This Is The Moody Blues

This Is The Moody Blues
Compilation album by The Moody Blues
Released	8 October 1974 (UK) 23 November 1974 (US)
Recorded	8 October 1967 – 15 August 1972
Genre	Progressive Rock
Length	94:18
Label	Threshold Records
Producer	Tony Clarke
The Moody Blues chronology
Seventh Sojourn (1972) This Is The Moody Blues (1974) Caught Live + 5 (1977)

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This Is The Moody Blues is a two LP (later two CDs) compilation album by The Moody Blues, released in late 1974 while the band was on a self-imposed sabbatical. Though all of the songs were previously released on albums (with the exception of "A Simple Game" which was a 1968 B-side), several of them are heard here in distinctly different mixes.

This Is The Moody Blues was a commercial and critical success, reaching #14 in the United Kingdom and #11 in the United States before 1974 was out.

Original Track Listing

Side One

1. "Question" (Justin Hayward) (originally featured on A Question of Balance) 5:39
2. "The Actor" (Hayward) (originally featured on In Search of the Lost Chord) 4:11
3. "The Word" (Graeme Edge) (originally featured on In Search of the Lost Chord) 0:51
4. "Eyes of a Child" (John Lodge) (originally featured on To Our Children's Children's Children) 2:34
5. "Dear Diary" (Ray Thomas) (originally featured on On the Threshold of a Dream) 3:56
6. "Legend of a Mind" (Thomas) (originally featured on In Search of the Lost Chord) 6:37

Side Two

1. "In the Beginning" (Graeme Edge) (originally featured on On the Threshold of a Dream) 2:06
2. "Lovely to See You" (Hayward) (originally featured on On the Threshold of a Dream) 2:35
3. "Never Comes the Day" (Hayward) (originally featured on On the Threshold of a Dream) 4:39
4. "Isn't Life Strange" (Lodge) (originally featured on Seventh Sojourn) 5:32
5. "The Dream" (Edge) (originally featured on On the Threshold of a Dream) 0:52
6. "Have You Heard (Part 1)" (Mike Pinder) (originally featured on On the Threshold of a Dream) 1:23
7. "The Voyage" (Pinder) (originally featured on On the Threshold of a Dream) 4:08
8. "Have You Heard (Part 2)" (Pinder) (originally featured on On the Threshold of a Dream) 2:08

Side Three

1. "Ride My See-Saw" (Lodge) (originally featured on In Search of the Lost Chord) 3:32
2. "Tuesday Afternoon" (Hayward) (originally featured on Days of Future Passed) 4:04
3. "And the Tide Rushes In" (Thomas) (originally featured on A Question of Balance) 2:54
4. "New Horizons" (Hayward) (originally featured on Seventh Sojourn) 5:06
5. "A Simple Game" (Pinder) (not previously released on album, B-side to UK "Ride My See-Saw" single) 3:18
6. "Watching and Waiting" (Hayward, Thomas) (originally featured on To Our Children's Children's Children) 4:21

Side Four

1. "I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band)" (Lodge) (originally featured on Seventh Sojourn) 4:11
2. "For My Lady" (Thomas) (originally featured on Seventh Sojourn) 3:54
3. "The Story in Your Eyes" (Hayward) (originally featured on Every Good Boy Deserves Favour) 2:45
4. "Melancholy Man" (Pinder) (originally featured on A Question of Balance) 5:05
5. "Nights in White Satin" (Hayward) (originally featured on Days of Future Passed) 4:33
6. "Late Lament" (Edge, Peter Knight) (originally featured on Days of Future Passed) 2:33

Chart positions

Album

Year	Chart	Position
1974	UK Albums Chart	14
1974	Billboard 200	11

External links

• Official Moody Blues Homepage
• Official Moody Blues Fan Community

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