Search - Moody Blues :: To Our Childrens Childrens Children (Mlps)

One Of A Kind CD

10/20/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is my favorite Moody Blues album. I am only 16 years old and I am the only one my age, that I know, who knows who this band is. The first time I listened to this album, I was thinking. I had never in my life heard anything like this before (and I'm not that old). "Gypsy", "Candle of Life", "Higher and Higher", "Eyes of a Child P2", "Watching and Waiting", and "Eternity Road" are awesome. Also, their voices on this album are incredible. I believe they'll be frozen in my mind for the rest of my life, and probably for others who heard them for hundreds of years. Although this doesn't fit in with the youth of today, I don't think it matters. This rap and alternative crap cannot survive much longer. The Moody Blues' music is timeless to me. I believe it should be put into a time capsal and sent into space to represent what great compositions were all about is the Twentieth Century on Earth. That's including every other album they made during the seventies through to 'Strange Times'. You will never again hear or see an album like this ever again."

You don't have to be a Moody fanatic to love this album

woburnmusicfan | Woburn, MA United States | 05/10/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"One of my personal criteria in doing reviews is that an album isn't a five-star album if you have to already be a huge fan of the band to think the album's great. I'm not a "huge" Moody Blues fan. There are dozens of their songs I like, but this is the only one of their albums that I love all the way through. I didn't know until reading the liner notes on the remastered version that the album is meant to have space travel as its connecting theme. But it makes sense--the band weaves songs about the wonder of the universe in with songs that contrast the infinity of space and human mortality, and Mike Pinder's songs are about the inner space of the mind."Eyes of a Child I" wasn't a single, but is as good as any of the classic Moody hits. I don't usually care for Ray Thomas' songs, but "Eternity Road" is among his best, and he also co-wrote the single "Watching and Waiting". "Sun Is Still Shining" is my favorite song by Pinder, with its unison Mellotron and sitar. Drummer Graeme Edge contributes a couple of lively songs: "Higher and Higher" is very good despite his poetry, and "Beyond" is the closest thing you'll ever hear to a Moody jam session. The soothing "Watching and Waiting" closes the album with a lyric about a lonely planet beckoning space travelers to settle on it.(1=poor 2=mediocre 3=pretty good 4=very good 5=phenomenal)"

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Gregory Escobar (elves@apexmail.com | El junco, Venezuela | 09/12/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Is for sure an important piece of art which was recorded perhaps 40 years before its time. I recommend to look for the history of how it was made."