Across the Border
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- Action
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- Title
- Across the Border
- Song Artist
- Electric Light Orchestra
- Album Artist
- Electric Light Orchestra
- Album
- Out of the Blue
- Composer
- Jeff Lynne
- Genres
- Rock
- Track
- 4
- Disk
- 1
- Disk Subtitle
- Year
- 1990
- Original Year
- Length
- 3:53
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- Comment
- "Why do people need a Beatles reunion", Paul McCartney once wondered aloud, "when they've already got ELO?" It was a fair question: Jeff Lynne's obsessive enthusiasm for the Sgt. Pepper's-era Fab Four saw him appropriate entire harmonic and melodic structures from his heroes--carefully substituting sawing cello lines for guitar riffs and sweetening already-friendly chords with syrupy layers of strings. The double-album Out Of The Blue was released the same year Britain was galvanised by punk--though you'd never know it. One could argue that Lynne simply wasn't aware of the tectonic shifts going on around him, such was his desire to craft his band's most definitive musical statement, including a four-part "Concerto for a Rainy Day"--precisely the kind of thing the Clash and the Sex Pistols wanted to abolish. Boasting a string of catchy, instantly memorable pop tunes, very much in the traditional ELO mould ("Turn To Stone", "Mr. Blue Sky"), it also saw, in "Sweet Talkin' Woman", a discreet acknowledgement of (gasp!) disco. How very modern. --Andrew McGuire
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- Bitrate
- 312-CBR
- Channels
- 2
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- 0
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- 0
- Last Updated
- 1/29/24, 4:50 PM
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- 1/27/24, 8:04 AM
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