Jeff Lynnes Elo Blue Vinyl From Out of Nowhere

		From Out Of Nowhere	3:15
		Help Yourself	3:14
		All My Love	3:06
		Down Came The Rain	3:29
		Losing You	3:36
		One More Time	3:28
		Sci-Fi Woman	3:06
		Goin' Out On Me	3:09
		Time Of Our Life	3:10
		Songbird	3:08

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The fourteenth studio album by Electric Light Orchestra, and the second to be released under the Jeff Lynne's ELO alias.

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	From Out Of Nowhere CD, Album	Columbia – 19075987102	US	2019	US — 2019
	From Out Of Nowhere LP, Album, Stereo Blue, 180g	Columbia – 19075997131, Columbia – C-233673, Big Trilby Records – 19075997131, Big Trilby Records – C-233673 +2 more labels...	Europe	2019	Europe — 2019			New Submission
	From Out Of Nowhere LP, Album, Deluxe Edition, Limited Edition, Stereo Gold, 180 Gram, Gatefold Sleeve	Columbia – 19075987131, Columbia – C-233675, Big Trilby Records – 19075987131, Big Trilby Records – C-233675 +2 more labels...	Europe	2019	Europe — 2019			New Submission
	From Out Of Nowhere CD, Album Blu-spec CD2	Sony Records Int'l – SICP 31312, Big Trilby Records – SICP 31312	Japan	2019	Japan — 2019			Recently Edited
	From Out Of Nowhere LP, Album, Stereo	Columbia – 19075987121, Big Trilby Records – 19075987121, Sony Music – 19075987121 +1 more label...	Europe	2019	Europe — 2019
	From Out Of Nowhere CD, Album	Columbia – 19075987102, Big Trilby Records – 19075987102, Sony Music – 19075987102 +1 more label...	Europe	2019	Europe — 2019
	From Out Of Nowhere LP, Album, Stereo	Columbia – 19075987121, Columbia – C-233673, Big Trilby Records – 19075987121, Big Trilby Records – C-233673 +2 more labels...	US	2019	US — 2019
	From Out Of Nowhere CD, Album Cardsleeve	Columbia – 19075987112	Europe	2019	Europe — 2019			New Submission
	From Out Of Nowhere 10 × File, FLAC, Album 96kHz/24bit	Columbia – 19075987102	Europe	2019	Europe — 2019			New Submission
	From Out Of Nowhere LP, Album, Deluxe Edition, Stereo Gold 180 gram, Gatefold sleeve	Columbia – 19075987131, Columbia – C-233675, Big Trilby Records – 19075987131, Big Trilby Records – C-233675 +2 more labels...	US	2019	US — 2019			New Submission
	From Out Of Nowhere CD, Album, Unofficial Release	Columbia (2) – 19075987112, Big Trilby Records (2) – 19075987112, Sony Music (2) – 19075987112 +1 more label...	Russia	2019	Russia — 2019			New Submission
	From Out Of Nowhere CD, Album	Columbia – 19075987102, Big Trilby Records – 19075987102, Sony Music – 19075987102 +1 more label...	Australia	2019	Australia — 2019			New Submission
	From Out Of Nowhere LP, Album, Picture Disc	Columbia – 19075995361, Big Trilby Records – 19075995361	UK & Europe	2019	UK & Europe — 2019			New Submission
	From Out Of Nowhere CD, Album Digipak	Columbia – 19075987112	US	2019	US — 2019			New Submission
	From Out Of Nowhere CD, Album	Columbia – 19075987102, Big Trilby Records – 19075987102, Sony Music – 19075987102 +1 more label...	Canada	2019	Canada — 2019			New Submission
	From Out Of Nowhere CD, Album, Promo Blu-spec CD2	Sony Records Int'l – SICP 31312, Big Trilby Records – SICP 31312	Japan	2019	Japan — 2019			New Submission
	From Out Of Nowhere CDr, Album, Promo, Sampler	Sony Records Int'l – none, Big Trilby Records – none	Japan	2019	Japan — 2019			New Submission
	From Out Of Nowhere CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue Blu-Spec CD2, Cardboard Sleeve	Sony Records Int'l – SICP 31451, Big Trilby Records – SICP 31451	Japan	2021	Japan — 2021			New Submission
	From Out Of Nowhere CD, Album, Limited Edition, Promo, Reissue Blu-Spec CD2, Cardboard Sleeve	Sony Records Int'l – SICP 31451, Big Trilby Records – SICP 31451	Japan	2021	Japan — 2021			New Submission

Against my better judgement, I gave this pressing a try. It helped that it was $10 & change brand new. Tight center hole, check. At least it doesn't pull off my platter when trying to remove the vinyl. Warped? Not so much, perhaps a tiny shimmy on side 2 which doesn't affect playback. The pressing is ever so slightly off-center which again, doesn't affect playback. However, I have to agree that this I just just sounds dull. I cannot think of a better way to describe it. So even if you dodge the obvious issues, your ears still won't be in for a sonic treat.

But at least the songs are nice and the lenticular cover is absolutely terrific.

This pressing sounds very distant like a recording of a recording. Put on the Pallas pressing of Fleetwood Mac's Rumors and then play this...night and day difference in quality. I was hoping for better from Jeff Lynne.

Purchased a listening copy after I'd received the Gold Vinyl release and it is eons better in regards to sound quality. Out of the package there was a skip on Sc-Fi Woman, but giving it a wash in my spin clean removed the blemish.
The sleeve itself, with most modern releases did not survive the shipping process well but I do not blame the postal service or the seller, sleeves these days are generally cheaper quality. Same goes for the inner sleeve, which had a split on the bottom right upon opening.

Of the 10 songs on this album, only 6-7 remain regular mainstays on my personal playlists or whenever I give the album a spin. Side 1 is exemplary, with my only gripe being the sudden and startling ending to "Help Yourself". Once Side 2 rolls around, that's where my interest peters off. "One More Time" and "Sci-Fi Woman" are both great in their own right, with the latter being my second most played song off the album. After those two I just lose interest, "Time Of Our Life" is woefully cringey, "Songbird" and "Goin' Out On Me" aren't bad, but just don't fit at all with the rest of the album.

I'll appreciate and love this album for what it is, and to me, it's 7 great songs to recommend to friends and to bond with again with my father, who was the first to bring the Electric Light into my life.

Edited one year ago

As far as music goes, album is solid. If you're an ELO fan, you won't be disappointed. 3D-Lenticular cover and gold vinyl are cool. Vinyl (at least on paper) done properly, which is extremely rare nowadays. Mastered by Bob Ludwig, lacquer cut by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering. These names are always like a seal of top quality. Sadly, not in this case. And it is not their fault. Whoever Columbia chose to press this Deluxe Edition have no quality control whatsoever: hole is too small to fit on any record player, side B has about a dosen of non-fill spots, overall sound is pretty dull. Just received a replacement from Amazon - all issues are still there! I don't know if European pressing has the same issues, or if regular black vinyl any better.

Edited 2 years ago

Purchased mine through Amazon who listed it as 180 gram black vinyl and there is no entry for it on here and hyper-sticker has 19075987121 S1 .

On my first copy on side 2, the last two tracks have some nasty distortion. Got a replacement copy which had this too but not as bad as the first one. Unfortunately the replacement copy had a warp in it which caused my record player to skip.
The quality control doesn't seem to great on these.

Craftsmanship of making records is totally abandoned here. Hard to imagine worst pressing. Avoid.

Horrible Record !!! Quality of sound not acceptable at all !

Edited 2 years ago

A couple of decades ago, Frank Sinatra, whom by then was talking his way though all of his songs, decided to record music with a variety of contemporary artists … the result was terrible. Paul McCartney's last few releases have offered nothing, nor did Springsteen, yet alone the Rolling Stones, leaving me to suggest that just because an artist is alive, perhaps they shouldn't be putting out records, as they've nothing to say.

When all reviews coming from such places as the Guardian have to say is, "Like its predecessor Alone in the Universe, this album is entirely good natured, firmly in the lineage of classic ELO, without quite hitting the highs of the past." See, right there, that tells you a few things … first that the record is not as good as ELO albums, while in the same breath telling you the substantial material from all ELO albums revolved solely around the hits.

From out of Nowhere wants to be a good album, perhaps even aspiring to greatness, though it's neither, merely a wistfulness of what once was, a super saturated sound compiled from overly layered harmonies along with hollow retro instrumentation that come across as distant echos, sounding frail and filled with manufactured (for what it is) perfection that is anything but. The weathered and battered spaceship hanging motionless on the album jacket should be a clue as to what you're getting, nothing new, just romanticized remnants of what perhaps once was … nothing bold fresh or essential.

There is no historic legacy here, not of the Beatles, a band Jeff dearly wanted to be a member of, or even the good natured rocking of the Traveling Wilburys. Others claim that some might decry these fluffy clouds as easygoing in their nature, where for millions, this assemblage will serve as affirmation, if not reassurance that some things in this world never change. But things have changed, there's not a 'keeper' on this record for me, Lynne's lost his blueprint to the point where a competent ELO cover band could have written better material in keeping with the spirit of the past.

If that's not enough for you, Jeff plays nearly everything on each track, then assembles a thirteen member touring band featuring several keyboard players, a collection of string players along with a handful of others to re-create this bliss-less outing. It's as if Lynne threw everything into the washer, where the colours faded and ran, then into the dryer, where everything shrunk into un-recognition, sounding lonely, longing for something so far out of reach that it's impossible to attain … nevertheless, like the Rolling Stones, who have at least one more tour in them, Jeff Lynne is bound and determined to revel in the glory of what almost once was, allowing his spaceship to crash on the outer edges of some distant galaxy and burn, while taking the blue flamed endearing memories of anything worthwhile with it.

Review by Jenell Kesler

yet another excellent go with Jeff Lynne, and his ELO, which is him in every instrument on the record. The great Richard Tandy has a killer rock piano solo on One More Time. On inner sleeve typo with Steven Joy as Emingined?

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