This album aged in all the right ways

I'm listening to this for the first time now. What am I in for?

>that segment near the beginning drawn entirely in watercolour
I wonder what could be achieved if all the genuinely talented people on Yea Forums were able to come together to pool their talents

Boomer dreck

wow you really got me there what an elegant insult. you've got the aor boomer thing down pat, though. they're notoriously bad at written sentence construction, too

the peak of post-war optimism and technical accomplishment in music

Same, user. I'm a complete philistine in regards to music, so I just try to be open to everything.

like another user said back-to-back bangers and super uplifting and comfy atmosphere that also has a nostalgic feeling to it

Being an expat working a dead end job and feeling completely alienated in a foreign country after having left all my friends and family behind, reminiscing about my childhood before my parents divorced and how the neighbourhood where my father lives in turned to unrecognisable shit, this album resonated with me more than any other piece of media in my entire life, but I definitely wouldn't call it "uplifting".
youtu.be/QP1rMsI0Pl4

idk it kinda lifts my mood but feel-good would probably be more fitting

This album is awesome. It's also the only album I've heard where the bonus tracks are just tacked on crap, and legitimately improve the album. They should have been included with the original version.

I remember having a dhoddily edited version of the album that replaces hold on tight with julie don't live here and when time stood still, which I think conceptually fit much better over overall. Shame I seen to have lost it, looking everywhere the past hour.

It was pretty good. I enjoyed it a lot

I'm and just finished it too. At a first listen, my favourite tracks were Here Is The News, Twilight, and Yours Truly, 2095. Especially the latter - banger indeed.

Honestly one of my top 10 albums. It's unbelievable how consistently good it is. I first heard it from this video.

youtu.be/-840keiiFDE?t=93

Anons weren't lying when they said it was back-to-back bangers. I really like the whole concept; "setting" an album in the future and looking back at the period they themselves recorded it in, commenting on how technology might not make our lives that much better. Like said, it's incredibly dated, but aged very well still.

>OMG ELO!!!!!! OMGOMGOMG YASSS TIME IS SOOOO GOOD

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XTC > ELO

LAREEEDOOOOOO

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>omg funny face meme

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Based and Partridgepilled

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you know im right bitch

pretty much the same tracks for me haha

>There are people on this board that love this album and don't even know it has an epilogue

youtube.com/watch?v=QP1rMsI0Pl4

youtube.com/watch?v=4Tls8Neie2Q

Here's the links to em.

I've been seeing this album posted a lot past couple of weeks. Any reason? I love it very much and have the Japanese release permanently in my car's CD player.

>aor
it's synth pop

Damn, this looks a decade ahead of its time

I’ve never understood the appeal of this.
A New World Record
Out ot the Blue
Face the Music
Discovery
are all better quality albums

Interesting, I replaced the instrumental cut with Julie. It's a perfect companion and epilogue for The Way Life's Meant to Be.

they became a disco band around 79 too doing stuff with the girl from grease, which is the biggest boomer repellant that has ever existed

"no"

Xanadu is better than all of those put together.

this thread is suddenly good

>my lump of shit is better than your lump of shit

lump of shit???? instead of being bad, as you say, xtc is, in fact, good

"its your bbbbBbBbBbiiGggg ddaaYy" and dear god are cause enough for them being ranked top 5 worst bands OAT

The Way Life's Meant to Be is a total ripoff of Heroes & Villains

yikes

because it's a great album

he's right you know

Loved Time and everything else ELO made. Jeff Lynne played in Nashville tonight. I'm so upset that I didn't get tickets in time. :(

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Holy fucking shit

this isn't even the first rip off of heroes and villains ELO did, listen to across the border

Julie Don't Live Here makes me cry every time.

AND KISS HER INTERFACE

Should I listen to the three bonus tracks at the end of the album? Like an epilogue? Or should I end the album with the final track as intended and insert them into the album thematically?

Olivia pls go

Listen to this one.
mega.nz/#!xpg1VRbQ!cRh03L5b7E1R2kSof2tz8h8fQcBDLfSYnDpoU-fP8c0

>listening to it right now
it's so beautiful, bros

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ELO is the single greatest band to ever exist. Jeff Lynne is not only the best musician ever, but also God’s gift to earth. Time is the greatest album ever written. I will accept no other answers

Would it surprise you if I told you working on this together is how the founders of Studio Gainax met each other?

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>tfw when there'S an ad inbetween prologue and twilight

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>tfw those synths on Twilight hit at the start of the album

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download it fucking speccy

You’re right but wojak edits are sheer cringe
Just use a photo of an irl soiboy

>implying i would pay money for spotify

sapnin' liam

lol wow Lynne BTFO

damn you're both right. this is a legit bummer.

are you a fucking tard

somebody literally posted a link of the dl in this thread

I'll never understand how these two songs didn't make it onto the original album.