This month, the Electric Light Orchestra compilation album Playlist: The Very Best Of Electric Light Orchestra is on sale for only $5 in MP3 format.

This 15-song 2008 compilation brings together what I’d consider the essential hits from this working-class Birmingham rock combo led by frontman Jeff Lynne (who would later produce successful albums by The Traveling Wilburys, Brian Wilson, Tom Petty, and none other than The Beatles). ELO disrupted the drums/guitar/bass rock combo by introducing actual classical arrangements into their music. You can hear this predominantly on this best of album in songs like “Evil Woman,” “Can’t Get It Out Of My Head,” “Do Ya,” and “Livin’ Thing.” All the rock analysis aside, this is a great price for a must-have compilation, and if you don’t currently have “Mr. Blue Sky” somewhere in your music collection, it’s a travesty that must be corrected immediately.

Browse all 1,000 albums on sale this month for only $5 each, as well as several albums on sale this week for only $2.99 each.

Track listing

1. Evil Woman
2. Do Ya
3. Can’t Get It Out Of My Head
4. Mr. Blue Sky
5. Strange Magic
6. Livin’ Thing
7. Turn To Stone
8. Sweet Talkin’ Woman
9. Telephone Line
10. Shine A Little Love
11. Hold On Tight
12. Calling America
13. Rock and Roll Is King
14. Don’t Bring Me Down
15. Roll Over Beethoven

Note – when you purchase MP3s through Amazon, it stores your purchases to Amazon’s Cloud Drive; from there you can stream the music right from their online player. Also, if you have a Kindle Fire, your MP3 purchases will automatically be available for you to stream on your device. All your purchases are backed up and available for you to download at any time. You can download the files to your computer to load to an MP3 device and to your iTunes account if you have one. If you’d like to gift these MP3 purchases, you can – just click the “Give album or song as gift” button on the right on the product page. From there you enter the recipient’s email address and then select either specific songs to gift or the entire album.