Tuesday, June 6, 2023

"Danger Ahead"

Yester-day, ELO's social media accounts (Twitter, Instagram) posted that it was the fortieth anniversary of the release of Secret Messages.  I didn't have time to listen to the album yester-day, but I listened to it this morning and noticed a small feature in "Danger Ahead":  for most of the verses, the vocal is centered in the stereo picture, but in the second half of the third verse, starting with the line "With her entourage on either side," there are two sets of vocals, with one panned left and one panned right to portray "on either side" in a musical way.