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| To Our Children's Children's Children | 
 enlarge | Artist: The Moody Blues
Label: Polydor / Umgd
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 15387
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 001121202
UPC: 600753085790
EAN: 0600753085790
ASIN: B0018CU8O2
Release Date: July 15, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Higher and Higher - The Moody Blues, Edge, Graeme | | • | The Eyes of a Child, Pt. 1 - The Moody Blues, Lodge, John | | • | Floating - The Moody Blues, Thomas, Ray | | • | The Eyes of a Child, Pt. 2 - The Moody Blues, Lodge, John | | • | I Never Thought I'd Live to Be a Hundred - The Moody Blues, Hayward, Justin | | • | Beyond - The Moody Blues, Edge, Graeme | | • | Out and In - The Moody Blues, Lodge, John | | • | Gypsy - The Moody Blues, Hayward, Justin | | • | Eternity Road - The Moody Blues, Thomas, Ray | | • | Candle of Life - The Moody Blues, Lodge, John | | • | Sun Is Still Shining - The Moody Blues, Pinder, Michael | | • | I Never Thought I'd Live to Be a Million - The Moody Blues, Hayward, Justin | | • | Watching and Waiting - The Moody Blues, Hayward, Justin | | • | Gypsy - The Moody Blues, Hayward, Justin | | • | Candle of Life - The Moody Blues, Lodge, John | | • | Sun Is Still Shining - The Moody Blues, Pinder, Michael | | • | Have You Heard/The Voyage/Have You Heard - The Moody Blues, Pinder, Michael | | • | Legend of a Mind - The Moody Blues, Thomas, Ray |
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Album Description
Digitally remastered and expanded edition of the original stereo mix of this 1969 classic from the UK Pop/Prog pioneers featuring five bonus tracks:'Gypsy' (Full Version), 'Candle Of Life' (Full Version), 'Sun Is Still Shining' (Alternate Mix), 'Have You Heard' (David Symonds BBC Radio One Concert) and 'Legend Of A Mind' (David Symonds BBC Radio One Concert). Previously released as an SACD disc, this regular CD issue features sleeve notes and rare photographs. 18 tracks. Decca. 2008.
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A Wonderful Musical Treatise On The Passage Of Time Made Even Better With Wonderful Remastering And Bonus Cuts September 3, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
TO OUR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN'S CHILDREN, which is yet another magnificent Moody Blues CD, is now even better, with warm, thick remastering and numerous bonus cuts. The albums lyrics about time, what its passage means, and how we all must move on from our past, now inspire me even more to put looking good for my favorite actresses as a higher priority than attending Thanksgiving Dinner at my old school for my 15th graduation anniversary, thanks to increased warmth and clarity in the sound of the singing and how the instruments carry the vocals even better now. This is a reissue you definitely should NOT pass up.
Intergalactic quest leads to the answer of the universe. November 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
"To Our Children's Children's Children" (1969), along with the other albums in the "core seven" of inimitable, symphonic/orchestral rock releases by Birmingham, England's Moody Blues, should have been sufficient to get them inducted into the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame long ago. Unfortunately, the 'Hall, to this date, is apparently still showing its tendentiousness toward British progressive rock-type bands. Ironic, because few other ensembles in the annals of rock were as creative, or capable of crafting such heavenly mellifluous and poetic statements for record as the Moodies.
Each individual song on 'Children segues into the next, demonstrating the band's coherence--philosophically and musically, with its pondering harmonic textures producing a sonic mosaic of atmospheric, dolorous affects. This, the "Moody Blues sound"--through founder Mike Pinder's dexterity--was achieved by their bringing to the fore the mellotron (also from Birmingham)--an electromechanical, polyphonic keyboard, first to employ sample playback or "sampling," wherein a segment of one recording (the sample), such as pre-loaded orchestral and stringed instrument sounds, is utilized as an instrument or part of another recording. However, on their records gritty sounding guitars are welcomed by mellow vocals from the various members and there are usually a plethora of other natural instruments, like the flute, whose lush sounds are produced by Ray Thomas. The dynamic range is more expansive than on the recordings of their typical American contemporaries, too.
Of the thirteen songs contained on the original record, lead guitarist Justin Hayward and bassist John Lodge were involved in penning four each, but the entire work is really a joint effort, with every group member having at least two songwriting credits or more. Also note that their colossal "Time Traveller" box set compilation from 1994 holds more songs from 'Children--except for "On The Threshold of a Dream," which also has nine--than any other disc they released up till then.
At first blush this work may seem bombastic, as drummer Graeme Edge's lyricism on "Higher and Higher" commences the album by speaking of the conflagatory power of "ten billion butterfly sneezes." Nevertheless, the disc's (whose cover is a prehistoric depiction of a hand inscribing futuristic symbols on a cave wall) whole complex concept works. It is, in fact, an introspective, science fiction sojourn to outer space, to discover oneself--untainted, like a child--in order to fulfill the dream of securing eternal love, peace, tranquility and lastly, freedom (which can be alienating, because through it the pursuit of inner meaning might be a time-consuming and formidable undertaking). The song whose words best exemplify this here is perhaps "Out and In": "Gazing past the planets/Looking for total view/I've been lying here for hours/You've gotta make the journey out and in/Wonders of a lifetime/Right there before your eyes/Searching with this life of ours." A profound existential affirmation?
My favourite pieces on this disc are: "Gypsy," with its frantic expression of desultory homelessness, captured by wailing, icy vocals, and "Candle of Life," which is equally as eerie, temptingly sung to entreat the listener to answer a gnawing query regarding their loneliness.
Buy this masterwork by the Moody Blues, "To Our Children's Children's Children," where intergalactic quest leads to the answer of the universe.
The Best of "Studio" Albums by the Moody Blues! November 16, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
It has long been discussed that the Moody Blues "core 7" albums, at least through 1969's To Our Children's Children's Children, were more productions of the studio that were difficult to replicate live. However, TOCCC is my favorite of these largely studio technical landscapes of sound, and by that time, the Moodies were masters of this process. A change would take place for the next cd, A Question of Balance, where a move to make the songs sound live and more easily reproduced in concert would take place. AQOB is my favorite of the last three "core 7" albums where an attempt was made to create a more live sound in the studio.
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