Remix And Additional Production By... - Hybrid

Advantages: Cracking Breaks and 4/4 Mixes
Disadvantages: Not exactly available

...will be on their remix album available in Feb 2001, by the name of "Remix and Additional Production". A review of that will be coming soon, when I buy it. The original version of this track, "Never Gonna Come Back Down" features on BT's current album, "Movement in Still Life". One of the featuring tracks is "Dreaming". One could find it at Grooveradio.com, if you wish to listen to it.... Read review

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Advantages: The first Moody Blues concept album. Is this what started prog rock?
Disadvantages: Perhaps a little dated - but it is 40 years old!

...Isn't life strange? So wrote John Lodge on a later album. This, though, was the one that started the ball rolling, creating a distinctive and unique sound that would become loved and followed for 40 years and three generations of fans. It is appropriate to look back at this album as a new remastering has been issued and the band are starting yet another UK tour in the autumn. In 2003 Universal Music embarked on a project to re-master the first five of the Moody Blues albums from the original tapes using modern production techniques. They also decided to issue additional tracks, alternative takes and other versions which were not included on the final album. This is the 2006 deluxe SACD edition. INTRODUCING THE BAND The Moody Blues were perhaps predestined for their eventual place in the realms of rock - after all... Read review

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Advantages: Foretold their development and their record label
Disadvantages: Perhaps not of immediate appeal but it will draw you in

...I am taking you back in time over thirty years for this review - back to the days of "Tommy", flower power and the concept album. The Moody Blues produced two studio albums in 1969: this is the first and was also the last that was issued on the DERAM label. It is programme music in the sense that the tracks run one into the next without a definite end. Indeed on the original vinyl LP the final strains were recorded into the run-out track so that if the stylus was not lifted the music never ended. I well remember finding myself fast asleep in the armchair under its influence. In 2003 Universal Music embarked on a project to re-master the first five of the Moody Blues albums from the original tapes using modern production techniques. They also decided to issue additional tracks - alternative takes and versions - which were... Read review

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