2021 Stereophile Magazine Record to Die For!
50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of The Moody Blues third album featuring the original stereo mix on 180-gram vinyl.In Search of the Lost Chord, featuring the hit single Ride My See-Saw, was filled with more hypnotic rockers like the powerful classic Legend of a Mind, the masterpiece House of Four Doors, plus Justin Haywards prog-rock champion Voices in the Sky.
Never a big Moody Blues fan, on a whim I picked up a cheaply priced used copy of In Search of the Lost Chord. I liked it a lot more than I expected to. It's a late '60s concept album, a concept I dig when done right. It's electric-guitar-driven, but it includes 33 different instruments; it sounds ambitiously Beatles-esque in some places, brimming with youthful energy and ideas of a band on the cusp of greatness. The music offers lush, eardrum-caressing vocals and brilliantly inventive moments - darned if the intensifying, 45-second album opener, 'Departure,' a poem written and recited by band drummer Graeme Edge, wasn't the perfect prelude to the classic 'Ride My See-Saw.' The LP's sound is rich and warm. The cover, by artist Phil Travers, is a striking meditation on the concept of, well, meditation.Features:
• 180g Vinyl
• 50th Anniversary Reissue
• All aspects of the original LP artwork faithfully reproduced
• Original stereo mix
• Limited time download card
• Made in Czech Republic
Selections:
Side One:
1. Departure
2. Ride My See-Saw
3. Dr. Livingstone, I Presume
4. House Of Four Doors
5. Legend Of A Mind
6. House Of Four Doors (Part 2)
Side Two:
1. Voices In The Sky
2. The Best Way To Travel
3. Visions Of Paradise
4. The Actor
5. The Word
6. Om