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Secret Messages
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0696998542426
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
MPN: 86424
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: June 12, 2001
Studio: Sony
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Track-wise, original release is better than re-issue
I remember being disappointed when this album first appeared on vinyl. I adored (still do) the post-Roy Wood / pre-Discovery albums, and really missed Jeff Lynn's complex and full-bodied orchestral and choral arrangements, through which the group had (after Wood's departure) truly fulfilled its name, "The Electric Light Orchestra." When they officially changed their name to "ELO" upon the release of Discovery, it signified a dramatic change in the group's approach to popular music.
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Rating:  - I love ELO, BUT...
SECRET MESSAGES has a great concept to it but unfortunately it ends being a very average album at best. While self titled opening song starts off promising, it just ends up going nowhere. Maybe the chorus should've been up a little bit , instead it just overshadowed by the music. It could've been a good song. And sorry to say LETTER FROM SPAIN is just plain dull. I love ELO and am huge fan, they are actually one of my favorite groups and I usually expect to hear really good albums from them. Maybe that's ... Read More
Rating:  - "SECRET MESSAGES" SPEAKS VOLUMES OF TECHNO, POP AND ROCK , AN UNDER APPRECIATED ELO GEM......
A superb 1983 ELO release. "Secret Messages" combines techno, pop and rock in a brilliant musical forum. From "Secret Messages" to "Four Little Diamonds" to "Stranger" this cd rocks. There is no filler songs on "Secret Messages" as every track speaks volumes of vibrant raucous, romantic harmony. "Secret Messages" is definitly an under appreciated gem of the 1980s. "Secret Messages" is a smooth listen, written by Jeff Lynne, one of Britians all time song writers. A nice sounding, remastered cd with fine linear ... Read More
Rating: - Not a ELO Classic
As a bit of a hardcore EOL fan I have a few grumbles about this album. Back in the days when titles such as "Discovery" "Out of the Blue" and other great ELO albums were around it was really hard ti imagine then just what the 80s would (or even could) do to a band such as this. Like scores of groups around at the time (especially those who made the seventies the seventies) their was a sudden interest with keyboard based music. This would have been ok in its self but its here we come across the first problem. I ... Read More
Rating: - Double album revealed! ELO's best?
This album is simply outstanding, one of ELO's 3 very best (along with "A New World Record" and "Out of the Blue"). I don't normally fall in love with albums upon first listen, needing a little time to get into and used to them - but "Secret Messages" blew me away with each highly diverse and multi-layered and multi-faceted cut the very first time heard back in 1983.
Its predescessor album "Time" was clever as heck but somewhat self-conscious as a concept album to my ears, so "Secret Messages" felt ... Read More
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