Balance Of Power
by Electric Light Orchestra
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Balance Of Power is ranked 9th best out of 42 albums by Electric Light Orchestra on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Electric Light Orchestra is Out Of The Blue which is ranked number 532 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,261.
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Balance Of Power track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 73 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/18/2026 17:44 | shawnd27 | 22 | 74/100 |
| ! | 04/25/2026 13:31 | cicadelic | 13,662 | 73/100 |
| ! | 02/26/2026 04:22 | ekingshill | 852 | 74/100 |
| ! | 11/12/2025 23:41 | NYAndreas | 1,433 | 44/100 |
| ! | 10/15/2025 20:22 |  dihansse | 6,365 | 75/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 65.5/100, a mean average of 64.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 64.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.3.
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Squonk007 09/24/2025 20:25 | #311052
Way off par for an ELO record but there's a couple of decent moments. Stand out is Heaven Only Knows. (Edited)
By 1986, there was little left of the magic and what characterized the sound of ELO. The grandiose productions were over, strings and other elements from classical music were gone, now they just sounded like any other mediocre 80's soft rock band. All the songs are fairly anonymous, the only one that slightly stands out is "Calling America", but neither that one is good enough to deserve a place on an ELO Greatest Hits record.
TheDude85 07/02/2022 19:24 | #286980 | TOP COMMENT
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Band was running on fumes at this point. Lynne was distracted with Traveling Wilburys and other production duties. A dismal end to a tremendous group.
The worst album product from Lynne. Seems disconnected from his genius. Didn't work haven't listed to it since first listen in 86 ish. Avoid.
Underrated ELO album, may be not as good as the classical ELO era, but still a good simple album.
Leonard 06/24/2016 09:03 | #169629 | TOP COMMENT
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Very weak ELO-album, but I bought the CD in 86, the re-release in the 00s and in 2014 the LP second hand!
I'm paranoid ?
Heaven only knows!
NowhereMan 09/07/2014 20:43 | #121443 | TOP COMMENT
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Straight no nonsense catchy pop/rock. A brilliant formula. A simplistic but wonderful end to the career of the second greatest band ever.
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