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Days Of Future Passed |  | Artist: Moody Blues
Label: Universal Motown Records Group
Category: Digital Music Album
Buy New: $6.93
as of 3/10/2010 17:31 CST details
Seller: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
Rating:  139 reviews
Sales Rank: 9097
Genre: rock-music
Media: MP3 Download
Running Time: 2497 Minutes
ASIN: B001NSAJ3G
Publication Date: May 20, 1997
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 Warning - two different versions of this album on Amazon! January 9, 2010
Happy Scamper (Manchester MD USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This album is one of the Moody Blue's milestones, a symphonic progressive rock album.
But BEWARE - Amazon sells two different MP3 versions of this particular DAYS OF FUTURE PASSED album. A cheaper $5 version, and a more expensive $9.49 album.
The cheaper version only contains the first seven tracks of the original album; it does not have the remaining tracks, numbered 8 through 7. And missing is their classic TUESDAY AFTERNOON.
So beware - if you're looking for the complete album, do not buy the cheaper version!
NOTE: I gave this one star so people would know that they could be shortchanged if they buy the cheaper version.
 schmaltz August 2, 2009
bloodnok (east finchley)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
one tune is worthwhile on this recording & even that is ruined by one of the worst poems(?) ever committed to vinyl. this was the best the moody's ever got, too. what a pathetically awful band ...
 Essential Classic June 15, 2009
Phil (San Diego, CA) (San Diego, CA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Even if you summarize the Moody Blues' career by purchasing the "Time Traveller" box set, you need this album. In this case I wouldn't settle for downloading just a couple select tracks.
The box set does do the justice of including the full album length versions of the two hits here, "Nights In White Satin" and "Tuesday Afternoon", but "Days of Future Passed" is a great example of a release from the album era where, from start to finish, it works as a whole and the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Apart from the opening 'festival orchestra' instrumental (which seems to be very much about the orchestra and very little about the band) every track is a keeper.
Admittedly, when I compiled a single CD 'best of' for the car I edited out some of the portions at the end of songs that were strictly orchestration. This brought "Dawn is a Feeling" down to two minutes and change, and "Tuesday Afternoon" and "Another Morning" were trimmed of string section extensions as well.
The only negative I've ever heard levelled at this album came from an old girlfriend. She agreed that it was a choice album for putting on endless repeat when the two of you are in a sultry mood, but she suggested that the orchestrations sometimes sound like a travelogue. I'll give her that, they do; but "Days of Future Passed" is still an essential album, one of the two dozen or so most significant rock albums of the 1960s.
Outstanding April 6, 2009
TXStorm (Hockley, TX, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This one is for all us "older folk", in that this has a rock-symphony sound that we grew up to. Of course, not everyone is into symphonic music, but mix it with the Moody Blues, and wow!! A must have for the collection!
Where it all started March 8, 2009
Big City Trumpet (Phila, PA)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
If anyone reading this has read any of my other reviews (I only review my favorite cds out of the 3,500 that my wife and I own), then I will tell you that this probably should have been the first cd that I ever reviewed. I grew up listening to the music my brother listened to and by default, those groups became some of my favorites. I was born in 1968, so in the 70s, when I was little, I just knew what I liked by hearing good songs. Some of my favorites were the Beatles, Steve Miller, Kansas and Alan Parsons. As I got older and started to play trumpet, I got into bands like Chicago and Blood Sweat & Tears. But when I was 13 (1981), things changed immediately - I didn't dislike the previously mentioned bands, but I heard something that completely changed the way I listened to music. I heard The Moody Blues - Long Distance Voyager to be exact. That album got me addicted to their music, so that I wanted to buy everything that they ever put out - I eventually became a collector. My brother did have Days of Future Passed on a tape, so when I first listened to it, after hearing Long Distance Voyager, I realized then that they were my new favorite band. Their songwriting, Justin Hayward's voice, their orchestrations, and the mellotron were all of the things that had me hooked. For those of you who don't know, Days of Future Passed ties all of the songs together using an assembled orchestra, playing themes and variations of the rest of the album. I won't write the story of the album here because anyone can look it up on their website or find it on any of a number of other websites, but it was revolutionary for it's time and more progressive than any other music of the 60s, with the exception of the Beatles. If anyone doesn't have this in their collection, they are missing a part of history. It really is an historically important recording and this is the reason that I'm disgusted with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They have ignored the Moodies for far too long. If you don't have it, get it, dim the lights, sit back with a glass of wine and put this on from start to finish, and you'll know what I mean. Enjoy!
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