A New World Record

U.S. RELEASE DATE: September 12, 2006
MUSICIANS: Bev Bevan, Melvyn Gale, Kelly Groucutt, Mik Kaminski, Jeff Lynne, Hugh McDowell
PRODUCERS: Jeff Lynne, Robert Hadley, Marc Mann, Doug Sax, Ryan Ulyate, Al Quaglieri
REVIEWS: 6
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TRACKS

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  • 1
    Tightrope
     
  • 2
    Telephone Line
     
  • 3
    Rockaria!
     
  • 4
    Mission (A World Record)
     
  • 5
    So Fine
     
  • 6
    Livin' Thing
     
  • 7
    Above The Clouds
     
  • 8
    Do Ya
     
  • 9
    Shangri-La
     
  • 10
    Telephone Line (Alternate Vocal)
     
  • 11
    Surrender
     
  • 12
    Tightrope (Instrumental Early Rough Mix)
     
  • 13
    Above The Clouds (Instrumental Rough Mix)
     
  • 14
    So Fine (Early Intrumental Rough Mix)
     
  • 15
    Telephone Line (Instrumental)
     

Replies for this Album

such class

Sun, 12/02/2007 - 21:49 — shaunelouk

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

A Gem

Sat, 12/29/2007 - 04:42 — estamey
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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

The definitive ELO album

Fri, 01/11/2008 - 14:55 — Tigerfeet
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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!

Best collection of tunes

Wed, 01/23/2008 - 14:24 — stewa100
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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 --

Jeff''s best work

Mon, 02/18/2008 - 17:27 — Tadpole
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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 is Probably My Favorite ELO Album

Fri, 02/22/2008 - 01:42 — wheatmaster
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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.