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| On the Threshold of a Dream | 
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Sales Rank: 71262
Category: Music
Artist: Moody Blues
Publisher: Decca UK
Studio: Decca UK
Manufacturer: Decca UK
Label: Decca UK
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 001120902
UPC: 600753066256
EAN: 0600753066256
ASIN: B0018LMZO4
Release Date: July 1, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | In the Beginning | | • | Lovely To See You | | • | Dear Diary | | • | Send Me No Wine | | • | To Share Our Love | | • | So Deep Within You | | • | Never Comes the Day | | • | Lazy Day | | • | Are You Sitting Comfortably | | • | The Dream | | • | Have You Heard-Part 1 | | • | The Voyage | | • | Have You Heard-Part 2 | | • | In the Beginning [Full Version] | | • | So Deep Within You [The Tony Brandon Show, April 2, 1969] | | • | Dear Diary [Alternate Vocal Mix] | | • | Have You Heard [Original Take] | | • | The Voyage [Original Take] | | • | Lovely To See You [John Peel's 'Top Gear' February 18,1969] | | • | Send Me No Wine [John Peel's 'Top Gear' February 18,1969] | | • | So Deep Within You [Extended Version] | | • | Are You Sitting Comfortably [the Tony Brandon Show, April 2, 1969] |
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Album Description
Digitally remastered and expanded edition of the original stereo mix of this 1969 classic from the UK Pop/Prog pioneers featuring nine bonus tracks including alternate mixes and extended versions of songs from the album, two songs recorded for John Peel's Top Gear and two songs recorded for The Tony Brandon Show. Previously released as an SACD disc, this regular CD issue features sleeve notes and rare photographs. 22 tracks. Decca
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Released in 1969, just eight months after In Search of the Lost Chord, Threshold continues the Moody Blues's journey as cosmic seekers but in a less exotic manner. Here, Justin Hayward packs away the sitar and the band has swept most of the mystical and Eastern influences under the Kilim rug, replacing them with a science-fictional search for meaning and futuristic production methods. As on two earlier albums, Graeme Edge regales listeners with esoteric poetry, this time adding a whimsical, ironic edge to his ponderous verse. The songs have also undergone a similar overhaul, allowing the band's talent for melody to overcome the psychedelic whirls that embellished the earlier albums. John Lodge's assertive bass takes control of the bucolic "Lovely to See You," Roy Thomas's deceptively cheerful "Dear Diary," and the upbeat "Lazy Days," which also contains an unexpected lyrical sting. Indeed, the entire album is underpinned with a wistful melancholy as the grandiose rockers capture the bittersweet fleeting moments of the '60s. --Jaan Uhelszki
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 My Favorite August 19, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was a major Moody Blues fan back in the era of this release. I owned every one of their albums on vinyl. I saw them in concert around 1970 and they were amazingly good live considering the amount of "studio" they always put into their work. I recently went back and purchased "Threshold" and "Lost Chord". The vocals and arrangements hold up pretty well and these guys were good players. However, some of the lyrics almost seem hokey and hard to take seriously (I really took this stuff seriously as a young kid). The poetic input is almost comical at times, but does help to frame the thematic nature of the album. Personally, I always liked "Threshold" the best with it's airy feel. Top tracks are "Lovely to See You", "Never Comes The Day" and "Are You Sitting Comfortably". I always felt that the Moodies were a great band to get high to back in the day and were very much an acid trip vehicle to evoke high-minded conversations pertaining to the universe and life's meaning etc. I was always bummed to hear that they were supposedly anti-drug guys during this period. I told myself for a long time that they only wrote the Timothy Leary is dead lines to throw us off - oh well. No matter how you cut it - the Moody Blues were "trippin" in those days and made some great "mood" music.
Every young and old Hippie should have study this album May 9, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
ON a threshold of a dream...I know the album in time was endless,he keeps on going the end track ...and it's surely the master piece off The Moody Blues, only for listening too the typical British accent off the storyteller...and that back in time mellotron ...great album that smells the unlimited time of the end 60 beginning 70 .
 The Title Tells it All: These were the final words of our Wedding Service 9/11/1971 March 4, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I will not be wordy. Our entire wedding service was taken from lyrics of various Moody Blues songs .......... to this day, # 1 my Mom is still looking for the passage in the Bible, and #2 our friends who know " MB " are amazed that we could pull it off ......... and #3 we are still looking for opportunities to see Moody Blues 36+ yrs after the ceremony !
Excellent December 3, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
On the Threshold of a Dream
It was a great album and it's a great CD!
The album you could only dream of.... November 14, 2007
So many great albums by this band and this one stands out as my favorite. Probably the Moody Blues album that most constantly reminds me of Pink Floyd and Jethro Tull in places and seems to be heavily influenced by both bands. Check out the song you would mistake for Tull if you are only slightly familiar with Tull. Tull fans just laugh like I did. Anyway if you love progressive rock you will need this album in your collection without question. The concept and storyline put this ahead of its time and progressive albums were not normally like this till the 70s. Very much unlike other albums of its time and a giant leap for the Moody Blues. Every bit as influential to progressive rock as King Crimson in 1969.The Moodys will never get enough credit for establishing the progressive rock genre and this album is proof of that all the way through.
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