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NetLab -> Forums -> Music -> Rock & Prog -> Topic: The Moody Blues - 1969 To Our Children's Children's Children The Moody Blues - 1969 To Our Children's Children's Children, 2006 Deluxe Edition 2CD. Original Recording Remastered. Bonus Tracks |
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thanks to KillerRips, thanks to other my friends  Product Description 2 CD set. This, the post-Denny Laine lineup's fourth album, was the second to be released in 1969. It was the group's most mature, fully realized effort to date, arguably surpassing even the milestone Days Of Future Passed in its elegance and vision. The Moodies were always capable of both songcraft and experimentalism, but this was the first time they combined them both successfully. Mike Pinder's dramatically arcing mellotron is the perfectly complement to the group's lush vocal harmonies, which are colored by rich acoustic guitar textures. Things open on a mind-bendingly psychedelic note with the electrical storm of 'Higher And Higher', but soon the waters calm. Justin Hayward's brief acoustic ballad 'I Never Thought I'd Live To Be A Hundred' is among the band's loveliest tunes, and it leads into 'Beyond', an ambitious instrumental that is the Moodies at their most progressive. Throughout the album, the mixture of winningly melodic balladry, poignant folk-rock and ambitious prog-rock leanings combine for what is one of the Moody Blues' most satisfying albums....  Review by Bruce Eder Recorded in the late spring and summer of 1969 and released in October of that year, To Our Children's Children's Children marked the first release from the Moody Blues' own Threshold Records label -- essentially a finished work right down to the jacket design as delivered to Decca/London Records, without any of the fighting and negotiation that had been required to get their prior albums issued in the desired form. Mostly written and conceived on a long rest after extensive touring behind their prior album, the record showed the band pulling effectively in several directions at once, generating rich, powerful electronic/psychedelic pieces such as "Beyond" and "Higher and Higher," driving rock & roll -- John Lodge's bass was rapidly becoming their anchor and their most formidable rock instrument -- and lush, trippy psychedelic ballads ("Out and In," "Watching and Waiting"), plus one catchy, hook-laden psychedelic pop number ("Gypsy"), all of it somehow held together across two sides, the hard rock and the trippy sensibilities, the idealism and the hedonism all balanced in a kind of perfect harmony that gave the album something for almost every rock listener above the age of 13 to enjoy. Although there was never a hit single off of the album, it still reached number two in England and number 14 in America, demonstrating that the group was in a position to hold onto the audience it had developed over its previous three albums and even expand it slightly as a pure LP listenership, without the benefit of AM radio play to reach the most casual listeners. It took longer to get certified gold than their preceding or succeeding albums, but its sales were won via retail, one LP listener at a time (with a tiny boost from the relatively new field of FM radio), rather than wholesale from AM play of some catchy single or other, and that showed how big the group's actual fan base had become in just two years. Their next tour of the United States would find them booked into a festival alongside the likes of the Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin, Ten Years After, and the Band, all then among the elite of the rock world. Although To Our Children's Children's Children was remastered quite nicely in 1997 as part of the "Moody Blues Remasters" series, the 2006-released Deluxe Edition of To Our Children's Children's Children features the cleanest mix and mastering of the album ever heard. ...Read more... 
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