Days Of Future Passed (Deluxe Version - Remastered) The Moody Blues

• 1 The Day Begins (Remastered 2017) 05:48
• 2 Dawn: Dawn Is A Feeling (Remastered 2017) 03:48
• 3 The Morning: Another Morning (Remastered 2017) 03:40
• 4 Lunch Break: Peak Hour (Remastered 2017) 05:16
• 5 The Afternoon (Remastered 2017) 08:25
• 6 Evening (Remastered 2017) 06:38
• 7 The Night (Remastered 2017) 07:43
• 8 Long Summer Days 03:16
• 9 Please Think About It 03:44
• 10 Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood (BBC Saturday Club Session) 02:24
• 11 Love And Beauty (BBC Easybeat Session) 02:13
• 12 Leave This Man Alone (BBC Easybeat Session) 02:53
• 13 Peak Hour (BBC Easybeat Session) 03:23
• 14 Nights In White Satin (BBC Dave Symonds Session) 03:49
• 15 Fly Me High (BBC Dave Symonds Session) 02:45
• 16 Twilight Time (BBC Dave Symonds Session) 02:10
• 17 The Day Begins (Remastered 2006) 05:50
• 18 Dawn: Dawn Is A Feeling (Remastered 2006) 03:49
• 19 The Morning: Another Morning (Remastered 2006) 03:56
• 20 Lunch Break: Peak Hour (Remastered 2006) 05:30
• 21 The Afternoon (Remastered 2006) 08:24
• 22 Evening (Remastered 2006) 06:40
• 23 The Night (Remastered 2006) 07:28
• 24 Tuesday Afternoon (Alternate Mix) 04:21
• 25 Dawn: Dawn Is A Feeling (Alternate Version) 02:21
• 26 The Sun Set (Alternate Version) 02:51
• 27 Twilight Time (Alternate Vocal Mix) 02:29
• 28 Fly Me High (Mono Mix) 02:55
• 29 I Really Haven't Got The Time (Mono Mix) 03:09
• 30 Love And Beauty (Mono Mix) 02:25
• 31 Leave This Man Alone (Mono Mix) 03:01
• 32 Nights In White Satin (Single Version / Mono Mix) 04:29
• 33 Cities (Mono Mix) 02:24
• Total Runtime 02:19:57

Info for Days Of Future Passed (Deluxe Version - Remastered)

50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of the Moody Blues’ "Days Of Future Passed". This double album deluxe-set includes the full original 1967 stereo mix, which is being released for the first time. Due to a damaged master tape of the original mix, the album had been remixed in stereo in 1972 and since then it is this later mix, which has been used on all CD reissues. Now that technology allows for the original master to be repaired. The result is astounding.

"Days Of Future Passed" was the Moody Blues’ landmark second album and is widely considered to have formally marked the beginning of their psychedelic era. Featuring the London Festival Orchestra, this richly orchestrated album followed in the wake of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s and Magical Mystery Tour but was in itself a unique and highly original piece of work. The album, of course, included the hits Tuesday Afternoon and the ever-enduring Nights In White Satin, thus rightfully recognising The Moody Blues as true pioneers in the development of progressive rock.

The Moody Blues have been at the forefront of the UK’s classic rock music scene for over forty years and have continued to be a mainstay of concert stages, recording studios and the airwaves to the present day. During their immensely successful career, they have sold, according to the band’s files, in excess of 70 million albums worldwide and have been the recipients of numerous prestigious awards.

"This album marked the formal debut of the psychedelic-era Moody Blues; though they'd made a pair of singles featuring new (as of 1966) members Justin Hayward and John Lodge, Days of Future Passed was a lot bolder and more ambitious. What surprises first-time listeners -- and delighted them at the time -- is the degree to which the group shares the spotlight with the London Festival Orchestra without compromising their sound or getting lost in the lush mix of sounds. That's mostly because they came to this album with the strongest, most cohesive body of songs in their history, having spent the previous year working up a new stage act and a new body of material (and working the bugs out of it on-stage), the best of which ended up here. Decca Records had wanted a rock version of Dvorak's "New World Symphony" to showcase its enhanced stereo-sound technology, but at the behest of the band, producer Tony Clarke (with engineer Derek Varnals aiding and abetting) hijacked the project and instead cut the group's new repertory, with conductor/arranger Peter Knight adding the orchestral accompaniment and devising the bridge sections between the songs' and the album's grandiose opening and closing sections. The record company didn't know what to do with the resulting album, which was neither classical nor pop, but following its release in December of 1967, audiences found their way to it as one of the first pieces of heavily orchestrated, album-length psychedelic rock to come out of England in the wake of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's and Magical Mystery Tour albums. What's more, it was refreshingly original, rather than an attempt to mimic the Beatles; sandwiched among the playful lyricism of "Another Morning" and the mysticism of "The Sunset," songs like "Tuesday Afternoon" and "Twilight Time" (which remained in their concert repertory for three years) were pounding rockers within the British psychedelic milieu, and the harmony singing (another new attribute for the group) made the band's sound unique. With "Tuesday Afternoon" and "Nights in White Satin" to drive sales, Days of Future Passed became one of the defining documents of the blossoming psychedelic era, and one of the most enduringly popular albums of its era." (Bruce Eder, AMG)

Mike Pinder, mellotron, piano, tambura, vocals
Ray Thomas, flutes, percussion, piano, vocals
Justin Hayward, acoustic & electric guitars, piano, sitar, vocals
John Lodge, bass, vocals
Graeme Edge, drums, percussion, vocals
The London Festival Orchestra
Peter Knight, conductor

Recorded October – November 1967 atDecca Studios, West Hampstead, London
Produced by Tony Clarke, Michael Dacre-Barclay, Hugh Mendl

Digitally remastered

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