ever (which you should absolutely check out if you’re a fan of ours - they’ve covered a bunch of stuff we’ve covered, as well as some we want to cover in f ...