Secret Messages

Elo - Secret Messages

Secret Messages
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Artist: Elo
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2001-06-12
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
  1. Secret Messages
  2. Loser Gone Wild
  3. Bluebird
  4. Take Me On And On
  5. Time After Time
  6. Four Little Diamonds
  7. Stranger
  8. Danger Ahead
  9. Letter From Spain
  10. Train Of Gold
  11. Rock 'N' Roll Is King
  12. No Way Out
  13. Endless Lies
  14. After All

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Free Music Review: Double album revealed! ELO's best?
Hit: 5 Stars

This album is simply outstanding, one of ELO's 3 very best (along with "A New World Record" and "Out of the Blue"). I don't normally fall in love with albums upon first listen, needing a little time to get into and used to them - but "Secret Messages" blew me away with each highly diverse and multi-layered and multi-faceted cut the very first time heard back in 1983.

Its predescessor album "Time" was clever as heck but somewhat self-conscious as a concept album to my ears, so "Secret Messages" felt like an incredible return to classic ELO form. The first four songs in particular are mindblowing - what a way to start a new world record!

Here's the track list of the original unreleased double album:

Side A
1. Secret Messages
2. Loser Gone Wild
3. Bluebird
4. Take Me On And On

Side B
5. Stranger
6. No Way Out
7. Beatles Forever
8. Letter From Spain
9. Danger Ahead

Side C
10. Four Little Diamonds
11. Train Of Gold
12. Endless Lies
13. Buildings Have Eyes
14. Rock 'n' Roll Is King

Side D
15. Mandalay
16. Time After Time
17. After All
18. Hello My Old Friend

All these songs are on the remastered version except for "Buildings Have Eyes", "Mandalay", "Hello My Old Friend" (these three on "Afterglow"), and the almost impossible-to-find tribute "Beatles Forever" (whose lyrics can be found at http://hjem.get2net.dk/10538overture/Tekster/ELO/BEATLES%20FOREVER.htm). So you can patch together something close to the original unreleased album using iTunes, which is well worth the trouble.

Here are some thought-provoking excerpted "secret" comments from Paul F. Johnson that only appear on the Amazon review of the unremastered CD: "Jeff Lynne solely became ELO at this point and he also found the sweet spot as a producer and singer. ... The Willburys sound was born in this album. I am still not sure how he got that overly processed-yet-dry sound that is the Jeff Lynne trademark, but it really seems to have begun with 'Secret Messages.' ... Rick Rubin and Jeff Lynne have done as much for the sound of what we hear today as anyone, and this CD is a good source for understanding why."

Also on this Amazon review thread, Ernie Clark misguidedly rates only 1 star (!#?!@*!) with the explanation that "I would be giving this remastered version of ELO's classic 'Secret Messages' cd five stars if it weren't for the fact that it's missing the final 33 second outro that was on the original cd and vinyl album. How could Jeff Lynne leave out this part of the cd?" I don't know what to say about Ernie's CD, but that spooky 33 second outro is DEFINITELY on the remastered CD that I bought. So how about restoring those missing 4 stars?!?

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