Time (Electric Light Orchestra album)

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Time followed the albums Discovery , on which ELO had dispensed with their three-man string section (although orchestration was used on the album), and Xanadu , the soundtrack to the 1980 musical film of the same name, which was met with a mixed reception. [2] On Time, bandleader Jeff Lynne chose to emphasise electronics over the band's orchestral sound. [2] He wrote a collection of songs with a theme that focused on time travel [2] and civilisation in the year 2095. [9] The album's musical style draws from the 1950s, new wave, reggae, rockabilly and the work of artists such as the Beatles, Phil Spector and the Shadows. [4] Writing for PopMatters , Kevin Mathews says that the album reflects Lynne's absorption in the UK synth-pop sound popularised by contemporary artists such as Gary Numan, OMD and Human League. [2]

ELO recorded Time mainly at Musicland Studios in Munich, Germany, [4] with some sessions taking place at Polar Studios in Stockholm, Sweden.[ citation needed ] Three additional songs written in the album's context were recorded, but left off the release: "The Bouncer", "When Time Stood Still" and "Julie Don’t Live Here". These songs were originally going to be on a double album of Time, [10] but they were instead issued as B-sides of later singles after Time was reduced to a single album. [2]

Concept and storyline

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"Twilight"
"Twilight" is the album's second track. Lynne explains that Time is about a man in a twilight state who seems to be taken to the future: "I picture him in bed actually, looking at the window." [11]
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Lynne's comments on the album's concept are as follows: in 1981, a man drifts into a state of twilight ("Twilight"), where he appears to have entered the year 2095, meets a Gynoid ("Yours Truly, 2095"), and reflects on the 1980s, "back when things were so uncomplicated" ("Ticket to the Moon"). Walking down the same street from a hundred years before, he is dismayed by the plastic flowers and ivory towers which have grown on top of it ("The Way Life's Meant to Be"). As he remains in this future period, he looks out his window depressed, watching the world go by ("Rain Is Falling"). He attempts to send a letter in the form of a dream to his girlfriend in the past, but fails ("From the End of the World"). [11]

When asked whether the man's experiences had been a dream all along, Lynne responded: "This is what I'd like to know, because it's baffled me since I wrote it, if he has actually gone [to the future], or if he's just thinking about it. ... It could be real, or it could be a dream... I'm not sure. I'd rather not say, because I don't know either. I'm supposed to, but I don't." [11] Mathews writes: "Like Eldorado, Time contained a prologue and an epilogue ... Although there is hardly any plot to thread the various songs together, the theme remains largely intact ... they embellish, rather than engage." [2] A recurring line that appears in the album's epilogue is: "though you ride on the wheels of tomorrow, you still wander the fields of your sorrow". [4] Rockol's writer says that the protagonist revisits the place he once lived only to find that it has become unrecognisable ("The Way Life's Meant to Be"). Afterwards, he hopes that he may be able to return home with a time machine, "but with all their great inventions and all their good intentions, here I stay" ("Rain Is Falling"). Following his final attempt to return to the past, the protagonist is invited to "hold on" ("Hold On Tight"). [4]

Author Adam Roberts calls Time a "future-set rock opera". [5] According to music journalist Mark Beaumont, it is a concept album about a man who is abducted forward in time to the year 2095, [6] while the web publication Rockol and Stereo Review magazine both recognise Time as being about a man who becomes trapped in the future. [4] [12] The News & Advance 's Ben Cates says it "tells the story of a man living in the year 2095 who glimpses enough of the future to know that he wants to get back to the 1980s". [13]

Release and reception

Time
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Studio album by
ELO
Released31 July 1981 (UK) [1]
RecordedEarly 1981
Studio Musicland Studios, Munich, Germany; Polar Studios, Stockholm, Sweden
Genre
Length43:38
Label
Producer Jeff Lynne
ELO chronology
Four Light Years
(1980)		Time
(1981)		 Secret Messages
(1983)
ELO studio album chronology
Xanadu
(1980)		Time
(1981)		 Secret Messages
(1983)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [14]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [15]
MusicHound woof! [16]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [17]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [18]

Contemporary reviews

Time reached number 1 in the UK Albums Chart, maintaining the position for two weeks. [19] The change in the band's sound, particularly the lack of orchestral strings, came as a considerable shock to some ELO fans. [2] Noel Coppage of Stereo Review found the band "has slimmed down some and grown out of its twin-electric-cello phase, but it can still give you a case of the grandiosities. You'll find great sweeps of melody and plenty of high and low and loud and soft sounds for your expensive hi-fi equipment to chew on." [12] Coppage remarked of the album's concept: "Ironically, all he [the narrator] does the whole time is whine about how he misses good old 1981 and the girl he left back there. You want to shake him by the shoulders and say, 'Man, have you no sense of adventure?'" [12]

Deborah Frost of Rolling Stone called the storytelling a "superfluous ... thematic conceit" and said that, with the reliance on synthesised sounds, "If ELO's not careful, they're going to end up becoming the kind of cheese that squirts out of an aerosol can." [17] She described the album as a cross between the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and the 1960s science fiction television show Star Trek , "yet as long as Jeff Lynne's future-vision Beatlemania comes in near-perfect Top Forty spurts, why moan?" [17] Frank Conte of The Boston Globe opined: "Time doesn't stick together well as a concept but as far as pop sensibilities are concerned, ELO has no worries. Its brand of rock doesn't only sway. It soars." [20]

Retrospective reviews

In his retrospective review for PopMatters, Kevin Mathews says that, despite Lynne's decision to embrace a new, synth-pop sound, "In essence … Time remained a quintessential ELO album." Mathews adds: "Once again, Lynne’s melodic craft, technical expertise, production skills and encyclopaedic pop authority made Time a treasure for all true connoisseurs of classic pop music. Surprisingly, this re-issue reveals an artist ahead of his time as Time stands head-and-shoulders above the hip electro-pop records of the day." [2]

The Quietus ' Joseph Stannard said that Time is a "very good album indeed", highlighting "Twilight" as "the most exciting song ever recorded ... Pulsating, momentous, charged with purpose and overstuffed with hooks, counter-hooks, sub-hooks and semi-hooks, 'Twilight' makes being abducted by time travellers sound like the most fun you can have." [21] Writing in The Guardian , Mark Beaumont listed "Twilight" as the 10th best song of ELO's career "for its space-age cathedral sizzle, warp-speed pacing and the sort of brazen futuristic hooklines that proved they gave that Flash Gordon gig to the wrong band". [6]

AllMusic's James Chrispell assessed the album as less-than-great formulaic work by ELO, noting a resemblance to work by the Alan Parsons Project and Wings rather than Lynne's "fascination with Pepper-era Beatles". [22]

Legacy

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ELO performing on the Time Tour

According to Beaumont, Time is the most influential album of ELO's catalogue. [6] The book The Time Traveler's Almanac cites it as the first major concept album devoted entirely to time travel. [7] Rockol states that while Time is not one of the most celebrated ELO albums, it has attracted a cult following from those interested in retrofuturism. Among the album's "unexpected" fans are the Flaming Lips and Daft Punk. [4]

In an early 1980s Rolling Stone magazine interview, Steve Winwood said that ELO's Time had influenced him. Ladyhawke has stated that ELO's Time is one of her five favourite albums. [23]

In 1983, the tracks "Prologue" and "Twilight" were used as the soundtrack for the Daicon IV opening animation, an animated music video created for the 1983 Nihon SF Taikai convention. According to academic Mark W. MacWilliams, the convention would go down as "one of the most famous otaku events of all time". [24] "Hold On Tight" was also used in a post-feature short that showcased the production work of Daicon IV. The song was later featured in Coffee Achievers, [25] a 2008 Honda Accord car ad campaign, [26] and included in the 2011 Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts film Larry Crowne . [27]

The 2010 Apples In Stereo album Travellers In Space and Time was heavily influenced by Time. [28]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Jeff Lynne

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Prologue"1:15
2."Twilight"3:35
3."Yours Truly, 2095"3:15
4."Ticket to the Moon"4:06
5."The Way Life's Meant to Be"4:36
6."Another Heart Breaks"3:46
Side two
No.TitleLength
1."Rain Is Falling"3:54
2."From the End of the World"3:16
3."The Lights Go Down"3:31
4."Here Is the News"3:49
5."21st Century Man"4:00
6."Hold On Tight"3:05
7."Epilogue"1:30
Total length:43:38
2001 CD bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
14."The Bouncer" (B-side to "Four Little Diamonds" single (12 inch version only))3:14
15."When Time Stood Still" (B-side to "Hold On Tight" single)3:33
16."Julie Don't Live Here" (B-side to "Twilight" single)3:42

Personnel

ELO [29]

Additional personnel [29]

Charts

Certifications and sales

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia—130,000 [50]
Germany (BVMI) [51] Gold250,000^
Netherlands (NVPI) [52] Gold50,000^
Sweden—100,000 [53]
United Kingdom (BPI) [54] Platinum300,000^
United States (RIAA) [55] Gold500,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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