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the same year (1969), but after the conquest of the Moon by man, the Moody Blues are bringing this " To Our Children's Children's Children ", recorded in the days of the mission called" Apollo 11. " It is the first album of their new label "Threshold Records" (but still Decca is ...). As with the previous ones, immediately strikes the cover, which extends on both sides of the pack. In it we see the hand of an anonymous artist (only one?) That depict what has been considered the earliest examples of arts in human history paintings. But while the left hand (a hand-edited, which keeps a soft brush) painted scenes of hunting and social life of prehistoric tribes, the right (coarse and hairy) roughly holding a piece of wood with which he recorded figures of another epoch: an airplane and a man with the gun! The inside of the cover, with the group that is found around a fire in a cave, but with their modern clothes, their instruments, contemporary furniture, continues with the suggestion of a past that could be the result of a another future, in which human achievements are merely the re-conquest, after the man crashed into another pre-history, etc. for who knows how many times. From a musical standpoint the album is closer to the conception of "progressive" of previous work. Thirteen songs, but between the first and second parts, and the usual issues that come back mixing between tracks and the next is like listening to a long suite. The group is the highest of its expressiveness and sound research and some songs touch the masterpiece "Gypsy , for example, or" Watching and Waiting . Commercially

did not repeat the success of the previous disc, perhaps because it came close to authentic works of art (in a matter of ten days came " Ummagumma," "In the Court of the Crimson King "," Stand Up, "" Led Zeppelin II "," Chicago II "and had not yet turned off the echo of" Abbey Road ", so to speak) but as I got to say, the technical and artistic of the five is the maximum, and to bring a case caught the network: "It's dark and moody, and nice to listen to".

In 2006 he was re-released as DELUXE edition, double CD. The first is the original album remastered, but as SACD & 5.1 Surround Sound mix (5 + 1 speakers are active: a pleasure!), the second with 11 tracks including alternate versions and live performances to BBC.

Education:

    * Justin Hayward - chitarra, voce
    * John Lodge - basso, voce
    * Michael Pinder - tastiera, voce
    * Ray Thomas - flauto, voce
    * Graeme Edge - batteria

 Original Track Listing:
  Side One

   1. "Higher and Higher" (Graeme Edge) – 4:11
   2. "Eyes of a Child I" (John Lodge) – 3:34
   3. "Floating" (Ray Thomas) – 3:02
   4. "Eyes of a Child II" (Lodge) – 1:20
   5. "I Never Thought I'd Live to be a Hundred" (Justin Hayward) – 1:06
   6. "Beyond" (Edge) – 3:00
   7. "Out and In" (Mike Pinder) – 3:44

  Side Two

   1. "Gypsy (Of a Strange and Distant Time)" (Hayward) – 3:35
   2. "Eternity Road" (Thomas) – 4:17
   3. "Candle of Life" (Lodge) – 4:19
   4. "Sun is Still Shining" (Pinder) – 3:35
   5. "I Never Thought I'd Live to be a Million (Hayward) – 0:34
   6. "Watching and Waiting" (Hayward, Thomas) – 4:17

Extra tracks on the Deluxe Edition are:

   1. "Gypsy" (Alternate Version) (Hayward) - 4:17
   2. "Candle of Life" (Alternate Version) (Lodge) - 4:59
   3. "Sun Is Still Shining" (Extended Version) (Pinder) - 4:07
   4. "Gypsy" (BBC radio concert 17 December 1969) (Hayward) - 3:21
   5. "Sunset" (BBC radio concert 17 December 1969) (Pinder) 3:54
   6. "Never Comes the Day" (BBC radio concert 17 December 1969) (Hayward) - 4:42
   7. "Are You Sitting Comfortably" (BBC radio concert 17 December 1969) (Hayward, Thomas) - 2:54
   8. "The Dream" (BBC radio concert 17 December 1969) (Edge) 0:58
   9. "Have You Heard Pt. 1/The Voyage/Have You Heard Pt. 2" (BBC radio concert 17 December 1969) (Pinder) - 5:50
  10. "Nights in White Satin "(BBC radio concert 17 December 1969) (Hayward) - 3:12
11." Legend Of A Mind (BBC radio concert 17 December 1969) (Thomas) - 4:37

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On the threshold of a dream

With the next album (" On The Threshold of a Dream , 1969), the Moody Blues confirm the formula has already been tried in the past and explore the world of dreams, with a look at the mode (and ways) of the time. Psychedelia, Freud, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (which of course drew the movie of the moment: " 2001, A Space Odyssey "), the flower children, all of this (and more) was placed in this work. A speech deserves the cover of the most fascinating of the period, by Phil Travers , like the other group. The original was much darker purple that appears today on the issue of the CD. In those colors, including indigo and royal blue fountain pen ink, in the twilight of our dimly lit room, in the late autumn afternoons, each of us there was something new, as he listened for the umpteenth time the notes of "Never Comes the Day " or "Are You Sitting Confortably . Returning to music, it is true that the pretentiousness and bombast peep, but, while not considering this job at the masterpieces of progressive, I like it. Not to mention, in addition, the technical excellence of the recording, on vinyl or CD that is.
this version was released in 2008, duly digitally remastered, with the addition of nine tracks, including alternate versions and live performances.

Education:

* Justin Hayward - vocals, guitar
* John Lodge - vocals, Low
* Michael Pinder - keyboards, vocals *
Ray Thomas - flute, vocals *
Graeme Edge - drums

Side One:

1. "In the Beginning" (Graeme Edge) - 2:08
2. "Lovely to See You" (Justin Hayward) - 2:34
3. "Dear Diary" (Ray Thomas) - 3:56
4. "Send Me No Wine (John Lodge) - 2:21
5. "To Share Our Love" (Lodge) - 2:53
   6. "So Deep Within You" (Mike Pinder) – 3:10

Side Two:

   1. "Never Comes the Day" (Hayward) – 4:43
   2. "Lazy Day" (Thomas) – 2:43
   3. "Are You Sitting Comfortably?" (Hayward, Thomas) – 3:30
   4. "The Dream" (Edge) – 0:57
   5. "Have You Heard (Part 1)" (Pinder) – 1:28
   6. "The Voyage" (Pinder) – 4:10
   7. "Have You Heard (Part 2)" (Pinder) – 2:26

Bonus tracks:

  14. "In The Beginning (Full Version)" (Edge) - 3:28
  15. "So Deep Within You (Extended Version)" (Pinder) - 3:30
  16. "Dear Diary (Alternate Vocal Mix)" (Thomas) - 4:05
  17. "Have You Heard (Original Take)" (Pinder) - 3:53
  18. "The Voyage (Original Take)" (Pinder) - 4:20
  19. "Lovely To See You (BBC Top Gear Session 18/2/69)" (Hayward) - 2:26
  20. "Send Me No Wine (BBC Top Gear Session 18/2/69)" (Lodge) - 2:40
  21. "So Deep Within You (BBC Tony Brandon Session 2/4/69)" (Pinder) - 3:08
22. "Are You Sitting Comfortably (BBC Tony Brandon Session 2/4/69)" (Hayward, Thomas) - 3:39

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The Ultimate Attraction Online

The agreement lost (and found)

1968. The Beatles I had opened a door (in mind) on a world (of music, but not only) that had fascinated me at first glance. But not only. She was born a thirst, a need, almost an addiction that could quell only by listening to music, "new" (in the sense "never heard before)," young ", to use a term subsequently abused by too many.
so I saw the cover of an album that intrigued me, any more than other age, but I had already listened to this group: " Night in White Satin" was a piece so famous as to deserve even an Italian version ("I defended my love "sung by nomads and Prophets).
Given the precursors (at least in Italy) of progressive, mainly by two features: the idea of \u200b\u200b"concept album" (the songs that made up the same, had a theme, music and / or text, a single and coherent) and the gradient "of the songs into each other (today we would call" mixing ") that suggests play a unique and full LP, the "Moody Blues " were active since 1964, when it was formed in Birmingham as a group of Rhythm & Blues. After a few singles and a 33giri halfway between the R & B and beat (in vogue at the time), "The Magnificent Moodies ," the group, with a few lineup changes, decided in 1966 to change gender and develop a more original instruments based on "new": flute, sitar and, above all, mellotron ( http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellotron ). They spend so by Decca (their first record company) to Dram, the same label Decca Music Group, however, dedicated to new sonorità, e incidono " Days of Future Passed ". Grande successo per un album (e un singolo, il già citato " Night in White Satin ") che risulta oggi un po' indigesto, per via dei pretenziosi arrangiamenti orchestrali, che appesantiscono l'ascolto oltremisura.
Tutta un'altra storia questo " In Search of the Lost Chord ", uscito alla fine di Luglio 1968, inciso con tecnologie all'avanguardia (per l'epoca) che restituivano una purezza di suoni difficilmente riscontrabile in altri lavori coetanei. A questo concorreva anche l'eccellente qualità dei vinili della Decca/Deram, tra i migliori in assoluto. I Moody Blues ottengono la piena libertà artistica e, fact quite remarkable, playing all the instruments: no ghost-shift workers or musicians.
snubbed by some critics, who find it too pretentious, the album is still enjoyable to listen to and full of catchy songs, "Ride My See-Saw ", " Voices in the Sky," "Visions of Paradise "and others. Music and lyrics refer to suggestions and references to Eastern religions and philosophies.
In 2006 came out this "Deluxe Edition" which includes, besides the original album digitally remastered, a second disc with 15 tracks including alternate versions, unreleased and live performances.

Tracks:

1. Departure – 0:48 - (Graeme Edge)
   2. Ride my See-Saw – 3:37 - (John Lodge)
   3. Dr. Livingstone, I Presume – 2:58 - (Ray Thomas)
   4. House of Four Doors – 4:11 - (Lodge)
   5. Legend of a Mind – 6:40 - (Thomas)
   6. House of Four Doors Pt. 2 – 1:43 - (Lodge)
   7. Voices in the Sky – 3:32 - (Justin Hayward)
   8. The Best Way to Travel – 3:12 - (Mike Pinder)
   9. Visions of Paradise – 4:15 - (Hayward/Thomas)
  10. The Actor – 3:09 - (Hayward)
  11. The Word – 0:49 - (Edge)
  12. Om – 6:27 - (Pinder)

Tracce extra:

   1. Departure (Alternate Mix) – 0:55
   2. The Best Way to Travel (Additional Vocal Mix) – 4:03
   3. Legend of a Mind (Alternate Mix) – 6:43
   4. Visions of Paradise (Sitar Mix) – 4:30
   5. What Am I Doing Here? (Alternate Mix) – 3:53
   6. The Word (Mellotron Mix) – 1:01
   7. Om (Full Version) – 6:07
   8. A Simple Game (Justin Hayward Vocal Mix) – 3:26
   9. King and Queen – 3:53
  10. Dr. Livingston, I Presume (BBC Top Gear Session 16/7/68) – 2:57
  11. Voices in the Sky (BBC Top Gear Session 16/7/68) – 3:52
  12. Thinking is the Best Way to Travel (BBC Top Gear Session 16/7/68) – 3:38
  13. Ride My See-Saw (BBC Top Gear Session 16/7/68) – 3:49
14. Tuesday Afternoon (BBC Afternoon Pop Show 7/10/68) - 3:23
15. A Simple Game (Single Version) - 3:44

Education:

* Justin Hayward - vocals, guitar
* John Lodge - vocals, bass
* Michael Pinder - keyboards, vocals *
Ray Thomas - flute, vocals *
Graeme Edge - drums

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