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Originally Posted by Trollheart
I'm a big ELO fan, but I haven't reviewed this so I'll add it, unless you would prefer to suggest something I have not even heard. It's certainly not their strongest album, but I have reviewed the two on either side of it so it would make up the trio, as it were...
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On the contrary: it is overshadowed by
Eldorado, which is a timeless classic and considered by many to be "near-perfect" (even with the imperfections of Union session string players closing their instrument cases recorded on it
) but, as Prog as it is,
Eldorado was also the beginning of the "pop sensibilities" that would consume Jeff Lynne by the end of the 70s...
However,
On The Third Day is probably their most "Prog" album - literally a combination of Canterbury and Symphonic Prog -- and they explored these areas only once on this particular album and never again. I often wonder what ELO would have sounded like had they continued down this path
...so, Im curious about your review of it
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