Seventh Sojourn

I don't often return to this particular Moodies album, but when I do, it's mostly very pleasant.
Standout tracks for me : Lost In A Lost World, New Horizons and When You're A Free Man, and the first track on side 2 whose title escapes me now - it's a Hayward song. Weakest track, For My Lady (I can't stand accordion/concertina, whatever....).
On a side - I couldn't stand Ray Thomas' From Mighty Oaks album. Plain old-fogey drivel.

Living in a land of make believe is my personal fav it took many listens to seventh sojourn to fully appreciate the masterwork it has become ,after watching a doc on the moodies the drummer found it a good album. It was I believe  recorded during a time, when band members were not to happy looming  a possible breakup.

grantman wrote: Living in a land of make believe is my personal fav it took many listens to seventh sojourn to fully appreciate the masterwork it has become ,after watching a doc on the moodies the drummer found it a good album. It was I believe  recorded during a time, when band members were not to happy looming  a possible breakup.

I think even the cheesy tracks like 'For My Lady' are good. 

I'm with Ken on this topic. Seventh Sojourn is the one that got me into the band, and the tension is one of the things that made it interesting. I like the comparison to 'Rumours', which was a brilliant album despite the obvious continuity and noodling flaws that nobody talks about. What was going on with the band showed in the music and that brought fans closer, which made the songs all the more poignant. I would offer Supertramp's 'famous last words' and Kansas 'Monolith' as other examples where the tension and discord gave the music an edge that proved engaging for those bands' real fans.

progaardvark wrote: To the original poster: I don't know why you feel that having this album as your favorite is unreasonable. It's a great album.

My favourite Moodies album and one of my favourite albums ever. Beautiful... 

dr wu23 wrote: My least favorite of the early ones.....at this point imho they were running out of  ideas for songs and themes for albums  though there are several strong  tracks on there.

This. The good doc knows his Moody Blues!

The only song I can think of that I particularly dislike is The Land of Make Believe. It's just too campy, even for the Blues.

^ O.K. Just dug my record of this album out and giving it some respect. Up to For My Lady, and it's pleasant enough, just the accordion........otherwise, very tasteful. Now it's kicked in with Isn't Life Strange. Always a winner.
And looking at the inner sleeve, for those that have it in their respective copies, what's that keyboard looking thing Graeme Edge is sitting behind in one of the photos (5th photo, 2nd row) ?? I believe Pinder utilised a Chamberlin (as opposed to a Mellotron) on this album. It probs deserves a fourth star rating.