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The Essential Electric Light Orchestra

E.L.O. Format: Audio CD

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Track Listings

Disc: 1

1	10538 Overture
2	Roll over Beethoven
3	Showdown
4	Ma-Ma-Ma Belle
5	Can't Get It Out Of my Head
6	Evil Woman
7	Nightrider
8	Strange Magic
9	Livin' Thing
10	Do Ya
11	Rockaria!
12	Telephone Line
13	Turn to Stone
14	Mr. Blue Sky
15	Sweet Talkin' Woman
16	Wild West Hero
17	It's Over
18	Shine a Little Love

Disc: 2

1	Don't Bring Me Down
2	The Diary of Horace Wimp
3	Confusion
4	Last Train to London
5	I'm Alive
6	Xanadu
7	All Over the World
8	Don't Walk Away
9	Hold On Tight
10	Twilight
11	Ticket to the Moon
12	The Way Life's Meant to Be
13	Rock 'N' Roll Is King
14	Secret Messages
15	Four Little Diamonds
16	Calling America
17	So Serious
18	Surrender
19	Latitude 88 North

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This collection gathers 37 of ELOs greatest tracks on two CDS. Songs featured include "Roll Over Beethoven," "Nightrider," "Xanadu," "Showdown" and more.

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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.58 x 4.91 x 0.41 inches; 4 ounces
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Legacy Recordings
Item model number ‏ : ‎ 22835378
Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2011
Run time ‏ : ‎ 2 hours and 24 minutes
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ August 30, 2011
Label ‏ : ‎ Legacy Recordings
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B005JJ0GL0
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2

Best Sellers Rank: #4,251 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #2,088 in Rock (CDs & Vinyl)

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Kathryn Hutchings

Pleased! No defects.

Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2024

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Came with no defective cd or jewel case. Rarity!
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Lady At The Lake

Fantastic

Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2023

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Perfect. Should not have traded our car bc now I don’t have a CD player.

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Leo Hott

The best 2 disc collection of E.L.O. hits I could find!!!

Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2015

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After reading reviews in order not to be to repetitive I realized there are 2 "Essential Electric Light Orchestra" C.D.'s being reviewed !!! This review refers to the 2 disc newer release!!! When ever a publisher or producer is pressed with the task of making a "Greatest Hits" or "Best Of" with a band that has had huge success & is prolific having a massive song catalogue it becomes a daunting task! I chose this 2 disc collection of E.L.O.'s hit songs because it appears to be the most complete collection available. It doe's a great job covering their past hits & manages to include some of their comeback material. With E.L.O.'s comeback having some great songs, songs I would consider instant classic's I could easily see in the near future the necessity to create two double disc "Greatest Hits Volume #1 & #2". As far as the sound quality of this C.D. "The Essential Electric Light Orchestra" it is great!!! I don't know if they digitally remastered from the original recordings, but I can tell you that when played on a good stereo system you can hear everything crisp and clear & the voice & instruments are recorded on different tracks coming from your center speaker & right & left & rear channel's so during certain songs you get that swirling effect. The music is not just louder but very clear in high fidelity & very well mixed. This is especially important when dealing with a band like E.L.O. who are well recognized for the layering of sound & the diverse cacophony of sounds they throw at you. I guess it all depends on what level of E.L.O. fan you are. I considered going box set but I think this particular collection of songs along with a couple of their newer C.D.s' will satisfy my E.L.O. needs.

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peggy

great songs

Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2023

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one of their best albums

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Jeff A. Groves

One of the best compilations from one of the best groups ever!

Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2017

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ELO is one of the most underrated groups in rock history and Jeff Lynne is one of the most talented singer/songwriter/producer/arrangers to ever grace the music industry. I've always liked ELO, but I never heard anything more than the usual hits until recently. I'm an OTR truck driver and I spend a lot of time listening to music on YouTube and just recently decided to go back and listen to everything ELO released and this collection has almost every song I wanted to have on the road with me, with a few exceptions. I did a lot of research to decide which compilation to get and found that this is the only one that starts at the beginning and goes chronologically through their history, with the exception of the 2001 version of Xanadu. This is also the only one I could find with 4 of the 5 songs from Xanadu on it back to back. I still can't figure out why there's not one single compilation with Fire On High on it. That is always on the radio, but not on any greatest hits albums. This collection has about every other hit they've ever had and then some. My only complaint is that they only have the edited versions of 10538 Overture, Roll Over Beethoven, Can't Get It Out Of My Head and Nightrider. Other than that, this is an excellent representation of ELO's music catalog and is great driving music. I would definitely recommend this to any fan of ELO.

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Jeff Pearlman

Properly upgraded from one to two discs in 2011

Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2011

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This is the second time Sony/BMG/Legacy has upgraded a deserving act's "Essential" entry from one to two discs (the venerable O'Jays were the first). At one disc, too many hits were left off. This version includes every chart hit except "Daybreaker" and the Olivia Newton-John version of "Xanadu" (here it's Jeff Lynne singing). This means that unlike the "All Over the World" CD you get "I'm Alive" and "Can't Get It Out of My Head", and unlike "Strange Magic" you get "All Over the World" and "I'm Alive".

Several album cuts and non-hit singles are also included among the 37 tracks here, such as "Rockaria", "Ma-Ma-Ma-Belle", "10538 Overture", "The Diary of Horace Wimp", "Don't Walk Away", and "Wild West Hero".

It might have been a good idea to actually include the ON-J version of "Xanadu", since that was a top ten hit; however, the version here is interesting (and teaming with Newton-John didn't please some ELO fans who felt it was some kind of "sell-out"). Overall I think this new package does the best job of compiling most of ELO's hits and highlights. And at this moment, it's only about $3 more than the single-disc version!

I would add that the booklet gives us no liner notes, only a photo of the band on stage and the timings/songwriter/publishing of each song. Since all but "Roll Over Beethoven" were written by Lynne and most of the publishing is by some variation of EMI, that wasn't too helpful. An indication of which album (CD) each song came from would have been preferable.

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My first ELO album/CD - very, very nice

Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2018

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I'm very surprised how often I've listened to this CD since I bought it in 2017. A lot of good music to be found here. My taste in music runs across the classic rock era - notably from the late 60s to the mid-70s; and while I always found ELO's music as "nice", I never thought about buying an album. Over the years I never stopped and thought about how many notable songs they composed & recorded - until recently. And that's well after developing an appreciation for Jeff Lynne's work with Traveling Wilburys and The Concert for George. This proved a nice compilation for me.

When I bought this - and knowing that these "Best of" types almost never include associated intros, etc., I also bought ELO's "Eldorado", specifically for "Eldorado Overture", which I find to be essential as the intro to "Cant Get It Out of My Head". Was $4.99 at the time. Hard to go wrong there.

Chances are pretty great that if you like classic rock in general, you'll like this.

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