Moody Blues in Quad and 5.1

[SomethingAnything]

Until they release LONG DISTANCE VOYAGER in Surround this Stereo SHM SACD from UMG Japan [enclosed in one of their little cardboard boxes] sounds superb and decodes well in the Super DSP mode of my Meridian pre/pro!

Does it have any bonus songs, the way Japanese releases often manage to include?

 

[4-earredwonder]

Does it have any bonus songs, the way Japanese releases often manage to include?

No. Here is the discogs' listing

https://www.discogs.com/release/8017586-The-Moody-Blues-Long-Distance-Voyager

A better pic of the gorgeous box the Stereo SHM~SACD came in

 

[SomethingAnything]

No. Here is the discogs' listing

https://www.discogs.com/release/8017586-The-Moody-Blues-Long-Distance-Voyager

A better pic of the gorgeous box the Stereo SHM~SACD came in

Yes, lovely! I'd forgotten Moraz was on this one. It's a shame that didn't go so well. Bitterness is still there, I believe ... not sure if that would get in the way of box set/atmos remix prospects.

 

[stoopid]

Yes, lovely! I'd forgotten Moraz was on this one. It's a shame that didn't go so well. Bitterness is still there, I believe ... not sure if that would get in the way of box set/atmos remix prospects.

Moraz's fingerprints are all over those albums. On one hand, I really enjoy his playing but on the other it might have been too wide a turn for the band. It certainly went with the flow of the '80s synthesizer revolution. Even Rush got caught up in it.

 

[andyp]

Moraz's fingerprints are all over those albums. On one hand, I really enjoy his playing but on the other it might have been too wide a turn for the band. It certainly went with the flow of the '80s synthesizer revolution. Even Rush got caught up in it.

Seeing the Moody Blues live with Moraz was as annoying as seeing Jeff Beck live with Jan Hammer in Jeff's band. Moraz seemed to have the same sound on every song. I had already seen the Moody Blues live in 1972 and 1973 with Mike Pinder so Moraz playing with the Moodies was a real drag it you catch my drift...

 

[jimfisheye]

There was some weird stuff going on in the 80s. (Starts with c)
Who was that producer who was embarrassing some of the 70s bands trying to get into MTV music at the time? Remember that Heart album? I don't know if that happened with the Moody Blues but it sounded like they were trying to get into MTV music too.

Patrick should have worked a lot better in this band. LDV sounds pretty solid honestly. (Couple pop stinkers aside.) Hard change after this. Listen to his solo album The Story Of I or those Moraz/Bruford albums. Serious chops and not afraid to get weird and psychedelic. No, not quite Mike Pinder level of psychedelic though. But that 80s lame synth thing wasn't really Patrick's sound. Ray Thomas comes through with the showpiece track on LDV.

Agreed that the SACD copy sounds the cleanest.

 

[ar surround]

Couple pop stinkers aside.

One pop stinker is Gemini Dream, but it is still way better than most pop stinkers. What is the other one?

I really like 22,000 Days, especially when I do the calculation and realize that I've beaten those odds! So did Graeme, by the way. I just lost a cousin who got over 35,000 days, God bless him.

Ray Thomas comes through with the showpiece track on LDV.

I just listened to the full album yesterday and Ray's trilogy at the end is indeed top shelf stuff.

Patrick should have worked a lot better in this band. LDV sounds pretty solid honestly. (Couple pop stinkers aside.) Hard change after this. Listen to his solo album The Story Of I or those Moraz/Bruford albums. Serious chops and not afraid to get weird and psychedelic. No, not quite Mike Pinder level of psychedelic though. But that 80s lame synth thing wasn't really Patrick's sound.

A lot of fans did not like Moraz' style. At one concert a woman complained that "He's all over the place." Mike was special. I mean, he wrote some great 'suicide anthems' like Melancholy Man and Lost In A Lost World. He also wrote some really uplifting stuff like One Step Into The Light and So Deep Within You. Yes, LDV is a really good album, but Mike's contributions were sorely missed when he threw in the MB towel.