Remember the Electric Light Orchestra


Anyone on this forum remember ELO? I have all of their original albums from the 70's and 80's but they are starting to show a little wear from play... Wonder why they have not re-released their best work on good quality, heavy duty vinyl? Seriously, Jeff Lynne is a bona fide musical genius.

I'm ready to re-buy all their albums!
stickman451
Of course, if you don't appreciate Jeff Lynne's work, why answer the thread...

Its nothing against his work, but you yourself even say :

I guess that I was bored and needed something to fill the hours... :)

So, you kinda left the door wide open for comments.

Maybe you have seen this site before (?)and if not maybe you will find some albums you are interested in :

http://www.musicstack.com/records-cds/electric+light+orchestra
Why not just buy some nice clean used copies of the ELO LPs you desire - they're common enough and for the most part sound pretty good too. While they may not be the last word in extension or detail, I find them quite musically involving - an artifact I'm sure whatever over-zealous knob twiddler they find to "remaster" (an oxymoron if there ever was one) the LPs will promptly dispose of in favor of hi-fi wizardry.

There ought to be a Hippocratic Oath that audio engineers, and particularly mastering engineers are sworn to: Do No Harm.

One of the first concerts I went to as a kid(13 yrs old) was ELO's "Out Of The Blue" tour at Anaheim stadium in 1978. The stage was a giant lighting-laden recreation of the spaceship on the album that hydraulically opened to reveal the band complete with a Laserium laser light show. Mind-blowing at the time, but pretty cheesy now in hindsight.

Here's a great account of the tour technical details

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Done that already; I have at least 5 copies of 'Out of the Blue' that I purchased off of Ebay; just wondering if MFSL took a stab at these recordings what we would end up with.

The MFSL pressing of "The Cars" debut album sounds pretty darn good...