The Moody Blues - Octave
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Artist: The Moody BluesEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Polygram UK
Soundtracks:
- Steppin' In A Slide Zone
- Under Moonshine
- Had To Fall In Love
- I'll Be Level With You
- Driftwood
- Top Rank Suite
- I'm Your Man
- Survival
- One Step Into The Light
- The Day We Meet Again
Free Music Notes for Octave
Free Music Review: Too little, too late
Hit: 2 Stars
After six long years without fresh Moody Blues music, I jumped at "Octave" when the LP hit the stands back in the summer of '78. I tried, I really tried, I so WANTED to enjoy it. I eagerly sought out the right blends, the right instrumentals, the right SOUND.
Well, a fair try, this LP was, but it just wasn't there. Collectively, it clunked, excepting one track, "One Step Into the Light" by Mike Pinder.
The fact that Pinder left the band after "Octave" should have told me something. Over the years, I came to appreciate his talents as true Moody Blues more than any of the others. Not to disparage Justin Hayward, John Lodge, Ray Thomas and Graeme Edge. Every one of them deserves favour as a true artist in a sea of wannabes. But Pinder best put forth the dream-like sound, the mood, the close-your-eyes-and-listen elements untethered to a 3-minute time limit. Such qualities had withered by the time "Octave" came out and were altogether dead on all of the band's subsequent albums.
Truly, we were spoiled with the above lineup's seven masterpieces, not to mention Phil Travers' fantastic cover art, from '67 to '72. By the late '70s and especially into the shallow '80s, the threshold was met and the sojourn was over. The days and future of such quality work had passed. I feel fortunate to have experienced those works of art during that classic period. The real beauty, the balance if you will, is they're still with us and, I hope, gaining a new audience, our children and their children, in search of the lost art of good music.
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