Moody Blues in Quad and 5.1

[DJPauly]

Any official or unofficial release of the Blue Jays album in quad or 5.1?

 

[MrMarty]

Bluejays would be awesome in surround

 

[srbjab]

Of all the studio albums following Seventh Sojourn, Long Distance Voyager is the one I'd most like to see get the surround treatment. It's probably the best recorded, best sounding album in the catalog (recorded at their custom built studio), and assuming the multis still exist should be terrific in either 5.1 or Atmos. It's also one of the best reviewed, most highly regarded later titles. Very odd that it somehow escaped the deluxe treatment.

Although technically not a Moody's album, I agree that Blue Jays also deserves a deluxe surround reissue. The songs are gorgeous and the album is a great listen, start to finish, especially with the inclusion of Blue Guitar.

 

[andyp]

It would be nice for Blue Jays to be released in 5.1 along with Blue Guitar and Forever Autumn which was 5.1 on the Jeff Wayne War of the Worlds release on SACD.

 

[ar surround]

Yes, Blue Jays in quad shows that it was indeed made for multichannel. 5.1 would be stupendous. Yet another plea to @Stephen W Tayler !

 

[jimfisheye]

Agreed on Long Distance Voyager!
This is the only 'post' album that approaches some of their peak years and in a genuinely strong way. Love Ray's closing track! Almost hits the vibe of some of Mike's earlier stuff. No more hit and miss than Seventh Sojourn. Mike was already checking out for that one too. (He kind of tells you all about it in the first track.)

I'll have to dig out those SACD files and compare again. Maybe I didn't investigate and realize to drop the C and Lfe channels? I thought I remembered the shared Q4 rips being huge upgrades. There are a couple Q4 rips trading around too though. There's at least one that sounds like someone cranked up some 10k eq about 10db.

 

[JonUrban]

I am surprised that Esoteric has not released 'BlueJays'. They did a great job with the Ray Thomas "From Mighty Oaks" unreleased quad mix, it seems that the BlueJay's would have been a no brainer release by now. Maybe the 'tiff' between the two principles has put a halt to any special release of that album.

If so, that would be a shame - and a loss to us aging quadraphonic fans.

(PS - I agree that Stephen Tyler should have a crack at the multi's on that one as well, as long as the resulting disc gave us both the original unfutzed with 4.0 and whatever new great 5.1 mix he would come up with)

 

[SomethingAnything]

I'll be a contrarian and give the IN SEARCH OF THE LOST CHORD box a big thumbs up! First of all, the box and
contents are beautiful -- I'd like all my CD/DVD sets like that. Try the 5.1 in Dolby, it's better than the DTS.

Then stare for hours at the menu screen

I agree! And I think Jakko took on a difficult mixing task others didn't want to touch it and did his best with it, to the point where I find it quite enjoyable.

 

[jaybird100]

I have those SACD's also but they are not 5.1. TOCCC was released a few years ago in 5.1 but seemed to have issues in the lfe (vocals in an lfe channel?) and Higher and Higher had other problems.

I believe they used the originally created quad masters for the SACD's. All of those albums were going to be released on SQ LP's at one time, but that idea was scrapped when quad appeared to be dying.

 

[jefffloro]

Any news if we will see a release of the quad version of Blue Jays?

 

[andyp]

Any news if we will see a release of the quad version of Blue Jays?

I think we've all had the quad release for years, no?

 

[par4ken]

I think we've all had the quad release for years, no?

Quad reel and a conversion made from it. One of the last reels put out by Stereotape, like Jefferson Starship "Dragonfly" it didn't carry the original cover art!