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Blacksword 
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 Topic: The Days of future Passed - Moody Blues
Posted: January 17 2005 at 04:15 |
Following advice from folk on this forum I decided to make this purchase at the weekend. The first thing that struck me was how brilliant the production was. Recorded in 1967 this concept album, about a day in the life of us all, sounds remarkable after
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joniox
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Posted: January 21 2005 at 16:14 |
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The absolutely only album that gives me the feeling that orchestration is more important than the band.
I'm listening it right now. (The Afternoon)
Good album.
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Blacksword
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Posted: January 22 2005 at 16:18 |
On first listen I thought the orchestration went too far, but with each listen I grow to love it more. The very first concept album??
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joniox
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Posted: January 23 2005 at 15:11 |
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Don't know about that. Maybe.
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Blacksword
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Posted: January 24 2005 at 03:42 |
 joniox wrote:
Don't know about that. Maybe. |
It was recorded same year as Sgt Pepper, but is certainly more of a concept. Sgt Pepper has reoccuring themes and several related songs, but DOFP is an uninterupted concept - there is no song
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Cesar Inca
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Posted: January 25 2005 at 09:21 |
This is the album that inspired TMB to go for it and, together with the Floyds, the early Softs, the Nice and a few others, put some intellectual drive and multicolours into the realms of rock'n'roll - give birth to prog rock. <
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Dick Heath
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Posted: January 28 2005 at 09:58 |
Originally released on Decca's specialist high fidelity stereo label Phase 4. Remember at the time, it was probably mum and dad who owned the stereo gramophone, not the kids*. Hence a label originally aimed at the middle class and the middle
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Posted: January 28 2005 at 16:48 |
I guess I need to listen to it more... I bought it a few weeks ago, listened to it, and immediately filed it under "might listen to again some day". On the first listen, it sounded horribly naff, dated and overdone. However, I wa
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Posted: January 28 2005 at 17:12 |
My mom loves the Moody Blues. She has taken me to see them twice. I was 8 the first time I saw 'em at the Desert Sky Pavilion (Now the Cricket Pavilion) in Phoenix. The second I was 9 and they were playing the Arizona State Fair in Phoenix. (Helpful adv
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Wizard/TRueStar
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Posted: February 05 2005 at 15:14 |
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I just picked this one up yesterday. I love it. THe prodution really sticks out and the album is quite enjoyable beggining to end.
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Cluster One
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Posted: February 15 2005 at 04:43 |
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I have problems really 'getting' this album. I recognize its excellent production, and symphonic qualities. However besides 'Tuesday Afternoon' and 'Nights of White Satin' (a great song killed by overplay on FM radio) I am easily distracted when listeni
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Marmalade...I like marmalade.
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James Lee
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Posted: February 26 2005 at 22:04 |
It's really one of a kind; it's not as representative of the "characteristic sound" band as any of the following six albums, but it's a huge difference from anything they'd done before. I don't know of any band that changed so much in the cour
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Posted: April 24 2005 at 12:51 |
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Although I have some of TMB albums and I'm not great fan of them, "The Days Of Future Passed" is an excellent album. I like that mixture of rock'n'roll and classical music, the concept of this album is very interesting - 7 parts of the day, my favourite
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Blacksword
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Posted: April 25 2005 at 05:11 |
I had another listern at the weekend. The albums one failiure IMO is the orchestral parts are too dominant, and are at times innapropriate alongside the songs themeslves. The most striking example of this is from the 'Afternoon..' section onward
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Phinneas
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Posted: April 25 2005 at 15:09 |
I've loved this album ever since I was a kid, my uncle had a copy and I remember first listening to it when I was like 8 or 9; it was really one of those defining moments for me. I particularly enjoyed the second half of the album, especially
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