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Time

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Time was the last truly great album from the Electric Light Orchestra, released as their world-conquering fame was starting to ebb. A concept album (a brave undertaking in 1981), Time has a space-age theme and is set at the end of the 21st century. What's most remarkable is how all this science-fiction silliness is salvaged by the exuberant playing. "Yours Truly, 2095" uses a number of ELO's hallmarks--a catchy synth riff, sweeping strings, and over-the-top production--to tell a tale of a man in love with a robot; the album's highlight, it should have been a hit single. The epic "Twilight" and "Hold on Tight"--which practically bounces along like an overexcited puppy--also stand among ELO's finest works. Moreover, critical darlings Grandaddy have frequently stated the album influenced their excellent Sophtware Slump, evidence that this futuristic album was itself years ahead of its time. --Robert Burrow

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Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.62 x 4.92 x 0.33 inches; 3.84 Ounces
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Sony Legacy
Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2001
Run time ‏ : ‎ 54 minutes
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ December 7, 2006
Label ‏ : ‎ Sony Legacy
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00005KHEV
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Sean Huxter

This is my favorite ELO album.

Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2017

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Ever since 1982 when I was given this as a birthday gift, I have listened to it in various forms, and have had to repurchase it multiple times (cassettes get old, CDs get scratched) and I love it. Unlike most albums, this is not a collection of songs. It's a rock opera set in 1981 when a man is taken from his own time and forced against his will into the future (2095) and there, sees the wonders and shames of the future world. He divides his time between learning about the future, and lamenting the loss of his beloved who he has left in 1981. We find that as he learns, he is given an opportunity to possibly go back to his own time and teach them what he has learned, so humanity isn't forced to repeat its mistakes.

I really wish they had produced it as a real stage opera or movie.

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Mr Pen Name

Time Runs Out On ELO

Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2019

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An album which marked the last of ELO's committed offerings, the true end of their career as a band in control of its destiny, a passionate musical embrace of synthesizers as approximations of string sections, set against an abhorence for the prospects of synthetic love, it was a potpourri that never quite makes sense. Somehow on Out Of The Blue, Jeff Lynne made the future seem as inviting as the past. Here on Time, it's a holy hell. A woman is a phone. (Wow he saw through to Apple's heart. Although to really fit in with Tim Cook's spirit, it would announce itself as a fluid gendered phone with pronouns 'it'/'what'.)

I should add that this may be the album whose initial release had many of its best songs omitted in favor of lesser ones. The new release is therefore preferable, but you owe it to yourself to finish the job Jeff Lynne should have done, of moving the three tracks into the running order rather than all dangling as footnotes after the big epilogue.

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Chase

ELO's Finest Hour!

Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2019

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This is ELO's best album, and it's one of the best albums of the 80s.

Yes, for the most part, the Orchestra ditched the strings that made them an orchestra, but this still is great. Instead of intertwined string sections, the band uses electronic textures, switching out their violins and cellos for synths and vocoders. It's a concept album about a guy who gets sent to the future and just wants to go back to the 80s and meet his girlfriend again. It's just as awesome as it sounds.

So many of the tracks are incredibly strong. Perhaps the weakest are (to my ears) Another Heart Breaks and The Lights Go Down. Another Heart Breaks is a mostly instrumental electronic tune, and The Lights Go Down is an attempt at reggae that just doesn't sit well with me. But what's more is that the bonus tracks are incredibly strong. It's one of the few albums where the included bonus tracks actually should have been on the finished album, and they add strongly to the experience here.

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Samuel B. White

Great LP that has held up over TIME

Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2019

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I loved this album when it was new (and I was in high school), so my first listen through really took me back, in a good way. Subsequent listens have reminded me that this is one of the all-time great "concept albums". As the title suggests, it's about time. Mostly in the context of time travel, but in the broader sense of time itself.
There are three extra songs on the CD that weren't on the vinyl (or cassette) but were on the B-sides of the 45s from this album. The first two, to me, are sub-par and I skip over them. Because, the third song ("Julie Don't Live Here") is great and everything I associate with ELO: vocals, instrumentation, everything. It's theme makes me think it was written to go right before or right after the song "Is This the Way Life's Meant To Be?" but I guess they nixed it because the theme of the lyrics is so similar to that other song (guy comes back from time away to find his world changed and, in this case, his girl gone).

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MikeS

Superb remastering

Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2019

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Remastering job is excellent. Like someone wiped the fog off the music. It all pops and is worthy of a modern soundsystem. The only downside for me (though it is fantastically clear) is on "The Way Life's Meant to Be" where the remastering has dialed down some of the less rock-music elements, which I think takes away from the song's whimsical and mournful counterpoint.

Still worth every cent.

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savsmomTop Contributor: Coloring

Not Typical ELO but Classic Nonetheless

Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2015

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This was the last album needed to complete my husband's ELO collection. One of the main reasons he loves the group is that even though there have been many band members who've come and gone, thanks to frontman, creator, writer and producer, Jeff Lynne, each album maintains the signature ELO sound. This one precedes their Balance of Power album with only Secret Messages between them and they were the two albums which use synthesizers heavily especially in creating background spoken words. Even so, the sound is unmistakably ELO. The theme of the album tracks are definitely along the science fiction lines even including time travel. This one didn't produce any signature hits along the lines of classics such as "Evil Woman" but don't let that deter you from getting it as it's still full of great music and modern touches for it's time.

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George T

One of my favourites of all "Time"

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 24, 2020

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This classic album .. is an example of why the Album must never die. The theme of voice from the future runs through it ... even though ... and lyrics that hark back wistfully back to the simpler times of the 80's become more and more relevant as "Time". I simply love this Album.

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C - Bez

ELO’s best album imo

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 23, 2019

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The best ELO album in my opinion even if your young and may not have heard of it, made in 1980 but way ahead of its time (no pun intended) I can play this through without skipping a song, amazing songs written by a genuine genius in Jeff Lynn, less than £3 paid and CD is like new, recommend seller

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Underrated

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 12, 2007

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Back in the early 1980's, Jeff Lynne's panoramic orchestral compositions seemed a million miles away from the zeitgeist, what with the New Wave, Adam and the Ants and the rise of the New Romantics. As a result this album has been rather unfairly glossed over by many, especially as it even dared to be a concept album of sorts. Talk to many ELO fans however and they will tell you just how well this album measures up against the band's 70's zenith.

The strings had seemingly been ditched in favour of modish synths, but that's about all that had really changed. Even the missing strings hadn't vanished, they were just a little less obvious to the ear and done in a slightly different way.

The beginning of the album can leave you in no doubt as to who it is, a short prologue leading into 'Twilight', a song that for some reason reminds me a little 'Tightrope' from ' A New World Record ' (I'm not quite sure why), but in any case has that lush, wide sweep that all the best ELO songs do. The next song is the first major surprise, 'Yours Truly 2095' is a stab of bittersweet electro-pop that leads into the drum-heavy 'Ticket To The Monn', before we arrive at the lovely, acoustic flavour of 'The Way Life's Meant To Be'. The following trio of 'Rain Is Falling', 'From the End of The World' and 'The Lights Go Down' are rather downbeat and melancholic, but not in a bad way, giving the album a flow and a resonance that points out the more uptempo numbers around them.

At this point we hit the album's real stride, first with 'Here Is The News', another elctro-pop song; a fabulous song actually, one of the very best on the album, then into 21st Century Man, a song which wears its Beatles/Lennon influences firmly on its sleeve, before climaxing with the impossibly bouncy Hold On Tight, complete with French lyric in the middle eight

The thing is, as 80's and synthy as this album sounds (though not as much as the later Balance of Power or parts of Secret Messages) it is still recognisably ELO with all that that entails. And that's really why this album is so good; it manages to retain the spirit of the ELO who went before and marry it well to the fast-encroaching new technology.

10 people found this helpful

Peter Stiles

Wanted more time...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 11, 2019

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This is the
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Fifth time I've bought this album. I think it's _that_ good.

Nothing wrong with my last CD, but I strongly desired the extra tracks.

Was worth it, added to an already beautiful work of art.

peter dixon

experimentation no problem for this band

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 29, 2019

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Has Jeff lynne actually made a bad album? I don’t think so and this is no exception,I’m still catching up with the Elo’s back catalogue,a band I’ve always loved listening to

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