Title: Midnight Blue
Product review: ELO released the three disc set Afterglow on June 15, 1990. The three disc set includes hits mixed in with album tracks and rarities. The box comes with a booklet and each disc has it's own letter on it: first disc E second disc L and third O. It really isn't a bad collection and has selections from the first couple of albums which is quite nice. However, it does feel like it falls a little short and could've been better. The album Eldorado gets somewhat stiffed and there's no Fire On High. I think part of the problem here is that they had to make room for the rarities and unreleased cuts which are mostly from the Secret Messages sessions. Secret Messages was originally planned as two lp set and quite a few of those end up here. While nice, this also gives the box a disproportionate amount of songs from this era. This box would've worked a bit better had they made it a four cd set. Perhaps with three for the released stuff and one for the unreleased stuff with more rarities.
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