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Electric Light Orchestra - Secret Messages [1988 Epic - EPC 462487 2] (Pre-emphasis)

Posted By: jclane

Date: 9 Apr 2011 05:54:53

Electric Light Orchestra - Secret Messages [1988 Epic - EPC 462487 2] (Pre-emphasis)

Secret Messages is an album by Electric Light Orchestra, released in 1983. It would be the final ELO album to feature bassist Kelly Groucutt, who left the band shortly after its release.

Original Concept

The record was originally planned to be a double album, but the band's record company cited that it would be too expensive for a double vinyl LP due to the early 1980s' oil crisis. This version of the album was digitally recorded and was to have been ELO's first compact disc. Six of the songs from the intended double album would appear as B-sides and reappear on the Afterglow box set in 1990, including a string-laden eight minute long tribute to the band's home town (Birmingham) entitled "Hello My Old Friend". Some of the tracks reappeared 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.

Secret Messages, as its title would suggest, was littered with hidden messages in the form of backmasking, some obvious and others less so. This was 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 early 1980s American congressional hearings (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 cover of Secret Messages has a mock warning to youth about the hidden messages. Word of the album's impending release in the United States caused enough of a furor to cause CBS Records to delete the cover blurb there.

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

Three singles were released from the album in the UK: "Rock 'n' Roll Is King," the title track, and "Four Little Diamonds." In the US, "Rock 'n' Roll Is King," "Four Little Diamonds," and "Stranger" were issued. "Rock 'n' Roll Is King" would be the band's last UK Top 20 hit. The song "Letter from Spain" was used as backing music in commercials for the Games of the XXV Olympiad, held in 1992 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

Track listing
All tracks written by Jeff Lynne Strings conducted by Louis Clark

1. Secret Messages - 4:50
2. Loser Gone Wild - 5:17
3. Bluebird - 4:11
4. On And On - 4:57
5. Time After Time - 3:55
6. Four Little Diamonds - 4:05
7. Stranger - 4:27
8. Danger Ahead - 3:51
9. Letter From Spain - 2:50
10. Train Of Gold - 4:19
11. Rock And Roll Is King - 3:43

Spectrum

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

EAC extraction logfile from 8. January 2010, 7:50

ELO / Secret Messages

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11 | 43:04.10 | 3:47.40 | 193810 | 210874

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REM GENRE Rock
REM DATE 1983
REM DISCID 870AFB0B
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TITLE "Rock And Roll Is King"
PERFORMER "ELO"
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Avg RMS: -20.09 dB –- -21.50 dB
DR channel: 15.09 dB –- 15.41 dB
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Official DR value: DR15
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Personnel

* Jeff Lynne - vocals, background vocals, guitar, synthesisers, bass guitar, piano, percussion, Oberheim DMX, producer
* 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)
* Mik Kaminski - violin (Rock 'n' Roll Is King)
* Dave Morgan - additional background vocals
* Bill Bottrell - Engineer
* Strings conducted by Louis Clark

Original Release Date: June 1983
CD Released Date: 1988
Recorded: December 1982 - February 1983 Wisseloord Studios, Hilversum, the Netherlands
Length: 46:51
Producer: Jeff Lynne; Engineer - Bill Bottrell
Mastered by DADC Austria.
Made in Austria.
Printed in Holland.

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