It could have been better, but it’s not all that bad, really, when it comes down to it. The only problem is the album is just not that memorable. Then again, ELO probably wasn’t really all that memorable in the first place, but they were almost always nice to listen to, and the Jeff Lynne album, Armchair Theatre, seems like Jeff Lynne, contrary to expectations, is the real survivor of the Move — an English rock band that did some highly regarded material (”Fire Brigade” springs to mind as does “Flowers in the Rain”) and then did a side project called the Electric Light Orchestra (a reference to the BBC’s Light Program, featuring, of course, the BBC Light Orchestra.
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