Audio CD review:
Electric Light Orchestra - Face the Music

Electric Light Orchestra - Face the Music

Band: Electric Light Orchestra Title: Face the Music Rating: Release Date: 25 October, 1990 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Fire On High 2: Waterfall 3: Evil Woman 4: Nightrider 5: Poker 6: Strange Magic 7: Down Home Town 8: One Summer Dream

Customer Reviews Excellent Includes great songs that don't make it to the ELO collections. Great classic ELO music. decent despite its contract-obligation spareness Maybe because we got beaten to death with it as a sportscast theme. I agree with another reviewer's comment about the opener "Fire On High" and why it wasn't considered for compilation albums. Rock fans have always used "commercialized" as a generic negative when they want to ridicule something when they don't really know what to ridicule about it. It's the whole punk cliche, I guess, when all punk music is just a bunch of dweebs who don't know how to sing or play but still want recognition. But there are still the classics like "Evil Woman" and the Bee Gee-esque "Strange Magic" which did make the hits sets. Really, there are only two clunkers on this set. "Poker", which is nothing but an exercise on how a synthesizer can be played the way Eddie Van Halen can play guitar--pretentious in its 1980s looky how fast I can play, dude crapola. And the alleged "country" of "Down Home Town", with its ripped-off riffs from Copland and its uban/ suburban snob bias against those of us who come from towns too small for high-rises and drive-by shootings. And this from an Englishman who only knows firsthand the America of arena venues and Hyatt hotels! I guess Lynne felt Sir Elton's anti-rural "Texan Love Song" wasn't enough. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you! Back home in Blighty, as among us Yank yokels, that's where the food you eat is grown. This album was obviously written during a dry spell and suffers from not enough valid material. definately worth the money this is an awsome album i really dont no much about elo but i think they are awsome i really like all the songs on this album except two (down home town and one summer dream) but they're not bad just different+ i think joker is one of elo s best songs . . You can see a complete list of all Electric Light Orchestra discography, or go back to the Electric Light Orchestra tabs