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''Balance of Power'' is the eleventh album by the Music/ElectricLightOrchestra. Released in early 1986, it's pretty much a SwanSong for the band's original phase -- this is the last album to feature ever-present drummer Bev Bevan and, until ''From Out of Nowhere'', the last to have keyboardist Richard Tandy on an official capacity.
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''Balance of Power'' is the eleventh album by the Music/ElectricLightOrchestra. Released in early 1986, 1986 through Creator/EpicRecords in the UK and CBS Associated Records in North America, it's pretty much a SwanSong for the band's original phase -- this is the last album to feature ever-present drummer Bev Bevan and, until ''From Out of Nowhere'', the last to have keyboardist Richard Tandy on an official capacity.
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''Balance of Power'' is the eleventh album by the Music/ElectricLightOrchestra. Released in early 1986, it's pretty much a SwanSong for the band's original phase - this is the last album to feature ever-present drummer Bev Bevan and, until ''From Out of Nowhere'', the last to have keyboardist Richard Tandy on an official capacity.
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''Balance of Power'' is the eleventh album by the Music/ElectricLightOrchestra. Released in early 1986, it's pretty much a SwanSong for the band's original phase - -- this is the last album to feature ever-present drummer Bev Bevan and, until ''From Out of Nowhere'', the last to have keyboardist Richard Tandy on an official capacity.
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Okay, the album didn't ''totally'' flop - it wasn't an EpicFail on the same scale as, say, Music/TheClash's ''Music/CutTheCrap'', plus it did spawn some singles that performed quite well (notably "Calling America"). It did however return unspectacular reviews and an even more unspectacular performance in the charts. Naturally, many fans and critics alike to this day see it as their weakest release. It is worth pointing out though that the band didn't instantly call it quits after this album was released; they embarked on one last tour during 1986 and it was only after that wrapped when ELO was finally packed up and stored away until the TurnOfTheMillennium, while Lynne focused on production work with Music/GeorgeHarrison's ''Cloud Nine'' leading up to forming Music/TheTravelingWilburys.
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Okay, the album didn't ''totally'' flop - -- it wasn't an EpicFail on the same scale as, say, Music/TheClash's ''Music/CutTheCrap'', plus it did spawn some singles that performed quite well (notably "Calling America"). It did however return unspectacular reviews and an even more unspectacular performance in the charts. Naturally, many fans and critics alike to this day see it as their weakest release. It is worth pointing out though that the band didn't instantly call it quits after this album was released; they embarked on one last tour during 1986 and it was only after that wrapped when ELO was finally packed up and stored away until the TurnOfTheMillennium, while Lynne focused on production work with Music/GeorgeHarrison's ''Cloud Nine'' leading up to forming Music/TheTravelingWilburys.
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* BreakupSong: Given the context it only makes sense that most of the songs are about relationships going wrong and things ending.
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Okay, the album didn't ''totally'' flop - it wasn't an EpicFail on the same scale as, say, Music/TheClash's ''Music/CutTheCrap'', plus it did spawn some singles that performed quite well (notably "Calling America"). It was however returned unspectacular reviews and an even more unspectacular performance in the charts. Naturally, many fans and critics alike to this day see it as their weakest release. It is worth pointing out though that the band didn't instantly call it quits after this album was released; they embarked on one last tour during 1986 and it was only after that wrapped when ELO was finally packed up and stored away until the TurnOfTheMillennium, while Lynne focused on production work with Music/GeorgeHarrison's ''Cloud Nine'' leading up to forming Music/TheTravelingWilburys.
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Okay, the album didn't ''totally'' flop - it wasn't an EpicFail on the same scale as, say, Music/TheClash's ''Music/CutTheCrap'', plus it did spawn some singles that performed quite well (notably "Calling America"). It was did however returned return unspectacular reviews and an even more unspectacular performance in the charts. Naturally, many fans and critics alike to this day see it as their weakest release. It is worth pointing out though that the band didn't instantly call it quits after this album was released; they embarked on one last tour during 1986 and it was only after that wrapped when ELO was finally packed up and stored away until the TurnOfTheMillennium, while Lynne focused on production work with Music/GeorgeHarrison's ''Cloud Nine'' leading up to forming Music/TheTravelingWilburys.
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After the TroubledProduction and subsequent underperformance of ''Secret Messages'', many of ELO's members largely moved on to production work. Jeff Lynne was more than ready to call it quits entirely, but, unfortunately, [[ResignationsNotAccepted he was still under contract to release one more ELO album.]] Not helping matters was the fact that the orchestra was already disintegrating by the time... well... ''{{Music/Time}}'' had been recorded, and after ''Secret Messages'' was released it had pretty much ceased to exist entirely. Lynne, having pretty much had more than enough of the ongoing ExecutiveMeddling, subsequently got the trio of himself, Tandy and Bevan back together to put together the album his label was demanding with seemingly more of a focus on just immolating that contractual obligation so that they could all get out of there rather than creativity. The orchestra was definitely forgotten about by that point; with the "get this released and get out of here" mentality, they opted to take TheEighties route of filling the tracks with electronic instruments. Hell, Lynne was so demotivated with ELO work at this point that he even recycled some tracks cut from ''Secret Messages'' because of, yes, you guessed it, more ExecutiveMeddling.
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After the TroubledProduction and subsequent underperformance of ''Secret Messages'', many of ELO's members largely moved on to production work. Jeff Lynne was more than ready to call it quits entirely, but, unfortunately, [[ResignationsNotAccepted he was still under contract to release one more ELO album.]] Not helping matters was the fact that the orchestra was already disintegrating by the time... well... ''{{Music/Time}}'' ''Music/{{Time}}'' had been recorded, and after ''Secret Messages'' was released it had pretty much ceased to exist entirely. Lynne, having pretty much had more than enough of the ongoing ExecutiveMeddling, subsequently got the trio of himself, Tandy and Bevan back together to put together the album his label was demanding with seemingly more of a focus on just immolating that contractual obligation so that they could all get out of there rather than creativity. The orchestra was definitely forgotten about by that point; with the "get this released and get out of here" mentality, they opted to take TheEighties route of filling the tracks with electronic instruments. Hell, Lynne was so demotivated with ELO work at this point that he even recycled some tracks cut from ''Secret Messages'' because of, yes, you guessed it, more ExecutiveMeddling.
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Okay, the album didn't ''totally'' flop - it wasn't an EpicFail on the same scale as, say, [[Music/TheClash The Clash's]] Music/CutTheCrap, Music/TheClash's ''Music/CutTheCrap'', plus it did spawn some singles that performed quite well (notably "Calling America"). It was however returned unspectacular reviews and an even more unspectacular performance in the charts. Naturally, many fans and critics alike to this day see it as their weakest release. It is worth pointing out though that the band didn't instantly call it quits after this album was released; they embarked on one last tour during 1986 and it was only after that wrapped when ELO was finally packed up and stored away until the TurnOfTheMillennium.
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* Bev Bevan: drums, percussion
* Jeff Lynne: vocals, guitars, synthesizer, bass, keyboards, percussion, producer
* Richard Tandy: Keyboards, sequence programming
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* Bev Bevan: drums, percussion
* Jeff Lynne: vocals, guitars, synthesizer, bass, keyboards, percussion, producer
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[[caption-width-right:313:''"Oh I know, it's strange, but I think that it's about to change."'']]
''Balance of Power'' is the eleventh album by the Music/ElectricLightOrchestra. Released in early 1986, it's pretty much a SwanSong for the band's original phase - this is the last album to feature ever-present drummer Bev Bevan and, until ''From Out of Nowhere'', the last to have keyboardist Richard Tandy on an official capacity.
After the TroubledProduction and subsequent underperformance of ''Secret Messages'', many of ELO's members largely moved on to production work. Jeff Lynne was more than ready to call it quits entirely, but, unfortunately, [[ResignationsNotAccepted he was still under contract to release one more ELO album.]] Not helping matters was the fact that the orchestra was already disintegrating by the time... well... ''{{Music/Time}}'' had been recorded, and after ''Secret Messages'' was released it had pretty much ceased to exist entirely. Lynne, having pretty much had more than enough of the ongoing ExecutiveMeddling, subsequently got the trio of himself, Tandy and Bevan back together to put together the album his label was demanding with seemingly more of a focus on just immolating that contractual obligation so that they could all get out of there rather than creativity. The orchestra was definitely forgotten about by that point; with the "get this released and get out of here" mentality, they opted to take TheEighties route of filling the tracks with electronic instruments. Hell, Lynne was so demotivated with ELO work at this point that he even recycled some tracks cut from ''Secret Messages'' because of, yes, you guessed it, more ExecutiveMeddling.
[[CreatorKiller The result was largely what you would expect.]]
Okay, the album didn't ''totally'' flop - it wasn't an EpicFail on the same scale as, say, [[Music/TheClash The Clash's]] Music/CutTheCrap, plus it did spawn some singles that performed quite well (notably "Calling America"). It was however returned unspectacular reviews and an even more unspectacular performance in the charts. Naturally, many fans and critics alike to this day see it as their weakest release. It is worth pointing out though that the band didn't instantly call it quits after this album was released; they embarked on one last tour during 1986 and it was only after that wrapped when ELO was finally packed up and stored away until the TurnOfTheMillennium.
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!! Tracklist:
[[AC:Side One]]
# "Heaven Only Knows" (2:52)
# "So Serious" (2:38)
# "Getting to the Point" (4:28)
# "Secret Lives" (3:26)
# "Is It Alright" (3:25)
[[AC:Side Two]]
# "Sorrow About to Fall" (3:59)
# "Without Someone" (3:48)
# "Calling America" (3:26)
# "Endless Lies" (2:55)
# "Send It" (3:04)
!!Trope it, on the wires. Trope it, on a plane. Trope it, on an express. But trope it back to me again:
* AfterTheEnd: Largely what the lyrics of "Sorrow About to Fall" are interpreted as.
* IAmTheBand: Lynne was doing the bulk of the input by this point. Though this wasn't as profound as after their reunion (Tandy and Bevan still had plenty of significant parts), it's still enough for some people to see this as a Jeff Lynne solo album in all but name.
* MinimalisticCoverArt: That definitely ''isn't'' something out of the ordinary for an ELO album.
* NewSoundAlbum: No, really, compare songs from this album with songs from their 70s albums.
* TitleOnlyChorus: This ''is'' the Music/ElectricLightOrchestra after all...
[[caption-width-right:313:''"Oh I know, it's strange, but I think that it's about to change."'']]
''Balance of Power'' is the eleventh album by the Music/ElectricLightOrchestra. Released in early 1986, it's pretty much a SwanSong for the band's original phase - this is the last album to feature ever-present drummer Bev Bevan and, until ''From Out of Nowhere'', the last to have keyboardist Richard Tandy on an official capacity.
After the TroubledProduction and subsequent underperformance of ''Secret Messages'', many of ELO's members largely moved on to production work. Jeff Lynne was more than ready to call it quits entirely, but, unfortunately, [[ResignationsNotAccepted he was still under contract to release one more ELO album.]] Not helping matters was the fact that the orchestra was already disintegrating by the time... well... ''{{Music/Time}}'' had been recorded, and after ''Secret Messages'' was released it had pretty much ceased to exist entirely. Lynne, having pretty much had more than enough of the ongoing ExecutiveMeddling, subsequently got the trio of himself, Tandy and Bevan back together to put together the album his label was demanding with seemingly more of a focus on just immolating that contractual obligation so that they could all get out of there rather than creativity. The orchestra was definitely forgotten about by that point; with the "get this released and get out of here" mentality, they opted to take TheEighties route of filling the tracks with electronic instruments. Hell, Lynne was so demotivated with ELO work at this point that he even recycled some tracks cut from ''Secret Messages'' because of, yes, you guessed it, more ExecutiveMeddling.
[[CreatorKiller The result was largely what you would expect.]]
Okay, the album didn't ''totally'' flop - it wasn't an EpicFail on the same scale as, say, [[Music/TheClash The Clash's]] Music/CutTheCrap, plus it did spawn some singles that performed quite well (notably "Calling America"). It was however returned unspectacular reviews and an even more unspectacular performance in the charts. Naturally, many fans and critics alike to this day see it as their weakest release. It is worth pointing out though that the band didn't instantly call it quits after this album was released; they embarked on one last tour during 1986 and it was only after that wrapped when ELO was finally packed up and stored away until the TurnOfTheMillennium.
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!! Tracklist:
[[AC:Side One]]
# "Heaven Only Knows" (2:52)
# "So Serious" (2:38)
# "Getting to the Point" (4:28)
# "Secret Lives" (3:26)
# "Is It Alright" (3:25)
[[AC:Side Two]]
# "Sorrow About to Fall" (3:59)
# "Without Someone" (3:48)
# "Calling America" (3:26)
# "Endless Lies" (2:55)
# "Send It" (3:04)
!!Trope it, on the wires. Trope it, on a plane. Trope it, on an express. But trope it back to me again:
* AfterTheEnd: Largely what the lyrics of "Sorrow About to Fall" are interpreted as.
* IAmTheBand: Lynne was doing the bulk of the input by this point. Though this wasn't as profound as after their reunion (Tandy and Bevan still had plenty of significant parts), it's still enough for some people to see this as a Jeff Lynne solo album in all but name.
* MinimalisticCoverArt: That definitely ''isn't'' something out of the ordinary for an ELO album.
* NewSoundAlbum: No, really, compare songs from this album with songs from their 70s albums.
* TitleOnlyChorus: This ''is'' the Music/ElectricLightOrchestra after all...
