Days Of Future Past - The Moody Blues - Full Album Remaster

YouTube ^ | Released: 10 November 1967 (UK); 11 November 1967 (US) | The Moody Blues

[WhiskeyX]

Another fantastic Symphonic Rock album. In HD.

Genre: Symphonic Rock

Album: Days of Future Past

Track: All (7)

Year: 1967

[WhiskeyX]

The Moody Blues

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Moody Blues are an English rock band. They first came to prominence playing rhythm and blues music, but their second album, Days of Future Passed, which was released in 1967, was a fusion of rock with classical music and established them as pioneers in the development of art rock and progressive rock.[5][6] It has been described as a "landmark" and "one of the first successful concept albums".[5] They became known internationally with singles including "Go Now", "Nights in White Satin", "Tuesday Afternoon" and "Question". They have been awarded 18 platinum and gold discs. Their album sales total 70 million.[7]

As of 2015 they remain active with one member from the original 1964 band (drummer Graeme Edge) and two more from the 1966 lineup (bassist John Lodge and lead singer and guitarist Justin Hayward).

[....]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moody_Blues

Days of Future Passed

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Days of Future Passed is the second album and first concept album by English rock band The Moody Blues, released in November 1967 by Deram Records.[4] After two years performing as a struggling white R&B band, The Moody Blues were asked by their record label in September 1967 to record an adaptation of Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 as a stereo demonstration record.[4] Instead, the band chose to record an orchestral song cycle about a typical working day.[4]

Recording sessions for the album took place at Decca Studios in West Hampstead, London during 9 May - 3 November 1967.[8] The band worked with record producer Tony Clarke, engineer Derek Varnals, and conductor Peter Knight.[2] The album's music features psychedelic rockers,[2] ballads by singer-songwriter and guitarist Justin Hayward, Mellotron played by keyboardist Mike Pinder,[4] and orchestral accompaniment by the London Festival Orchestra.[2]

Music writers cite the album as a precursor to progressive rock music.[1][6][9] Bill Holdship of Yahoo! Music remarks that the band "created an entire genre here."[7] David Fricke cites it as one of the essential albums of 1967 and finds it "closer to high-art pomp than psychedelia. But there is a sharp pop discretion to the writing and a trippy romanticism in the mirroring effect of the strings and Mike Pinder's Mellotron."[4] Will Hermes cites the album as an essential progressive rock record and views that its use of the Mellotron, a tape replay keyboard, made it a "signature" element of the genre.[5] An influential work of the counterculture period,[10] Allmusic editor Bruce Eder calls the album "one of the defining documents of the blossoming psychedelic era, and one of the most enduringly

[....]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days_of_Future_Passed

[WhiskeyX]

Ping

[wardaddy]

I cannot lie

I loved the Moody Blues

First as a Brit invasion band but then as something far far different

They were the perfect accompaniment to lovemaking

And that dense internal dialogue wind down from a trip....especially a test style trip

Looking back they get lampooned as pretentious

But if you lived it

You “got it”

This is in no way an endorsement of such intoxicants

[Jack Straw from Wichita]

Yesterday’s dreams are tomorrow’s sighs/
Watch children play, they seem so wise

[radu]

I STILL love the Moody Blues.
I have all their albums, including Hayward’s and Lodge’s “Blue Jays” album, and haven’t been able to play them in years. No turntable. I’m in heaven right now listening to this. aaaaaaaahhhhh!

I saw them in Murfreesboro in ‘78, front row center seat, and sang every song along with them. At one point, Justin Hayward smiled at me and I thought I was going to faint. LOL!

[wardaddy]

I’m gonna try from memory the era I really paid attention

No cheating I swear to all holy

Days of future passed

In search of the lost chord

To our children’s children children

Seven sojourn

A question of balance

On the threshold of a dream

Every good boy deserves favor

....not no no he’s outside looking in.....

And those licks in Ride My See Saw

For a band not known for chops there are some great ones in that song....those chords right before “my world is spinning around”

For a band that started out like the Dave Clark Five they sure evolved....

I liked them...no question

[wardaddy]

I think they play the Ryman in March and most are still kicking

Though I think Justin Hayward and the piano guy maybe coined all the trippy narrative

Course I’d like to hear some from their Shindig!...era too

[howlinhound]

I saw them at least 5 times live in Toronto, Canada over the years and about 10 years ago at a casino in northern California. They played the same show every time but it was still amazing.

[radu]

Playing at the Ryman??????? Really???? COOL! I’m gonna have to see about getting up there for that!!

The only song I liked from their Shindig era was “Go Now”. The rest of the album they did back then wasn’t all that good. I have that one, too. :-)

[radu]

Whew! Don’t believe it’ll be front row center this time if we go. OUCH!
Trying to decide how much we can swing for tickets so I can go ahead and order them. I sooooooo want to hear them again.

[Roccus]

I keep expecting to hear the sexy, sultry, smokey voice of The Night Bird (Alison Steele) after each track.....but that was long ago and far away.

[Finny]

... that dense internal dialogue wind down from a trip....especially a test style trip. But if you lived it
You 'got it'

1967 was when that album came out? Wow -- four and five years later it was still going strong, then, because that's when I "lived it." And you nailed it!

It was orchestral but more than that, it was refreshing and positive. When I listen to '40s big band great stuff ala Bennie Goodman and Les Brown, I end up thinking, "No wonder we won the war." Positive, gutsy music, forward looking even when it was reflective and wandering.

As for growing up in the '70s, although I complained at the time, there was plenty of good music around, actually. I still love Jethro Tull.

[^)

[xvq2er]

And they’re still not in the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame. What a travesty.

[nothingnew]

Thanks for posting all the great music tubes. I enjoy almost everything you choose.

Happy New Year!

FMCDH(BITS)

[God luvs America]

big fan of the Moody Blues here...have seen them at least 20 times in concert since 1978...my daughter started coming with me to see them when she was 7YO...

highlight was Justin Hayward walking off the stage in Port Chester, NY around 2013 only to see my daughter, stop short and hand her a guitar pick...

while DOFP was ground breaking (when i saw them last tour in 2014 they performed Peak Hour as well as Tuesday and Knights) without a doubt the groups best album was Seventh Sojourn...

[God luvs America]

yes!!!

[God luvs America]

meanwhile they are not in the R&R HOF but donna summers is!! what a crock!

[grania]

Ahhhh...Nights in White Satin.

Two times in live concerts the MB did such a fantastic performance of that masterpiece that it brought the audience into a kind of suspended animation, with the music and words taking over any awareness of our surroundings.

I'm passionate about the MB. Back in their early days, it was a total experience when they had a new album......the poetry, the music, the artwork, the photography. It was a total experience, being reenergized by the beautiful feast they offered up.

My favorite among their less known songs is "For Emily". It's breathtakingly beautiful.

[wardaddy]

It’s Jann Wenner

A chickenhawk fag who loved disco and black music of any kind over much rock

He always short shrifted metal and hard rock

He loved Jefferson Airplane but hated Moody Blues

I liked Jorma Kaukonen myself but the Moodys had uniqueness and innovation and deep talent

Wenner is a turd

Craig Vetter...PJ.....HST.....Chet Flippo

Very few decent things came from RS

They loathed Zepplin and Lynyrd Skynyrd too

[wardaddy]

You lived it same time I did

A friend of mines older brother had moved to the Bay Area and played some in Quicksilver

He always came home with early 70s Orange Subshine from the now infamous Nick Sand and the Brotherhood of Eternal Love.

The Moodys were almost always a part of the downhill portion of that ride

Soothing and introspective they set a warm tone and it was comforting to hear someone sing about it who appeared to understand

They were musical and literary and of course rather English

So unusual considering they started out Yardbirds lite more like the Grass Roots

I have nothing against the Grass Roots..,,great junior high kissing in a dark room music

Later at Ole Miss in 77-78 on when of my last trips with a group of 7-8 guys and coeds we all sat around in Kincannon dorm and listened to virtually every trippy Moody Blues album all night till the sun came up

It was a very pleasant second half