ELO's Commercial Peak

Review Score: (6/10)
ELO hit their sales peak with the massive hit "Don't Bring Me Down," from the album "Discovery." And while the song is one of their best, the album it is drawn from is inconsistant at best. Other songs that stand out include the catchy "Last Train to London," "Shine a Little Love," and "Confusion," all worthy follow ups to "Don't Bring Me Down." The rest is a peculiar mixed bag of filler material including the really awful "The Diary of Horace Wimp," which represents leader Jeff Lynne's songwriting at its most theatrically horrid. Note that the best songs here are also available on ELO's various anthology albums.

Overall, an uneven album that contains some very good songs.

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