ELO - Time
I cheerfully admit I was prompted into buying some ELO by watching Love and Monsters on Doctor Who last year. The reason I bought this one was that I've actually got it on vinyl from back when I was in school and picked it up cheap. It's a very sci-fi album, lots of songs about the end of the world, robots, time, etc with synthesizers, vocoders and other high tech (for the mid-70's) music equipment. But all done in the usual ELO (over the top, singalong) style.
A mark of its impact is that the first few times I played it, Joe pretty much ignored it. Then I put it in the CD carousel in the car when we went home at Christmas. It didn't get played then, in fact, but it did a while later when he was on his own and on the way back from Chelmsford and was a big hit. Thinking about it, it is kind of designed for playing in cars, catchy tunes and production that plays well on small speakers and really cuts through the car noise in the way that more delicate music can't.
Yep, all true. The Electric Light Orchestra back catalogue was played to death by friends during the late seventies and early eighties, before I fell into the murky world of electro-pop. Twilight is just the business; it's the best bit of the album in my opinion.