The Moody Blues - Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
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Artist: The Moody BluesEdition: Music CD
Format: Gold CD, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1995-09-12
Music Label: Mobile Fidelity
Soundtracks:
- Procession
- The Story In Your Eyes
- Our Guessing Game
- Emily's Song
- After You Came
- One More Time To Live
- Nice To Be Here
- You Can Never Go Home
- My Song
Free Music Notes for Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
Free Music Review: Excellent! Great! Beautiful! Delightful! Fantastic! :)
Hit: 5 Stars
To start off, what a topnotch remastering job on this splendid release! :)
Back in the days when I was discovering the music of The Moody Blues (About the 6th grade, in the late 1980's, for me), my parents put together a Moody Blues mix tape from the songs off of the vinyl albums in their collection, for road trips in the car. The cassette included this really cool-sounding rock song with mellotrons and pianos featured in it, and the tune reminded me of "Question" and "Lovely To See You," which I already knew at the time ... Of course, the song turned out to be "The Story In Your Eyes," my favorite song on that mix tape, at the time, and I went through all of my parents' records to discover that the song came from "Every Good Boy Deserves Favour!" Sound-wise, the "church-like" choir of backing vocals on the choruses are outstanding, and sound similar to the background chanting on "Nights In White Satin." The "clanging" of the pianos, near the end of the track, really packs a punch too, and a nice job on the stereo separation of Justin Hayward's well-sung double-tracked vocals (Best experienced through headphones)!
Backing up a bit, I found "Procession" amusing, and wanted to dissect it piece by piece, by commenting on my favorite pieces ... The Moog synthesizer that opens up the album has such a futuristic quality to it that I don't think you could possibly reproduce such a sound effect for any video game or techno sound recording! Gotta love those "bubbling" sounds! You don't need an alarm clock when you first hear The Moodies shouting, "DESOLATION!" The group shout just comes out of nowhere and is one of the most startling moments on a Moody Blues recording (Next to the thunder effects heard on "Say What You Mean," from "Keys Of The Kingdom") ... The band executes their line to perfection, just as the listener is becoming comfortable with the "Pillow Of Winds" (To quote Pink Floyd from their "Meddle" album, also released in the same year!) sounds, previously heard ... It's like The Moody Blues summoned the bursts of thunder and rainfall that follow their opening shout! Notice that the "E.G.B.D.F." piano chords pan across the stereo field, beginning on the left stereo channel and ending out on the right channel (Another headphone treat!). Originally, I thought that Graeme Edge's electronic drum kit was a set of state-of-the art bongos! They are right on the beat and make for yet another stereophonic delight! The sitar excerpt reminds me of some of George Harrison's work on the late 1960's Beatles albums, mainly "Love You To," from "Revolver" and some of the incidental music on the "Help!" soundtrack ("Another Hard Day's Night"/"The Chase") ... The flute piece reminds me of some of the musical interludes in the "Monty Python" series ... Strange thought, I know, but it still sounds lovely. :) The harpsichord section makes me think of Colonial times, and the buildup at the end of the track sounds like something that would inspire Queen to create their musical style of "God Save The Queen," from "A Night At The Opera!" Gotta love the "Halloweenish" organ followed by the double-tracked electric guitar that leads into "Story!" A fantastic job on this opening piece to the album!
The piano in the intro to Ray Thomas' "Our Guessing Game" really grabbed me, right from the start ... You would have thought that Mike Pinder would begin singing the song, as he did following the piano piece that opened up "My Song," later on! Sounded like a symphonic piece to me ... What a marvelous melody! There is great continuity with the stereophonic sound of the double-tracked lead guitar between the solo that ends out "Procession" and the solo heard on the instrumental break of "Guessing Game," as well! The Moodies sound psyched as they all pitch in on the choruses, too. :)
Nice job with the xylophone effects on "Emily's Song," probably John Lodge's softest, most delicate tune ... The powerful cellos really bring the rest of the instrumentation together so well. Glad to find that this tune received recognition on the "Collected" best-of triple disc compilation, as it was not featured in the "E.G.B.D.F." portion of "Time Traveller." The live version of this song, on the "Red Rocks" set, is equally enjoyable, by me, I might add. :)
Both acoustic and electric guitars dominate Graeme Edge's "After You Came," and as any true Moody Blues fan can tell you about this song, it is a successful team effort from all of the vocalists ... John Lodge really sounds like he's getting into singing his parts of the song when he hums briefly during the final chorus on the track! While "Time Traveller" ignored this outstanding rocker, the song rightfully received recognition on both the "Voices In The Sky" and "The Universal Masters Collection: Classic Moody Blues" compilations. :)
John's "One More Time To Live" captures all kinds of moods, and starts off and ends out on a pleasant sounding note ... The intensity on the choruses is well delivered, in both the vocal and instrumental departments ... Sound wise, the choruses make me think of a thunder storm and the soft parts remind me of the calm before and after the storm! Nice job on the way the flutes that ended out this tune blended in with the flutes that open up the next tune, by Ray Thomas...
"Nice To Be Here" sounds like a mellow version of "Another Morning," from "Days Of Future Passed," and the melody reminds me a little bit of "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da," by The Beatles, at a couple of points!. :) While Ray indicates that this song takes place during the day ("...Lying in the sun"), I can't help but feel that the tune has a "nighttime" feel to it (The mellow instrumentation), in which the animals in the woods get together to perform their tune while all humans are far away, and home, fast asleep. :)
Justin's "You Can Never Go Home" takes me back to "Never Comes The Day," from "On The Threshold Of A Dream," with the song starting off softly then rocking on the choruses ... On both occasions, Justin superbly showcases both the soft and powerful styles of his vocals. He also delivers a nice soft touch of his electric guitar on the "I lie awake for hours"/"Weep no more for treasures" parts of the song. Nice job on the cheerful harmonizing during these same sections of the tune, as well!
On Mike Pinder's closing track, "My Song," the tune starts off like a classical piece, featuring topnotch piano playing, then we hear Mike singing in his most dramatic style on the "Love can change the world" section of the song, in similar fashion to his singing style during the fadeout to "Melancholy Man," from "A Question Of Balance." The harp-like effects and marching drums that take the listener into the instrumental portion of the song blew me away, as did the variety of mellotron sounds that were featured! When the song becomes silent, we can hear the "smog" effects that were first heard throughout "On The Threshold Of A Dream," mainly from "In The Beginning." The heavily echoed breathing, in the background, sounded spooky ... Could it have represented the "life in other worlds?" The breathing did have an otherworldly sound to it! Pretty neat effect on the sound effects that ended out the song, as it was the opening sound effect in "Procession," played in reverse! This reminded me of how Pink Floyd's "The Wall" began and ended, featuring the same sounds! Thanks to the fadeout on Mike's track, we do get the impression that this is indeed "a song that never ends!" In addition, isn't it amusing that the very first song on the following album, "Seventh Sojourn," was written and sung by Mike? Imagine how "My Song" would have sounded if it morphed into "Lost In A Lost World," in the space between the fadeout of the former song and the fade-in of the latter song! This concept would have been further proof in carrying out "a song that never ends" ... Just an impression I had between the two Pinder tunes. :)
For me, this is a good album to listen to late in the evening, right before going to sleep ... It must also have something to do with the nighttime setting on the album cover, but much of the instrumentation creates a "dreamy" atmosphere on this recording, most notably the mellotrons, so it's a nice album to relax to. "Boy," I'm in "Favour" of "Every Good" (Or should I say "Great!") Moody Blues song on this "Deserving" of praise album! Thanks for reading. God Bless... :)
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