ELOのスペース・ロック・ドリームが繰り広げられる、LPでは2枚組で発表された最高傑作。今作には、ジェフ・リンがピークを迎えた時期に書かれポップでゴージャスな、どれをとってもシングルに相応しい曲が並んでます。又、ストリングスを大胆に組み込み多彩なバリエーションにより、アレンジの素晴らしさも聴き所になっています。シングルヒットは、このアルバムのチャートを最高4位にまで押し上げました。
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Nowadays, 1977 is remembered as both the year of punk and the year of disco. At the time, though, it was the year of Fleetwood Mac's RUMOURS and Electric Light Orchestra's OUT OF THE BLUE, two albums that were simply inescapable. But where overexposure made RUMOURS feel somewhat stale and dated, OUT OF THE BLUE sounds as fresh now as it did at the time. This is due in large part to the obsessive insularity of Jeff Lynne's aesthetic. He seems not to be ignoring musical trends, but to be simply unaware of them.
Lynne's mid-period Beatles fixation combines with his love of lush orchestrations and pristine production to create some of his strongest music, including the enormous hits "Turn to Stone," "Sweet Talkin' Woman" and "Mr. Blue Sky." However, the autobiographical "Birmingham Blues" suggests that Lynne was tiring of the rock-star grind, which might explain ELO's lowered profile after this release.
Rovi