Face the Music (Remastered) Electric Light Orchestra
Album info
Album-Release:
1975
HRA-Release:
13.11.2015
Label: Epic/Legacy
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Classic Rock
Artist: Electric Light Orchestra
Composer: Jeff Lynne
Album including Album cover
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- 1 Fire On High 05:31
- 2 Waterfall 04:12
- 3 Evil Woman 04:30
- 4 Nightrider 04:26
- 5 Poker 03:32
- 6 Strange Magic 04:30
- 7 Down Home Town 03:55
- 8 One Summer Dream 05:46
Info for Face the Music (Remastered)
„Electric Light Orchestra's more modest follow-up to Eldorado is a very solid album, if not as bold or unified. It was also their first recorded at Musicland in Munich, which became Jeff Lynne's preferred venue for cutting records. At the time, he was also generating songs at a breakneck pace and had perfected the majestic, quasi-Beatles-type style (sort of high-wattage Magical Mystery Tour) introduced two albums earlier. The sound is stripped down a bit on Face the Music, Louis Clark's orchestral contributions generally more subdued than on Eldorado, even when they compete with the band, as on 'Strange Magic.' The soulful 'Evil Woman' was one of the most respectable chart hits of its era, and one of the best songs that Lynne ever wrote (reportedly in 30 minutes), while 'Strange Magic' showed off his writing in a more ethereal vein. 'One Summer Dream,' which is written in a similar mode, also has a touchingly wistful mood about it but is a somewhat lackluster finale compared to the albums that preceded and followed this one. The requisite rock & roll number, 'Poker,' is a quicker tempo than anything previously heard from the band, the guitar is pumped up louder than ever. And 'Down Home Town,' an experiment in achieving a country & western sound, is fresh at this point and more interesting than the equivalent material of Out of the Blue.“ (Bruce Eder, AMG)
Jeff Lynne, lead vocals, guitars
Bev Bevan, drums, percussion, spoken intro (backwards), backing vocals
Richard Tandy, piano, clavinet, moog, guitar, Wurlitzer electric piano, tack piano
Kelly Groucutt, vocals, bass, backing vocals
Mik Kaminski, violin
Hugh McDowell, cello
Melvyn Gale, cello
Additional musicians:
Ellie Greenwich, vocals
Susan Collins, vocals
Nancy O'Neill, vocals
Margaret Raymond, vocals
Recorded May–June 1975 at Musicland Studios, Munich, Germany
Engineered by Mack
Produced by Jeff Lynne
Digitally remastered
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