Direktlänk till inlägg 18 oktober 2016
This is actually ELO:s 7th album even though it's from 1977! It consists of superlight symphonic rock-pop with a somewhat weird twist and was one of the band's most selling, reaching a sale of 10 million albums! Jeff Lynne wrote the album in just 3 weeks while spending time in the Swiss alps. It was recorded during 2 month in München, Germany. For me this is normally too soft but ELO has always seemed to make good music, no matter what influences they mix in, even though there's also some low watermarks here, escpecially from track 7 and onwards.
1)Turn to stone (7,5)
2)It's over (7,0)
3)Sweet talking woman (6,5)
4)Across the border (6,0)
5)Night in the city (6,0)
6)Starligth (5,0)
7)Jungle (3,0)
8)Belive me now (-)
9)Steppin' out (4,0)
10)Standin' in the rain (4,5)
11)Big wheels (5,0)
12)Summer and lightning (5,5)
13)Mr.Blue sky (5,0)
14)Sweet is the night (6,0)
15)The whale (2,0)
16)Birmingham blues (6,0)
17)Wild west hero (5,0)
Score: 5,25
Jeff Lynne-vocals, guitars and keyboards (b.1947)
Richard Tandy-guitars and keyboards (b.1948)
Kelly Groucutt-vocals and bass (1945-2009)
Bev Bevan-drums (b.1944)
Mik Kaminski-violin on 3 tracks (b.1951)
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