{"id":13629,"date":"2017-12-25T05:30:19","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T10:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=13629"},"modified":"2018-01-02T09:43:15","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T14:43:15","slug":"album-review-the-moody-blues-days-of-future-passed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/25\/album-review-the-moody-blues-days-of-future-passed\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: The Moody Blues&#8217; &#8216;Days of Future Passed&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13630\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dofp_labels.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"653\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dofp_labels.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dofp_labels-161x300.jpg 161w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><strong><i>This article appeared originally on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bestclassicbands.com\/\">BestClassicBands<\/a>. <\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There wasn&#8217;t a great deal of precedent \u2013 either within the group or on the pop music landscape \u2013 for <i>Days of Future Passed<\/i> when the Moody Blues recorded their (sort-of) debut album. The British quintet had only just reinvented itself with a new lineup and a new sound, built in large part around the Mellotron, played by keyboardist and founding member Mike Pinder. That instrument \u2013 previously used so effectively on an influential handful of Beatles tracks (and intriguingly by Brian Jones on the Rolling Stones&#8217; <i>Their Satanic Majesties Request<\/i> \u2013 finally afforded rock bands the ability to incorporate \u201cclassical\u201d-type sonic textures in their music in a relatively practical fashion.<\/p>\n<p>The hybrid rock\/pop and classical (or at last classical-leaning) aesthetic of <i>Days of Future Passed<\/i> hadn&#8217;t been attempted by many significant artists prior to the Moodys&#8217; effort. At roughly the same time as <i>DOFP<\/i> was being made, Love&#8217;s <i>Forever Changes<\/i> was being recorded more than 5,000 miles away. But the baroque textures of Love&#8217;s album \u2013 impressive though they would be \u2013 were far less ambitious than what the Moody Blues (along with producer Tony Clarke and conductor\/composer Peter Knight) would achieve with <i>Days of Future Passed<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>To read the rest, click to continue to <a href=\"http:\/\/bestclassicbands.com\/moody-blues-days-future-passed-50-9-21-17\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BestClassicBands<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article appeared originally on BestClassicBands. There wasn&#8217;t a great deal of precedent \u2013 either within the group or on the pop music landscape \u2013 for Days of Future Passed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,57,62,65],"tags":[3265,1512],"class_list":["post-13629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prog","category-psych","category-rawk","category-review","tag-days-of-future-passed","tag-moody-blues","cat-56-id","cat-57-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13629"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13842,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13629\/revisions\/13842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}