The Move - Looking On (Full Album) 1970 (HQ)

Side 1
00:00 - "Looking On" (Roy Wood)
07:46 - "Turkish Tram Conductor Blues" (Bev Bevan)
12:26 - "What?" (Jeff Lynne)
19:11 - "When Alice Comes Back to the Farm" (Wood)
Side 2
22:53 - "Open Up Said the World at the Door" (Lynne)
30:03 - "Brontosaurus" (Wood)
34:33 - "Feel Too Good" (Wood) 42:46 - (The Duke of Edinburgh's Lettuce) (Lynne,Wood)

Looking On is the third album by The Move, released in the UK in December 1970. The LP is their first to feature Jeff Lynne, their first containing entirely original compositions, and the first on the Fly label, its catalogue number being FLY 1. It includes both their 1970 singles, the Top 10 hit "Brontosaurus," and "When Alice Comes Back to the Farm"
Looking On is generally regarded as the hardest rocking, least popular and most eclectic album in the Move's catalogue, as it presents the band dabbling in heavy metal ("Brontosaurus,") blues, ("When Alice Comes Back to the Farm"), ("Turkish Tram Conductor Blues"), prog-style epics ("Open Up Said the World at the Door"), soul ("Feel Too Good"), or, in the case of the title track, all four styles mashed together.

It's also the first LP to feature both Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne as a tandem, with Wood's use of cello and woodwinds and Lynne's piano and vocals anticipating the work they would later pursue in the Electric Light Orchestra, whose debut album they were starting to record at around the same time. The jazzy fills on the title track also serve as a signpost of the style that Wood would later develop in Wizzard and the Wizzo Band.

The Move was effectively a dead band walking when Lynne joined in February 1970 after fronting (and producing) The Idle Race. Wood had wanted to launch a new group with Lynne that would feature rock and strings -- to pick up, in theory, where the Beatles' "I Am the Walrus" had left off -- and retire the Move immediately. But despite mainstream media reports that the Move were finished -- with Wood's blessing -- contractual obligations and management pressure kept the brand name kicking, regardless of the drastic changes in sound and personnel.

Undaunted, Wood and Lynne took the opportunity to begin work on the embryonic ELO Both composers saw the forthcoming album as a chance to experiment with motifs that they could apply to future recordings. Indeed, in July, during the Looking On sessions, the band recorded "10538 Overture," a Lynne composition that was originally intended to be a Move B-side. It never got there. When Wood overdubbed a cello riff over the basic track 15 times over, he and Lynne decided they'd found the template for something even better than they'd originally planned -- a ground-breaking hit that could launch the ELO with a bang. Their instincts were eventually proven right, although the "10538 Overture" didn't wind up on the UK charts until the summer of 1972.