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The Moody Blues - This Is The Moody Blues (1974) {1989, Remastered}

Posted By: popsakov
Date: 5 May 2023 20:01:54
The Moody Blues - This Is The Moody Blues (1974) {1989, Remastered}

The Moody Blues - This Is The Moody Blues (1974) {1989, Remastered}
2CD | EAC Rip | WavPack (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 592 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 231 Mb
Full Scans ~ 253 Mb | 00:47:00 + 00:46:13 | RAR 5% Recovery
Folk Rock / Art Rock / Psychedelic Rock / Classic Rock / Progressive Rock / British Invasion
Threshold #820 007-2 RH2

This Is The Moody Blues is a two LP (later two CDs) compilation album by the Moody Blues, released in late 1974 while the band was on a self-imposed sabbatical. Though all of the songs were previously released on albums (with the exception of "A Simple Game" which was a 1968 B-side), several of them are heard here in distinctly different mixes. Like the Moody Blues albums of the time – but unlike most compilation albums, including later Moody Blues compilations – the songs on this album segue seamlessly, without silence between tracks. On the original LP, this was true of the songs on each side; when the album was remastered for CD, each disc was also blended, so that "Legend of a Mind" segues into "In the Beginning", and "Watching and Waiting" segues into "I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band)". The album was the first release to provide a separate name for "Late Lament", the symphonic coda and spoken poem that closes "Nights in White Satin". This Is the Moody Blues was a commercial and critical success, reaching #14 in the United Kingdom and #11 in the United States before 1974 was out.

It might surprise those coming in late to their story that the original double-LP version of this album from 1974 was the first compilation devoted to the Moody Blues' work. That's seven years after their switch from R&B-based British Invasion rock & roll to psychedelic music, and ten years into their overall history, an awfully long time for a successful band to avoid the compilation route. That fact alone speaks volumes for how healthy their album sales were – only the group's decision to take a hiatus seems to have prompted the assembling of this collection. The Moody Blues had actually had enough hits and charting singles between England and America since 1967 so that a good best-of could have been assembled, but the makers went far beyond that, encompassing LP tracks that had become favorites on FM radio between 1967 and 1973 and also ignoring the actual release order of anything here. So instead of a tour through their history, listeners get a kind of collage of most of their best work, the songs nicely representative of the various members' most important contributions to the group's work. That said, however, it should also be pointed out that so much of the band's music is connected, conceptually and thematically, with the surrounding songs on their albums that inevitably the listener will feel rushed through some of this history; additionally, there is one excellent number left off for every three that are included.

~ Bruce Eder, All Music
Discogs

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Track List CD1:

01. Question [5:40]
02. The Actor [4:09]
03. The Word [0:52]
04. Eyes of a Child [2:36]
05. Dear Diary [3:47]
06. Legend of a Mind [6:36]
07. In the Beginning [2:05]
08. Lovely to See You [2:35]
09. Never Comes the Day [4:40]
10. Isnit Life Strange [5:33]
11. The Dream [0:52]
12. Have You Heard?, Part One [1:23]
13. The Voyage [4:10]
14. Have You Heard?, Part Two [2:08]

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Track List CD2:

01. Ride My See.Saw [3:33]
02. Tuesday Afternoon [4:02]
03. And the Tide Rushes In [2:56]
04. New Horizons [5:06]
05. A Simple Game [3:19]
06. Watching and Waiting [4:16]
07. Iim Just a Singer (in a Rock and Roll Band) [4:11]
08. For My Lady [3:54]
09. The Story in Your Eyes [2:45]
10. Melancholy Man [5:06]
11. Nights in White Satin [4:33]
12. Late Lament [2:37]

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The Moody Blues / This Is the Moody Blues (CD2)(1974)

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The Moody Blues - This Is The Moody Blues (1974) {1989, Remastered}


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