"Do Ya" (Electric Light Orchestra)

Electric Light Orchestra is an acquired taste.  I don't care for everything the band released; sometimes the whole rawk+stringz equation felt a little contrived.  Yet when bandleader Jeff Lynne got the formula just right, ELO could be one of the catchiest pop/rock bands out there.
The Lynne composition "Do Ya" from the 1976 album A New World Record falls a bit more on the rock side of things.  He originally wrote the song in 1971 for a psychedelic pop/rock band he was in, called The Move, which basically morphed into ELO after its final album, Message from the Country.  The two versions of the song actually aren't all that different: The Move version feels a little more ragged by comparison, and Lynne doesn't do the lead vocal; that task is handled by Roy Wood (who co-founded ELO with Lynne and then left the group after one album).
But that same thrashing, devastating riff anchors both versions.  
I do prefer the ELO version, though, for its sheer layers of guitars, strings, and doo-wop style backing vocals.  Lynne also gives the song's bridge the dramatic treatment it deserves, revealing his discipleship of Lennon-McCartney even more profoundly than on the original cut.
In all, it's the kind of feel-good rocker that makes everyone want to sing along when they've got a few rounds of drinks in 'em.  And I'm okay with that.