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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