Electric Light Orchestra - Secret Messages (1983) {2007, Japanese Limited Edition, Remastered}

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Date: Dec. 13, 2022

Electric Light Orchestra - Secret Messages (1983) {2007, Japanese Limited Edition, Remastered}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 440 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 183 Mb
Full Scans | 00:56:08 | RAR 5% Recovery
Art Rock / Progressive Rock / Classic Rock / Symphonic Rock / Rock & Roll
Epic / Jet Records / Sony Music Direct (Japan) Inc. #MHCP 1162

Secret Messages is the tenth studio album by Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), released in 1983 on Jet Records. It was the last ELO album with bass guitarist Kelly Groucutt, conductor Louis Clark and real stringed instruments, and the last ELO album to be released on the Jet label. It was also the final ELO studio album to become a worldwide top 40 hit upon release.

Secret Messages, as its title suggests, is littered with hidden messages in the form of backmasking, some obvious and others less so. This was Jeff Lynne's second tongue-in-cheek response to allegations of hidden Satanic messages in earlier Electric Light Orchestra LPs by Christian fundamentalists, which led up to American congressional hearings in the early 1980s (a similar response had been made by Lynne on the Face the Music album, during the intro to the "Fire on High" track). In Britain, the back cover of Secret Messages has the mock notice "Warning: Contains Secret Backward Messages". Word of the album's impending release in the United States caused enough of a furore to cause CBS Records to delete the cover blurb there.

The back cover of the record jacket (made to look like the back of a picture frame) also contains "Secret Messages" in the form of three aged and weathered stickers. One is the track listing and the other two contain mock names of the retailer and manufacturer of the frame. These names are anagrams of the 4 band members: T.D. Ryan (R. Tandy), F.Y.J. Fennel (Jeff Lynne), G.U. Ruttock (K. Groucutt) and E.V. Nabbe (Bev Bevan). The record sleeve also contains a "Secret Message". The front and back has a string of dots and dashes that is actually Morse Code and repeats "E L O": E (one dot), L (dot dash dot dot) and O (dash dash dash).

Louis Clark returned to conduct the strings once more and the violinist Mik Kaminski appeared on an ELO recording for the first time since Out of the Blue in 1977, playing a violin solo on the track "Rock 'n' Roll Is King". On completion of this album, Lynne dismissed bass guitarist Groucutt, who later sued for alleged lost royalties and received a settlement out of court.

The record was originally going to be a double album, but this plan was thwarted by Jet's distributor, CBS Records, claiming that producing a double vinyl album would be too expensive; as a result, leader Jeff Lynne would have to reduce it to a single album. This version of the album was digitally recorded and would have been ELO's first compact disc. Six of the songs from the intended double album appeared as B-sides and reappear on the Afterglow box set in 1990. These include a string-laden, eight-minute long tribute to the band's home town (Birmingham), titled "Hello My Old Friend". Some of the tracks also appear on the 2001 re-issue of the album. "Endless Lies", which had been altered for its inclusion on the subsequently-released Balance of Power album, appears in its original 1983 form on the 2001 remaster of this album.
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Track List:

01. Secret Messages [4:44]
02. Loser Gone Wild [5:27]
03. Bluebird [4:13]
04. Take Me On And On [4:58]
05. Time After Time [4:01]
06. Four Little Diamonds [4:05]
07. Stranger [4:27]
08. Danger Ahead [3:52]
09. Letter From Spain [2:51]
10. Train Of Gold [4:21]
11. Rock 'n' Roll Is King [3:49]
Bonus Tracks:
12. No Way Out [3:28]
13. Endless Lies [3:27]
14. After All [2:24]

Personnel:
Jeff Lynne - Vocals, background vocals, guitar, synthesisers, bass guitar, piano, percussion, Oberheim DMX
Bev Bevan - Drums, percussion
Richard Tandy - Synthesizers, grand piano, electric piano, harmonica, Oberheim DMX
Kelly Groucutt - Bass guitar, background vocals ("Train of Gold", "Rock 'n' Roll Is King", "No Way Out" and "Beatles Forever")

Additional personnel:
Mik Kaminski - Violin ("Rock 'n' Roll Is King")
Dave Morgan - Additional background vocals
Strings conducted by Louis Clark ("Train Of Gold", "Danger Ahead", "Stranger", "Buildings Have Eyes", "Time After Time" and "Hello My Old Friend")

Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 5 from 4. May 2009

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Electric Light Orchestra / Secret Messages

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