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Listening to The Moody Blues: On The Threshold Of A Dream, Part 2
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- čas přidán 10. 10. 2023
- (Side 2 is split into 2 videos - this is the first)
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Oh, the days of college campus FM radio stations. Albums were put on the turntable and let to run. No interruptions, nobody trying to sell you something. A fellow student sitting in a small room playing the music they liked and hoped that the listeners liked too. It was a community type of experience. You took me back a little. The early and mid 70's were a time of music, friends learning talking and teaching each other what we knew. Miss that so much.
Never Comes the Day is one of my all time favorite songs.,Thanks for reacting to the MB’s, awesome music and message.
Glad to see someone listening to more than nites in satin so many more great songs of thier's out there
I am too! There is so much more to the Moody Blues than just Nights in White Satin! Glad he’s listening to an entire album. It brings back memories!
The Moody's were so special to me, they inspired me to go inside, turn my focus up, to know myself better, to go higher, deeper in my consciousness, and enjoy life. Most of their lyrics a metaphor, a story to decipher into something more.
Great album
Agreed, all of it. The variety is like A Question of Balance. It's about the songs more than the production as well recorded as it is.
My husband & I were life long Moody fans an talked "moody talk" with each other. When he dying he holding my hand and kept saying "we know it will be alright in the end" It didn't register until a few months after, that I playing Threshold and realized his last message to me was from Never Comes The Day
Justin does this a lot putting two short songs together to make one big one
ashamed to say I've never heard the album (aged 70) but To our children's children's children is magnificent.
The best imho
Every Good Boy Deserves Favor is my all-time fave MB's LP....brings back more pleasant memories of my time in USAF than the Vietnam debacle of which, yes, I participated. Thanks for taking the time to put this vid together!
My favorite as well!
I adore Procession segueing into The Story In Your Eyes. Not to mention how Procession is then reprised in the chorus of One More Time To Live.
Absolutely brilliant record. 💖
I don’t think anyone is ‘down’ on Side 1 - it is great. It is just that Side 2 is even better.
Or side 1 sets up side 2. Really the whole record leads up to Have You Heard/The Voyage.
"That's how your life goes by....", the lyrics you read on the liner notes but thought were not sung, are sung by the rest of the band as Ray sings "Sunday roast is something good to eat....".
Ah…. Didn’t hear that!
This is definitely the better side of the album. The production is classic Moodies -- warm Mellotron, nice, round rhythm section, soft guitar and woodwinds, and rich, multi-layered vocals all in a spacious stereo mix. In other words, perfect headphone music which is something I give the Moodies (and Tony Clarke and Derek Varnals) a huge amount of credit for inventing. By now, Jim, you should be starting to identify which band member wrote what simply based on the style of the song. And your comments in Pt 1 about how important the Moodies were to progressive rock were spot on, by the way. For instance, I could easily see Jon Anderson in 1969 listening to things like "Never Comes the Day" and the closing suite and thinking "We can do that!"
Side 2 is more 'progressive' but side 1 doesn't really have weaknesses.
I'm 58 years old and heard this record when i was 4 years old.
Me too. It's impossible to separate the sound from the experience, huh?
One thing to keep in mind, Jim, is that Days of Future Passed was recorded to show off the capabilities of Deram’s recording processes. It’s no surprise any of the albums by the Moodies on Deram are going to sound exquisite.
I’m uncertain, but I think the next album, To Our Children’s Children’s Children, was the first recorded on the Moodies label, named for this album, Threshold.
I've never quite figured out the lyric in Never Comes The Day. Emotionally it is clear, it expresses a feeling well. But the words rush past my understanding starting with "If only you knew ...". Gee, it escalates fast!
Love side 2. Hayward's songs are always excellent. But I think it also features Pinder's best work.
Merlin's (Pinter) spell flows into the oceanic dream section to follow. Kind of shame to have to break the spell, but what can ya do?
Back in the day, this side would occasionally wind up on the player, as we lay on the floor and spaced out on the oceanic vibes, like Holst's Neptune, welcoming sleep and dream.
are you sitting comfortably among some others were written in a broom closet at decca studios
Justin Hayward's songs have always been exceptional. I cannot say the same for many of the other Moodies' songs. Nevertheless I still have fond memories of discovering their music (starting with their appearance on Top of the Pops,) I should point out lovely African lady Cynthia Ambrose listened to the Moodies on her YT channel and seemed absolutely terrified by the ghostly, scary high harmonies! This is the band least likely to frighten in my estimation, and Cynthia had already given the high - five to Relayer! I am personally perturbed by Graeme Edge's poetry. Too much internal rhyme for me. Finally, I have been humming "Have You Heard" of late, so the album stuck with me, and thank you, Mr Hayward. Also, thanks, Jim. I haven't listened to this for ages.
Have you heard is a quintessential Mike Pinder piece for which he deserves the credit not Hayward who tends to be valorized at the expense of all the other band members. Without Pinder and his mellotron the Moody's would be nowhere near the legendary band they were from 1966 to 72 (as is obvious by their inferior output ever since he left the band).
'That's how your life goes by, until the day you die' was sung Jim, by the rest of the band behind Ray Thomas' lead vocal of the last line. You missed it... perhaps you weren't sitting comfortably?
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Hi Jim,
This sounds more like it; a bit more action in the music. Good song, great singer.
2nd song. Remembers me a bit of the Beatles and indeed the Kinks; it’s the sixties, so a lot of bands sound a bit the same. Is it a good song? Not really but it’s better than the songs on the first side.
3rd song. So slow and nothing really happens. 🥱
I have Now This is the Moody Blues that’s all I need , I find a lot of their whimsical stuff very nauseating , stuff like Lazy Day what a load of drivel , there’s too much of it in their catalogue.
Again cover better than music