The Wondermints - Xanadu (live)

The Wondermints - Xanadu (live)
Circa 1994

[@DavidMiyamoto-p6o]

Magic moment There is something about being at a local , familiar club when your heart is open to good vibrations. This feels like it is one of those times. Amazing job. I am grateful. God bless

[@davebest2001]

I'm in heaven when I hear this. One of Olivia Newton John's best songs covered by the brilliant Wondermints

[@Danimal1577]

This is amazing. Nailed Xanadu, then knocked it out of the park with Blue Sky 🛸✨💖

[@Derickbass]

I just heard that Nicky Wonder passed on today...... damn...

[@toshiok5478]

The Wondermints and Lisa! Incredible! I want to see more performance from that night.

[@bif3578]

This is so, so, so, so, so great. I keep coming back to this whenever I need a lift. And that ELO coda is pure genius.

[@MIKELIN8]

..and appropriate, since ELO did all the music from the movie Xanadu.

[@LisaMycholsmusic]

The Wondermints! ❤️❤️❤️

[@SurferJoe1]

Love and miss these guys so much.

[@BigBagOfPus]

Wow! The ever-elusive Probyn Gregory! How I wish I could have seen one of these shows. But I live/d on the opposite side of the country and wasn't even aware of the Wondermints then. Life is full of regrets.

[@frankmiyamoto4226]

Awesome sauce from l.a california thankyouverymuch

[@popgardenradio]

I love this performance. Lisa sounds great here and it really seems like everyone is having fun. It makes me wish that you guys had recorded this track in the studio at some point.

[@its1110]

I'd forgotten this song... but instantly detected the Jeff Lynne touch. :) I'd forgotten he'd done the music for ONJ, though I recalled the film.

[@joshuaross4644]

RIP Nicky 🙏

[@dgarve]

I like the 'Concerto for a Rainy Day' outro at the end--Ole ELO and Wondermints!

[@probyngregory]

The other singer's name is Kim-- I regret i cannot recall her last name now. The duo sang not infrequently with the band in this period.

[@mickybro]

They absolutely kills this version. LOVE, LOVE it.

[@Craigg2]

Good to see that the genius of Olivia Newton-Jon is appreciated in bars through-out the world!

[@blackmore4]

Hahaha :) Though I think it may be _slightly_ more to do with Darian Sahanaja's post-modern whims than Olivia love.

[@TheAlistairDick]

And the genius of Jeff Lynne who wrote it

[@darrenpedersen8104]

Yet another version of the song I never heard of.....very well done

[@BigBagOfPus]

I just turned on to Wondermints this year. Is there more from this performance? I'd *love* to see/hear it. And is that Lisa Mychols??!

[@garymaher]

This is incredible!!! And btw, the end of Mr. Blue Sky IS the outro of Concerto for a Rainy Day, which is the whole side of the album.

[@MIKELIN8]

Amazing band. So glad that they are affiliated with Brian Wilson. They can play everything he has written to perfection.

[@AllThisIsThat]

Love this version

[@brianross3470]

I wonder if I saw this show. Was it at Spaceland? I went to a few Wondermints shows and parties in the early '90s (including one night at Spaceland, with Brian Wilson and Nancy Sinatra). This band was superb. I also saw them last Summer in Santa Barbara, on Brian Wilson's tour. I wish they'd do another album.

[@oliviagreene1968]

Love it!

[@angelmariamartinez3843]

FANASTIC

[@ronbo11]

I'd marry both of these lovely ladies and have the 'Mints play at the reception if I was as rich as Warren Buffet!

[@tommyrock69]

Always holding out litmus paper for great pop music, the guys in The Wondermints are always on target. There's irony in this folks. Stop the hate posts. Those of us who played in bands around this time found great songwriting in the schlock that came before. Heck, my act used to play "S.O.S." before it was cool. We knew it was cool to begin with.

[@ChasBeauregarde]

I wish they would have done "Can;t Get It Out Of My Head" as an encore.

[@XanaduPreservation]

...actually that's the end from Mr. Blue Sky. Ole never the less, indeed!

[@NOWtheband]

Kawaii

[@AllThisIsThat]

The Wondermints have proven time and time again that they can do it all! While Xanadu is not a rock classic, this version is awesome - and Lisa Mychols is amazing. Enjoy this for what it is.

[@pomotexan]

Are those the girls from the first album cover?

[@greymattervandal]

Just thinking it would have been kind of funny if they'd mixed in a riff or two from Rush's take on this title.

[@darrenpedersen8104]

The ending confused me a bit at first but still cool

[@scatteredfrog]

Okay, so Lisa Mychols is there...but who's the other chick??

[@rockmimosa]

sometimes you gotta get rough with people. LOL!

[@scatteredfrog]

Okay, megainok, but that still doesn't answer my question. (And if that's really a guy, he's got some amazingly high pipes...)

[@michellenicklaus8631]

omg I have no words except ABSOLUTELY HORRIFYING

[@colindominy]

My god the guys looked young here. They sure made a wise move though, by dumping these girls from the show, later on !! Ugh - they have worse back-ground singer voices than the Honeys did (no offence to Marilyn, Brian).

[@ahrimzhorc]

Do you know how offensive that is to *me*?💀 Plus they were just guesting so (Like, that is pretty offensive to me:/ )