By Jim Fusco:
Welcome to this special report for the Laptop Sessions acoustic cover songs music video blog!
A few weeks ago, I had a conversation with my father about the best Moody Blues albums. My father is very opinionated and we had a nice argument about the subject. He decided to make a list. I’m not sure if it’s because we were arguing and he knew I had some differing opinions, but I couldn’t believe how similar his answers were to what mine might have been! In fact, there’s very few on this list I would disagree with (I’d put “Every Good Boy…” lower and definitely “December” a lot higher…). So, without further ado, here’s my father’s list of Best Moody Blues albums…including solo albums!
Moody Blues albums:
- On the Threshold of A Dream
- Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
- To Our Children’s Children’s Children
- Long Distance Voyager
- Strange Times
- Question of Balance
- The Present
- In Search of the Lost Chord
- Seventh Sojourn
- Days of Future Passed
- Octave
- This is the Moody Blues (A really good Best-Of compilation, mixed like a real Moody Blues album. However, if a compilation album lands here, you can only imagine how…not great…the albums below it must be!)
- Prelude (Another compilation, but this is of their early stuff before “Days of Future Passed”)
- Caught Live +5 (I’ve always been a fan of the five unreleased songs at the end, myself)
- Keys of the Kingdom
- December
- The Other Side of Life
- Sur La Mer
Moody Blues Members’ Solo Albums:
- The Promise – Mike Pinder
- View From the Hill – Justin Hayward
- Blue Jays – Justin Hayward and John Lodge
- Among the Stars – Mike Pinder
- From Mighty Oaks – Ray Thomas
- Kick Off Your Muddy Boots – Graeme Edge
- Natural Avenue – John Lodge
- Songwriter – Justin Hayward
- Hopes Wishes Dreams – Ray Thomas
- Paradise Ballroom – Graeme Edge
Now that we’ve had our say, we’d love to hear what you think! What would you change about this list? Turn it upside down? A few tweaks? Let us hear from you in the comments section below!
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This is one in a series of acoustic cover songs, original music, and free mp3 downloads here on the Laptop Sessions Music Video Blog.
June 25th, 2010 at 7:38 pm
Best Moody Blues albums ranked:
To Our Children’s Children’s Children
On the Threshold of A Dream
In Search of the Lost Chord
Seventh Sojourn
Question of Balance
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
Days of Future Passed
(all the other albums don’t compare)
June 29th, 2010 at 8:27 pm
Hi MikeK, I appreciate your response, but I have to take issue- you’re trying to tell me that just because the other albums didn’t have Mike Pinder, they don’t even deserve to be on the list? I mean, I love Mike Pinder’s music, but denying Long Distance Voyager and Strange Times is, in my opinion, a great injustice!