DAYS OF FUTURE PASSED

The Moody Blues

Crossover Prog

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Jochanan

"Brave Helios wake up your steeds, Bring the warmth the countryside needs."

This record holds a special historical importance in my eyes. It is like Marx brothers movies in a way. They marked a great milestone in rock music, but I believe they are somehow forgotten nowadays. This album is a poetic dessert, very sweet, yet very deep, without toothache. The orchestra sounds nostalgic, like watching a Hollywood romance from the 30's.

In the same year Sgt. Pepper was released. For comparison, the Beatles followed new way of psychedelia and Eastern influences to close their career somewhere in a raw hard rock like it was shown in Let it be Naked. It was 2 years to the King Crimson debut. I want to point out that the Moodies kept this early 60's bumpy naive songwriting up to early 70's as if their progress was 2 or 3 years behind. But as Ivan_Melgar_M said in his review, the Moodies never were progressive...

That's my impression and the reason why I haven't been able to dive into their further albums. But this one... This one sounds better balanced and more adult. The songs are colourful, yes, still there is this base from which they were able to draw more juice from one musical idea and to slide to other idea and song. And they brought just amazing atmosphere of a dusk.

Great credit is held by the orchestra with the whole concept pushing the band into more formal production with longer songs. But still, I don't want to underestimate the band's qualities, rather to point out the influence. It is not a fusion of rock band and orchestra yet, but a rock symphony it is, probably the first one in the history.

"Red is grey and yellow white, but we decide which is right... And which is an illusion."

Jochanan | 5/5 | 2020-3-23

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