★★★★★
While Electric Light Orchestra was huge in my high school and college days, I was never a big fan of Jeff Lynne's project, a platform to explore his affinity for all things The Beatles. Although, I recall a friend in college, possibly a room mate, who went ape shit crazy over all things ELO, especially the huge double album monster, Out of the Blue...
- www.dangerdog.com
2013-04-28
★★★★★
In terms of their enduring place in rock history, ELO will forever be seen as Jeff Lynne's baby, the makers of a formidable succession of elaborate three- or four-minute pop symphonies, often with a Beatlesesque bent. The band's 1971 debut album, however, is more a tale of two creative dynamos trying to wrest control from each other...
- recordcollectormag.com
2013-04-02
★★★★★
's primary love is music, but telephones once ran it a close second. Quite aside from the soaring Telephone Line here, there are several references to operators and late-night calls. It's a wonder the one new song doesn't encounter heartbreak across a patchy broadband connection. And technology is partly behind his decision to re-record the enduring hits of his much-loved outfit ...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2013-04-23
★★★★★
By 1978, riding on the back of two successive multi-platinum-selling albums viz. A New World Record and the double-platter Out of the Blue, the Electric Light Orchestra was the biggest rock band on the planet. The epic, orchestral pop sound that had earned the band its phenomenal success was in the process of being remade and remodeled by leader Jeff Lynne...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
I must confess that the release of Secret Messages in 1983 was the first new ELO album I declined to purchase since I became enamored of the band in the late 1970s. Its predecessor, the electronic-based Time had, in the context of the post punk-new wave uprising of the early 1980s, sounded terribly out of its depth and horribly uncool. Which remained the prime motivation for ignoring the tenth ELO record (not counting the Xanadu soundtrack, of course)...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
By 1978, riding on the back of two successive multi-platinum-selling albums viz. A New World Record and the double-platter Out of the Blue, the Electric Light Orchestra was the biggest rock band on the planet. The epic, orchestral pop sound that had earned the band its phenomenal success was in the process of being remade and remodeled by leader Jeff Lynne...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
For a man who makes such radio-friendly music, Jeff Lynne has led a thankless career. He's been a singer, songwriter, guitarist, and arranger for countless bands, but photographers have always found a way to position him between George Harrison's shoulder and Tom Petty's hat. He gets credit for ruining artists--most recently the late Harrison, as the producer of his swan song Brainwashed--but not often for catapulting them back to stardom...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
I hate what producer Jeff Lynne has done to Tom Petty records, but feel no vitriol toward the man when it comes to Electric Light Orchestra. I'm not sure what these split feelings mean. In my mind, for some reason the producer Lynne and the lead singer Lynne are two entirely different people, to be judged by separate criteria. When Lynne added those annoying chirpy vocals to perfectly good Tom Petty songs on Full Moon Fever, I developed a harsh grudge against the man...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
What do you make of a band called Electric Light Orchestra? They sound like they should be parading down Main Street USA at Disneyland. But this band, the brain child of musician Jeff Lynne, is nothing so infantile. Firmly entrenched in the category of progressive and art rock (they could be said to be the premier artists in the category), this band birthed in the 1970s in Birmingham, England, mastered the genre with true to the form yet eminently catchy tunes...
- www.the-trades.com
2010-12-07
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