Re: ELO - A New World Record (1976).

by Nightjar Fri May 15, 2020 7:34 pm

I love that dripping water in a cave synth sound.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri May 15, 2020 7:34 pm

"Judey baby." rock

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri May 15, 2020 7:35 pm

Keyboard magic at the climax.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri May 15, 2020 7:35 pm

Choir.

by Guest Fri May 15, 2020 7:36 pm

Kitchen Sink production on this one.

Even more than the others!

by Nightjar Fri May 15, 2020 7:36 pm

False ending! llama

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri May 15, 2020 7:36 pm

It saddens me that, after this album, Bev's drumming tended to be neutered by the production.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri May 15, 2020 7:36 pm

One of the greatest album endings of all time.

by Nightjar Fri May 15, 2020 7:36 pm

The full 'retreat of the massed Russian peasants into the icy tundra' choir is back with a vengeance.

by Nightjar Fri May 15, 2020 7:37 pm

Is this part of the album?

by Nightjar Fri May 15, 2020 7:38 pm

Surrender?

by Nightjar Fri May 15, 2020 7:38 pm

This is bloody awful.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri May 15, 2020 7:39 pm

It is over.

That was the perfect fusion between the band's rougher, rockier roots and their later, more polished sound. Bev's drumming is in full force, Patti Quatro adds an extra something vocally, the strings are totally on-point, the keyboards are magical. As I've said before, for me, that's easily their best album.

Now to look back at the thread and see what everyone else made of it. Excited

by Guest Fri May 15, 2020 7:39 pm

Surrender.

I do I do :whiteflag:

It is over.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri May 15, 2020 7:40 pm

Nightjar wrote:Surrender?

Surrender is not part of the album.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Fri May 15, 2020 7:40 pm

I am giving it 5 stars. box

by Nightjar Fri May 15, 2020 7:40 pm

I don't believe that ~~Wendi bothered to look to see whether there was an erroneous 'bonus' track tacked on the end of the playlist~~ has noticed.

by Nightjar Fri May 15, 2020 7:44 pm

Anyway, I won't hold that against it.

It is, in solemn truth, a very very entertaining album.

The highs are about as high as they get in the Rock/Pop stakes and the lows were simply a bit nondescript, yet inoffensive.

I am torn as to how it should be marked.

I may mull it over. More Ken

by Nightjar Fri May 15, 2020 8:37 pm

I have voted.

by Nightjar Sat May 16, 2020 7:58 pm

Are you going to vote on this one, Stevie_ButtonZ?

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