Like that karma chameleon, ELO came and went. The first three albums were ok (I reviewed FTM in my journal) but I felt they really only hit their stride with El Dorado, then came a slew of really good albums: Discovery (say what you like about it, I think it's a great album and it gave them the most hit singles on any one album), A new world record, Out of the blue. Sadly then they teamed up with ONJ for the embarrassing Xanadu, but then came back with two great albums in Time and Secret Messages. Balance of power I could take or leave and despite it being basically Jeff Lynne calling himself ELO, Zoom was a damn fine album to end their career on.
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