No, you aren't saying it right! Even a single listen-through to this album will have you swapping the inflection and you'll be calling it Disco?Very! for the rest of your days.
This is my only ELO album, lured into a purchase by being a sucker for their #1 hit of all time, "Don't Bring Me Down". As a whole, this is a one-band disco party, complete with floor burners like the aforementioned song, "Last Train to London", and the opener "Shine a Little Love", and then for the more tender moments, slow dance classics like "Midnight Blue" and "Need Her Love". The band almost reeks of overconfidence in their music, blissfully unaware of the punk fires burning down in the basement while they grace the penthouse.
Even with these criticisms logged, this was a high point for ELO, yet events were already in motion that would lead to their disbanding in the mid-1980's. The "orchestra" was jettisoned, then outright sacked in favor of session strings beginning with this album. Drummer Bev Bevan would, strangely, find himself involved with Black Sabbath just a few years after this album. Talk about a change of scenery!
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