It's been a long time since the release of ELO's epic
Eldorado album. That disc, originally released in
1974, was the band's defining moment, a perfect blend
of classical...
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Fifteen years after Jeff Lynne masterminded the last official Electric Light Orchestra album, and ten after his solo debut, Lynne recorded Zoom -- an ELO album that he...
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The last ELO album to make a major impact on popular music, Out of the Blue was of a piece with its lavishly produced predecessor, A New World Record, but it's a much more...
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In 1983, Electric Light Orchesta's second and third albums (Electric Light Orchestra II and Eldorado) were combined onto one cassette. This might seem a bit strange, but the...
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E.L.O's smart blend of pop and rock with modernly orchestrated classical music flourished throughout the '70s and '80s, since their sound was one of a kind. Plush...
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Sony repackaged and re-released three of Electric Light Orchestra's most popular albums -- Face the Music, New World Record and Discovery -- as a slip-cased box set. It's...
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To some, the notion of an Electric Light Orchestra concert was a contradiction in terms. The band's music was built so heavily on studio-generated effects, multiple...
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Recorded along ELO's winter 1976 tour, this 10-track concert disc slots in perfectly in between The Night the Lights Went On (In Long Beach) from 1974 and Live at Wembley...
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This two-CD set combines Live at Winterland 1976 and Live at Wembley in one slipcase at a reduced price. It's obviously the cheapest way of getting the two CDs and, in...
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Jeff Lynne reportedly regards this album and its follow-up, Out of the Blue, as the high points in the band's history. One might be better off opting for A New World Record...
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Although it contains all the hits and the remastering sounds superb, the three-disc box set Afterglow is likely to be more ELO than anyone but the most devoted fans would...
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After mining the Beatle goldmine for all those catchy hooks, by the time that Balance of Power was released, Jeff Lynne and company had pretty much found that once-rich vein...
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Sony Music Special Products' Burning Bright provides a good sampling of Electric Light Orchestra's classic material, balancing hits with album tracks. There are enough hits...
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Electric Light Orchestra continued on their winning Top 40 ways with the release of Discovery. Now pared down to the basic four-piece unit, Jeff Lynne continued to dominate...
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Cut during the fall of 1972, Electric Light Orchestra II was where Jeff Lynne started rebuilding the sound of Electric Light Orchestra following the departure of Roy Wood...
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ELO Classics is a budget-priced collection of some of Electric Light Orchestra's biggest hits. Although several of their finest moments are included, the album leaves off...
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This is the album where Jeff Lynne finally found the sound he'd wanted since co-founding ELO three years earlier. Up to this point, most of the group's music had been...
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This is the album where Jeff Lynne finally found the sound he'd wanted since co-founding ELO three years earlier. Up to this point, most of the group's music had been...
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The group's more modest follow-up to Eldorado is a very solid album, if not as bold or unified. It was also their first recorded at Musicland in Munich, which became Jeff...
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Most of ELO's biggest and best hits -- "Evil Woman," "Rockaria," "Telephone Line" -- are included on this solid but slightly skimpy collection. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine,...
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Electric Light Orchestra's debut album is an astonishing creation in its own right, but neophyte listeners should be aware that it bears very little resemblance to the sound...
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The group's third album showed a marked advancement, with a fuller, more cohesive sound from the band as a whole and major improvements in Jeff Lynne's singing and...
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Originally conceived of as a double album, and wisely whittled down to one on release, Secret Messages was routine, formulaic Electric Light Orchestra. Lynne's hooks and...
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Time takes its cues more from such bands as the Alan Parsons Project and Wings than from Jeff Lynne's fascination with Pepper-era Beatles. Sure, all the electronic whirrs...
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Electric Light Orchestra without Jeff Lynne likens unto a day without sunshine. But this even-more-anonymous ensemble injects so much calculated charisma into the popcorn...
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The very fact that Electric Light Orchestra released a second three-disc box set is a tacit admission that, yes, 1987's Afterglow wasn't everything it should be. Happily,...
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There have been many ELO collections over the years -- some exhaustive, some not -- so it might initially seem that the 2003 collection The Essential Electric Light...
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Light Years: The Very Best of Electric Light Orchestra is an extensive double-disc, 32-track, U.K.-only collection that runs through all of ELO's biggest hits, plus several...
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