![]() Most of it is placed for the general atmosphere of the song not to show off pretentious wankery. The musicality on this album is also sublime. Just to see your face instead of this place ![]() With its ivory towers and its plastic flowers The best example to this enigma is probably best located in the song, The Way Life's Meant To Be. Most amazing though, is that the lyrics can come so close to being cliché that they stretch towards simplistic genius. Each song is lyrically driven with a powerful conviction and slowly gets darker and darker as the album progresses. It is somewhat of a simpler concet album (more complex than Tommy at least), but they are really effective in their delivery of this concept. The unwilling time traveler spends the finale of the album in sorrow over what the future holds, returns home with the knowledge of what the future holds to warn society of their mistakes. As per expected, it is somewhat of a negative utopia, similar to novels like 1984 and Brave New World. The basic premise behind the album is an unwilling time traveler gets stuck temporarily into the year of 2095. Many might find Xanadu to be a more effective choice by the band, and more of an impact on the 80's culture as a whole, but it just wasn't as enjoyable nor as great as their concept album Time was.ĭid I forget to mention that Time was a concept album? Well let me indulge you. The fact that this album just ***ing rocks also comes to mind as well. ![]() There are also some very dated effects regarding the robot voice that makes a few appearances in the album. In fact, if I were forced to choose an album that truly encapsulates the 80's, Time would most definitely be my choice. That's to say it isn't more disposable, though. This is probably one of their more pop-influenced albums out of their collection as well. (Some of the synth mimic strings to keep their sound a bit, so don't fret too much) The synth-strings aren't used that often, though. They completely removed all of their string instruments and went entirely synth on this album. Almost all of their songs from the past were made up of the typical band line up (vocalist, bassist, guitarist, drummer) juxtaposed amongst orchestral instruments (violin, cello, piano). It was an interesting turn in Electric Light Orchestra's sound. This band bridges the gap between the some of the most sweeping orchestral melodies and places them amongst what could simply be disposable pop-rock otherwise. The genres are, for those who haven't heard this band, pop and orchestral rock. They mixed two of the most polarly opposing genres in music seamlessly into music, and they do it quite well I might add. ![]() ELO did one of the rarest and difficult feats in the music industry. Imagine my awe and amazement at the fact that there is not one singe album review for the absolute powerhouse that was Electric Light Orchestra (From hereon mentioned as ELO). If not, you will still probably enjoy it. Review Summary: If you like 80's songs with themes about time travel, you just might enjoy this.
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