2005 Moodyblues Lovely to See You Again Dvd
 3.38 | 17 ratings | 3 reviews | 24% 5 stars Write a review Buy THE MOODY Dejection Music | DVD/Video, released in 2005 Songs / Tracks Listing 1. Lovely To Encounter You Total Time 106:00 - Justin Hayward / vocals, guitars - Norda Mullen / flute, rythm guitar, backing vocals and to SouthSideoftheSky for the final updates Edit this entry |
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3.38
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Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music(24%)
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Review by SouthSideoftheSky
SPECIAL COLLABORATOR Symphonic Team
Almost of the bands I listen to consist of members who are about twice as one-time every bit I am myself. But The Moody Blues are older still. These guys were already touring America - and their songs were played on the radio - when Yes, Genesis and Rex Crimson were just starting out making music. When these bands released their corresponding debut albums, The Moody Dejection already had nearly five albums nether their chugalug. The Moody Dejection simply belong to an earlier generation of bands represented by the likes of The Beatles, The Who, Procol Harum and peradventure Pink Floyd.
On this DVD nosotros become a full live performance, filmed and recorded in Los Angeles in this millennium. Impressively, the set list features songs from five dissimilar decades! The show starts with two very onetime songs in Lovely To See Yous and Tuesday Afternoon. It continues with a song from the ninety's called Lean On Me (Tonight) which was a song I had not heard earlier. It sounds very much similar a Beatles song, indeed too much then, I think. Another older song follows, The Thespian. In my opinion these first four songs constitute a very weak start of the show. These are non at all bad songs, simply they are much too low primal to open a concert. The next number, Stepping In A Slide Zone, is the start song that actually rocks and would have been much better as a concert opener.
The portion of the show from Stepping In A Slide Zone onwards is much ameliorate than the weak introductory portion. The Phonation is a good song with a symphonic intro and The Story In Your Optics, Isn't Life Strange, I'grand Just A Rock & Roll Singer (In A Rock & Whorl Band) and Question are all very good songs. Forever Autumn is a vocal originally from Jeff Wayne's The War Of The Worlds album and is a very beautiful vocal. Even some newer songs that I had never heard before like I Know You're Out There Somewhere and Your Wildest Dreams are decent. December Snow is the near contempo song and it is utterly forgettable. Indeed, I simply heard information technology a infinitesimal agone and I don't think anything about it! Higher And Higher is an alright number but it is destroyed by Graeme Edge insisting on dancing around the stage in a very embarrassing mode!
As you may take noticed, Ray Thomas was no longer in the band at this time so none of his songs are performed. This is a adept matter in my stance since I never much liked his songs. On the other Moody Blues DVD I have, Thomas feels largely like the 5th bicycle, spending virtually of the concert merely sitting at that place and simply occasionally playing a bit of flute and singing a couple of songs.
The ending of the bear witness suffers from the same problem as the start of the concert. Later the eternal Nights In White Satin nosotros are given a powerful functioning of Question. This would have been a perfect place to stop, but they insist on playing Ride My see-Saw which, for me, is something of an anti-climax.
The Moody Blues is not 1 of my favourite bands, and this DVD, though enjoyable, will not chance that.
Proficient, but non-essential.
Review by Finnforest
SPECIAL COLLABORATOR Honorary Collaborator
I often rail against rock and roll senior citizens. As well ofttimes I have to agree with Grace Slick's ranting on the subject. She says rock is a young person's game and that her peers should have the common sense to know when it's time to take up painting. Instead we now have "rockers" around age lxx still hauling in the big paychecks singing material they wrote as young men. Worse than having piddling true conviction to the material is the inability to "get information technology upwards" anymore. They play the songs slower, they tin't striking the notes (coughhhrobertandgeddy), or they can barely move. Come on people. You're still gonna pay huge bucks to come across such mediocrity?
However, occasionally I come up beyond veterans who non only manage to pull it off, just actually practice it well enough to put across something genuinely moving and worthwhile. The Moody Blues deliver a set here that is dignified, well done, and enjoyable. This is probably because they wrote timeless material that doesn't sound silly coming from an older person. And they tin can still sing their parts with relative ease. Every bit but three of the long timers remain they accept filled in the rest of the stage with new faces who do a fine chore, especially flautist Norda Mullen who seems to have won over the fan base already with her energy.
The show is recorded in Los Angeles and features a unproblematic phase presentation only tasteful lightning, bathing the band in blues and soft purples. Highlights include an early Tuesday Afternoon and The Actor. I would accept preferred more than Long Distance Voyager but they do sample it with The Vox and Talking Out Of Turn. At that place is a beautiful acoustic number called Forever Autumn from a Hayward soundtrack collaboration. Then they bring down the business firm with a poignant, beautiful Isn't Life Foreign from the Seventh Sojourn anthology. This i really seemed to bear upon people with its melancholy lyrics, I believe at that place are a few tears in the audition. Information technology as well seemed to energize everyone in the band.
They got better as the show went on and positively rocked on Question, Higher and Higher, while delivering all the regal majesty on their classic Nights in White Satin. Hayward but excelled at the show's climax, the fast guitar office at the beginning of Question seemed faster if annihilation, and his leads were correct on the marker though he rarely deviated from the album leads. The Moodies take proven remarkably resilient over all this time and their textile holds up. I got a fiddling emotional at the finish. It is not lost on me that I'm watching old friends hither, voices that accept been a part of my life for all of my life, and are rapidly nearing retirement based simply on the math. These voices will exist missed and this is a bully final certificate....if it proves to be their terminal major DVD release. While they were never my favorite band and even so aren't I consider their music a treasured part of the last half century.
The actress is a warm and laid back 30 infinitesimal interview with Hayward, Lodge, and Edge. At first the questions are short water ice breakers moving apace dorsum and along between members, only somewhen they all take them into more philosophical areas discussing family, art, and fans. They seem genuinely grateful for their long ride and they seem to savor existence together yet, without the animosity nosotros know exists in some of the other long time bands. The audio on the DVD is decent enough although not perfect. At times there are some anomalies which irritated me and I could utilize more than bass. But don't let that finish yous from catching up with former friends.
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