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This Is The Moody Blues is a two LP (later two CDs) compilation album by the Moody Blues, released in late 1974 while the band was on a self-imposed sabbatical. Though all of the songs were previously released on albums (with the exception of "A Simple Game" which was a 1968 B-side), several of them are heard here in distinctly different mixes. Like the Moody Blues albums of the time – but unlike most compilation albums, including later Moody Blues compilations – the songs on this album segue seamlessly, without silence between tracks. On the original LP, this was true of the songs on each side; when the album was remastered for CD, each disc was also blended, so that "Legend of a Mind" segues into "In the Beginning", and "Watching and Waiting" segues into "I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band)".

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This Is The Moody Blues
Compilation album by The Moody Blues
Released	8 October 1974 (US) 25 October 1974 (UK)
Recorded	8 October 1967 – 15 August 1972
Genre	Progressive rock, psychedelic rock
Length	94:18
Label	Threshold
Producer	Tony Clarke
The Moody Blues chronology
Seventh Sojourn (1972) This Is The Moody Blues (1974) Caught Live + 5 (1977)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic[1]

The album was the first release to provide a separate name for "Late Lament", the symphonic coda and spoken poem that closes "Nights in White Satin".

This Is the Moody Blues was a commercial and critical success, reaching #14 in the United Kingdom and #11 in the United States.

Original track listing

Side One

1. "Question" (Justin Hayward) (from A Question of Balance, 1970) – 5:39
2. "The Actor" (Hayward) (from In Search of the Lost Chord, 1968) – 4:11
3. "The Word" (Graeme Edge) (spoken poem from In Search of the Lost Chord, remixed over instrumental "Beyond" from To Our Children's Children's Children, 1969) – 0:51
4. "Eyes of a Child" (John Lodge) (from To Our Children's Children's Children) – 2:34
5. "Dear Diary" (Ray Thomas) (from On the Threshold of a Dream, 1969) – 3:56
6. "Legend of a Mind" (Thomas) (from In Search of the Lost Chord) – 6:37

Side Two

1. "In the Beginning" (Edge) (from On the Threshold of a Dream) – 2:06
2. "Lovely to See You" (Hayward) (from On the Threshold of a Dream) – 2:35
3. "Never Comes the Day" (Hayward) (from On the Threshold of a Dream) – 4:39
4. "Isn't Life Strange" (Edited version) (Lodge) (from Seventh Sojourn, 1972) – 5:32
5. "The Dream" (Edge) (from On the Threshold of a Dream) – 0:52
6. "Have You Heard? (Part 1)" (Mike Pinder) (from On the Threshold of a Dream) – 1:23
7. "The Voyage" (Pinder) (from On the Threshold of a Dream) – 4:08
8. "Have You Heard? (Part 2)" (Pinder) (from On the Threshold of a Dream) – 2:08

Side Three

1. "Ride My See-Saw" (Lodge) (from In Search of the Lost Chord) – 3:32
2. "Tuesday Afternoon" (Hayward) (from Days of Future Passed, 1967) – 4:04
3. "And the Tide Rushes In" (Thomas) (from A Question of Balance) – 2:54
4. "New Horizons" (Hayward) (from Seventh Sojourn) – 5:06
5. "A Simple Game" (Pinder) (B-side to UK "Ride My See-Saw" single, 1968) – 3:18
6. "Watching and Waiting" (Hayward, Thomas) (from To Our Children's Children's Children) – 4:21

Side Four

1. "I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band)" (Lodge) (from Seventh Sojourn) – 4:11
2. "For My Lady" (Thomas) (from Seventh Sojourn) – 3:54
3. "The Story in Your Eyes" (Hayward) (from Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, 1971) – 2:45
4. "Melancholy Man" (Pinder) (from A Question of Balance) – 5:05
5. "Nights in White Satin" (Hayward) (from Days of Future Passed) – 4:33
6. "Late Lament" (Edge, Peter Knight) (from Days of Future Passed) – 2:33

Charts

Chart (1974-1975)	Peak position
Canada Top Albums/CDs (RPM)[2]	2
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[3]	22
UK Albums (OCC)[4]	14
US Billboard 200[5]	11

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)[6]	Platinum	100,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[7]	Gold	100,000^
United States (RIAA)[8]	Gold	500,000^
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

External links

• Official Moody Blues Fanpage
• Official Moody Blues Fan Community

Discography

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