1.) The Moody Blues – Every Good Boy Deserves Favour Vinyl, LP, Album - Japan - 1978 - Threshold – LAX 1026 Media: NM / Sleeve, Insert & OBI: NM A1 Procession 4:40 A2 The Story In Your Eyes 2:58 A3 Our Guessing Game 3:34 A4 Emily's Song 3:43 A5 After You Came 4:40 B1 One More Time To Live 5:45 B2 Nice To Be Here 4:23 B3 You Can Never Go Home 4:17 B4 My Song 6:22 The best-realized of their classic albums, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour was also the last of the group's albums for almost a decade to be done under reasonably happy and satisfying circumstances -- for the last time with this lineup, they went into the studio with a reasonably full song bag and a lot of ambition and brought both as far as time would allow, across close to four months (interrupted by a tour of the United States right in the middle). Virtually everywhere you listen on this record, the lush melodies and the sound of Michael Pinder's Mellotron (augmented here by the Moog synthesizer and a brace of other instruments) just sweep over the music, and where they don't, Justin Hayward's guitar pyrotechnics on pieces like "The Story in Your Eyes" elevate the hard rocking side of the music, in tandem with John Lodge's muscular bass work -- which still leaves plenty of room for a cello here, and a grand piano there, on top of Ray Thomas' flute, and Graeme Edge's ever more ambitious percussion. "Emily's Song." "Nice to Be Here," and "My Song" are among the best work the group ever did, and "The Story in Your Eyes" is the best rock number they ever cut, with a bracing beat and the kind of lyrical complexity one more expected out of George Harrison at the time. Sad to say, the group would never be this happy with an album again -- at least not for a lot of years -- or with their commitment to being a group, though they would leave one more highly worthwhile album before taking a hiatus for most of the rest of the 1970s. 2.) The Moody Blues – To Our Children's Children's Children Vinyl, LP, Album - Japan - 1978 - London Records – LAX 1024 Media: NM to MINT / Sleeve, Insert & OBI: NM A1 Higher And Higher A2 Eyes Of A Child 1 A3 Floating A4 Eyes Of A Child 2 A5 I Never Thought I'd Live To Be A Hundred A6 Beyond A7 Out And In B1 Gypsy B2 Eternity Road B3 Candle Of Life B4 Sun Is Still Shining B5 I Never Thought I'd Live To Be A Million B6 Watching And Waiting The material dwells mostly on time and what its passage means, and there is a peculiar feeling of loneliness and isolation to many of the songs. This was also the last of the group's big "studio" sound productions, built up in layer upon layer of overdubbed instruments -- the sound is very lush and rich, but proved impossible to re-create properly on-stage, and after this they would restrict themselves to recording songs that the five of them could play in concert. There are no extended suites on this album, but Justin Hayward's "Watching and Waiting" and "Gypsy" have proved to be among the most popular songs in the group's history. The notes in the new edition also give a good account of how and why the Moody Blues founded their own Threshold label with Children's Children and their growing estrangement from Decca Records. ______________________________________________________ These records have been cleaned with a professional ultrasonic machine. New inner and outer sleeves included. Fast & careful shipping.