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Jeff Lynne’s ELO: Wembley Or Bust

"Wembley Or Bust" sounds like it was recorded in 1977, right at the peak of ELO mania, not forty years later. That's probably the best way to sum up how good this live document is, because at times it sounds like a musical time machine.

Alone in the Universe

With "Alone in the Universe," Jeff Lynne has made an easy-on-the-ear album that stays faithful to the classic ELO legacy and is built to please most of the fans, which was exactly the point.

Zoom

Electric Light Light Orchestra's return to the active music scene in 2001 sadly fell flat after the tour was called off, but their final studio album, the splendid »Zoom«, was the kind of farewell Jeff Lynne could only have wished for in…

Mr. Blue Sky – The Very Best of ELO

"Mr. Blue Sky" is a wonderful testament to Lynne's lifelong artistry and his long-burning desire to finally record the Electric Light Orchestra classics, with the help of modern technology, the way he always wanted to hear them in their…

Secret Messages

Despite the flak it usually catches, "Secret Messages" isn't a bad album, but it's missing quite a bit before a listener could enjoy it from start to finish the way they can with most of the band's records.

Time

Though it can't even begin to compare with their best work from the '70s, this is Lynne's last project before the brief comeback with "Zoom" (2001) that's still worth your attention, even if you're not a die-hard ELO devotee.

Xanadu

"Xanadu" is the soundtrack to the film of the same name, directed by Robert Greenwald. Even though it counts as a regular part of their discography, it isn't an official Electric Light Orchestra album but a joint project with Olivia

Discovery

After their greatest masterpiece, "Out Of The Blue" (1977), it was a tough, honestly almost impossible job for Electric Light Orchestra to make another album that ambitious and influential. After wrapping up the mega-successful tour

Out Of The Blue

One of the key traits that separates great, talented bands from the smaller ones nobody talks about anymore is the ability to turn out several albums in a row, in a short span of time, that earn

A New World Record

»A New World Record« is the triumphant album with which the legendary British art rock institution Electric Light Orchestra finally won over the rest of the music-savvy world, which until then had been &scaron

Face The Music

With "Face The Music", the fifth album from the legendary British art rockers Electric Light Orchestra, their boss, guitarist, singer, producer and main songwriter Jeff Lynne created yet another masterpiece of refined blending

Eldorado : A Symphony

Eldorado, that conquistador legend of the lost golden city of an ancient Mesoamerican civilization, remained the eternal unfulfilled dream of generations of all sorts of reckless adventurers. For the legendary British art rock adv

On The Third Day

According to the Bible, God shaped the earth's surface on the third day, and in the third year of British art rock institution Electric Light Orchestra, their "god", meaning singer, guitarist and occasional keyboardist Jeff Lynne,

ELO 2

Right before their second album, plainly titled "ELO 2", Electric Light Orchestra made the pivotal move of their entire career. After their splendid debut showed off a singular, avant-garde blend of layered symphonic arrangements and…

The Electric Light Orchestra

»The Electric Light Orchestra« was the debut from the legendary British art rockers Electric Light Orchestra. In America it came out as »No Answer«, the result of a telephone mix-up after their

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