![]() ![]() With no guarantee those acetates will ever be copied, I've decided to extend my own 2LP version of Time with Second Time Around, a home demo included as an extra on the 2001 edition of Discovery. Since we have this piece thanks to the Flashback set, that leaves us with just the first unknown track to locate. If anything, that interlude works as before The Bouncer or only as an introduction to Hold On Tight if the former was removed, as eventually happened. My guess as to why Jeff chose to drop what sounds like the dreamer returning to consciousness is because The Bouncer already made it clear enough that he was already awake, giving the impression those acetates didn't quite contain his final running order. Having learned so much from the experience, he yearns to cling on to whatever he can from this, believing that advances brought back to his own time would make him a hero to others capable of setting a better example. While the majority of Time's plot concerns a man desperate to return to his own life after being transported to the future, the story appears to end with him being woken by his partner, only to be told his entire journey had simply being a dream. Considering the lyrical content of Hold On Tight being similar to The Bouncer, which was to have come before the second unknown track, I have a theory as to how these three songs worked in the context of their parent concept album: In terms of its overall sound, this is more consistent with the Time era, beginning with a bell chiming followed by several keyboards. One detail that may have gone unnoticed by most is the presence of a short unlisted instrumental that links directly into this song, which can be found exclusively on the Flashback collection from 2000, where it's indexed as part of the same track as Getting To The Point, only separated by a small gap. Based on the limited information we have about the first unidentified song, it's a ballad, and I'm more than happy to conclude that Sad Affair does indeed exist.Īs for the second mysterious track, we can make a few logical assumptions about this due to its intended placement immediately before Hold On Tight. Similarly, quite a few slower tracks in his catalogue were provisionally known as Bad Salad, but Rob Caiger's remarks meant a lot of people dismissed such a memory as possibly inaccurate until recent developments. To my knowledge, the owner of these discs hasn't disclosed anything further about their possible identity, though many have speculated they might have been recycled on a later album, similar to how Endless Lies was recorded during the making of Secret Messages, only to finally turn up (in a slightly reworked form) as part of the subsequent Balance Of Power.Īn engineer was quoted as saying he could recall an unfinished idea from Time that went by the working title of Sad Affair, which is consistent with the names Jeff Lynne often uses early into the writing/recording process. Here's what we know about the two unknown tracks.ĮLO's archivist once claimed there were no further outtakes from Time beyond the three b-sides included on the expanded remaster from 2001, yet those acetates surfaced last year and revealed two previously undocumented tracks. ![]()
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