Secret Messages

by Electric Light Orchestra

Secret Messages cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 5 June 1983
  • Label: Jet
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:11:55
  • Community rating: 3.12/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Jeff Lynne

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Originally intended as a double album, Jeff Lynne's ambitious project was drastically truncated prior to release due to record label pressure. The album is laden with intentional backward masking and hidden vocal snippets, serving as a sarcastic rebuttal to contemporary accusations of satanic messages in rock music. Musically, it fully integrates drum machines and heavy sequencing into ELO's symphonic pop framework.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, conceptual, alienation

Tracklist

  1. Secret Messages (4:43)
  2. Loser Gone Wild (5:27)
  3. Bluebird (4:13)
  4. Take Me On and On (4:59)
  5. Stranger (4:28)
  6. No Way Out (3:28)
  7. Letter from Spain (2:58)
  8. Danger Ahead (3:47)
  9. Four Little Diamonds (4:09)
  10. Train of Gold (4:21)
  11. Endless Lies (3:34)
  12. Buildings Have Eyes (4:03)
  13. Rock 'N' Roll Is King (3:13)
  14. Mandalay (5:19)
  15. Time After Time (3:55)
  16. After All - Shorter Version (0:39)
  17. Hello My Old Friend (8:31)

Credits

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