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Tracks:
Fire on High [Album Version]
Waterfall [Album Version]
Evil Woman [Album Version]
Nightrider [Album Version]
Poker [Album Version]
Strange Magic [Album Version]
Down Home Town [Album Version]
One Summer Dream [Album Version]

Performer Notes:

Also available in a 3-pack with A NEW WORLD RECORD and DISCOVERY. Electric Light Orchestra: Jeff Lynne (vocals, guitar); Kelly Groucutt (vocals, bass); Richard Tandy (guitar, piano, Clavinet, Moog synthesizer); Mik Kaminsky (violin); Hugh McDowall, Melvyn Gale (cello); Bev Bevan (drums, percussion). Master Sound releases are 24-karat gold CDs remastered from first-generation masters. This process utilizes 20-bit technology and Sony's revolutionary "Super Bit Mapping" system. ELO was big enough by 1974 that some people actually suggested that ELDORADO featured Satanic backward-masking. Of course, the idea was ludicrous; but the band playfully responded by adding a backward message to "Fire on High," the opening instrumental on 1975's FACE THE MUSIC. Besides "Fire on High," which was used as background music for countless television programs in the '70s, this album's eight lengthy tracks include two enormous hits, "Evil Woman" and the McCartneyesque ballad "Strange Magic." Decades later, these two tracks are still in constant rotation on classic-rock radio around the world. Those three songs defined the new sound of ELO. Gone were the elaborate, classically styled overtures, in favor of concise, ultra-melodic pop songs given lush, romantic orchestral arrangements with endlessly overdubbed harmony vocals. The next three ELO albums refine this aesthetic to commercial perfection, but this is where it starts. FACE THE MUSIC is the album that put ELO over the top.

Professional Reviews: Q (2/96, p.114) - 2 Stars - Average - "...ponderous commercial prog-rock..."

Format: Vinyl (1 Disc)

Country: USA

Studio/Live: Studio

Release Date: 1 July, 2016

Label: Epic (USA)

Dimensions: 30.5 x 30.5 x 0.3 centimeters (0.27 kg)

Performer Notes: Also available in a 3-pack with A NEW WORLD RECORD and DISCOVERY. Electric Light Orchestra: Jeff Lynne (vocals, guitar); Kelly Groucutt (vocals, bass); Richard Tandy (guitar, piano, Clavinet, Moog synthesizer); Mik Kaminsky (violin); Hugh McDowall, Melvyn Gale (cello); Bev Bevan (drums, percussion). Master Sound releases are 24-karat gold CDs remastered from first-generation masters. This process utilizes 20-bit technology and Sony's revolutionary "Super Bit Mapping" system. ELO was big enough by 1974 that some people actually suggested that ELDORADO featured Satanic backward-masking. Of course, the idea was ludicrous; but the band playfully responded by adding a backward message to "Fire on High," the opening instrumental on 1975's FACE THE MUSIC. Besides "Fire on High," which was used as background music for countless television programs in the '70s, this album's eight lengthy tracks include two enormous hits, "Evil Woman" and the McCartneyesque ballad "Strange Magic." Decades later, these two tracks are still in constant rotation on classic-rock radio around the world. Those three songs defined the new sound of ELO. Gone were the elaborate, classically styled overtures, in favor of concise, ultra-melodic pop songs given lush, romantic orchestral arrangements with endlessly overdubbed harmony vocals. The next three ELO albums refine this aesthetic to commercial perfection, but this is where it starts. FACE THE MUSIC is the album that put ELO over the top. Professional Reviews: Q (2/96, p.114) - 2 Stars - Average - "...ponderous commercial prog-rock..." Format: Vinyl (1 Disc) Country: USA Studio/Live: Studio Release Date: 1 July, 2016 Label: Epic (USA) Dimensions: 30.5 x 30.5 x 0.3 centimeters (0.27 kg) © Copyright 2019 - ShoppingMadeEasy2