NOSTALGIA TRIP: Electric Light Orchestra - "A New World Record"
I never thought of myself as a fan of Electric Light Orchestra. As a child of the '80s (born in 1976), like many others I fell in love with music in tandem with the meteoric rise of music videos and, as such, my exposure to music pre-1983 or so was limited to chance encounters with a radio on in the background or hearing something my older siblings were spinning. That said, I'm pretty sure my first exposure to E.L.O. was in the form of 1979 single Don't Bring Me Down (though I couldn't tell you for the life of me when I actually heard it, since I was basically a toddler when it came out and my formative music years tend to blur together from this far away). Anyway, I remember hearing it way back when and then never really encountering the band's music on a meaningful level again, save for the odd single playing on the radio. By the time I was fully grown, I knew three of four of the hits and that was the extent of my "fandom". That's because, by the...
