This Is The Moody Blues

Infobox Album |
Name = This Is The Moody Blues
Type = Compilation Album
Artist = The Moody Blues


Released = 1 November 1974
Recorded = October 1967 - September 1972
Genre = Rock
Length = 94:18
Label = Threshold Records
Producer = Tony Clarke
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://wc02.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:j9fuxqw5ldke link]
Chronology = The Moody Blues
Last album = "Seventh Sojourn""'
(1972)
This album = "This Is The Moody Blues"
(1974)
Next album = "Caught Live + 5"
(1977)

"This Is The Moody Blues" is a two LP (later two CDs) compilation album by The Moody Blues, released in late 1974 while the band was on a self-imposed sabbatical. Though all of the songs were previously released on albums (with the exception of "A Simple Game" which was a 1968 B-side), several of them are heard here in distinctly different mixes.

"This Is The Moody Blues" was a commercial and critical success, reaching #14 in the UK and #11 in the U.S. before 1974 was out.

Track listings

ide One

# "Question" (Justin Hayward) - 5:39
# "The Actor" (Hayward) - 4:11
# "The Word" (Graeme Edge) - 0:11
# "Eyes of a Child" (John Lodge) - 2:34
# "Dear Diary" (Ray Thomas) - 3:47
# "Legend of a Mind" (Thomas) - 6:37

ide Two

# "In the Beginning" (Edge) - 2:06
# "Lovely to See You" (Hayward) - 2:35
# "Never Comes the Day" (Hayward) - 4:39
# "Isn't Life Strange" (Lodge) - 6:32
# "The Dream" (Graeme Edge) – 0:52
# "Have You Heard (Part 1)" (Pinder) – 1:23
# "The Voyage" (Pinder) – 4:08
# "Have You Heard (Part 2)" (Pinder) – 5:06

ide Three

# "Ride My See-Saw" (Lodge) - 3:32
# "Tuesday Afternoon" (Hayward) - 4:04
# "And the Tide Rushes In" (Thomas) - 2:54
# "New Horizons" (Hayward) - 5:06
# "A Simple Game" (Pinder) - 3:18
# "Watching and Waiting" (Hayward/Thomas) - 4:21

ide Four

# "I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band)" (Lodge) - 4:11
# "For My Lady" (Thomas) - 3:54
# "The Story In Your Eyes" (Hayward) - 2:45
# "Melancholy Man" (Pinder) - 5:05
# "Nights in White Satin" (Hayward) - 4:33
# "Late Lament" (Edge) - 2:33

External links

* [http://moodyblues.co.uk Official Moody Blues Homepage]
* [http://www.moodybluestoday.com Official Moody Blues Fan Community]

Discography

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