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The Moody Blues: A Question of Balance | Extended Play Lounge Ep. 85 (Patreon)

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2025-02-19 18:37:29
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In this episode, I'm returning to the music of The Moody Blues. It's been almost a year since we heard To Our Children's Children's Children, and I've been eager to continue on in our chronological exploration of their albums. So...today's the day, and I REALLY enjoyed this album. I hope you do as well!

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The Moody Blues: A Question of Balance | Extended Play Lounge Ep. 85

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Rodney Griffin

Fabulous Album from a Fabulous Band!

Illume Eltanin

Thank you for getting to this, Dr, Doug! Onward to my personal favorite of the Magnificent/Core Seven: Every Good Boy Deserves Favour. 💖

Allen

What a nice surprise to find in my email! Thanks Doug. I always thought this was their most polished album. The only lament is the brevity of their songs. Yet, the theme of "balance" seems to create a super-organic "song" that can't be broken into individual songs without disrupting the balance of the album. In this case, one cannot really complain about their individual length since it seems like one big composition.

Jeff Norman

Although I get why the Moody Blues nearly always segued the songs on their albums...I really do wish that, on reissues, there were discrete endings or fades to the songs, so one COULD listen to them in isolation once in a while...

Jeff Norman

Also, about "And the Tide Rushes In": I've kind of always felt Ray Thomas to be the least-impressive songwriter in the band...mostly because he's a bit too prone to the drippy. But this is probably my favorite Ray tune. I think the last little half verse is essential to the song. So, the narrator's got his "castle"—he's sure in his argument, he doesn't want to listen to his partner ("nothing new")...but look out, because she's not having it: she's the tide, and that castle's getting washed away. He's not sure "on which side of the bed he should lay" (I think he means: inside the bed, or (as Doug notes) outside it, on the couch!). His defenses having been shaken, so too is his certitude. I think the blackbird is there to give the narrator a bit of perspective and wisdom. Not every acorn falls, but many do. Not every fallen acorn grows...but some do. It's not the blackbird's doing...but he will stay, and watch, and see which ones DO grow. I think the implication is that the narrator has found (or should find) a bit of perspective, and worry less about the security of his castle or whether his partner's problems are "new" or familiar...but recognize that, if he steps back, and see which things grow, things will likely be better. After all, it's those acorns that grow into oak trees that provide the blackbird's home.

Jeff Norman

"The Balance" just gutted me. At this time, in this world, right now: damn.

Potted Rodent

This is maybe their best album cover art.

Mike Brennan

As you so perceptively said, this is part of why they are so loved as a band by their devoted fans, of which I am certainly one! And Justin, of course, is still performing to a very high standard with a small group of younger musicians in an acoustic style. A gentle man. If you get any chance to see him, please go. Failing that, there is lots on YouTube, bless him. And bless you. Fantastic reactions here!