Blue Fire / Rarities - Fireballs (The)

Advantages: A Passionate Desire, May Burn A Gem-Like Fire...
Disadvantages: Consumed By Flames Of Woe; We All Someday Must Go...

...was about 4, my nursery school chums and I always knew what our "favourite things" were... and we were quite ardent in our devotion to them too. There was no hesitation or indecisiveness; no pausing to reflect or reconsider our selections. We only had one shot at rehearsing them to politely tolerant, but otherwise totally indifferent adults: "Favourite superhero-- SPIDERMAN; favourite colour-- BLUE, favourite toy-- TONKA FIRE ENGINE, favourite ice cream flavour--MINT CHOCOLATE CHIP..." None of us particularly CARED whether or not you wanted to hear them recited either. You just DID. That was the rule. You had no choice. We didn't make a distinction between a cornered listener's "captivated, rapt amazement" and his or her "fast-eroding, insincere tolerance." Why? Because, without our mind-numbingly tedious "favourite-thing rap," we had no way... Read review

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Advantages: It's real music
Disadvantages: None

...relate too I think. “God bless you Kid” (4.57) this the penultimate track of the collection kicks into life with a volley of rhythm on the drums along with metallic sounding percussion and the signature string sound creates an up-tempo back-drop for Paul’s vocals, “I drive all over town, to the bars without me, it feels like Memphis after Elvis, there’s nothin’ going on, when you get to the top, does it all work out?, you wanna start again, you’ve only one life” as he sings the title of the track the strings get louder “the boys all dressed in blue, and the girl get dressed in white, a fire engines, a T.V. stations, still tumble through the night, go to bed, go to sleep, with our ordinary lives, it’s the same old, same old scene, god bless you kid, and everything I did”... Read review

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Advantages: One of the defining Moody Blues albums - as good as it ever was
Disadvantages: None really

...of a rarity - the Moody Blues instrumental track. Composed by Graeme Edge, it comes with short bursts of sound, synthesised noise and interludes driving rhythm. There is also good stereo engineering and channel separation on this track. 7. Out And In (3:47) **** Again there is the allusion to the passage of time and the journey through life theme here. This is a haunting, melodic sound backed with synthesisers and Mellotrons. 8. Gypsy. (3:33) **** Justin's mystical song has a driving beat with then backing of flutes and guitars. 9. Eternity Road (4:19) *** A gentle song with much more meaningful words from Ray Thomas has upbeat harmonies. It finishes with trills on the flute. 10. Candle Of Life. (4:14) ***** If any, this is the seminal track of the album. It is one of John Lodge's most haunting song containing... Read review

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