In 1983, ELO released their tenth studio album, "Secret Messages." Jeff Lynne set out, once again, to release a double-album, but CBS Records reigned him in and forced him to pare it down to a single disc.
As the title implies, this albu…
In 1983, ELO released their tenth studio album, "Secret Messages." Jeff Lynne set out, once again, to release a double-album, but CBS Records reigned him in and forced him to pare it down to a single disc.
As the title implies, this album was to be full of hidden messages, including back-masking and disguised comments. There was nothing sinister in any of these hidden elements, but it was intended as a humorous response to untrue charges of hidden Satanic messages in an earlier song. Jeff Lynne repeatedly denied hiding anything nefarious in his music, but he started inserting non-controversial backward messages into his music as far back as "Fire on High" in 1975 with the phrase, "The music is reversible, but time is not. Turn back! Turn back! Turn back! Turn back!"
In 2018, a Double-Vinyl was released with a restored track-list as Jeff Lynne originally intended, EXCEPT for one song, "Beatles Forever." John Lennon was murdered on December 8, 1980. Jeff felt this song, composed not long after Lennon's death, was far too fawning. I have inserted it into its originally intended spot.
I have also included slightly longer versions of two songs versus what was released on vinyl. The space limitations of vinyl do not apply here, so you get to experience the songs as they were originally composed.
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TRACK LIST:
Secret Messages
Loser Gone Wild
Bluebird
Take Me On and On
Stranger
No Way Out
Beatles Forever
Letter from Spain
Danger Ahead
Four Little Diamonds
Train of Gold
Endless Lies
Buildings Have Eyes
Rock'n'Roll is King
Mandalay
Time After Time
After All
Hello My Old Friend
Welcome to the Show
