Track Listing

1. Higher and Higher
2. Eyes of a Child, Pt. 1
3. Floating
4. Eyes of a Child, Pt. 2
5. I Never Thought I'd Live to Be a Hundred
6. Beyond
7. Out and In
8. Gypsy
9. Eternity Road
10. Candle of Life
11. Sun Is Still Shining
12. I Never Thought I'd Live to Be a Million
13. Watching and Waiting
14. Gypsy [Alternate Version][*]
15. Candle of Life [Alternate Version][*]
16. Sun Is Still Shining [Extended Version][*]
17. Have You Heard/The Voyage/Have You Heard [*]
18. Legend of a Mind [*]

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6720 in Music
• Brand: EXP
• Released on: 2008-07-15
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Album Description
The Moody Blues, To Our Children's Children's Children

Customer Reviews

A Wonderful Musical Treatise On The Passage Of Time Made Even Better With Wonderful Remastering And Bonus Cuts
TO OUR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN'S CHILDREN, which is yet another magnificent Moody Blues CD, is now even better, with warm, thick remastering and numerous bonus cuts. The albums lyrics about time, what its passage means, and how we all must move on from our past, now inspire me even more to put looking good for my favorite actresses as a higher priority than attending Thanksgiving Dinner at my old school for my 15th graduation anniversary, thanks to increased warmth and clarity in the sound of the singing and how the instruments carry the vocals even better now. This is a reissue you definitely should NOT pass up.

Intergalactic quest leads to the answer of the universe.
"To Our Children's Children's Children" (1969), along with the other albums in the "core seven" of inimitable, symphonic/orchestral rock releases by Birmingham, England's Moody Blues, should have been sufficient to get them inducted into the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame long ago. Unfortunately, the 'Hall, to this date, is apparently still showing its tendentiousness toward British progressive rock-type bands. Ironic, because few other ensembles in the annals of rock were as creative, or capable of crafting such heavenly mellifluous and poetic statements for record as the Moodies.

Each individual song on 'Children segues into the next, demonstrating the band's coherence--philosophically and musically, with its pondering harmonic textures producing a sonic mosaic of atmospheric, dolorous affects. This, the "Moody Blues sound"--through founder Mike Pinder's dexterity--was achieved by their bringing to the fore the mellotron (also from Birmingham)--an electromechanical, polyphonic keyboard, first to employ sample playback or "sampling," wherein a segment of one recording (the sample), such as pre-loaded orchestral and stringed instrument sounds, is utilized as an instrument or part of another recording. However, on their records gritty sounding guitars are welcomed by mellow vocals from the various members and there are usually a plethora of other natural instruments, like the flute, whose lush sounds are produced by Ray Thomas. The dynamic range is more expansive than on the recordings of their typical American contemporaries, too.

Of the thirteen songs contained on the original record, lead guitarist Justin Hayward and bassist John Lodge were involved in penning four each, but the entire work is really a joint effort, with every group member having at least two songwriting credits or more. Also note that their colossal "Time Traveller" box set compilation from 1994 holds more songs from 'Children--except for "On The Threshold of a Dream," which also has nine--than any other disc they released up till then.

At first blush this work may seem bombastic, as drummer Graeme Edge's lyricism on "Higher and Higher" commences the album by speaking of the conflagatory power of "ten billion butterfly sneezes." Nevertheless, the disc's (whose cover is a prehistoric depiction of a hand inscribing futuristic symbols on a cave wall) whole complex concept works. It is, in fact, an introspective, science fiction sojourn to outer space, to discover oneself--untainted, like a child--in order to fulfill the dream of securing eternal love, peace, tranquility and lastly, freedom (which can be alienating, because through it the pursuit of inner meaning might be a time-consuming and formidable undertaking). The song whose words best exemplify this here is perhaps "Out and In": "Gazing past the planets/Looking for total view/I've been lying here for hours/You've gotta make the journey out and in/Wonders of a lifetime/Right there before your eyes/Searching with this life of ours." A profound existential affirmation?

My favourite pieces on this disc are: "Gypsy," with its frantic expression of desultory homelessness, captured by wailing, icy vocals, and "Candle of Life," which is equally as eerie, temptingly sung to entreat the listener to answer a gnawing query regarding their loneliness.

Buy this masterwork by the Moody Blues, "To Our Children's Children's Children," where intergalactic quest leads to the answer of the universe.

Moody Blues - Finally Sound Quality worth passing on to our Children's Children
Incredible, phenomenal, fantastic, wonderful! I always liked these old Moody Blues albums but the sound was never very good. Well, listen to them again for the first time! The remastering on these is way beyond good, it's tremendous....I can't believe how much better this sounds. There were some "Remasters" in the early nineties that were mildly better. These are exponentially better.....don't hesitate, if you are a fan...buy these remastered Moody Blues CD's. I bought them all and like "In Search of the lost Chord," "Threshold" and "Every Good Boy" the best, but they are all good. Extra tracks are fun too