Track Listing 1. Prologue 2. Twilight 3. Yours Truly 2095 4. Ticket To The Moon 5. Way Life's Meant To Be 6. Another Heart Breaks 7. Rain Is Falling 8. From The End Of The World 9. Lights Go Down 10. Here Is The News 11. 21st Century Man 12. Hold On Tight 13. Epilogue 14. Bouncer (bonus track) 15. When Time Stood Still (bonus track) 16. Julie Don't Live Here (bonus track)
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | Sony Music/Arvato Services | | Recording Mode: | Stereo |
Album Notes Electric Light Orchestra: Jeff Lynne (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, piano, synthesizer); Richard Tandy (guitar, piano, synthesizer); Kelly Groucett (bass, background vocals); Bev Bevans (drums, percussion).Producer: Jeff Lynne.Reissue producers: Jeff Lynne, Al Quaglieri.Recorded at Musicland Studios, Munich, Germany. Includes liner notes by Jeff Lynne.Digitally remastered by Joseph M. Palmaccio (Sony Music Studios, New York, New York).The Electric Light Orchestra was in a precarious position by 1981. Not only was Jeff Lynne's brand of immaculately produced Beatlesque pop out of critical fashion in those new-wave days, there was a new brand of video-friendly bubblegum on the rise that made such classic radio hits as "Sweet Talkin' Woman" sound passe. The band's heavily hyped participation in the box-office flop XANADU, including the title duet with star Olivia Newton-John, hadn't helped. Typically, though, 1981's TIME finds Lynne and company ignoring trends and simply doing what they do best: pristine, endlessly-multitracked, ultra-melodic pop. There's a theme of sorts running through the record, a meditation on sci-fi apocalypse that runs through songs like "Yours Truly, 2095" and "From the End of the World." The concept is easy enough to ignore, as the real focus, as always, is on Lynne's immense melodic and production skills. TIME is an underrated gem.
Editorial Reviews 3 stars out of 5 - ...TIME allegedly concerned time travel, but Jeff Lynne would never surrender his humanity: even the hero of 'Ticket To The Moon' weeps as he leaves Earth... Q
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