Label: Epic Records (Japan), MHCP 1159
Style: Progressive Pop, Pop Rock
Country: Birmingham, England
Time: 43:40
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 308 Mb
Charts:
UK #1, AUS #1, AUT #3, GER #7, JPN #31, NLD #6, NOR #1, SWE #2, US #5.
GER: Gold; UK: Platinum; US: 2x Platinum; CAN: 3x Platinum; AUS: 4x
Platinum.
Discovery was the band's first number 1 album in the
UK, entering the chart at that position and staying there for five
weeks. The album contained five hit songs in "Shine a Little Love",
"Don't Bring Me Down", "Last Train to London", "Confusion" and "The
Diary of Horace Wimp", many of which were heavily influenced by disco
(in fact, Richard Tandy nicknamed the album, Disco Very). "Don't Bring
Me Down" would become one of their only two top three hits in the UK
throughout their career ("Xanadu" would be number one in 1980), and also
their highest-charting US single at number 4. "The Diary of Horace
Wimp" was also a hit single in the UK, not patterned after the disco
sound; instead it was closer in its Beatlesque style to the band's
earlier hit "Mr. Blue Sky". The album itself was the first ever to
generate four top-ten singles (one of which was a Double A-side) from a
single LP in the UK and was eventually certified 2? platinum by the RIAA
in 1997.
Discovery is notable in that it was the first ELO album not
to feature their resident string trio of Mik Kaminski, Hugh McDowell
and Melvyn Gale, although they did make an appearance on the Discovery
music videos.
In one of his earliest jobs, comedian/actor Brad
Garrett, dressed in Middle Eastern clothes and turban, appears on the
back cover as the menacing palace guard who is drawing his scimitar.
Discovery
was remastered as part of the Epic/Legacy remaster series in 2001;
among the included bonus tracks was a cover of a Del Shannon classic,
"Little Town Flirt", which was started during sessions for the album but
never finished until the year the album was reissued.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_(Electric_Light_Orchestra_album))
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