This Is the Moody Blues was a commercial as well as critical success, reaching #14 inward the United Kingdom as well as #11 inward the United States earlier 1974 was out.
It mightiness surprise those coming inward belatedly to their even that the original double-LP version of this album from 1974 was the firstly compilation devoted to the Moody Blues' work. That's vii years after their switch from R&B-based British Invasion stone & ringlet to psychedelic music, as well as 10 years into their overall history, an awfully long fourth dimension for a successful band to avoid the compilation route. That fact lonely speaks volumes for how salubrious their album sales were -- entirely the group's conclusion to direct maintain a hiatus seems to direct maintain prompted the assembling of this collection. The Moody Blues had genuinely had plenty hits as well as charting singles betwixt England as well as America since 1967 as well as therefore that a expert best-of could direct maintain been assembled, but the makers went far beyond that, encompassing LP tracks that had dice favorites on FM radio betwixt 1967 as well as 1973 as well as equally good ignoring the actual liberate society of anything here. So instead of a tour through their history, listeners larn a form of collage of most of their best work, the songs nicely representative of the diverse members' most of import contributions to the group's work. That said, however, it should equally good endure pointed out that as well as therefore much of the band's music is connected, conceptually as well as thematically, amongst the surrounding songs on their albums that inevitably the listener volition experience rushed through unopen to of this history; additionally, at that topographic point is 1 fantabulous number left off for every 3 that are included. The CD reissue was impressive sonically for its recompiled as well as remastered tape sources, as well as the novel musical note yesteryear digital producer John Tracy was a expert bonus feature. To unopen to degree, this collection has been supplanted yesteryear the to a greater extent than fully programmed double-CD Gold collection from 2005. Unless all you're looking for is an overview of the group's classic years, inward which illustration 1 tin give notice add together a half-star to the rating of This Is the Moody Blues.
This album came out inward 1974 during the band's hiatus as well as was seat together yesteryear the band's producer Tony Clarke. He went dorsum to the main tapes as well as seat together this wonderful collection remixing as well as editing the liberate as well as therefore that all the songs stream inward as well as out of each other. The overnice matter most this is that it doesn't seem similar a measure "hits" collection thrown together yesteryear the tape companionship to cash inward on a band's fan base of operations similar most of these albums do, but rather carefully chosen as well as assembled to tally together good giving all the members room to shine. It's a shame given the fact that at that topographic point are as well as therefore many bogus rip-off Moody Blues "hits" collections out at that topographic point as well as yet this 1 which is the best seat together is the 1 that is currently out of impress on cd. I should holler that this equally good was a big hitting when it was released sending several songs dorsum into heavy rotation on FM radio.
Tracks Listing
CD 1:
1. Question (5:39)
2. The histrion (4:08)
3. The discussion (poem) (0:51)
4. Eyes of a fry (2:35)
5. Dear diary (3:46)
6. Legend of a heed (6:35)
7. In the start (2:04)
8. Lovely to run into yous (2:34)
9. Never comes the twenty-four hr menstruum (4:39)
10. Isn't life foreign (5:32)
11. The dream (poem) (0:51)
12. Have yous heard? Part 1 (1:21)
13. The voyage (4:09)
14. Have yous heard? Part 2 (2:09)
CD 2:
1. Ride my see-saw (3:32)
2. Tuesday afternoon (4:01)
3. And the tide rushes inward (2:56)
4. New horizons (5:05)
5. H5N1 uncomplicated game (3:18)
6. Watching as well as waiting (4:16)
7. I'm only a vocalist (in a stone as well as ringlet band) (4:10)
8. For my lady (3:57)
9. The even inward your eyes (2:44)
10. Melancholy human being (5:05)
11. Nights inward white satin (4:32)
12. Late lament (2:36)
Total Time: 93:19
Line-up / Musicians
- Justin Hayward / guitars, vocals
- John Lodge / bass guitar, vocals
- Michael Pinder / keyboards, vocals
- Ray Thomas / harmonica, flute, vocals
- Graeme Edge / drums, percussion
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