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Listening to The Moody Blues: In Search Of The Lost Chord, Part 3/3
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- čas přidán 13. 02. 2023
- This is the conclusion to side 2 and also the conclusion to the album
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Not a weak song on the entire album, everything is very listenable. It's a historical landmark, we will never hear an album like this again. As you succintly put it Jim, the cusp between 60s psychedelic pop and 70s prog. The recodring quality is also very high for the era.
The journey that the musicians are on is theirs. We just go along on their journey without expectations of their musical expressions...some of us though want to put a label on them so they can be " compared" to other musicians instead of just enjoying each journey.
this album definitely has an Eastern influence to it. 2 songs that didnt make this album are, "What Am I Doing Here" and "Simple Game" both are worth a listen too. the Moodies made such deep and powerful albums specially the core 7. great reaction and cant wait for the next album reaction which would be "On The Threshold Of A Dream". thanks for sharing
Looking forward Jim to your review of 'To Our Children's Children's Children', their best album in my opinion.🤩
The memories , this music brings back, listening to this music as a teenager whist smoking a few joints and just drifting away with the music 😊
Thanks for reminding me what a luscious album this is.🙏🍁
50 years later and its still a lush late night listen.
I just love the depth on these recordings. They sound like they were in a cave. It sounds so much better than modern digital recordings as far as i’m concerned 🤔
Yup!
Pure fun and enjoyment from a great band!
It's raining outside, while I listen to this hippie stuff!!! And I love IT!!!!!!! 💖💫🎼🎶🎵
I love hearing the scratches, brings me back to when I was listening to these albums 50 or more years ago. I've heard so many scratched up records over the years that I don't even notice it while the music is playing unless it's really extreme.
The sitar had been used quite a bit by the time this album came out.They'd even come up with an electric guitar that sounded like a sitar by this time - the earliest song that comes to mind for that contraption is 'Cry Like A Baby' by The Box Tops, in early 68. The Beatles (surprise!) were the first to use a sitar, on 'Norweigan Wood' in 1965. George used it on a handful of songs after that. The Stones followed The Beatles up (again, surprise!) and used one on 'Paint It Black' in early 66. Once The Beatles and Stones had used one it became a popular instrument for bands to use - not frequently, but often enough.
Album noise is to be expected!😉 Dam these songs bring back memories!❤️ Great to watch people hear it for the first time.. and appreciate it!
If you continue with the other albums you'll come to notice which songs are written by Mike Pinder (the writer of the 'Om' track). He typically writes the most poignant, spiritual or downright tears-enducing songs of the albums. All of the members bring unique elements!
I came of age with this lp, and I'm sad to see some of the cynicism here, perhaps mainly from those that didn't live through it...
IMO, this album expresses pure joy in clear light; what's wrong with that?!?
🕉☯☮
What cynicism?
I love this album, and glad I was able to go on the journey with you.
Get cracking with On the Threshold of a Dream asap as far as I’m concerned Jim 👍😁
Leave a little gap :)
@@JimNewstead Awww g’won g’won g’won 😜
To really hear the progression you have to go back to their very first album The Magnificent Moodies which has even more of a sixties Herman's Hermits sound especially on the hit, Go Now. It's a fascinating progression for sure up to for what for me was the pinnacle Every Good Boy Deserves Favor. Perhaps that's because that was the current release when I found them on a record player at a high school party.
Forever Changes... excellent work by Arthur Lee. Also Da Capo.
I had the chance to be lent at school and " threshold " lp ,simply they changed my whole life ,i did bought a mellotron and my whole life was concentrated over music.
Thank you thank you! I thought I might have to wait until the morrow. You are most merciful.
You are so welcome!
@@JimNewstead Loved the "One Day Like This" Elbow reference. What a song! Do you know Richard Hawley's "Coles Corner"?
Great choice Jim, love this 'crossover' album from the soon to be mellotronic prog Moodies that followed also a lot of credit goes to Tony Clarke's production sense back in 68 (and yes, I suspect Rudi and Spider were influenced by finding this album in the bargain bin at Shamansburys)
I love Love.
Great band.
I also love Love.
Hope you do too.
✌️♥️
The Beatles said it…. “Love is all you need”
Scott Walker's 3rd and 4th albums are great late sixties pieces
Do I mind the scratches? What do you think my 40-50 year old albums sound like? At this point, it wouldn't sound right WITHOUT the scratches!
And my thoughts on these final three tracks...
The Actor:
For me, this is a combination of thoughts towards both one's Soul Mate and The All. The desire to be with both can be all encompassing. The lack of need to go anywhere, as the Truth "comes so easily" via inner meditation. The Actor refers to the public face one puts on for the mundane world, but which can be dropped when seeking inner bliss.
The Word:
The summation of The Journey, up until attaining Nirvana.
Om:
Nirvana is attained, both via the Inner Journey and in every aspect of the Seeker's mundane life without.
It packs quite a punch, eh?
Cheers Jim. Such great memories but nothing like the rest of the classic 7.
Loved the albums Forever Changes and Da Capo from the band Love.
Somehow Forever Changes slipped under my radar til about 10 years ago, don't know how that happened but I love that album
Yeah, man...absolutely no worries about the pops and crackling. It only authenticates what I remember when I dropped the needle on these great records!
Funny story...in high school Social Studies class (remember that one?) we had a really cool progressive teacher and sometimes we'd just sit in class and talk about current events, social subjects, sports, current news, etc. But sometimes, he'd stage a game of "hangman", where he would choose the subject and we'd volunteer to provide the word to figure out. One day, he decided that song titles would be the subject of the day.
Me being kind of a smart ass in my own little subtle way...I volunteered and walked up to the board and said, "Now, this is really a song title" and proceeded to write just two underscore lines on the board.
Needless to say, no one got it.
The song title?
OM
The Moody Blues had 4 lead singers in the band, so when they sing "Om", they are all singing at the same time. No layering of their voices that I I'm aware of in any of their albums. And that is Justin playing the Sitar in the song. Both Justin and John Lodge, also played cello in many of their songs.
The journey from Psychedelic Pop/Rock in the late sixties to the Prog Rock that emerged from the turn of the decade owes a lot to the Moody Blues and a few other bands like Pink Floyd, the Nice and Procol Harum. You have played music from many of them, but not much (any?) from Procol Harum. Could you add the Live at Edmonton album to your 'to do' list? A magnificent culmination of their journey through the late sixties into the seventies - and it doesn't include Whiter Shade of Pale !
I from the 60’s and the crackling sound was part of any good record one owned. It was the reality and was no problem. The record getting stuck. Now that was annoying!😂
....and you can pick up Moody Blues albums on vinyl for a really reasonable price.
:ayeup:
I couldn't afford to ship them across the pond, but I did send all seven LPs to Dr. Doug. He had come across a copy of This Is the Moody Blues and thought that it was one of the Magnificent Seven. I had to rectify that immediately!
Forever Changes is the bit more timeless masterpiece for me if I were to compare, yet the charm and sound is similar too as you say.... FC is alot darker I think. Anyway both great records and I love how the MBs change over the next few albums ironically. I think their journey over the 7 albums is glorious.
I hadn't thought of that comparison. Love are definitely great too in their soulful combination of genres. So are Buffalo Springfield. I suppose The Moody Blues lasted longer and produced even more good music in the end.
Good morning Jim. Another sad day in Michigan. A mass shooting took place last night on the campus of Michigan State University. 3 students dead, 5 other students in critical condition. The suspect took his own life. Thoughts and prayers to the entire state of Michigan. I live south of East Lansing, Michigan. When will the gun violence stop!🙏🙏🙏⚘️⚘️⚘️🕊🕊🕊😎
It looks like the gunman was an ex-con with mental problems. When will 'all' of the violence stop? It's getting out of control. Be safe out there Jeff!😒
@@TigerMtnKing Thanks Jerry. You too!😎
When will the gun violence stop? When America does what every other developed nation does, which is to put into law common sense gun legislation, making it almost impossible for crazy people to buy guns, but America doesn't want the violence to end. They want this, which is why nothing ever changes in Insanity Land. Welcome to The Twilight Zone.
@jeff it’s very sad. I can’t understand the awfulness and indeed the “lawfulness” of the gun situation there. Filled with with both shock and terrible sadness. Tragic, senseless and horrific.
@@JimNewstead None of it makes any damn sense!😢
Don't know if they did influence that many bands actually,The Moody's were very underrated in some circles,though 80 million albums sold means some people loved them inc me!😊
I can't wait until you get to On The Threshold Of A Dream which I personally think is better than this LP. And then on to Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (EGBDF, the 5 note lines of the treble clef) which is even better still. To Our Children's Children's Children and A Question Of Balance are between those 2 and are good in their own right. These albums just get better as you move along in their respective release dates.
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour is my favorite of the Magnificent Seven, and I am so looking forward to Jim listening to it. All in good time, as he journeys through the three before it. 💖
To Our Children's Children's Children is SPECTACULAR!
Side 2 being noisy on a used copy is to be expected, Jim. While I love side 1 as well, for many the more popular songs are on side 2, so it most likely received a lot more play on side 2.
Yeah, you pretty much nailed this - a wave goodbye to psychedelia and a nod towards prog without really hitting the heights of either genre. Not everyone will agree but the best prog doesn't show its age, in my opinion. This does. There's a great video available of the band at the BBC doing 'Ride My Seesaw' with Ray Thomas dad dancing in a dinner jacket and cravat and I don't think he's being ironic! That kinda sums things up for me - the ambition is there, the talent is there but they haven't got the vision to really take things forward more than a couple of steps.
They do their own thing, and it isn't only prog.
I have to no "long ago" memories of this record, so for me this is a sound typical of genre - and a transition, a record pointing the way to somewhere, likely early psychedelic prog. It is pleasant yet somehow neutral; uncommitted.
Forever Changes came out late ‘67 US/early ‘68 UK, and is certainly worth a listen, though apart from the ‘lush’ production, i don’t hear too much similarity in the songs 🤔
Maybe it was one song from each record that seemed similar... perhaps?
@@JimNewstead well the best known song on Forever Changes is Alone Again Or, and yes that is very soft and lush, with unison singing that’s a bit Moodies-like.
It’s a very mellow lp compared with other Love albums though.
I was interested in the comparison, it might be the soulful vocals. Buffalo Springfield also had that soulful mixing of styles using folk rock, the Again album for example. The Moody Blues went beyond the 60s.
Justin Hayward played the sitar throughout the album….
Mike did played the tambura too the one which played oooouuummmm!!