
The Secret Messages album from 1983 was a disappointment for ELO fans. Electric Light Orchestra Secret Messages Play album More actions Listeners 101.2K Scrobbles 848.5K Join others and track this album Scrobble, find and rediscover music with a Last.fm account Sign Up to Last.fm Length 17 tracks Release Date 1 June 1983 Originally released by Jet Records in 1983. This cover is not found in Hags book book ‘How Things Are’Ĭombination print created by Hag by Combination printing. Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2018. The image Hag created after making this Electric Light Orchestra cover. Yet rather than allowing the band to revisit its glory days, Secret Messages would serve as a sort of a last gasp for an idea that had passed its prime. Most of this information is also found on the Colour & Black & White pages of ‘The futures a bit fishy we’ve got a hand in it’. But the 1983 follow-up record Secret Messages eschewed all new wave pretensions, attempting instead to turn back the clock to pick up where ELO's 1977 smash hit Out of the Blue had left off. Wikipedia ‘ELO Secret Messages’ Album Page. The third time a blank panel was made as shown above so the track list could be added at the print stage in case of further changes. The back of the frame was photographed three times as the final track listings kept changing (see Wikipedia). Sony Legacy release for the first time ever (to celebrate its 35th anniversary) Electric Light Orchestra’s Secret Messages as a double album (as originally conceived by Jeff Lynne in 1983).

928 Vinyl 9 offers from 12.99 From Out of Nowhere Jeff Lynne's ELO 2,473 Vinyl 23 offers from 17.39 Jeff Lynne's ELO - Alone in the Universe Jeff Lynne's ELO 2,906 Vinyl 20 offers from 15. 175 Vinyl 18 offers from 22.15 A New World Record E.L.O. Hag created the cover photograph from the 9th to 13th December 1982 in black & white. Kim Harris then hand tinted the image completing the work on 19th January 1983. 184 Audio CD 21 offers from 4.18 Time E.L.O. The cover was designed by David Costa of Jubilee Graphics, later Wherefore Art and photographed by Hag. The foreground contains figures made from picture library slides of obscure classical paintings (for copyright reasons). If you know this album you can review it.Proofs of the front of the sleeve & back without the final track listings as photographed and Royal Street in Rochdale Lancashire June 2012 where Hag took the street photograph on They have only one LP/CD to go before oblivion. but then again, "listenable but nothing special" also is an apt description of the "Secret Messages" LP/CD. "Train of Gold" and "Loser Gone Wild" are also listenable but nothing special. The two singles - "Rock and Roll Is King" and "Four Little Diamonds" - were derivatives of earlier hits "Secret Messages" was "Twilight" redux.
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It is clear that he was running out of inspiration at this point - he was borrowing ideas from his earlier efforts. Preview, buy, and download songs from the album Secret Messages, including 'Secret Messages,' 'Loser Gone Wild,' 'Bluebird,' and many more. Tutti Originale Traduzione A moving stream of information Un flusso in movimento di informazioni That is floating on the wind Questo è quotato alla vento The secrets never end I segreti non finiscono mai And now they call E ora lo chiamano They sing, they play. but it was the worst ELO album since ELO II. Testo e traduzione della canzone Electric Light Orchestra - Secret Messages. To Lynne's credit, he trimmed the fat and released a single album which was a major attempt to maintain ELO's momentum.

After a band hits it creative peak with a theme album, what does it do as a followup? Jeff Lynne tries to overcome the self-induced dead-end by recording a double album, "Secret Messages" - and when the powers-to-be listened to the master, they suggested to him that there was barely enough quality material for a single LP.
