Electric Light Orchestra - The Electric Light Orchestra (2001) {First Light Series, 30th Anniversary Limited Edition, Enhanced, Remastered, Japan}

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Artist: Electric Light Orchestra
Title: The Electric Light Orchestra
Year Of Release: 1971 / 2001
Label: EMI / Harvest / Toshiba-EMI Ltd. #TOCP-65955~56
Genre: Progressive Rock, Art Rock, Symphonic Rock, Alternative Rock, Classic Rock, Experimental
Quality: EAC Rip -> FLAC (Img+Cue,Log) / MP3 CBR320
Total Time: 2CD (48:43 + 58:57)
Total Size: 873 / 515 Mb (Full Scans)
WebSite: Album Preview

The Electric Light Orchestra is the eponymous debut studio album by English rock band Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), released in December 1971 in the United Kingdom by Harvest Records. In the United States, the album was released in early 1972 as No Answer, after a misunderstood telephone message made by a United Artists Records executive asking about the album name; the caller, having failed to reach the ELO contact, wrote down "no answer" in his notes, and this was misconstrued to be the name of the album. The Electric Light Orchestra (First Light Series) is a two disc expanded special 30th anniversary edition of their debut album. Released in 2001 in the UK, disc one contains the original ELO album plus bonus tracks and an interactive CD-ROM feature, while disc two features the oldest surviving live ELO material with co/founder Roy Wood and cellist Andy Craig.

Although ELO quickly became Jeff Lynne's baby, it was launched as a collaboration between Lynne and his bandmates in the Move, multi-instrumentalist Roy Wood, and drummer Bev Bevan. Indeed, the label on ELO's first album reads "Move Enterprises Ltd. presents the services of the Electric Light Orchestra," and most histories claim that the initial idea for the spin-off group combining rock and classical music was Wood's, not Lynne's. Wood and Lynne split the songwriting duties on Electric Light Orchestra, much as they did on late-period Move albums, but it seems like their visions of what ELO was were widely divergent. Wood's songs are clearly more classically influenced, with the string and horn sections driving the songs rather than merely coloring them, as they do on Lynne's tunes. The difference between Wood's baroque "Look at Me Now" and Lynne's hard rocking "10538 Overture" is obvious, and Lynne never wrote anything as purely classical as Wood's "The Battle of Marston Moor (July 2nd, 1644)" in his entire career. (The Gershwin-like piano jazz of "Manhattan Rumble (49th Street Massacre)" is Lynne's equivalent piece, and suggests an intriguing avenue he unfortunately never explored further.) This dichotomy makes Electric Light Orchestra in some ways much more interesting than later ELO albums. When Wood left to form Wizzard after the release of this album, the tension generated by that clear difference between his and Lynne's songwriting styles was gone. Later ELO albums were much more commercially successful, but they were also considerably more stylistically attenuated. As good as they are, all of the later ELO albums sound pretty much exactly alike. Electric Light Orchestra sounds like nothing either Jeff Lynne or Roy Wood did before or after, and therein lies its fascination.

~ Stewart Mason, All Music

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Track List CD1:

01. 10538 Overture [5:37]
02. Look At Me Now [3:20]
03. Nellie Takes Her Bow [6:02]
04. The Battle Of Marston Moor (July 2nd 1644) [6:05]
05. First Movement (Jumping Biz) [3:04]
06. Mr. Radio [5:07]
07. Mahattan Rumble (49th Street Massacre) [4:26]
08. Queen Of The Hours [3:26]
09. Whisper In The Night [4:50]
10. Battle Of Marston Moor (Take 1) [1:00]
11. 10538 Overture (Take 1) [5:47]

Track List CD2:

01. Brian Matthew Introduces ELO [0:38]
02. 10538 Overture [5:24]
03. Look at Me Now [3:19]
04. Nellie Takes Her Bow [6:00]
05. The Battle of Marston Moor (July 2nd 1644) [5:55]
06. Jeff's Boogie No. 2 [6:58]
07. Whisper in the Night [5:46]
08. Great Balls of Fire [5:41]
09. Queen of the Hours [3:18]
10. Mr. Radio [5:19]
11. 10538 Overture [10:39]

Personnel:
Jeff Lynne - vocals, piano, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, percussion, bass, Moog synthesizer
Roy Wood - vocals, cello, classical acoustic guitar, bass, double bass, oboe, bassoon, clarinet, recorder, slide guitar, percussion, bass clarinet, krumhorn
Bev Bevan - drums, timpani, percussion
Bill Hunt - French horn, hunting horn, piccolo trumpet
Steve Woolam - violin

Electric Light Orchestra - The Electric Light Orchestra (2001) {First Light Series, 30th Anniversary Limited Edition, Enhanced, Remastered, Japan}

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