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MOODY BLUES Days Of Future Passed MFSL 1-042 Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab HALF SPEED MASTERED by Stan Ricker & Pressed on HD Audiophile vinyl
A1The Day Begins5:45A2Dawn: Dawn Is A Feeling3:50A3The Morning: Another Morning3:40A4Lunch Break: Peak Hour5:21B1The Afternoon: Forever Afternoon (Tuesday?)8:25B2Evening: The Sun Set: Twilight Time6:39B3The Night: Nights In White Satin7:41 *(all photos are of the actual item)
Composed By – *,  Conductor –  Engineer [Recording] –  Orchestra –  Painting [Cover Painting] –  Producer – 
Includes the hits "Nights In White Satin" and "Tuesday Afternoon"
In Days of Future Passed, the Moody Blues extended the range of pop music, taking it to the intersection with the world of classical music. Initially a British pop/rock outfit scoring instant success in 1964 with Go Now, the band re-grouped in 1967 with this historic disc — the beat group and the symphony orchestra feeding on each other's inspiration.
Written to be a stage show about the day in the life of a person, the songs in Days of Future Passed were worked into concert form by The Moody Blues before the band was even signed to a record label. When The Moody Blues were signed to Deram Records, the label's parent company Decca in the U.K. was looking for the quintet to record alongside an orchestra to create an audio demonstration album to be used at retail shops. The band agreed but asked for five days in the studio to work out parts. When they returned to the label heads with the psychedelic rock and symphonic classic Days of Future Passed and not the symphony they were hired for, it kicked off the birth of progressive rock.
The Moody Blues Days Of Future Passed was an artistic and crowning achievement for the ages. It produced two gigantic hit singles with Tuesday Afternoon and the monumental Nights In White Satin, which not only charted in 1967 but then again in 1972 when the album and the single reached the top of the charts, thanks to the endless touring, an incredible string of classic rock smash albums, and the strength of the material from a 1967 masterwork which will forever last in the journals of rock and popular music.
Compositions and arrangements for pop group and symphony orchestra belong to the British pop scene like the Queen to Commonwealth. The Moody Blues, one of a seemingly never-ending number of groups which sprang up in the North of England, ventured early into new territory in that they undertook an ambitious project which is sought to mediate between classical tradition and modern music and which might very well be described as a real crossover. Their very first long-playing record, made in 1967, was a smash hit right from the start. The album Days of Future Passed jumped into the U.S. charts within a few weeks and remained there for almost two years, bringing the group their first Gold Disc.
As the title suggests, the six individual recordings fit together within the programmatic framework of a passing day. This synthesis of orchestral music and original flower power sound, where the past melts with the future, results in Nights in White Satin, a timeless superhit.
What is more, the brilliant tonal definition of DECCA's patented Deramic Sound System does not cease to amaze and certainly does justice to this extraordinary recording.