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A New World Record
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Track Listings
Disc: 1
1 | Tightrope |
2 | Telephone Line |
3 | Rockaria! |
4 | Mission (A World Record) |
Disc: 2
1 | So Fine |
2 | Livin' Thing |
3 | Above the Clouds |
4 | Do Ya |
5 | Shangri-La |
Editorial Reviews
Limited 180 gram vinyl pressing. A New World Record is the sixth studio album by Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), originally released in 1976. A New World Record became their first Top Ten album in the UK. It became a huge global success and would consolidate the band's position as one of the biggest selling rock bands in the world, reaching multi-platinum status in the US and UK. The album sold five million units worldwide within its first year of release. The cover art features the famous ELO logo for the first time. Includes the hits ‘Livin’ Thing’, ‘Do Ya’, ‘Telephone Line’ and ‘Rockaria!’
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Product Dimensions : 12 x 12.6 x 1 inches; 8 ounces
- Manufacturer : Legacy Recordings
- Item model number : 35375410
- Original Release Date : 2016
- Run time : 36 minutes
- Date First Available : February 15, 2016
- Label : Legacy Recordings
- ASIN : B01BF93G2I
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #18,945 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #8,126 in Pop (CDs & Vinyl)
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Functioning consistently through all of this are the exceptional compositional talents of front man Jeff Lynne. Lynne's talent remains greatly underrated because it often surpassed his taste: sometimes you want to grab the man by his lapels and shake him: What is up with this pompous choir droning in the background? Do you really need those falsetto exclamations throughout the chorus? On ELO records, there's a lot that can embarrass the fan.
But if there is a perfect ELO record, this would be my nominee. This is the one in the sweet spot: the sweet spot that marries well-trained pop sensibilities with enough virtuouso classical allusions to carry much more of interest than in other pop music.
Actually, I think this record's immediate predecessor, Face the Music, might be more in the "sweet spot" than this one, in a certain sense. Eldorado was definitely on the art-rock-pretension side of the line, and this one, in my view, veers ever so slightly into the too-pop side. Face the Music is just at the right place. The "problem" is that A New World Record (and Eldorado, in my opinion) just has better songs than Face the Music. I think it's the best record that they ever put out.
I still have vivid memories of the first time I spun this record. I was in a puppy-love relationship in 8th grade, and my love interest was a fan of the song "Livin' Thing," then receiving airplay. I listened to it a few times on the radio, thought, "that's interesting enough," and bought the record.
Till then I had been mainly a Beatles fan; very little else in pop music had inspired an interest in owning. But when I put this record on, my jaw dropped: It starts with one of ELO's trademark spaceship keyboard effects, which glisses down into a stern and very classical-sounding melody on the lower strings. Then the mood shifts again, to a jaunty, jostling pop rhythm. I remember thinking; What the hell is this? I had never heard so many musical styles played seamlessly and well in such a brief auditory space.
The thing that makes this record better than all the rest is that Lynne is really at the peak of his powers here as a composer and producer. He writes very accessible melodies, but it's not the trite pop that they would record from Out of the Blue onward. The melodies are always surrounded by facile manipulation of other musical elements entirely. You have a leader here who is showing off his musical chops, but much less visibly than on On the Third Day or even Eldorado.
I find myself, as I listen to this record, marveling at Lynne's evocative compositional skill. For example, you have moments at the beginning and end of "Above the Clouds" that are straight out of some 1930s film soundtrack, it seems. It sends me to the piano trying to determine how exactly those chords were assembled.
Similarly, there's a middle section in "So Fine" (a very strong up-tempo number) that seems to combine African drums, with the strings joining pseudo-woodwinds in a unison melody. So different from everything that previously occurs in the song, but it somehow meshes perfectly.
It's not always done with sufficient restraint and taste. The album end, for example, is unforgivably over the top. Yet. . . somehow you do forgive it, because the broken chords that lead into it a truly gorgeous, almost like a new and improved Bach.
The album's big hits -- Telephone Line, Livin' Thing, and Do Ya, all sound much better here than on context-less radio. But every single song on the record is excellent. So Fine and Above the Clouds are particular favorites of mine (the latter is a jewel), but Shangri-La has an exceptionally lovely melody.
Just a fantastic record. Jeff Lynne deserves far greater recognition for the genius that he was.
Ripping tracks into FLAC files and looking at some scopes, grams and graphs the inevitable compression can be seen but hearing it is difficult. Through my preferred set up of emotiva XDA dac, Asgard 2 and Senn's HD-600 everything sounds great. I can hear a full range, nothing fallen out during the conversion or remastering. Keep in mind I have no frame of reference for the original vinyl pressing and it's sound but strings sound like strings and cymbals sound like cymbals. Even though the HD's can be bass light I don't find myself wanting more low end from the remaster and the treble is smooth and doesn't shriek at me, nothing muddled with a nice mid-range; which is exactly the sound I expect from this set up with a decent recording.
The packaging is obligatory. The standard issue fragile jewel case. Personally the quality of the music warrants something a little more exceptional and I prefer the more uncommon gate-fold style digipack. There has to be more back story to this and probably all of E.L.O's albums and the digipack format gives a little space for more extensive liner notes and it's a little more robust against handling foibles/slimmer for storage. There might be a re-issue of that type on the market. This one just isn't it. A small criticism really, the packaging could be better because this is really a fantastic album.
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Brings back memories of a great album of the 70s
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