Surely we all remember the Secret Messages acetates right (I think there was a thread about it somewhere)? Those acetates contained the now-dubbed "Soundcastle Mix" of the title track that featured an alternate vocal take that can now be found on YouTube. Track B3 likely wouldn't be an instrumental due to "Another Heart Breaks" immediately following it, so D3 is the likely candidate to be an instrumental if there is one. According to an old interview with Bev Bevan, he claimed that 17 tracks were made for the Time album - so why are there two unreleased songs rounding the final number to 18? Maybe one of the lost tracks is instrumental or at least very brief. So it may be a fair assumption that that piece is either part of this lost track or a connecting interlude. For one, it has a heavy synthesized sound along with bells that resemble a clock chime. Track D3 is also a mystery but one has to wonder if the bit at the end of Flashback's "Getting to the Point" that serves as an intro to "Hold on Tight" is a vintage interlude or piece from the cut double album. If it's true though, "Sad Affair" is likely a slower ballad, as such a name has been used as placeholder title on other ELO slower tunes in their early stages. Such a duration would pad out Side B to where it is roughly the same as the others but no correction on the claimed issue makes you wonder if it was an elaborate hoax or there's other reasons that the song did not go up. However, recently a YouTube channel called ELO Rare Tracks uploaded a video called Sad Affair clocking at 4:21(I think so?) but containing no audio - claimed to be due to an audio codec issue. That entry has since been removed and one can only wonder why. I realize that you've been seeing other guys.Īssuming those lyrics are accurate, it makes total sense for these to follow "Julie Don't Live Here" making this track a fair contender to be track B3. The lyrics that were remembered are taken directly from that particular entry: It should be mentioned that there was once an entry on the Jeff Lynne Song Database about a Time outtake titled "Sad Affair" with even some lyrics recalled supposedly by an engineer from those sessions. ![]() Now together, as collective ELO fans, we can only wonder about the potential missing pieces of this album - interludes, potential alternate takes and of course the two unknown tracks. Upon closer inspection and following this configuration as currently available, the story flows well and feels a little less ambiguous than the single album. The current understanding of the track list is as follows: Very little information is out there on the 2LP but thankfully acetates of this configuration have survived and have been preserved. Time was supposed a double album that was to feature 18 tracks (similar to Secret Messages) but was nevertheless cutdown for reasons currently unknown. Of course now, it has been revealed that there is a reason for that. Even the bonus tracks have substance that help further along the story. Time is such a gem, it captivates you from start to finish and, to me, does not have a song that drags on and slows the album down at all.
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