This Is The Moody Blues


This Is The Moody Blues is a two LP 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, 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 ".
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" – 5:39
  2. "The Actor" – 4:11
  3. "The Word" – 0:51
  4. "Eyes of a Child" – 2:34
  5. "Dear Diary" – 3:56
  6. "Legend of a Mind" – 6:37

Side Two

  1. "In the Beginning" – 2:06
  2. "Lovely to See You" – 2:35
  3. "Never Comes the Day" – 4:39
  4. "Isn't Life Strange" – 5:32
  5. "The Dream" – 0:52
  6. "Have You Heard? (Part 1)" – 1:23
  7. "The Voyage" – 4:08
  8. "Have You Heard? (Part 2)" – 2:08

Side Three

  1. "Ride My See-Saw" – 3:32
  2. "Tuesday Afternoon" – 4:04
  3. "And the Tide Rushes In" – 2:54
  4. "New Horizons" – 5:06
  5. "A Simple Game" – 3:18
  6. "Watching and Waiting" – 4:21

Side Four

  1. "I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band)" – 4:11
  2. "For My Lady" – 3:54
  3. "The Story in Your Eyes" – 2:45
  4. "Melancholy Man" – 5:05
  5. "Nights in White Satin" – 4:33
  6. "Late Lament" – 2:33