- rock, art rock
- 53 min
- 12 tracks
- Epic
Face the Music is the fifth studio album by Electric Light Orchestra (ELO). It was released in September 1975 by United Artists Records and on 14 November 1975 in the United Kingdom by Jet Records.
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Character
Grave, spare, character-led and contemporary.
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
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- AllMusic4/5 ★
- Encyclopedia of Popular Music4/5 ★
- The Music Box3/5 ★
- MusicHound3.5/5
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide3/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1Fire on High5:32
- 2Waterfall4:12
- 3Evil Woman4:30
- 4Nightrider4:26
- 5Poker3:32
- 6Strange Magic4:30
- 7Down Home Town3:55
- 8One Summer Dream5:51
- 9Fire on High Intro (early alternative mix)3:23
- 10Evil Woman (stripped down mix)5:00
- 11Strange Magic (U.S. single edit)3:28
- 12Waterfall (instrumental mix)4:15
12 tracks, 53 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Electric Light Orchestra
- Label
- Epic
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- US
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