This was the very first album i've heard by ELO.

This album is definitly hands down one of the best. Finally drifted from the rubbish beginning to the phenomonal, awesome rock band we know as the ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA!!!!!!

this one,i like every single song on this one.shangra-la is my absolute favorite.i also enjoyed the art work. i wish they still had old posters like the did back when the records were being sold. i have a few records myself of elo. i have out of the blue and discovery on record, the rest on compact disc. anyway a new world record is tops.

This was my first ELO album that I bought. I found it in cancer research in great condition so I thought why not?

Not knowing how much I was gonna like it and the rest of ELO's work. Simply amazing album!

Not much else I need to say but back in 1977 this was the first ELO album I listened to (having borrowed it off a school friend)... I was hooked and spellbound by the hugeness of the ELO sound. I still think this is probably the best ELO album of all time...

This album was my very first look into the greatness that is ELO. The other day I pulled out my Dad's old record of this album, and just looked at the liner notes, the album art, and the lyrics. I never really sat down and looked at the original release of this album. All I had ever looked at was the re-released cd. I never fully understood why I loved this album so much, I just knew I loved it. But then while looking at, I came across the lyrics that slid out of the cover into my lap. I began to read the lyrics to Tightrope, and Telephone Line and I understood. It was everything I had always wanted to say. Telephone Line to me was what I always wanted to say to a ex girlfriend. It was everything I felt only in music. The lyrics to this album are just phenomenal, the music is incredible. I dont think there will ever be another album I will ever connect with as much as I have with this one.

I loved this album from the moment I got it. I hadn't heard these tunes in a long time until I recently purchased a live ELO DVD. It was a concert at Wembley Arena in London. I was at that concert so I bought the DVD (unfortunately they put a lot of cheesey effects in it, but, hey, it was the 70's) and I remembered how good this album was, since they played a lot of the songs atthat concert. Telephone Line may be my favorite song by ELO (although that is a very tough call since they have so many great songs). I like the way Jeff's voice changes when he is "talking on the phone". My girlfriend had broken up with me around that time and I played this song over and over and over...Anyway, there really is not a bad song on this album.

This album has to be the best work of Jeff's career. The tunes are creative, the orchestral integration reached full maturity whereas it was a bit tentative on the two preceding albums. The two subsequent albums follow in the footsteps of this one and show ELO evolving, but this one is the jewel in the crown. I'm not sure why Jeff decided to remake "Do Ya", but it seems to fit well here.

This Album is pure fun. From beginning to end. There is not one song that i would classify as filler, and unlike Eldorado, a beautiful; concept album, its individual tracks stand alone. Bravo ELO --

A marvelous recording! honed to perfection with every track a winner! Better produced than Out Of The Blue. If you wanted to introduce someone to the the ELO catalogue then you start here!

Jeff was at his song writing best at this time. Telephone line was the first ELO record I ever bought.
I love it now as much as I did then. I really love the instrumental versions on this album. The light really shines on this one.

estamey

bearing in mind the year this was released this has gotta be the greatest sound with a capture of pure genius of elo,