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E.L.O. | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B0000025NE
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (44 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #200,261 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Space Travel !!! Make your son(s) hear this record!!, January 16, 2004

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FERNANDO CASSIA "-Writer and Computer Geek-" (Buenos Aires, Argentina) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Time (Audio CD)

This is the first album I have memory of playing as a 9 / 10 years old kid. I don't remember if I purchased it along with my old man or bought it alone.

All I remember is that I stayed for HOURS in front of the LP (yes, LP record), listening to this "magical" record that allowed me to travel in time and space. :)

Back then, I didn't even know english well enough to understand the lyrics, but the music was very moving and powerful. Now back in time to 2003... I found this record ... by pure chance ... and purchased the CD.

When I heard again songs like "Rain is Falling", "The way life is meant to be", and the robot-voiced (vocoder) introduction, along with "Twilight" and "Here is The News" (in my opinions two of the best songs in this record), or the '70s disco-sounding "From the end of the world" the goose flesh was instantaneous!.

You have every coincevable rythm on this single album... beatiful instrumental, sci-fi -slightly darkish-, disco, Beatles-sounding "Hold on tight to your dream". For instance "The lights go down" is a mix of ballad, reggae, country and the Bee Gees. Hard to explain, but beatiful. :)

When I heard the record again (after 20+ years since I played it on LP as a kid) some sort of light went off in my head as if to say "That's it! That's the feeling I have been trying to find that expresses what I feel."

I love this record. You will too!!. Everyone should make new generations listen to this... so they can learn what M-U-S-I-C is about before the current cr-p currently sold as music came along (can you say Eminem....

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The last great concept album?, February 16, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Time (Audio CD)

Can you think of any concept album coming out after this one? Let alone one of any substantial quality? I never heard this album until the past year or so and I was quite literally disappointed...that i didnt hear it years ago and have it to enjoy for the past few years! This album is one complete thought, and is a bizarre, dreamy escape to some sort of future dream world. Thats really the best way to describe it. Its one of those albums that is truly appreciated listened to from beginning to end. Picks up sonically where Discovery left off, with stomping beats, added with an interesting mix of orchestral and synthesized backing (the last fully orchestrated ELO album too, i beleive). Any ELO fan, new or old will love this undiscovered masterpiece. The only complaints I have is with the remastered sound quality...it's a bit shrill with too much treble and very little bass. There's also passages where the sound is muffled, like it was taken from an old master tape with wear. You have to strain to listen but it is there. Still not a reason not to buy, but you'll have to fiddle with your sound to get it to sound right.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ahead of its Time... The Best ELO Album, December 13, 1999

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Vincent Williams (An Awestraylian in LA LA Land (Los Angeles)) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Time (Audio CD)

"Hold On Tight" was racing up the Australian charts when I first encountered this album; it was played on Casey Kasem's American Top 40 (which we all listened to in Australia), and so I heard how well it did in the US (top ten). Someone else in my dormitory (boarding school) had the album, and played it nonstop. I listened to it nonstop. I couldn't get enough of it. It's one of those CD's that I can play end to end and not get bored with it... like U2's "Joshua Tree" and INXS's "The Swing." I've introduced this album to people who've not heard it before, and are now huge fans like myself. In fact, I've bought this album almost a dozen times... each time, I let someone listen (and get blown away by it), and then let them have it, and get another for myself. This is definitely on that "5 albums you'd take to a desert island" poll for me. It does sadden me that it didn't get the attention it deserves... that opening piece just sends me away every time. I think, as concept albums go, this is a benchmark. I am glad that others out there like it as much as I do. Way to go, Jeff! Vince