I don’t do that every year but have done it from time to time. The Moody’s albums span quite a bit of time and that’s a lot of changes in our lives to reflect on, isn’t it? One thing that hasn’t changed is the excellence of their music. Graeme’s poetry causes Ms. B to get faint and listening to Justin Hayward’s voice causes me to get faint. LOL!
My favorite classical composer has always been Mozart, though I enjoy all the others too. Hubby freaks out when I have classical playing because he knows my other musical tastes. He just doesn’t understand how one can go from one to the other I reckon. :-)
I’ve learned not to be contemptuous to the spiritual when it appears in modern incarnations like Hayward. It’s easy enough to pooh pooh the “pagan” and hard to be humble enough to see that Christendom has left great vacuums through lukewarm effort in modern days. Something has to fill the vacuums, something that often looks like seekers.
It’s said that nothing succeeds like success, but also nothing fails like success. For it turns into pride when it forgets what it took to get there.