ELO's Greatest Hits

ELO's Greatest Hits
Greatest hits album by
Electric Light Orchestra
Released23 November 1979
RecordedApril 1973–August 1977
Length44:50
Label
ProducerJeff Lynne
Electric Light Orchestra chronology
Discovery
(1979) 		ELO's Greatest Hits
(1979) 		A Box of Their Best
(1980)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Christgau's Record GuideB+[2]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]
MusicHound3/5[4]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[5]
Record Mirror[6]

ELO's Greatest Hits is a compilation by the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), released 23 November 1979.[7][8] Despite being released after the album Discovery, this album omitted the band's most recent hits, "Don't Bring Me Down" and "Shine a Little Love".

The album sleeve art features a letter written by the band's co-founder and leader, Jeff Lynne, describing the '73–'78 period and the recording of each of the songs.

  1. ^ ELO's Greatest Hits at AllMusic
  2. ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: E". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved 24 February 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  3. ^ Larkin, Colin, ed. (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th edn). London: Omnibus Press. p. 916. ISBN 978-0-85712-595-8.
  4. ^ Graff, Gary; Durchholz, Daniel, eds. (1999). MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Farmington Hills, MI: Visible Ink Press. p. 382. ISBN 1-57859-061-2.
  5. ^ Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian, eds. (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th edn). New York, NY: Fireside/Simon & Schuster. p. 274. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
  6. ^ Nicholls, Mike (24 November 1979). ELO: ELO's Greatest Hits. Vol. 26. Record Mirror. p. 25.
  7. ^ "BPI certifications for ELO".
  8. ^ Burbeck, Rodney, ed. (10 November 1979). "Phenomenal Response to Best of ELO" (PDF). Music Week. London, England, U.K.: Morgan-Grampian: 1. ISSN 0265-1548. Archived from the original on 9 March 2021. Retrieved 9 October 2023. On November 23, Jet Records releases worldwide the Electric Light Orchestra's Greatest Hits album.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)