Time Electric Light Orchestra

“Elo’s time machine is stalled somewhere between ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ and ‘Star Trek’, yet as long as Jeff Lynne’s future-vision Beatlemania comes in near-perfect Top Forty spurts, why moan? Time’s thematic conceit (supposedly a look backward from the twenty-first century) is pretty superfluous: the synthesized rock & roll cellos in “Hold On Tight” and the Spanish stroll of “The Way Life’s Meant to Be” make those tunes all-weather singles for the here and now. And you can’t help but wonder what the endless bottom of “Another Heart Breaks” might do to the slow dancers out on the killing floor.” - Deborah Frost, Rolling Stone