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Electric Light Orchestra
Discovery
For me, this is ELO's low ebb,
the point at which they pretty much hit bottom. But I suppose nearly every
band must have come close - even the Alan Parsons Project broke into an
embarassingly disco-esque boogie in the middle of The Voice from
their 1977 album,
and so ELO was bound to go disco, however briefly. Sadly, it seems to
be this phase which everyone remembers, consigning ELO to a fate of forever
being relegated to Hits of the 70s! collections. Last Train To
London is
just about my least favorite ELO song of all time - it's got good bass work,
and that's really all I can say in its favor. Don't Bring Me Down is
okay, though I preferred the later version played by the group live, which
transformed the song from another miserable disco tune into a real rocker,
and Shine A Little Love is only marginally better. So is there anything
good about Discovery? Well, yeah, at least a couple of things.
Confusion and Need Her Love are good songs, while Wishing
is pretty much average
ELO. I can't really recommend this unless you, like myself, happen to be an
ELO fanatic/completist.
- Shine a Little Love (4:42)
- Confusion (3:43)
- Need Her Love (5:12)
- The Diary of Horace Wimp (4:17)
- Last Train to London (4:33)
- Midnight Blue (4:19)
- On The Run (3:56)
- Wishing (4:14)
- Don't Bring Me Down (4:02)
Released by: Jet
Release date: 1979
Total running time: 38:58
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