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Album Title: Days of Future Passed
Why I Bought It: I was already familiar with the album; one of my sisters had it when I was a kid, and one of my college roommates was a big Moody Blues fan. When I started collecting in my own right, this was a natural pickup. (If you're going to have Moody Blues albums, you're going to have this one. To do otherwise would be like omitting Year of the Cat from an Al Stewart collection.)
What I Like/Don't Like: I can't write about this album the way I have with previous ones, since it's conceived of as a single orchestral work. I can say that I'm not very fond of the spoken parts at the beginning ("The Day Begins") and the conclusion ("Nights in White Satin"); the nod to the Greek gods is pretentious, I think, and the pseudo-philosophical ending ("and which is an illusion?") just irks me. But I do like "Dawn Is a Feeling" and "Forever Afternoon" (which I always think of as "Tuesday Afternoon") as mood pieces, and "Peak Hour" isn't bad either. Without the spoken part, "Nights in White Satin" is a nice pensive piece, too.
Overall: I guess this really needs to be played in toto, rather than in its individual pieces, to get the full effect. I haven't listened to it that way in a long time, though. This isn't my favorite Moody Blues album - that would probably be Seventh Sojourn - but most of it is somewhere between pleasant and absorbing.
Why I Bought It: I was already familiar with the album; one of my sisters had it when I was a kid, and one of my college roommates was a big Moody Blues fan. When I started collecting in my own right, this was a natural pickup. (If you're going to have Moody Blues albums, you're going to have this one. To do otherwise would be like omitting Year of the Cat from an Al Stewart collection.)
What I Like/Don't Like: I can't write about this album the way I have with previous ones, since it's conceived of as a single orchestral work. I can say that I'm not very fond of the spoken parts at the beginning ("The Day Begins") and the conclusion ("Nights in White Satin"); the nod to the Greek gods is pretentious, I think, and the pseudo-philosophical ending ("and which is an illusion?") just irks me. But I do like "Dawn Is a Feeling" and "Forever Afternoon" (which I always think of as "Tuesday Afternoon") as mood pieces, and "Peak Hour" isn't bad either. Without the spoken part, "Nights in White Satin" is a nice pensive piece, too.
Overall: I guess this really needs to be played in toto, rather than in its individual pieces, to get the full effect. I haven't listened to it that way in a long time, though. This isn't my favorite Moody Blues album - that would probably be Seventh Sojourn - but most of it is somewhere between pleasant and absorbing.
