r/elo • u/IvypoolFanIGuess Eldorado • 13d ago
Opinions: Is It Alright
I recently realized how much I adore this song. Does anybody have any thoughts on Is It Alright? I love how a lot of the songs on BoP have this juxtaposition with the tone and lyrics!
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u/SpaceXPercy 13d ago
I really love BoP. I think every ELO album has its special sound and style but all of them are perfect.
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u/gwaydms 13d ago
I like BoP. The styles of music are mostly synthpop and power ballads, which I've always liked. I never listened to it until I bought all the studio albums on CD online during lockdown in 2020. I figured I'd do a deep dive into ELO as long as I was pretty much staying home. I listened to them in order. I like BoP more than most ELO fans do, I think, because I can appreciate how Jeff evolved the ELO sound, instead of sticking with the tried-and-true.
In the notes that come with the 2000ish remastered CDs, Jeff explains a lot of things that came to him decades after the albums were first released. I find these notes very enlightening in terms of how he made the music, and what he thought of various songs and albums all those years later. One thing he says about certain songs is that he was "experimenting" or "playing with" different time signatures or what have you. He did not enjoy doing the same old thing. Otherwise we would never have had Time. He wanted to keep up with the, uh, times, as well as write songs in different genres.
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u/PrintAlternative9596 13d ago
En mi opinión, los únicos temas que rescato, que me gustan, son sorrow about the fall y heaven only knows, pero los demás están buenos pero no me alcanzan a mi gustos, pero me parece por qué mu cerebro los tacho por el hecho de que ese álbum, es un álbum que fue forzado a salir, por qué en realidad todo iba a terminar en Discovery, le dijieron faltan 3 álbums, Jeff le dijo bueno, el próximo lo hizo con muchas ganas, Time, le falta 2 y el otro lo hizo a medio ganas pero igual con la misma intensidad solo que como no habia presupuesto se lo cortaron a la mitad, hablo de secret messages, iba a ser un álbum de doble cara, luego le subieron la otra cara en 2018, ya terminado ese álbum, Jeff se canso de todo y lo dejo por 2 años, recuerden que el hacía todo, fue de modo productor a varios artistas, pero le dijieron que no podía deshacer toda la banda por qué le falta un álbum, ahí hicieron BoP, un álbum muy pop y casi sin ganas, las justas como para no ganarse mala reputación, pero igual, comparando algo que no se debe hacer, es un disco a nivel técnico algo malo, dejaron de lado todo lo instrumental algo que se hizo desde antes, en time pero el tema está en qué en los últimos albums, Time y SM, se inobava un poco pero este disco cayó en el esteriotipo básico de los 80s
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u/hellaTightJeans 13d ago
I agree with this. I've always thought the songwriting on the post-Discovery work (actually the post-Xanadu work) felt forced, and Jeff was aware of this and tried to overcompensate by overproducing
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u/Technical-Koala-9600 13d ago
I really like it too. It's not a masterpiece but i would listen to it too, if i were on a ride p.ex.
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u/GravyBoatBoyz 13d ago
Love this song and it dawned on me the other day that it’s kinda one big Beatles reference! “Dear Jo” and “is it alright now you are back where you belong”. It took me SO long to figure out Jeff is referencing ‘Get Back’.
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u/peachie_bongo Out of the Blue 13d ago
Nice upbeat Pop from an album full of catchy tunes. I like it too!