What Are You Listening To?

[CRAZY-HORSE]

ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA "time" vinyl/cd 1981

album stats: #1 UK, #3 AU, #7 CAN, #16 US
singles:
"hold on tight".........................#4 UK ...#5 AU...#3 CAN..#10 US
"twilight"...............................#30 UK..#93 AU...............#38 US
"rain is falling"............................................................#101 US
"here is the news"..................#24 UK
"ticket to the moon"...............#24 UK
"the way life's meant to be".....#83 UK

ELO's tenth album...
only sold around a million copies worldwide, pretty lame compared to the previous two("discovery" and the "xanadu" soundtrack)....
still, lots of great ELO trademark sounds happening here on this concept album...
the conceptual theme was about a guy from the 1980s who somehow wakes up in 2095(a hundred years out of his time) and the struggles he faces to cope
with the huge changes in life and society in that time...
unlike a lot of concept albums i think the songs here do actually have a life of their own outside the album...
this one also contains their psuedo-rockabilly hit "hold on tight" which incidently, was their final top10 hit in the UK....
i think these guys made some better songs than a lot of the ones on this one(better,as in more bombastic and showy), this one is more straight rock IMO without all the bells,whistles and for the most part,less orchestrations, but still, a very good album,not only for the expansion of their musical horizons but also simplifying their rock-estra sounds of the 1970s.

I LOVE THIS ALBUM

worst track: another heart breaks
best track: the way lifes meant to be

tracks:

.....prologue
1. twilight ***
2. yours,truly,2095 **
3. ticket to the moon ***
4. the way lifes meant to be ***
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCUm2GthNJs audio
5. another heart breaks *
6. rain is falling ***
7. from the end of the world **
8. the lights go down **
9. here is the news ***
10.21st century man **
11.hold on tight **
.....epilogue

3s=5
2s=5
1s=1

rating: 2.4