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| 3.0 good | thelaserdiscman | March 8th 13 |
I like ELO, but I listen to them very infrequently. I listen to Time a lot though, and I love that album and will do a review of it, as well as Secret Messages of which I despise. My listening to Balance Of Power led me to two conclusions. Conclusion one is that this album has far too much dated synthesizer usage. Conclusion two is that this album has some great songs like Sorrow About To Fall, Calling America and Secret Lives to an extent. A lot of songs are filler like Send It and Getting To The Point, but bizarrely enough Heaven Only Knows is damn catchy and they have some good hooks. Getting To The Point is forgettable and I hated So Serious with a bloody passion due to the lack of good lyrics, too much synthesizer and not being memorable. Endless Lies was okay and so was Without Someone. I deducted a point for the sheer awfulness of So Serious and for the overkill of synthesizers, but all in all it wasn't half bad. I would recommend that casual listeners of ELO pick up Time, Out Of The Blue and A New World Record first and then pick this up.
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| 2.5 average | LunaticLobster | April 6th 17 |
The album feels very empty and does what ELO as done before but watered down to the point that most tracks arent worth mentioning. It isnt bad at all, just very okay
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| 3.0 good | LokitheTrickster | August 1st 13 |
Most definitely the band's low point, however, it is still worth listening to.
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| 1.5 very poor | Egglord | December 24th 07 |
This album was released far after ELO's prime and is truly rubbish. The album's only high point is their last hit Calling America. I expected more from them.
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| 3.5 great | CRX | November 22nd 20 |
| 2.5 average | ehbuh | May 1st 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | lhock17 | November 24th 18 |
| 2.5 average | Holsety | December 10th 17 |
| 2.0 poor | wg98 | May 13th 17 |
| 2.5 average | ZeCham0 | December 2nd 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | EHSpain | February 25th 16 |
| 3.5 great | gnash | March 28th 13 |
| 1.5 very poor | geogkrt | April 13th 12 |
| 2.5 average | derekkp | December 20th 09 |
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