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- #1
- Posted: 04/26/2020 20:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#3419): Time by Electric Light Orchestra
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Today's album of the day
Time by Electric Light Orchestra (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1981.
Country: 
Overall rank: 726
Average rating: 75/100 (from 282 votes).
Tracks:
1. Prologue
2. Twilight
3. Yours Truly, 2095
4. Ticket To The Moon
5. The Way Life's Meant To Be
6. Another Heart Breaks
7. Rain Is Falling
8. From The End Of The World
9. The Lights Go Down
10. Here Is The News
11. 21st Century Man
12. Hold On Tight
13. Epilogue
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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Fischman
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- Posted: 04/26/2020 22:36
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This album really seems to have its devotees. I don't quite get it. I generally love ELO, but this one sits pretty far down my ELO list. Jeff Lynn is often criticized for "overproducing," and this is the most overproduced/artificial sounding of all ELO albums. It's also relentlessly depressing. Not one I care to listen to.
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- Posted: 04/27/2020 03:26
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This album's pretty great, probably ELO's only album that could be considered to be "influential" (although far from their best). It was slightly ahead of time with its synth pop tendencies and a lot of the melodies are pretty catchy.
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- Posted: 04/28/2020 13:05
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I have been spending way too much time in the 1990s lately, so listening to this album was a bit of a shock to the system. It seems to be a very quintessential 80s album with the synth, pulsing rock rhythms, and
You also hear some influence of Queen in "Ticket to the Moon" with the falsetto and hollow spaces of a meandering rock ballad.
Overall a very inventive album that crosses genres. I can see how it is influential but not necessarily great.
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- Posted: 04/29/2020 01:28
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The love for this album always amazes me. This is Jeff Lynne at his most bored. He's barely even trying to use ELO as a band by this point. Everything from Discovery to the end sounds like contractual obligation. His lyrics were always his weakness, and this is no exception...but now, he seems to be simply trying to see just how polished he can sound.
Rain Is Falling is pretty good...Hold On Tight is a 60's rock & roll rehash, and the Prologue / Twilight thing is way too buried in synths to be much beyond annoying.
Or...maybe my least favorite ELO album. Tied, of course, with Discovery and Balance Of Power.
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- Posted: 04/29/2020 07:37
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The artwork is dope.
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