Sobre el álbum
El álbum Eldorado, de 1974, es la obra que marca el primer gran punto de inflexión artístico de la ELO. Por consiguiente, en este trabajo, Jeff Lynne decide por primera vez utilizar una orquesta sinfónica completa en todo el disco, creando una obra conceptual sobre el mundo de los sueños. De hecho, es su primer álbum de rock sinfónico en toda regla y una de sus obras maestras.
Por lo tanto, el sonido del álbum es espectacular y cinematográfico. La fusión entre la banda de rock y la orquesta es total, creando paisajes sonoros de una belleza y una grandilocuencia extraordinarias. Como resultado, 'Eldorado' es una experiencia auditiva inmersiva.
Además, el álbum contiene la que es, para muchos, la mejor balada de su carrera: "Can't Get It Out of My Head". Esta canción, con su melodía melancólica y su suntuoso arreglo orquestal, se convirtió en su primer gran éxito en Estados Unidos y demostró el genio de Lynne como compositor.
En definitiva, 'Eldorado' es el disco en el que la ELO encuentra su verdadera voz. Es una obra de una belleza y una ambición que sentó las bases de todos los éxitos que estaban por venir.
Listado de Canciones
- Eldorado Overture
Letra
The dreamer, the unwoken fool, In dreams, no pain will kiss the brow. The love of ages fills the head. The days that linger there in prey of emptiness, of burned out dreams. The minutes calling through the years. The universal dreamer rises up above his earthly burden. Journey to the dead of night. High on a hill in Eldorado. - Can't Get It Out Of My Head
- Boy Blue
Letra
Hey Boy Blue, can't you hear all the noise. It's for you, all the town's waiting there. Let us go, there's a show like you ain't seen before. Welcome home, where you been all these years. Look around, all the crowd is in tears. It's so good to see you in the streets of your town. CHORUS Hey Boy Blue is back. Hey Boy Blue is back. Hey Boy Blue is back. Hey Boy Blue is back. Hey Boy Blue is back. Hey Boy Blue is back. I've see bold knights, dropping down like flies. I've see kings, rolling in the mire, I've seen God, point the finger of doom to our foes. I have fought in the holiest wars, I have smashed, some of the holiest jaws. I've been jailed, been impaled, and been dragged through the world. One thing, I have learned through these years, Is that no man, should be stricken with fear. It should be that he walks with no care in the world. So my friends, who are gathered today, Hear this clear, for I'll not further say, That no man, shall cause me to take up arms again. CHORUS - Laredo Tornado
Letra
Summer days, where did you go, You've let me down so bad, Clouds fill the sky, Gone is the dream My happy hunting ground Wild buffalo played and I never saw a rainy day. But it looks like summer days ain't coming back. March April May, June and July, You took me for a fall. Big chief he lie. Cold wind blows cool, so cold to make you die. Mountain breeze, ocean bay and I never saw a rainy day. But it looks like them summer days ain't coming back. CHORUS Laredo Tornado, Adios amigos. What can you do, when your dream world is gone. And your friends and lovers too. West Winter Street under the ground, The air that makes you choke, Towers of concrete, hellish go-round, Were there when I awoke. City sky, pouring down with rain That can never hope to ease the pain. And it looks like summer days ain't coming back. CHORUS x 2 - Poorboy (The Greenwood)
- Mister Kingdom
Letra
Daylight comes to those who live But those who die they never see The sun come shining throught their window pane They pass away. Silly girl to be a fool You didn?t play the golden rule 'Cos once you're through with one world Theres another waiting there Chorus: Help me such a lonely soul In dreams To leave behind the world. Mr. Kindom help me please To find the rainbows end Looking from this empty room The corridors of endless gloom Go crawling through the night To meet the dawn that's on its way. Oh to sleep, per-chance to dream. To live again those joyous scenes. The laughter and the follies That are locked inside my head. Chorus: I can dream of flying high Above the city's cares and never be afraid of anyone 'Cos there ain't no one there Chorus: Two Times - Nobody's Child
- Illusions In G
- Eldorado
Letra
Here it comes, another lonely day, playing the game, I'll sail away on a voyage of no return to see if eternal life is meant to be and if I find the key to the eternal dream. The painted ladies of the Avalon play in the sun, take to the road, to the North there lies the chills of cold, to the South there lies the tales untold. But in between there lies the place to close your eyes. And I will stay, I'll not be back, Eldorado. I will be free of the world, Eldorado. Say goodbye, the city's heroes sing, bird on the wing feel, feel so free through the life upon the rooftop haze, all the cheating and the broken days. So through it all I see there's nothing left for me. So I will stay, I'll not be back, Eldorado. I will be free of the world, Eldorado. Sitting here on top of everywhere, what do I care. Days never end, I know the voyage's end will soon be here, no eternal life is here for me. And now I found the key to the eternal dream. Then I will stay, I'll not be back, Eldorado. I will be free of the world, Eldorado. Then I will stay. - Eldorado - Finale