Hi everyone, I'm new here - please to find a group actively 'nerding' about elo too!!! - I'm a long time ELO fan - ( I'm about 35 btw!!) - raised on ELO - first song of theirs I 'consciously' remember was 'All over the World' and I just thought "wow - what is this music - can it be possible" since then it's never really let me go...but recently I got to thinking that TIME is a totally underrated concept album masterpiece. I've stuck 'When Time stood Still' in between TWLMTB and Another Heart Breaks and it just 'completes' the journey for me...
What does everyone else think about this amazing futuristic melancholy masterpiece!!
I've been reading all the threads here, in shock. OMG there are people just like me. This is where I shall place my first post.
But I digress. Summer 77. Telephone Line comes on the radio and blows me away like no song ever did before. I was 15. For the first time, I tried to find out WHO the band was behind the song. When I later realized that ELO was also responsible for Evil Woman, Livin Thing, and Strange Magic, I was beside myself.
Some time in 78. Turn To Stone comes on the radio. I am blown away. AFTERWARDS, I learn it is ELO! You can imagine my astonishment. I was a certified ELOmaniac from that time on.
So then we get to the summer of 81. I find Time on cassette at a 7-11. We play it on a drive. I am blown away completely. Again. But even more so this time. Time is my favourite ELO album. IMHO, the lyrics, production and songwriting on Time took a step forward, even from the great heights of 77-79. And nobody cared. By this point ELO had made that disco album, and were involved in that awful movie. Very uncool. My friends made fun of me in 79-80. Things had changed. But Time was criminally overlooked.
To the above poster I say, add When Time Stood Still at the end of side 1, and find a place for Julie Don't Live Here too.
Further on, I think Bluebird off Secret Messages is their best song ever. Does anyone else think the Stones should have sued though? (Satisfaction.)
I tried to like Balance Of Power, but I was so depressed when that one came out. I knew it was over.
Anyway, I'm new here too, and thrilled to find this place!
Cheers
Darren Skuja
Courtenay, BC, Canada.