Moody Blues - Sur La Mer
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Artist: Moody BluesEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Published: 1990
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Polydor
Soundtracks:
- I Know You're Out There Somewhere
- Want to Be With You
- River of Endless Love
- No More Lies
- Here Comes the Weekend
- Vintage Wine
- Breaking Point
- Miracle
- Love Is on the Run
- Deep
Free Music Notes for Sur La Mer
Free Music Review: Justin Hayward & John Lodge on top of their game in the '80s
Hit: 5 Stars
It kind of figures that a lot of the Moody Blues' biggest fans would write off 1988's "Sur La Mer". Everything on here was written by Justin Hayward and/ or John Lodge. On top of this, Ray Thomas doesn't appear on the album at all even though he was still officially a band member at the time, and Graeme Edge is credited for "acoustic drums", but a heck of a lot of the drumming is programmed/ sequenced. Keyboardist Patrick Moraz is still on board here, and his presence is strongly detected--just check out the synth horns on "Here Comes The Weekend"--but despite this, a case can be made that this is closer to another Blue Jays (i.e. Hayward & Lodge) album opposed to a bonafide Moodies project. The thing is though, Hayward & Lodge were clearly up for the challenge--they're really on top of their game here offering up a surprisingly great batch of songs. Hayward starts it off with the wonderfully optimistic, sunny pop-rocker "I Know You're Out There Somewhere" which continues in his "Your Wildest Dreams" style, but to even better effect. Hayward also supplies a couple more splendidly melodic songs with the charming, feel-good ballad "No More Lies"; and the breezy "Vintage Wine" which is wistful and reflective. The Hayward-Lodge team come up with the pleading "Want To Be With You", which is really pretty and engagingly melodic; as well as a couple of ultra-catchy, minor-keyed pop-rockers, both which have excellent layered vocals--the stomping "River Of Endless Love"; and the driving, uptempo "Miracle", the latter of which strongly recalls "Gemini Dream". Lodge's heart-wrenching ballad "Love Is On the Run" is a great piece of songwriting, and although the track is a little overproduced, it's a beautiful song anyway with a wonderful sliding guitar line. There's also no denying the sheer catchiness of Lodge's uptempo "Here Comes The Weekend" which does recall his "Rock & Roll Over You" from the previous album, but is actually less annoying. Much has been made over the album closer, Justin's "Deep", but I actually think it's a refreshing change of pace to hear him loosen up and do a song about wanting to have sex--beyond this, although the song does get needlessly dragged out, it has a really cool ominous atmosphere, plus one of Hayward's great, trademark fuzzy guitar solos. If you're a serious Moodies' fan, I can't see how you'll be that disappointed with this album--yes, the arrangements are at times a little overdone (particularly with those swirling arpeggiated synthesizers on a couple tracks); and yes, Toni Visconti's production is pretty darn slick, but for the most part, it lends itself effectively to the consistently top-notch songwriting that the album has to offer. I do want to point out though that "Sur La Mer" is definitely not the Moodies' most 'typical' album. If you're new to the Moody Blues and want a taste of their 1967-1972 symphonic rock sound, you're better off starting with "To Our Children's Children's Children", "A Question of Balance", or "Seventh Sojourn". Still, in terms of sheer high quality, "Sur La Mer" is a great one.
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