Label: Threshold Records (Europe), 530 857-9
Style: Symphonic Rock
Country: Birmingham, England
Time: 64:16
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 406 Mb
The
album, To Our Children’s Children’s Children is just that: a record of
music made for future generations. A theme album clearly reminiscent of
the likes of Pink Floyd, namely Dark Side, it’s ever-more shocking that
Children’s came out nearly five years before Floyd’s magnum opus. In the
liner notes, the Moodies speak largely about their influence on and by
Floyd, purposely trying to make an album that “sounds like something
that would be hidden under a rock on the Moon and discovered centuries
later.”
They attempted, in 1969–right around the historic moon
landing–to create a piece of art that would stand for what we as a
people and culture were thinking, feeling and going through right before
and during this auspicious sea change in our heritage. We were on the
Moon at last, and so too should the music of the era exemplify such an
accomplishment. In fact, much of the record–still a vibrant and
vitriolic prog-rock sound–is infused with a fantastical element similar
perhaps to Hawkwind or, heck, the soundtrack to those early BBC
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy radio shows.
(Full version: spectrumculture.com/2008/11/11/rediscover-the-moody-blues-to-our-childrens-childrens-children/)
01. Higher And Higher (04:06)
02. Eyes Of A Child I (03:23)
03. Floating (02:58)
04. Eyes Of A Child II (01:23)
05. I Never Thought I'd Live To Be A Hundred (01:05)
06. Beyond (02:58)
07. Out And In (03:49)
08. Gypsy (03:33)
09. Eternity Road (04:19)
10. Candle Of Life (04:14)
11. Sun Is Still Shining (03:39)
12. I Never Thought I'd Live To Be A Million (00:33)
13. Watching And Waiting (04:20)
14. Gypsy (Full Version) (04:18)
15. Candle Of Life (Full Version) (04:58)
16. Sun Is Still Shining (Alternate Mix) (04:06)
17. Have You Heard (BBC radio concert 17 December 1969) (05:50)
18. Legend Of A Mind (BBC radio concert 17 December 1969) (04:33)
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