Seventh Sojourn
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Topic: Seventh Sojourn
Posted By: aglasshouse
Subject: Seventh Sojourn
Date Posted: July 01 2016 at 17:22
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This album's one I've found to be my favorite Blues album, and the only one I listen to on multiple occasions. Is this unreasonable? I feel like it is. ------------- http://fryingpanmedia.com |
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: July 01 2016 at 20:23
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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. |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: July 06 2016 at 08:55
| I think it's a great album, and I think some of the dislike of it comes from it being the last of the classic 7, where it's all too easy to say that they were running out of ideas. Not really a weak track here. I even like the Thomas song, and I usually find his the weakest. "New Horizons" is pure beauty. The first track on side 2 is a great song called "You and Me", that was a collaboration between Hayward and Edge, which combines Hayward's mastery of the ballad with Edge's rocking sensibilities. It actually got me into the band |
Posted By: grantman
Date Posted: July 06 2016 at 09:53
| 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. |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: July 06 2016 at 11:13
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Wonderful album. My second favourite MB's album after "To our childrens childrens children" ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: July 06 2016 at 11:15
yes by all accounts they were very unhappy at this time. But sometimes unhappiness leads to great music. Fleetwood Mac's Rumours would be another case in point
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grantman wrote:Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: July 06 2016 at 13:21
+1 ------------- |
Posted By: aglasshouse
Date Posted: July 06 2016 at 17:59
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I think even the cheesy tracks like 'For My Lady' are good. ------------- http://fryingpanmedia.com |
Posted By: TheLionOfPrague
Date Posted: July 12 2016 at 15:40
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Fantastic album, one of my 20 favorite albums of all time or so. Not a weak track and most of them are brilliant. ------------- I shook my head and smiled a whisper knowing all about the place |
Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: July 12 2016 at 19:45
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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. ------------- "Peace is the only battle worth waging." Albert Camus |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: July 13 2016 at 06:02
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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. ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: aglasshouse
Date Posted: July 14 2016 at 12:10
I dunno, it just doesn't seem like it's that popular or known of an album outside the prog circle. Most people talk about their more artsy, earlier stuff. ------------- http://fryingpanmedia.com |
Posted By: comascape
Date Posted: July 14 2016 at 14:05
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I've actually been listening to this one more and more lately.
------------- "You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life." -Salvador Dali |
Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: July 21 2016 at 00:20
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My favourite Moodies album and one of my favourite albums ever. Beautiful... ------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385 |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: July 21 2016 at 09:10
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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. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: July 21 2016 at 13:12
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Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: July 21 2016 at 16:06
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This is probably my 4th or 5th favorite Moody Blues album. Definitely better than the two that preceded it, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour and A Question of Balance. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: aglasshouse
Date Posted: July 22 2016 at 09:38
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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. ------------- http://fryingpanmedia.com |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: July 22 2016 at 13:33
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^ it segues nicely into When You're A Free Man For My Lady is the turkey here. |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: July 31 2016 at 04:07
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^ 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. |
Posted By: aglasshouse
Date Posted: July 31 2016 at 10:35
You don't talk sh*t about For My Lady. That's one of my favorite goofy songs from the Moodies.  ------------- http://fryingpanmedia.com |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: July 31 2016 at 10:48
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People here are unclear on the concept, but the Moody Blues weren't. Back in the day, songs like 'For My Lady', 'Tuesday Afternoon' and 'Nights in White Satin' were chick magnets. You ever been to a Moody Blues concert? I've seen them several times. More women than men. That's the only prog rock band besides maybe Supertramp that can make that claim. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: aglasshouse
Date Posted: July 31 2016 at 10:53
I know that that's what the audience was. Styx, Toto, and Chicago (especially) did it all the time. ------------- http://fryingpanmedia.com |