Label: Sony Music (Japan), MHCP 1161
Style: Progressive Pop, Pop Rock, Disco
Country: Birmingham, England
Time: 54:36
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 391 Mb
Charts: UK #1, AUS #2, AUT #2, GER #1, JPN #36, NLD #2, NOR #2, SWE #1, US #16. CAN, GER & US: Gold; UK: Platinum.
TIME
is not only a beautifully crafted journey into the future with the
production taking all kinds of liberties of crossing every "t" and
dotting every "i" with every pop sensibility explored to the nth degree
but also by creating some of the most sophisticated ELO ear worms of
their entire career leaving absolutely no note on this release without
an addictive coating! The tracks are all reminiscent of the true classic
bands whether it take form of The Beatles in "Rain Is Falling" or a
disco laden Donna Summer feel (from "I Feel Love") on "From The End Of
The World," or the rockabilly 50s feel of their single "Hold On Tight,"
TIME manages to celebrate the harmonic and pop achievements of the
previous three decades all the while adding progressive touches that
embellish TIME to a new level of ambitiousness. It's almost as if the
band felt the finality of their career and were going for the pop hook
jugular and with TIME i personally find that they achieved exactly what
they set their sights for.
(progarchives.com/album.asp?id=10547) Review by siLLy puPPy. May 15, 2017. 5/5
What
I want to say here, is that on the contrary of the feeling that this
album is one of the most underrated ELO album, I would on the contrary
say (when I look at the ratings) that it is substantially overrated.
Jeff
is again willing to reproduce a symphonic and concept album like "El
Dorado" on and on. A "Prologue" to start like in the good old days ...
But, gosh ! What a miserable one. "Twilight". is one of the very few
bearable track to my ears.
Disco is almost everywhere, poor melodies
are reigning (what happened to you Jeff ?). If it were not such a pity,
one could laugh at least. But there are no reasons to laugh. Only cry my
friend.
When I selected the first fifteen bands I would review on
this site, I decided to do it all the way through : from start to
finish. I picked up ELO since it was a band I quite appreciated in my
youth (74-76 period). How is it possible in such a short period of time
to go from the Capitol to the Tarpeian Rock ?
We'll even have to
suffer a reggae-ish disaster with "The Lights Go Down". Please, when
will this nightmare stop ? Not with "Hold On Thight" and its ridiculous
French wordings I'm afraid. I can only be glad to have reached the
"Epilogue" : this one is not so bad (but lasts only for 1'31").
There
are almost not a single good track on this album. Just a collection of
useless songs and boring moments. A VERY weak ELO album.
Even their
participation on "Xanadu" was better ! Fortunately, in these days there
were real good bands emerging to avoid us being completely devastated
with stuff like this. FYI, I have liked ELO quite a lot : my previous
reviews speak for themselves (up to "Out Of The Blue") but this is
really a bad effort to which I can only apply the one star rating.
I
really had a hard time with this review (but, unfortunately there are
more ELO albums to come). Sorry Jeff, but you did this, not me.
(progarchives.com/album.asp?id=10547) Review by ZowieZiggy. April 15, 2007. 1/5
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