Moody Blues - Universal Masters. DVD. DVD collection that contains promo footage of the band and includes 'Your Wildest Dreams', 'Question', 'No More Lies', 'Sitting At The Wheel', 'Driftwood', 'Nights In White Satin', 'Say It With Love', 'The Voice', 'Steppin' In A Slide Zone' and 'Gemini Dream'. Features ten tracks in total.Region 0 PAL disc.

Moody Blues - To Our Children's Children's Children. CD. (Threshold Records - 844 770-2) Late in 1969 the Moody Blues formed their own record label, Threshold. This album, loosely based on the theme of space travel was their first release. Classics here include "Watching And Waiting" (often cited by Moodies fans as their best song) "Gypsy Of A Strange And Distant Time" "Candle Of Life" "Floating" (the first single not to be written by Hayward or Lodge) and "Eyes Of A Child, " whilst everything was of course imbued with that particular brand of hippy mysticism peculiar to the band. Also their densest and darkest sounding album- opener 'Higher And Higher' really DOES literally sound like an aircraft crashing into a monastery- so much that many of the tracks have never been performed live to this day.

Moody Blues - Seventh Sojourn (remastered). CD. (Threshold Records - 844 773-2) As the title suggests, this 1972 effort was the Moodies seventh album. Featuring hit singles "I'm Just A Singer (In A Rock And Roll Band)" (written by John Lodge in response to all the stoned loony fans who believed the Moodies actually knew the answers to the cosmos) and "Isn't Life Strange" this continued their trend away from progressive epics towards a more song-based body of work. All the usual components were still evident though, from Justin Hayward's wistful lyricisms- particularly on his most accomplished composition to date, "Land Of Make Believe"- to the strong songwriting of the other band members. This is the album played on numerous Appollo space missions! Now digitally remastered for that full sonic sound.

Moody Blues - Seventh Sojourn. DVD Audio. 1972 seventh album. This release will be snapped up by 'Moodies' around the globe.To experience the incredible 5.1 surround mixes on this 5.1 music disc you will need a DTS-capable sound system consisting of a DVD player,a 5.1-channel receiver,plus 5 speakers & subwoofer.

Moody Blues - On The Threshold Of A Dream. CD. (Deram - 844 769-2) By 1969, the fourth Moodies album was continuing to play on the strengths of previous releases. Constantly evolving recording techniques meant that they were able to experiment more and this album shows the results of that. Loosely based on mystical, religious and psychedelic influences, this contained classic tracks such as "Dear Diary (complete with robot vocal)," "So Deep Within You" (a Mod dancefloor classic!) and spoken word tracks such as "The Dream." and the 10-minute suite 'Have You Heard/The Voyage'. Remastered version with expanded tracklisting.

Moody Blues - Nights In White Satin. DVD. (BR Music - 982756-4) All region PAL DVD featuring some stunning footage of the Moody Blues. This DVD covers much of the Moody Blues' output, both solo and performing with in collaboration with various orchestras. This is the footage that will probably be of most interest to fans, there is a performance of Nights in White Satin with the London Festival Orchestra and a version of Gemini Dream with the New World Philharmonic,"I'm Just a Singer" from a 73 OGWT performance as well as the band performing their best known and well-loved works including promotional films.

Moody Blues - Moody Blues Ep. DVD. DVD-EP features original rare TV performances from the two classic periods of The Moody Blues.Tracks include"Bye Bye Bird" "I Really haven't Got The Time","Nights In White Satin","Eight Miles High". Also includes pop up DVD, previews of other EP's in the series, and The Classic Pictures DVD Jukebox (ten full length tracks by original artists). Dolby digital 5.1 and DTS audio options Region 0 PAL.

Moody Blues - Moody Blues Caught Live +5. CD. (Threshold Records - 820 161-2) It took until 1977 for the Moody Blues to release a live album - and even then it wasn't going to be a straightforward release. Yet again they were the first to premiere a new concept. Fourteen tracks recorded in London in 1969, including plenty of the classics like "Nights In White Satin" and "Ride My See Saw," were joined by five brand new studio tracks, giving the legions of fans the best of both worlds. !

Moody Blues - Lost Performances Live In Paris. DVD. Historical 1970 recordings that were discovered in a French archive. 58 Minutes, showing the band at their peak, including "Nights in White Satin", "Ride my See-Saw", "Tuesday Afternoon","Legend of a Mind" etc. Superb! Dolby digital 5.1 sound.Region 0.

Moody Blues - Magnificent Moodies. CD. (Repertoire Records - REP5077) The Brummie's bands debut from 1965, with Denny Laine is a far-cry from their later progressive material. This effort, released when they were at the forefront of the UK R&B boom, features melodic pop and R&B similar to The Zombies early material. It of course includes their #1 smash, "Go Now", whilst the 7 bonus cuts include their hit singles "I Don't Want To Go On Without You" and "From The Bottom Of My Heart" plus the rare "Steal Your Heart Away".Housed in a digi pack sleeve.

Moody Blues - Greatest Hits. CD. (Polygram - 840 6592) Excellent comp of the best stuff by this UK band who cut a long progressive rock/pop furrow through the late '60's and early to mid '70's. Includes all the hits as well as more psychedelic gems such as "Tuesday Afternoon". BARGAIN PRICE

Moody Blues - In Search Of The Lost Chord. CD. (Deram - 844 768-2) Digitally remastered copy of one of the best UK '60's psychedelic pop albums and a release that is often overlooked by fans of UK psike. Released in 1968 it includes the fabulous pop-psike gems "Thinking Is The Best Way To Travel" and "Ride My See Saw" as well as the hymn to Tim Leary "Legend Of A Mind", and weighty prog concept piece 'House Of Four Doors' and balladic hit singles 'The Actor' and 'Voices In The Sky'. Light psychedelic harmonies, mystical eastern concepts, subtle effects and sometimes intricate musical arrangements make this album a total winner from start to finish. Each member played over 10 instruments!! Were they on very strong drugs at the time? Now, whatever might give you that idea. . .

Moody Blues - Every Good Boy Deserves Favour. CD. (Threshold Records/ Decca - 8447722) By 1971 the Moody Blues' popularity had reached new heights in the US. Radio friendly stations were helping to promote their music, and this new album, packed with Moogs (a first for the band), mellotrons and musical experimentation was a stepping stone to the stadium filled shows to follow. Contains the superb "Story In Your Eyes" the frolicsome "Nice To Be Here" the dark and foreboding "My Song" and the unforgettable "Procession" which was known to scare the living excrement out of at least one Freak Employee when played by his father in 1975!!

Moody Blues - Days Of Future Passed. DVD Audio. Classic concept album gets the 5.1 remaster treatment. Includes signature hit, 'Nights In White Satin'.To experience the incredible 5.1 surround mixes on this 5.1 music disc you will need a DTS-capable sound system consisting of a DVD player,a 5.1-channel receiver,plus 5 speakers & subwoofer.

Moody Blues - To Our Children's Children's Children. DbleHybrid SACD stereo/stereo. (UMC - 9832156) The Moodies' darkest, bleakest, coldest and most 'out there' release ever. Spawning no hit singles in the UK, nor many staples of their live set (largely due to the sound being so processed and layered that it was nigh on impossible to reproduce on stage), it nevertheless stands, as do all their classic albums from 1967 to 1973, as a complete work from start to finish. By now, the template is established- the lyrics full of cosmic philosophy and thinly veiled drug references (you should have seen the fan mail they used to get), the instrumentation dense, textured and coated in slabs of chilling Mellotron, the vocals a harmonious baritone, the tracks blending into one another seamlessly- the trick was how much one could twist and fuck around with it. Aside from the whimsical and throwaway 'Floating' (actually a single) the feel throughout is cavernous, eerie and foreboding. Thus, the vocals on Lodge's 'Eyes Of A Child' and Thomas' 'Eternity Road' sound as if they were recorded on a different planet to the rest of the music (to the songs' credit): Edge's first actual musical compositions (as opposed to poems) 'Higher And Higher' and 'Beyond' sound respectively like the screams of the tormented in hell being run over by a 747 and a car chase through a lunar landscape: Pinder's 'Out And In' and 'Sun Is Still Shining' are shot through with the eerie, mystic yet lethargic beauty one feels as the trip is wearing off, and Hayward's 'Gypsy Of A Strange And Distant Time' lyrically conveys a sense of loneliness, displacement and terror far removed from the pastoral dreamscapes of his earlier compositions. But most importantly, this was the album that gave the world the song that Moodies fanatics often cite in polls as their all time favourite: the joint (pun intended) Hayward/Thomas composition 'Watching And Waiting', which can truly stand alonsgide any of the finest in the history of rock music. Ironically, though, tis was the poorest-selling of any of their classic era albums!! Now a second disc has been added to the original album and features eleven previously unreleased alternate versions and BBC Radio 1 Sessions.

Moody Blues - On The Threshold Of A Dream. Hybrid SACD (stereo/stereo). (UMC - 9832153) The Moodies' third album proper, whilst not acknowledged as a classic like its predecessors, continues their upward spiral of progression, and moves away from the Eastern modal scales of 'In Search Of The Lost Chord' toward a sweeping European classical influence. This is most amply demonstrated on Mike Pinder's closing triarchy of 'Have You Heard Pt 1' /'The Voyage' /'Have You Heard Pt 2' where he lets rip on grand piano and harmonium as well as his trademark Mellotron, and on Hayward & Thomas's beautiful 'Are You Sitting Comfortably', but is prevalent throughout the album in the melodies and the immense amounts of instrumentation used. By now, the bandmembers' roles were established: Hayward the romantic pop writer with beat combo roots ('Never Comes The Day' being the best example), Lodge the rocker ( as shown on 'To Share Our Love' the band's most forthright song at that point) Thomas the whimsical humourist ('Lazy Day' 'Dear Diary') Edge the dark poet, and Pinder the mystic (although he also weighs in with the pounding 'So Deep Within You', a psych dancefloor classic). 'Sixth member' Tony Clarke's production was even more adaventurous than before, with robot voices, wind machines and all sorts of unidentifiable whistlings entering the melange, and it was obvious from this point on that the Moodies were a fact of life like the Beatles, the Stones and the Who had been before them. This hybrid SACD has been expanded and now features 9 previously unreleased alternate versions and BBC Radio 1 Sessions.

Moody Blues - In Search Of The Lost Chord. DbleHybrid SACD stereo/stereo. (UMC - 9832147) Another superb reissue to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the 'classic' lineup of this incredible band. Its predcessor 'Days Of Future Passed' may have set the course for experimentation and musical freedom, but 'In Search Of. . .' significantly upped the ante by removing the orchestration that had lushly coated its predecessor and plunging headlong into the world of sitars, mellotrons, loops, harmoniums and Esstern mysticism. There was still a commercial and beautifully melodic edge to tracks like 'Ride My See Saw' 'Voices In The Sky' and 'The Actor' but on the other hand, there were tracks like 'Legend Of A Mind' (with its infamous refrain of "Timothy Leary's dead, no, no, he's outside looking in") 'House Of Four Doors' 'Visons Of Paradise' 'The Best Way To Travel' 'Dr Livingstone I Presume' and 'Om' which leapt headlong into the unknown- and let's just say a few substances had been ingested here and there!! Again, definitely an album ''of its time' but still to these ears the ultimate exploration, alongside 'SF Sorrow' of English psychedelia. Now available with a second disc which adds demos, Radio 1 sessions and the single 'Simple Game' (later covered by the Four Tops) that was previously only available on the 'This Is. . .' comp.

Moody Blues - Days Of Future Passed. DbleHybrid SACD stereo/stereo. (UMC - 9832150) The Hayward-fronted lineup of the Moodies reaches its fortieth anniversary as a recording act in 2006. In conjunction, Freak Emporium is proud to present this double CD reissue of the album that started it all- by which of course we mean progressive rock in the UK!! Most of you out in Freakland will be familiar with this masterpiece already, and doubtless know the story of how Deram bankrolled what they thought was going to be a beat group version of Hvorzak's 'New World Symphony'- but the recently reconvened band, still smarting from the atrophy of their original R'n'B-based lineup after the departure of frontman Denny Laine- had other, bolder ideas. Left to their own devices for weeks in the company of the London Festival Orchestra conducted by Peter Knight, they came up with- almost contemporaneously to the Beatles' 'Sergeant Pepper' opus- the idea of a continous piece of music that stretched over two sides of vinyl, telling the story of a transient day in the life of everyman, divided into sections that could stand on their own as pop songs, composed and sung equally between the five bandmembers, linked by orchestration and poetry. It was a sensation, nothing like it had been released before in the UK (Joe Meek's "I Hear A New World" from 1960 is probably the first ever British concept album, but lacks the thematic unification of this work) Before you knew it there was a name for this sound- 'progressive music'- and the world exploded!! Although tracks like 'Peak Hour' 'Dawn Is A Feeling' (with Hayward's vocal somewhat redolent of Scott Walker) 'Tuesday Afternoon' Mike Pinder's Martin Denny-influenced 'The Sun Set' and Ray Thomas' menacing 'Twilight Time' (uncannily similar in melody to the Creation's "For All That I Am", but which came first?) all sound rather dated and quaint now, they still give the impression of a bold, brave band stepping into unchartered territory- from which there was no turning back. Most importantly of all though, the album gave us two key elements of the Moodies' ouvre- their first use of the Mellotron, which would define their sound for the next seven years, and of course that monumental hit single 'Nights In White Satin' which, although admittedly overplayed, still makes sense in the context of the album. To commemorate this special event, a second disc has now been added, featuring the A and B sides of the singles, previously unreleased alternate versions and BBC1 radio sessions from 1967 and 1968- and the whole package is available in Surround Sound!! Listen and learn.

Moody Blues - Days Of Future Passed. CD. (Deram - 844 767-2) This 1967 album was one of the first of the progressive rock genre. The first mainstream release to feature a rock band and orchestra playing together, and being a linked suite of songs on a common theme, this of course spawned the massive hit single "Nights In White Satin." It also includes the haunting "Tuesday Afternoon", and the frankly evil sounding 'Twilight Time'. A groundbreaking album in rock and roll history, and one everybody should own. Although not the first concept album ever (that honour may fall to Joe Meek's "I Hear A New World" seven years earlier) it's fair to say all that was ever regarded as 'prog' started here, although the band themselves never liked the term and of course moved away from it into an AOR-MOR direction. Nevertheless, this album is as important as 'Sgt Pepper' 'Pet Sounds' 'Forever Changes' 'SF Sorrow' 'Odessey And Oracle' 'Ogdens Nut Gone Flake' and 'Village Green Preservation Society', and to count the amount of bands its sound influenced would take a whole week. An essential purchase then.

Moody Blues - A Question Of Balance. Hybrid SACD (stereo/stereo). (UMC - 9837706) The final release in this line of Moody Blues reissues (wot no 'EGBDF' or 'Sojourn' then? Boo hoo!!) that commemorate the fortieth anniversary (2006) of the band as a recording act (their pre-1966 R 'n B period with a different line-up notwithstanding). 'A Question Of Balance' was their fifth album since the inception of the Hayward/Lodge lineup, and was indeed more balanced than its dark and harshly cold sounding predecessor. As well as being the first Moodies album to be recorded entirely in stereo with no mono mix available, it also cut down on what bandmembers felt was the extraneous instrumentation that had maybe cluttered the sound of its predecessor, resulting in a more streamlined sound. Subsequently it spawned (albeit in an edited version) Hayward's "Question", the line-up's biggest UK hit single to date: other highlights were Thomas' romantic and heartfelt "And The Tide Rushes In" based on an argument with his wife (!): Lodge's galloping pomp-rocker "Tortoise And The Hare" which was often stretched out as an in-concert improv fave: Edge's otherworldly "Don't You Feel Small" (his first attempt at writing an actual sung song) Pinder's relentlessly morose "Melancholy Man" (often cited by rock writers as the most depressive song ever recorded!!) and closing track "The Balance" (a rare Thomas/Edge collaboration), which in direct contrast to the bleakness of the preceding song, ends on one of the most positive notes possible. Their biggest-selling album up to that point in both the UK and US: ironically, though, this was where the stability of the band slowly began to collapse. This SACD version has also been expanded and now includes 6 previously released alternate takes.

Moody Blues - A Question Of Balance. CD. (Threshold Records/ Decca - 844 771-2) This 1970 release was a huge success on both sides of the Atlantic but the band continued to follow their unique course mixing spiritual and social concepts with brilliant pop prog rock. Spawning the hit single "Question," the album also contained some of the traditional epics such as "And The Tide Rushes In," "Melancholy Man"- cited often in lists as 'most depressing rock song ever not written by Leonard Cohen!!'- and live fave 'Tortoise And The Hare'. Progressive rock was just beginning to take off in a big way and the Moodies were undisputed kings of the genre. Remastered version.

Moody Blues - Live At The BBC - Sessions 1967-1970. Dble CD. (Universal - 9847202) A brillant compilation of some of the Moodies finest moments. A must for all Moodies fans! With tracks taken from The Saturday Club, Peak Hour Sessions, Tuesday Afternoon BBC Session, Top Gear etc - All the gems like "Nights In White Satin" ," Dr. Livingstone, I Presume" ," Voices In The Sky" ," Ride My See-Saw"," Lovely To See You" , " "Never Comes The Day", "To Share Our Love"," Send Me No Wine", "Don't You Feel Small" and more - Spread over a two disc set this really is a beautiful collection of the Moodies up to 1970.Fully detailed booklet rounds off the package.

Moody Blues - Every Good Boy Deserves Favour. Hybrid SACD (stereo/5.1). (Decca - 9845506) SACD digi version of the 1971 album album, packed with Moogs (a first for the band), mellotrons and musical experimentation was a stepping stone to the stadium filled shows to follow. Contains the superb "Story In Your Eyes" the frolicsome "Nice To Be Here" the dark and foreboding "My Song" and the unforgettable "Procession"

Moody Blues - Seventh Sojourn. Hybrid SACD (stereo/5.1). (Decca - 9845507) SACD digi version of the 1972 and the Moodies seventh album. Featuring hit singles "I'm Just A Singer (In A Rock And Roll Band)" (written by John Lodge in response to all the stoned loony fans who believed the Moodies actually knew the answers to the cosmos) and "Isn't Life Strange" this continued their trend away from progressive epics towards a more song-based body of work. All the usual components were still evident though, from Justin Hayward's wistful lyricisms- particularly on his most accomplished composition to date, "Land Of Make Believe"- to the strong songwriting of the other band members. This is the album played on numerous Appollo space missions!

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