Secret Messages
Electric Light Orchestra
Released: 1983
The 11th album released by the Electric Light Orchestra, initially meant to
be a double album but ultimately trimmed down as the record company decided
not to fund a double album.
This album is regarded as ELO's last good/decent album, with its
successor Balance of Power being the last album produced by the group with
any original members outside of Jeff Lynne but losing much of the band's
edge and style. In 2001, Jeff Lynne whipped a band together and released
Zoom, an album that almost entirely forgot what ELO was supposed to sound
like; Secret Messages was really the last of the original ELO's unique sounds.
An extended version of this album was released later on; its track
listing appears below as this is the version you're most likely to find if you
hit a music store or online site to buy it.
- Secret Messages
- Loser Gone Wild
- Bluebird
- Take Me On and On
- Time After Time
- Four Little Diamonds
- Stranger
- Danger Ahead
- Letter From Spain
- Train of Gold
- Rock 'n' Roll is King
- No Way Out
- Endless Lies
- After All