(For further background also check my post on Electric Light Orchestra debute.) Made at about the same time as ELO was about to be launched this issue was rushed. Probably they needed all their energy for the new group and wanted to put Move to sleep as soon as possible. Cover front was made from a scetch by Roy Wood (not the finest piece of art) and back cover group pic a fuzzy b/w with all text in regular type-writer fonts. While ELO had added more members this was all made by the groups core - Wood, Lynne and Bevan - Roy Wood playing a mulitute of instruments including bassoon and oboe. Recordings took more time than expected and some stuff on it can be regarded as fill outs. There are three nicely done pastiches - "Don't Mess Me Up" with Wood doing Elvis, Bev Bevan as Johnny Cash in "Ben Crawley Steel Company" and the twenties style "My Marge". A few of the songs has long repetitive outros I find rather meaningless, but that said - it's still a very good album. Overall the songs are heavier and arrangements harsher than on ELO 1:st with rawer guitars and more saxes, but some of the tracks could have gone on either LP - Lynnes title song or any of the Wood compositions "Ella James" or "It Wasn't My Idea To Dance", the latter being my absolute favorite. It's a one of a kind melody - instrumentation, production, harmonies, lyrics - all very odd, but still kept perfectly together. The tune draws you in and take you for a strange ride. It also has the best opening lyrics of any love song - "The people throwing pennies in my soup, expecting me to be ashamed of You...". US 1:st issue (Capitol ST-811) had alternate cover and same tracking with different sequence. Early UK with structured flip/back cover and label as shown here - "Grammophone Ltd" on top left and "MADE IN GT.BRITAIN" bottom above rim.(RÖWS*)(HÄVL*)
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