"Definitive E.L.O."

Review Score: (10/10)
I would definately call this album the definitive E.L.O. Probably contains the most ever popular and/or charting singles released from the band. Had the 8Track cartridge, STILL have the double UA/Jet LPs! And since it wasn't so very long running time on the two LPs, nice that it's able to fit on a single CD. I kept wanting to start playing from "Concerto for a rainy day" (always played that vinyl side most actually..) but couldn't find it on cd, because eventually noticing there's a track/index marker missing here, that should be at end of "stepping out", so instead you get "stepping out" with a silence pause, and into "standing in the rain", making one long time total for stepping out, and throwing the number sequence off, the most obvious. I thought something was up when I advanced to get to "standing in the rain" but got "big wheels" instead. Was able to fix this and make my own new corrected disc. Has anyone else noticed this, or was it limited to certain pressing batches?

This CD is THE sound of E.L.O., also love the Time disc.. and of course you have to have "Greatest Hits"!

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