#49/1216
February 17 1986
Electric Light Orchestra
Balance of Power
Genre: Rock
2.75 out of 5
Highlights:
Heaven Only Knows
Endless Lies
ELO is the Bee Gees of ABBA of the Beatles.
Like so much of Jeff Lynne’s stuff, this gobbles slavishly at the altar of The Beatles. Had they never broken up, Jeff would have had nothing to do. Because, eventually, all of their stuff would have sounded like this. Treacly tracks hemorrhaging with overproduction, nostalgic for their most influential days.
“Getting to the Point” would have been heralded as “a return to form for McCartney and the boys!”. But that’s not a good thing.
I did quite like the Roy Orbisonian looniness of “Endless Lies”, tho.
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