I was a bit disappointed with this album. I bought it in a fit of nostalgia (ELO being my favourite band in my teenage years) having not heard it for many years. The music sounds dated and is not helped by the mix that to my ears sounds like the drums are a bit muddy and too prominent on many tracks.
Therefore some of the tunes, especially the novelty items like In the Hall of the Mountain King, sound bombastic. The anthemic Dreaming of 4000 is an exciting track and I enjoyed the Dylanesque Everyone's Born to Die (one of the bonus tracks) but really only the sublime Showdown (available elsewhere on some of the excellent Harvest Year compilations) hints at future magnificence. If you want to explore some early period ELO I would go for Eldorado instead.
Therefore some of the tunes, especially the novelty items like In the Hall of the Mountain King, sound bombastic. The anthemic Dreaming of 4000 is an exciting track and I enjoyed the Dylanesque Everyone's Born to Die (one of the bonus tracks) but really only the sublime Showdown (available elsewhere on some of the excellent Harvest Year compilations) hints at future magnificence. If you want to explore some early period ELO I would go for Eldorado instead.
Tragic footnote: Mike Edwards, cellist, the shortest figure on Jeff Lynne's immediate left, suffered the most bizarre and unfortunate rock star death when a runaway hay bale crushed his car on a country road in Devon in September 2010 >> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-11195393
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