Listening to The Moody Blues: On The Threshold Of A Dream, Part 3
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- (Side 2 is split into 2 videos - this is the last part)
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For me, This was the beginning to enjoying and recognising the importance of music in my life, This was a superb album. (I was 15 !!). Buying this from HMV Oxford street during a day trip was a highlight. The album was played endlessly and my mate and I used to sing it from end to end while walking from our nearby town to home is a memory I will never lose. I still enjoy this album to this day and it is one of my favourite "Moodies" albums. Melodic, harmonious , and lyrically sensitive (for its time). We were all hippies and wanted everyone to conform to our way of thinking !! Thanks for your review (from a 70 year old bloke)
The Moody Blues Mike Pinder (composer, pianist, mellotron-master, keyboard player, vocalist, etc.) just passed away on Wednesday April 24th at the age of 82. I had the pleasure of meeting Mike a few times. He was the "soul" of The Moody Blues and was a big factor in them achieving their trademark trippy and atmospheric sound. Maybe this would be a good time to check out their next album "To Our Children's Children's Children" from 1969. It is very mellotron-rich and a tribute to man's Apollo 11 moon landing of that same year. Mike made the world a better and more beautiful place. RIP to a great human.
Man, we don't care about no stinking 'crackling'...not when it comes to great music such as this... Thank you!
This album is a masterpiece in this is easily the best side of the album. An amazing band with a pristine production. My older brother owned all of The Moody Blues early albums and when he wasn’t around I played them and enjoyed them all many times!
I rarely listen to these albums as a whole anymore...but I return to many MANY of the MBs individual tracks.....
"This Is The Moody Blues" is one of the best greatest hits albums ever 😉
Fair enough Jim. All I can say is that I loved this in 1969, and I love it today and I'm used to all the crackles that get louder when the mellotron volume increases because my LP does that too! Roll on 'To Our Children's Children's Children'.
Thank you for taking that Voyage! ❤ Looking forward to you hearing 'To Our Children's Children's Children' 🙂
Side two developed some of the sonic vocabulary heard on Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother, Hawkwinds trips through space, and even the masterful transitions that Genesis would take to the highest levels in songs such as Firth of Fifth.
I really appreciate you doing these albums 👍
jim say "a document of its time". yes, of course, but then all these big two-sided plastic records are likewise. what makes Threshold of a Dream special is that it is also timeless. all good music has to have some element of the eternal in there. yeah, moody blues and mozart are musical bros ~ 🎶
I can't be the only one to notice similarities in Have you Heard with A Day in the Life (the drum fills, the transition into The Voyage) but this medley is particularly good - love the mellotron overdose! I think your assessment is very accurate - it's a quality record but was followed by even greater achievements by their peers. In the Court of the Crimson King came out 6 months later and suddenly, all bets were off.
The Moody Blues did a different kind of music, they weren't just progressive.
Enjoying your exploration of the Moodies. Every Good Boy Deserves Favor was new when I heard it as my introduction to the band and I wound up going back to the previous albums and finding a couple of songs I already loved, but didn't associate with the band. My biggest surprise was finding their actual first album The Magnificent Moodys which was missing Hayward and Lodge and had a completely different sound, largely R&B I think. I I found it in a sale bin at the time on eight track. It's a key element in understanding their development though, especially the hit Go Now that's on it.
Hmmm…even though you weren’t very enthusiastic, i bet in the next few weeks, you’ll find yourself inwardly humming bits and bobs. That was their strength on the songwriting front
Pinter was the guy pksying mellotron.. he had a more experimental approach
it stands up because the Moodies wrote what they wanted and not what some record company dude wanted them to do
I ♥️trippy psychedelic music!!
Should have stopped at "it's polite". I agree and you know we did chill back then more often then not.
Thanks for a great reaction, I appreciated your insights to this amazing album! The Moody Blues carried on the tradition of the Beatles from their Sgt. Pepper days. The Beatles went in a different direction after Magical Mystery Tour, while the Moodies kept going with a more psychedelic sound. Their greatest attribute was their gift for beautiful melodies. Like the Beatles they were both album oriented while also producing radio friendly hit singles which helped their popularity and their durability, producing hit singles well into the eighties.The single from this album was Never Comes the Day. This would be the first of the Moodies albums to hit number one in the UK, and that was in 1969 when there was direct competition from the cream of British rock, including the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, the Who, Led Zeppelin and, oh yeah, Cream! The popularity and talents of the Moody Blues are vastly underrated by music fans today. Great video, thanks for your work!
Shame you didn't show the lovely insert booklet
great reaction
I have 'In Search Of The Lost Chord'. But anything else by MB is a little easy listening and soft 60's melodrama for me, never shook my tree much. Great set of listening videos Jim. 👌
Hi Jim, I think you will need a new stylus after this , a rice crispies disc , still I do like the Have you Heard suite , I did have the famous 7 but sold them on overall the Moodies weren’t for me !
In my days I wrote out to 8 tracks tapes on every Moody Blues album
I remember as a teenager being slightly disappointed by the closing suite (and yeah, the production sort of falls flat here -- too many Mellotron tracks being bounced down, I think.) I was hoping for something on the level of Yes' prog suites like "And You And I", and it's not at that level. But for 1969 it's pretty ambitious, as is the entire album. But you can sort of tell they had just returned from seeing "2001: A Space Odyssey" when they sat down to write a lot of this. Just like they'd just watched the Apollo 11 moon landing when they wrote the next album. Where the Moodies sort of fell flat was updating their songwriting to the stuff going on in the early 70's. The last few albums in the Classic 7 essentially retread the formula with no real changes in the production or writing styles, and by '73 the world had sort of moved on. If you ever get around to reviewing Octave from 1978 you'll be amazed at how even then they were STILL trying to recapture the Classic 7 mojo.
Also, I've said previously that I consider this one not as good as the albums that precede it and follow it. I do hope you go on to To Our Children's Children's Children soon so that this will still be fresh in your brain when you hear that one. I have a feeling that complaints that this one was a bit "soft" were happening back then and had an influence on the next album.
If you just follow fashion and what people think is hip. Some of that fashionable stuff arguably doesn't last beyond the reputation. The Moody Blues did their own mix of styles and had their own haunting sound.
I like Never Comes the Day and the Have You Heard/ Voyage suite most from this side. Never Comes the Day has a shorter promo edit I like a bit more than the album version. The Voyage works best on a mint Vinyl pressing or well mastered CD/ Digital version so you can hear all the details. There is a better Mellotron instrumental on Children's Children, Beyond. I look forward to seeing you react to that one.
Every boy deservrs is the best album
The Moody Blues aren't about 'influence' they are a group resolutely on their own path up to the mid 70s. They have a sound, and all the styles can fit into that. Few ever even got near to their sound or even tried to, maybe Ultravox's The Voice is a rare exception. Much of their music isn't conventionally 'progressive', so it's not that helpful thinking of contemporary prog groups like Yes as their peers. They are more song based than production heavy.
Second side is meant to be consumed with psychedelics. if you know you know
One needs to disengage from the quotidian and mondial everydayness, in one way or another, in order to ride a similar see-saw as the players, for sure. Meditation, weed, psychedelics, etc. are proper vehicles, but not alcohol or upper/downers. Headphone music.
both sides are meant for that , been there many times its a magical journey :)
Of the Moodie’s great , seven album run, this is my least favorite. It still has some good songs though. Side two is pretty strong.
they just dont compose, orchestrate, play instruments or write like this today
Normally with your concomitant music playing as you speak, we can see that you have latched onto the best sections. Not so this time. You latched onto the corny stuff, maybe because unlike folks in the day, you are not high on substance, so to say. You may also have broken the spell by dividing the side into two, interrupting the flow. But it is not meant for daytime, daymind experiencing. Get stoned late at night, lay back, close your eyes, imagine it is 50 year ago. I love playing that piano part at the end of Voyage. Give a try. Easy and strangely addicting, like Satie.
You're being polite, Jim. The album is dated. Yes, it's pleasant to listen to, but I thought it sounded dated, even when I first heard it way back then. It's like The Moody Blues would create these timeless songs on their albums, like "Nights..." but surround them with songs that sound like they're straight outta the '60s. Pink Floyd's first couple of albums were like that for me. They sounded stereotypically '60s Psychedelic, and I didn't like their music until Syd left the band. Or, the first album by my favorite band, Yes. I only like 2 or 3 songs on the album, and the rest sound very dated. Even the ones I like. But, by their 3rd album, they found their sound and Yes started creating music that went beyond time into another realm of music. I love The Moody Blues, just not all of their music. Like Yes, my favorite, I don't like every song by them, but I do love most of their songs.
Of the "magnificent 7" as you call them (aptly so, I might add), this is probably my least favorite over all. I'm very much looking forward to the next album which is my favorite of their "magnificent 7"!
Cover better than music
Hey Jim, I just found your channel last night I was actually looking for ozric tentacles guitar lessons then thought about Steve hill age and found your video on OM riff . Loved it and instantly subscribed then listened/watched more videos. Anyway don’t worry about that what I wanted to say was I see you are using AKG 701 headphones (great headphones ) I used them for years but I just wondered if you had tried the AKG K712? Each to their own but I moved to them found them much MUCH better for lower end the 701’s were and are great but compared to the 712 headphones a bit tinny and too clinical sounding. I loved them for years before I tried the 712 and even for the first while using the newer ones I missed the 701’’s but honestly when I went back to try the 701’s I bstantly realised (to me) the 712 were much more preferable for listening to music. I used the 701 headphones predominantly for gaming and 712 is now my go to for music. Just thought I’d drop a message. Love your channel by the way
An average band
yeah, just your average ground-breaking progressive rock band following in the footsteps of the beatles ~ 🧐
Only the drummer was average.
Not bad , but not great !
Hi again Jim,
So far, I liked the first song of every side of the album and the rest wasn’t very interesting music.
1st song of this video, not of the album side. Pfff. 🥱. The only interesting bit started when the piano kicked in.
I now know again why I avoided the Moody Blues like the plague in my teenage years.