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| 4.0 excellent | GoldenGuy444 | June 9th 18 |
A dated 80s washed collection of some of Jeff's strangest tunes. Besides the jarring
"Loser Gone Wild" and the strange track arrangement (featuring little to no build) it
remains a solid final great album
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| 3.5 great | LunaticLobster | April 6th 17 |
This album hosts some of my favorite ELO songs, Bluebird, Four Little Diamonds, Rock N Roll Is King are all wonderful. The rest of the album is very hit or miss with many uniconic tracks. In my opinion it is the last great ELO album
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| 2.0 poor | praise jimmy EMERITUS | March 16th 14 |
Discovery was 2disco4me
Time was about perfect.
This? I don't know about this.
edit: yea it's garbo
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| 3.0 good | LokitheTrickster | August 1st 13 |
While not the best album by ELO, the album is decent overall and is worth listening to.
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| 1.5 very poor | thelaserdiscman | March 8th 13 |
I like Jeff Lynne and all, but this album was poorly executed. The history behind this album is that Jeff Lynne wanted to make this a double album like Out Of The Blue, but was denied by the record company. After that, he cut out the side with the good songs available on Afterglow like Hello My Old Friend and Mandalay, as well as the never released song Beatles Forever which I found and listened to on YouTube and absolutely loved. Besides those songs, all the released songs should have been the ones nixed, save for Rock And Roll Is King which is the one saving grace. All these other songs are attempts to create a new classic like Out Of The Blue and they all fail except for Rock And Roll Is King. Letter To Spain and Four Little Diamonds almost succeeded at being good, but they fail in the end. Loser Gone Wild, the title track, Bluebird and Train Of Gold are complete garbage, while the others are a little better. Save yourself and don't listen to this so called"ELO" album and pick up Balance Of Power or Time instead if you need an ELO fix or just listen to any other ELO album.
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| 4.5 superb | CalinD | December 4th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Drbebop | March 9th 20 |
| 2.0 poor | ehbuh | May 1st 19 |
| 3.5 great | lhock17 | November 24th 18 |
| 2.5 average | wg98 | May 13th 17 |
| 2.0 poor | Pch101 | April 16th 17 |
| 3.5 great | Xinlo | July 21st 16 |
| 1.5 very poor | menawati | February 26th 14 |
| 3.5 great | LordZed | September 5th 13 |
| 2.5 average | Azeta86 | November 17th 10 |
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