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- Original track listing Side One Side Two Side Three Side Four
- Chart positions Album
- References
- External links
- Discography
{{refimprove|date=June 2016}}{{Use British English|date=July 2011}}{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2011}}{{Infobox album | name = This Is The Moody Blues | type = Compilation Album | artist = The Moody Blues | cover = This_Is_The_Moody_Blues.jpg | alt = | released = 8 October 1974 (US) 25 October 1974 (UK) | recorded = 8 October 1967 – 15 August 1972 | venue = | studio = | genre = Progressive rock, psychedelic rock | length = 94:18 | label = Threshold | producer = Tony Clarke | chronology = The Moody Blues | prev_title = Seventh Sojourn | prev_year = 1972 | next_title = Caught Live + 5 | next_year = 1977 }}{{Album ratings | rev1 = Allmusic [1] | rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}} }}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. Like the Moody Blues albums of the time — but unlike most compilation albums, including later Moody Blues compilations — the songs on this album segue seamlessly, without a gap of silence. On the original LP, this was true of the songs on each side; when the album was remastered for CD, each disc was also blended, so that "Legend of a Mind" segues into "In The Beginning", and "Watching and Waiting" segues into "I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band)". The album is particularly notable for being the first release to provide a separate name for "Late Lament", the symphonic coda and spoken poem that closes "Nights in White Satin". 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 listingSide One- "Question" (Justin Hayward) (from A Question of Balance, 1970) – 5:39
- "The Actor" (Hayward) (from In Search of the Lost Chord, 1968) – 4:11
- "The Word" (Graeme Edge) (spoken poem from In Search of the Lost Chord, remixed over instrumental "Beyond" from To Our Children's Children's Children, 1969) – 0:51
- "Eyes of a Child" (John Lodge) (from To Our Children's Children's Children) – 2:34
- "Dear Diary" (Ray Thomas) (from On the Threshold of a Dream, 1969) – 3:56
- "Legend of a Mind" (Thomas) (from In Search of the Lost Chord) – 6:37
Side Two- "In the Beginning" (Edge) (from On the Threshold of a Dream) – 2:06
- "Lovely to See You" (Hayward) (from On the Threshold of a Dream) – 2:35
- "Never Comes the Day" (Hayward) (from On the Threshold of a Dream) – 4:39
- "Isn't Life Strange" (Edited version) (Lodge) (from Seventh Sojourn, 1972) – 5:32
- "The Dream" (Edge) (from On the Threshold of a Dream) – 0:52
- "Have You Heard? (Part 1)" (Mike Pinder) (from On the Threshold of a Dream) – 1:23
- "The Voyage" (Pinder) (from On the Threshold of a Dream) – 4:08
- "Have You Heard? (Part 2)" (Pinder) (from On the Threshold of a Dream) – 2:08
Side Three- "Ride My See-Saw" (Lodge) (from In Search of the Lost Chord) – 3:32
- "Tuesday Afternoon" (Hayward) (from Days of Future Passed, 1967) – 4:04
- "And the Tide Rushes In" (Thomas) (from A Question of Balance) – 2:54
- "New Horizons" (Hayward) (from Seventh Sojourn) – 5:06
- "A Simple Game" (Pinder) (B-side to UK "Ride My See-Saw" single, 1968) – 3:18
- "Watching and Waiting" (Hayward, Thomas) (from To Our Children's Children's Children) – 4:21
Side Four- "I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band)" (Lodge) (from Seventh Sojourn) – 4:11
- "For My Lady" (Thomas) (from Seventh Sojourn) – 3:54
- "The Story in Your Eyes" (Hayward) (from Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, 1971) – 2:45
- "Melancholy Man" (Pinder) (from A Question of Balance) – 5:05
- "Nights in White Satin" (Hayward) (from Days of Future Passed) – 4:33
- "Late Lament" (Edge, Peter Knight) (from Days of Future Passed) – 2:33
Chart positionsAlbumYear | Chart | Position | 1974 | UK Albums Chart | 14 | Billboard 200 | 11 |
References1. ^{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r13375|first=Bruce|last=Eder}}
External links- Official Moody Blues Fanpage
- Official Moody Blues Fan Community
Discography{{Moody Blues}} 4 : The Moody Blues compilation albums|1974 compilation albums|Threshold Records albums|Albums produced by Tony Clarke (record producer) |