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Moody Blues: The very best of the Moody Blues

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Label: Polydor Records
Released: 1996
Time:
 77:37
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Rating: *****..... (5/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.moodyblues.co.uk
Appears with:
Purchase date: 2010.05.16
Price in €: 2,00





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[1] Go Now (Banks/Bennett) - 3:13
[2] Tuesday Afternoon (Forever Afternoon) (Hayward) - 4:10
[3] Nights in White Satin (Hayward) - 4:25
[4] Ride My See-Saw (Lodge) - 3:42
[5] Voices in the Sky (Hayward) - 3:31
[6] Question (Hayward) - 5:46
[7] The Story in Your Eyes (Hayward) - 2:54
[8] Isn't Life Strange (Lodge) - 6:05
[9] I'm Just a Singer [In a Rock & Roll Band] (Lodge) - 4:15
[10] Blue Guitar (Hayward) - 3:38
[11] Steppin' in a Slide Zone (Lodge) - 5:27
[12] Forever Autumn (Osborne/Vigrass/Wayne) - 4:26
[13] The Voice (Hayward) - 5:11
[14] Gemini Dream (Hayward/Lodge) - 4:05
[15] Blue World (Hayward) - 5:13
[16] Your Wildest Dreams (Hayward) - 4:50
[17] I Know You're Out There Somewhere (Hayward) - 6:38

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Dick Flanagan - Performer
Lol Creme - Performer
Kevin Godley - Performer
John Lodge - Performer
Eric Stewart - Performer

Paul Bliss - Keyboards
Bias Boshell - Keyboards
Justin Hayward - Guitar on [10], [12]
Graham Gouldman - Vocals on [10]

Susan Kay - Vocals (bckgr)

Tony Visconti - Producer, Engineer, Mixing
Tony Clarke - Producer
Pip Williams - Producer
10cc - Producer
Danilo Madonia - Engineer, Mastering, Mixing
Alberto Parodi - Engineer
David Aeling - Orchestra Production
Larry Baird - Conductor, Orchestral Arrangements
Mark Harvey - Monitor Engineer
Peter Knight - Arranger
Sean Magee - Mastering
John Reed - Liner Notes
Allan Terry - Drum Technician
Dorian Wathen - Compilation, Concept

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1996 CD Polydor D116697
2002 CD Decca 583344
2002 CD Universal International 583344

By keeping it simple and sticking to the hits, this collection successfully relates the story of this pioneering band. The Moody Blues began as a Gerry & the Pacemakers-like, R&B-influenced band fronted by sad-voiced singer Denny Laine, who is heard here on "Go Now". Laine was replaced by Justin Hayward, keyboardist Mike Pinder brought in a Mellotron, and the band hooked up with the London Symphony Orchestra to makethe first orchestral-rock album DAYS OF FUTURE PASSED, fromwhich "Tuesday Afternoon" and "Nights in White Satin" are included on this album. Over the next few years the band banged out several gem albums that were full of a distinctivemix of folk-tinged ballads and ambitious prog-rock. Cuts from this period take up a healthy piece of this collection. After a lengthy sabbatical, the Moodies made a comeback in 1981, and with an updated sound (more synth, less Mellotron) the hits began anew. The last section of this album features the songs that brought the Moody Blues back to life. THE BEST OF THE MOODY BLUES is a definitive and accurate portrait of the group, and a good place for neophytes to begin.



Fans of the Moody Blues hungry for the band's intoxicatingly rich arrangements and soaring melodies need look no further than this terrific compilation. What it lacks in depth this collection makes up for in breadth, spanning the band's 30-year history of hits from "Tuesday Afternoon (Forever Afternoon)" to "Your Wildest Dreams". Featuring some of Justin Hayward and John Lodge's best songwriting and packed with performances truly worthy of the superlative adjective greatest, this collection of hits delivers the goods.

L A Smith - Amazon.co.uk



In 2002, Decca released Very Best of the Moody Blues/Hall of Fame, which contained two albums - Very Best of the Moody Blues (originally released by Decca in 2002) and the live record Hall of Fame (released in 2000 by Ark 21) - by prog rock veterans the Moody Blues on one compact disc.

Tim Sendra - All Music Guide
 

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