The Moody Blues - A Question Of Balance
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The Moody Blues [click here to see more vinyl featuring The Moody Blues]:
Justin Hayward - vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, mandolin
John Lodge - vocals, bass
Ray Thomas - vocals, flute, tambourine
Graeme Edge - drums, percussion, whispered vocal on "Don't You Feel Small"
Mike Pinder - vocals, Mellotron, Moog synthesizer, piano, harpsichord, maracas, acoustic guitar
1 LP, Gatefold Cover
Original analog Master tape : YES
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : black
Speed : 33RPM
Size : 12”
Stereo
Studio
Record Press : Universal Music Enterprises
Label : Friday Music
Original Label : Threshold
Recorded January – June 1970 at Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London
Engineered & mixed by Adrian Martins, Derek Varnals, Robin Thompson
Produced by Tony Clarke
Remastered by Joe Reagoso
Originally released in 1970
Reissued in 2014
Tracks:
Side A :
- Question
- How Is It (We Are Here)
- And The Tide Rushes In
- Don't You Feel Small
- Tortoise and the Hare
Side B :
- It's Up To You
- Minstrel's Song
- Dawning Is the Day
- Melancholy Man
- The Balance
Reviews :
"The Moody Blues' first real attempt at a harder rock sound still has some psychedelic elements, but they're achieved with an overall leaner studio sound. The group was trying to take stock of itself at this time, and came up with some surprisingly strong, lean numbers (Michael Pinder's Mellotron is surprisingly restrained until the final number, "The Balance"), which also embraced politics for the first time ("Question" seemed to display the dislocation that a lot of younger listeners were feeling during Vietnam). The surprisingly jagged opening track, "Question," recorded several months earlier, became a popular concert number as well as a number two (or number one, depending upon whose chart one looks at) single. Graeme Edge's "Don't You Feel Small" and Justin Hayward's "It's Up to You" both had a great beat, but the real highlight here is John Lodge's "Tortoise and the Hare," a fast-paced number that the band used to rip through in concert with some searing guitar solos by Hayward. Ray Thomas' "And the Tide Rushes In" (written in the wake of a fight with his wife) is one of the prettiest psychedelic songs ever written, a sweetly languid piece with some gorgeous shimmering instrumental effects. The 1997 remastered edition brings out the guitar sound with amazing force and clarity, and the notes tell a lot about the turmoil the band was starting to feel after three years of whirlwind success. The only loss is the absence of the lyrics included in earlier editions." AllMusic Review by Bruce Eder
Ratings :
AllMusic : 3 / 5 , Discogs : 3,99 / 5