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Many readers are probably familiar with Electric Light Orchestra, more commonly known as ELO, and the band\u2019s leader and main songwriter Jeff Lynne. Even if those names sound only vaguely familiar, most of Gen Z would recognize the song “Mr. Blue Sky“, <\/em>featured in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. II <\/em>(2017). ELO has a unique sound that draws inspiration from earlier rock \u2018n\u2019 roll bands like the Beatles; their style mixes synthesized rock\/pop and classical music, creating a discography that\u2019s simultaneously diverse and unified, and their music continues to enjoy successful streaming on top apps like Spotify (what, they weren\u2019t in anyone\u2019s else\u2019s Top 5 Artists last year?).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The double album Out of the Blue <\/em>(1977), <\/em>their most commercially successful album, might be the one most familiar to 2023 listeners\u2014after all, “Mr. Blue Sky” <\/em>is off that album. It\u2019s a great piece of art, no doubt, but there\u2019s another album I\u2019d like to call your attention to, one that often gets swept under the rug (although it broke out on top of the UK Albums Chart in its prime). Time <\/em>(1981) <\/em>can best be described as an epic space opera about a man who has been transported from 1981 to the year 2095, thrown into a strange futuristic world that he cannot return from. He feels cheated out of the reality he should have had back in his present, where he has left his lover behind, and it is to her that many of the songs are addressed. The story that Time <\/em>tells is concise and vivid, complete with an emotional arc, and it\u2019s my personal belief that the songs, although excellent on their own, are enjoyed best within the context of the album to understand the story at play.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The album opens with \u201cPrologue,\u201d a flurry of odd synthesized sounds. A distorted voice, distinctly different from any other voice we hear on the album, proclaims: \u201cI have a message from another time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is the voice speaking to us, the audience, who \u201ctread the halls of sanity\u201d and are \u201cunable to go beyond,\u201d  or to the man, who presumably may be dreaming, warning him of the world that is \u201cjust beyond the border of [his] waking mind\u201d? Both? With this strange opening to set the tone, the second track, \u201cTwilight,\u201d is from the perspective of the man; he feels out of control and swept up by whatever force took him there: \u201cWith your head held high and your scarlet lies \/ You came down to me from the open skies.\u201d The speaker muses that he \u201conly meant to stay awhile,\u201d as if he did choose this adventure, even if it\u2019s all a \u201cdream,\u201d but suddenly realizes that his return to his own time is uncertain, perhaps impossible. \u201cYou brought me here, but can you take me back again?\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTwilight\u201d blends into the next track, \u201cYours Truly, 2095.\u201d In the future, the man encounters a kind of robot or android woman who looks similar in appearance to his 1981 lover but is cold and emotionless in comparison. He misses his lover too much to become seduced by the future (\u201cI don’t know where you are \/ But I miss you so much till then\u201d). The man doesn\u2019t deny that he finds the woman attractive\u2014\u201cShe tells me that she likes me very much \/ But when I try to touch \/ She makes it all too clear\u201d\u2014but she\u2019s an uncanny valley of a person, an empty shell with a \u201cheart of stone.\u201d The woman asks (in a voice eerily reminiscent of Siri 30 years before its release), \u201cIs that what you want?\u201d over and over again. Even though the man is enticed by the future, this new world is not really what he wants.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following this is \u201cTicket to the Moon,\u201d where the man is on a \u201cone-way\u201d trip to the moon, an experience he knows he should be happy about, but he\u2019d rather be back with his lover in 1981 (\u201cYeah, I\u2019ve got a ticket to the moon \/ But I\u2019d rather see the sunrise in your eyes\u201d). This shows a begrudging acceptance of the speaker\u2019s fate, one he feels he is partially responsible for: \u201cI paid the fare, what more can I say?\u201d It\u2019s almost like he has no choice but to keep heading deeper into the future. This melancholic acceptance continues into \u201cThe Way Life\u2019s Meant to Be,\u201d which depicts the man wandering through the same streets of his hometown that he once knew so well, but now has been forever changed by time. \u201cAs I gaze around at these strangers in town \/ I guess the only stranger is me.\u201d The man experiences a strange discomfort in the defamiliarized environment: \u201cAnd when I see what they\u2019ve done to this place that was home \/ Shame is all that I feel.\u201d He\u2019s accepted his place in the future, knowing that there is no way to change it as he says, \u201cToo late, too late to cry, the people say,\u201d but he resents this fate. The people of the future call out to him, \u201cLook and see the wonders of our world,\u201d yet the speaker still cannot be swayed, reminiscing about 1981 and dreaming of his lover, \u201cJust to see your face instead of this place.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnother Heart Breaks\u201d follows a mostly instrumental track with \u201cAnother heart breaks\u201d being the only words spoken with the sound of a heartbeat flatlining towards the beginning. In physical record form, this is the last track on Side One, symbolizing a change in the man\u2019s mentality. In \u201cRain is Falling,\u201d beginning on Side Two, the man almost seems to develop a bitter and resentful tone. He\u2019s not merely sad anymore; he\u2019s almost apathetic about his situation as he watches the rain as if it were an ordinary day in 1981: \u201cNothing\u2019s really changed.\u201d The song is interspersed with nursery rhymes like \u201cRain, rain, go away\u201d and \u201cIt\u2019s raining, it\u2019s pouring, the old man is snoring.\u201d \u201cBut with all their great inventions \/ And all their good intentions, here I stay,\u201d the speaker states. Even though the future is full of wonder and innovation, the one thing it can\u2019t do is bring him back home; therefore, it\u2019s useless to him.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFrom the End of the World\u201d solidifies the change in mood. Up until this point, the speaker has felt wonder, sadness, regret, and resentful bitterness about his situation, but here, he becomes cynical. Speaking to his lover, who is now only a memory, he criticizes her: \u201cOh, you, you\u2019re so hard to get to \/ Oh, you, you don\u2019t wanna play.\u201d He \u201csent a dream last night\u201d to her, or a letter, from the future, but whatever attempts he\u2019s made at getting in contact with his lover, in dreams or otherwise, it\u2019s not working. She cannot answer him and does not know where he is, but somehow, he feels led on and abandoned by her: \u201cOh, you, you keep me hangin\u2019 \/ \u2018Round and \u2018round and \u2018round and \u2018round.\u201d The anger feels less directed at his true lover, but at his desire to see her, and how that desire falls flat in the face of reality. The singer\u2019s voice disappears into a synthesizer on the last word, perhaps representing the man\u2019s integration into the future.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Lights Go Down\u201d may be thought of as the man\u2019s final love letter to the past, either to his lover or to 1981 itself.  \u201cI know the way that I feel is wrong, so wrong \/ But I gotta carry on \/ When you ain’t around.\u201d The tone shift is sudden as if the man has been trying to pretend through the last two tracks that he doesn\u2019t care anymore, but now it\u2019s all too clear that he\u2019s still hurting, asserting \u201cI need you\u201d and \u201cI love you, baby.\u201d  \u201cTime rolls away,\u201d though, and there\u2019s nothing he can do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHere is the News\u201d moves to eliminate the man\u2019s personal voice and takes on the format of a futuristic newscast about regular meteor showers, a cure for \u201crocket lag\u201d (as opposed to our contemporary jet lag), and the newsflash that \u201csomeone left their life behind in a plastic bag.\u201d Still, the remnants of the man\u2019s voice remain with the line \u201cI wanna go home, I want my baby back.\u201d The next track, \u201c21st Century Man,\u201d completely becomes the voices of the future. They try to persuade the man that since he is now a 21st century man,<\/em> he can do \u201cmost anything;\u201d they fail to understand why he isn\u2019t happy with the future. \u201cThough you ride on the wheels of tomorrow \/ You still wander the fields of your sorrow,\u201d they observe and insist that he should be happy and glad.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHold On Tight,\u201d the penultimate track, comes as an unexpectedly upbeat and cheery song in comparison to the events of the album. Whether these are the voices of the future, telling the man to keep his chin up, or the voices of the past, assuring him that there is still hope, we aren\u2019t sure: \u201cWhen you see your ship go sailing \/ When you feel your heart is breaking \/ Hold on tight to your dream.\u201d The man\u2019s \u201cdream\u201d can only be to return home\u2014so, even though a round-trip to the future is supposedly impossible, could it be that he can go back to 1981?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The album itself, as originally released, doesn\u2019t seem to have a definitive answer to this. It ends, somewhat abruptly, with the epilogue, repeating words from \u201c21st Century Man\u201d and, mysteriously, the phrase, \u201cAnd he arrives on this day of all days \/ May the world still remember him.\u201d Is this the man waking up from his dream?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is no catharsis for this question unless we look at the three bonus tracks which were released on the 2001 remaster of the album. \u201cThe Bouncer\u201d clearly shows the man on the verge of returning home, ecstatic to see his lover,  \u201cDo you remember, you said to me \/ That you would wait, wait for me eternally?\u201d The second bonus track, \u201cWhen Time Stood Still,\u201d seems to portray the man\u2019s journey backwards; he enters a sort of limbo, with \u201cNo big machine or April showers \/ No submarines, no plastic flowers;\u201d in other words, nothing. The tragic end to the story is in the final bonus track, \u201cJulie Don\u2019t Live Here.\u201d He goes to his lover\u2019s house only to find that everything has changed since he\u2019s been gone and she has since moved away, presumably moving on with her life and leaving him behind. \u201cBut things have changed \/ Everything I ever knew \/ Was gone or rearranged.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It seems like it would have been better had he stayed in the future after all; how he will deal with this loss is not the point of the story. This unexpected turn, which again is only comprehensible through the bonus tracks, reveals the true underlying message of the album: that time is unstoppable, even with the power of technology, and that things cannot go back to the way they were no matter how hard you try. In 1981, fear of the future and new technology, as well as the fear of losing what once was, were both very prevalent. Those fears have been the same throughout human history, and we continue to have them today. But time doesn\u2019t stop. Are we brave enough to accept change? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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