My daughter loves rockets and spaceships and when she saw the sleeve of ELO’s “Out of The Blue” album she went “oooooooooooh!” like a 12-year-old boy who had just seen the mothership in Close Encounters for the first time. Now she refers to it as “the rocket record” which, as a huge ELO fan back in the olden days, makes me very happy indeed.

“The Whale” probably isn’t her cup of apple juice as it’s a very trippy instrumental and she prefers to bop around to the uptempo numbers, but I thought I’d play it anyway as it’s quite an unusual track for ELO. These days they’d call this Chill Out music but back in 1977 I just thought it was a bit odd. Sure is pretty though, I wonder if The Orb ever heard this.

Download: The Whale – Electric Light Orchestra (mp3)