- The Best of the Moody Blues · 1969
- The Other Side of Life · 1986
- A Question of Balance · 1970
- Seventh Sojourn (Remastered) · 1972
- In Search of the Lost Chord · 1968
- Every Good Boy Deserves Favour · 1971
- The Best of the Moody Blues · 1995
- On the Threshold of a Dream (Digitally Remastered) · 1969
- The Best of the Moody Blues · 1988
- Days of Future Passed (Deluxe Edition) · 1967
- The Magnificent Moodies · 1965
- Long Distance Voyager (Expanded) · 1981
- Days of Future Passed (Expanded Edition) · 1967
Essential Albums
- In their 1968 psychedelic pomp, The Moody Blues played blissful San Francisco pop with pillow-soft harmonies and occasional mournful shifts into British realism. They float away on the dandelion melodies of “Legend of a Mind”—on the updraft from Mike Pinder’s orchestral Mellotron strings—and play the sky-dazzled hippies on “Ride My See-Saw” and “Voices In the Sky.” Then they return to earth with the perky music-hall clip of “Dr. Livingstone, I Presume” and the proto-prog, tragic melancholy of “The Actor.”
- Days of Future Passed is a very 1967 affair. A musical description of a single day, with poetic interludes, it was made in collaboration between The Moody Blues and the London Festival Orchestra. Melancholy pop songs such as “Dawn: Dawn Is a Feeling” and “The Afternoon” increase their emotive weight with sparkling Broadway arrangements, while the mournful “Nights In White Satin” gives way to the lush romance of “Late Lament,” linked only by a few well-chosen words about the ending of the day.
- 1988
Music Videos
Artist Playlists
- Five decades in, these classic prog-rockers show no signs of slowing down.
Live Albums
Compilations
More To Hear
- Jenn is joined by Justin Hayward of The Moody Blues.
About The Moody Blues
Formed in 1964, Birmingham, England’s Moody Blues had a huge hit with a cover of the R&B song “Go Now.” But by the time frontman (and future Wings member) Denny Laine left in 1966, the band was floundering. New members Justin Hayward (vocals and guitar) and John Lodge (vocals and bass) helped reboot the sound. The result: 1967’s Days of Future Passed, a radical combination of rock band and orchestra, pop songwriting and classical composition, arguably inventing prog rock. The album-length conceptual suite’s haunting centerpiece, “Nights In White Satin,” became one of the most beloved pop singles of all time. The band’s increasingly sophisticated blend of pop hooks and spacey, post-psychedelic rock generated a long string of smashes, with keyboardist Mike Pinder’s mellotron providing orchestral textures. After a mid-’70s hiatus, The Moody Blues reunited in 1977, Pinder leaving shortly thereafter. His replacement, former Yes member Patrick Moraz, gave the band an electronic sheen for the ’80s, and the Moodies were born anew, enjoying a fresh string of hits and touring for decades to come.
- FROM
- Birmingham, England
- FORMED
- 1964
- GENRE
- Rock