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Post by Horacewimp on Jul 4, 2023 19:06:19 GMT
Send It was voted the worst track on Balance Of Power.
The next album is Zoom, vote above for the worst track on side one.
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Post by Timeblue on Jul 4, 2023 19:23:33 GMT
Possibly the worst ever opening track to a ELO album,Alright?
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Post by dillwyn on Jul 4, 2023 20:11:00 GMT
MIP just don't enjoy it
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Post by pointofnoreturn on Jul 4, 2023 20:29:19 GMT
Voted for Alright. It really doesn't do anything for me. Moment in Paradise, on the other hand, is one of Jeff's finest songs IMHO.
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Post by Eloise on Jul 4, 2023 21:36:41 GMT
Moment in Paradise for me. Ah, the memories this song brings back. When this song came out, in 2001, we learned about Jeff's latest love, Rosie Vela. On the message board, there were 3 different reactions to this woman being in Jeff's life. The men either thought she was beautiful, OR they didn't seem to care one way or the other. The women however, HATED her. Please understand, we women agreed on NOTHING when it came to Jeff or ELO. Not favorite band member, not favorite song or album but, we were all united in our dislike of Rosie.
One woman demanded to know how old she was and said that she wouldn't let her kids watch the Zoom video because Jeff was dating a MUCH younger woman, like, 20, or 30 years younger. When someone told her that Rosie wasn't that much younger than Jeff, less than a 10 year difference, the ELO fan was glad to hear it but still not letting her kids watch that video. LOL...Ah, what fun we had. It was the only time in the history of the ELO/Jeff Lynne message board that the women all agreed on something.
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Post by unomusette on Jul 4, 2023 21:54:19 GMT
I'm going for Just for Love, I quite like the others and found Alright a pretty good opening track
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Post by trekkielo on Jul 4, 2023 23:42:57 GMT
12 years before its first vinyl release by Frontier Records in 2013, Zoom was only released by Epic Records on CD and cassette with 2 sides circa 2001... Side One Alright Moment in Paradise State of Mind Just for Love Stranger on a Quiet Street In My Own Time Side Two Easy Money It Really Doesn't Matter Ordinary Dream A Long Time Gone Melting in the Sun All She Wanted Lonesome Lullaby
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Post by lawrev on Jul 5, 2023 0:37:31 GMT
I remember being surprised by this albums' coming release. Then buying it on release day. Then seeing the tour dates soon thereafter. And then planning to get tickets for the Chicago show, only to have the entire tour cancelled the day before the Chicago gig went on sale. Then reading several months later that the album sold 50,000 copies upon release in the USA, which is a major embarrassment to a band of ELO's stature. Then Jeff being in the press, saying that his agent wouldn't tell him how many copies were sold the first few months upon release. His agent didn't want to crush his confidence. Then, the other day, in looking to purchase a Zoom cd, I found the Wikipedia entry that says as of October 2015 the album has sold 87,000 copies in the USA. That's 37,000 copies in 14 years:
At that rate of purchasing, it will take more or less 100 years for Zoom to go Gold in the USA (RIAA) certification. Maybe someone may do the exact math, but regardless no one on this board will be around to see that happen.
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Post by orioles70 on Jul 5, 2023 0:46:43 GMT
I like Zoom. Doesn't have a great song but almost all are good. And the one song that I don't like isn't listed yet.
close call between Alright and Just for Love, I went with the latter
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Post by Helmut83 on Jul 5, 2023 2:19:38 GMT
Moment in Paradise for me. Ah, the memories this song brings back. Do you have in mind we are voting for the worst song here, Eloise?
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Post by Helmut83 on Jul 5, 2023 2:20:34 GMT
I wouldn't say any of these is bad. Just by a whisker I chose "Alright".
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Post by Helmut83 on Jul 5, 2023 2:22:35 GMT
Doesn't have a great song but almost all are good. I rate "Ordinary Dream" 10/10, on par with his best classics in my point of view. "Easy Money" rates as great (maybe 9/10) for me too. On the others I agree that most of them are good.
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Post by soonerorlater on Jul 5, 2023 9:39:52 GMT
I actually rate this lot fairly evenly. I'm going with State Of Mind as the one that doesn't quite maintain its standard throughout.
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Post by lawrev on Jul 5, 2023 13:22:58 GMT
Zoom sounds more like a quasi - band record than the last few ELO re-recorded/JLELO releases.You can't go wrong with a Harrison slide or Starr drums. I prefer the slower tracks on this album and then I need to go back to Armchair Theatre (1990) to find an album that has more of an organic band feel, something that approaches Time in terms of band feel.
Ordinary Dream, like When I was a Boy many years later, are songs that deserve to be among ELO's classics. But in the main, though, Jeff's largely solo man approach since AT is an approach that does not excite me like the ELO albums of old. And bring back a piece of the glory years, at a minimum Reinhold Mack. And speaking of Mack, I'm reading more recent articles talking about his time engineering and producing Queen. In those articles, ELO always gets the mention as a band Mack worked with before Queen though there was some connection in the final years of the original outfit.
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Post by Chippa on Jul 5, 2023 14:59:46 GMT
A really strong side, but if I'm being forced to pick one, it's gonna be State Of Mind.
This is gonna be way easier when we get to side two.
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