A Question of Balance by The Moody Blues (180g Vinyl, Jul-2018, LP, Polydor) NEW

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A Question of Balance by The Moody Blues [180-gram Vinyl LP]
Track Listing:
- Side 1 -

• 1 Question
• 2 How Is It (We Are Here)
  
• 3 And the Tide Rushes In
  
• 4 Don't You Feel Small
  
• 5 Tortoise and the Hare

- Side 2 -

• 1 It's Up to You
  
• 2 Minstrel's Song
  
• 3 Dawning Is the Day
  
• 4 Melancholy Man 
• 5 The Balance 

180-gram vinyl LP pressing.  A QUESTION OF BALANCE is the sixth album by The Moody Blues, released in 1970.  The album was an attempt by the group to strip down their well-known lush, psychedelic sound in order to be able to better perform the songs in concert.  Released in 1970, the album reached #1 in the United Kingdom and #3 in the United States.  The Moody Blues formed in Birmingham in 1964.  They first came to prominence playing rhythm and blues music, but their second album, Days of Future Passed, which was released in 1967, was a fusion of rock with classical music and established the band as pioneers in the development of art rock and progressive rock.
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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 Edges'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. ~ Bruce Eder, AllMusic

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