Track Listing

1. Go Now - Alex Murray, The Moody Blues
2. Tuesday Afternoon (Forever Afternoon) - The Moody Blues, Tony Clark, The London Festival Orchestra, Peter Knight
3. Nights In White Satin - The Moody Blues, Tony Clark, The London Festival Orchestra, Peter Knight
4. Ride My See-Saw - The Moody Blues, Tony Clarke, Derek Varnals
5. Voices In The Sky - The Moody Blues, Tony Clarke, Derek Varnals
6. Question - The Moody Blues, Tony Clarke
7. The Story In Your Eyes - The Moody Blues, Tony Clarke
8. Isn't Life Strange - The Moody Blues, Tony Clarke
9. I'm Just A Singer (In A Rock And Roll Band) - The Moody Blues, Tony Clarke
10. Blue Guitar - 10cc, Justin Hayward, Tony Clarke, John Lodge
11. Steppin' In A Slide Zone - The Moody Blues, Tony Clarke
12. Forever Autumn - Jeff Wayne, Justin Hayward
13. The Voice - Pip Williams, The Moody Blues, Greg Jackman, New World Philharmonic
14. Gemini Dream - Pip Williams, The Moody Blues, New World Philharmonic, Greg Jackman
15. Blue World - Pip Williams, The Moody Blues
16. Your Wildest Dreams - The Moody Blues, Tony Visconti
17. I Know You're Out There Somewhere - The Moody Blues, Tony Visconti

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1042 in Music
• Released on: 1999-06-18
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .22 pounds
• Running time: 78 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Fans of the Moody Blues hungry for the band's intoxicatingly rich arrangements and soaring melodies need look no further than this terrific compilation. What it lacks in depth this collection makes up for in breadth, spanning the band's 30-year history of hits from "Tuesday Afternoon (Forever Afternoon)" to "Your Wildest Dreams". Featuring some of Justin Hayward and John Lodge's best songwriting and packed with performances truly worthy of the superlative adjective greatest, this collection of hits delivers the goods. --L A Smith

CD Description
By keeping it simple and sticking to the hits, this collection successfully relates the story of this pioneering band. The Moody Blues began as a Gerry & the Pacemakers-like, R&B-influenced band fronted by sad-voiced singer Denny Laine, who is heard here on "Go Now". Laine was replaced by Justin Hayward, keyboardist Mike Pinder brought in a Mellotron, and the band hooked up with the London Symphony Orchestra to makethe first orchestral-rock album DAYS OF FUTURE PASSED, fromwhich "Tuesday Afternoon" and "Nights in White Satin" are included on this album.
Over the next few years the band banged out several gem albums that were full of a distinctivemix of folk-tinged ballads and ambitious prog-rock. Cuts from this period take up a healthy piece of this collection. After a lengthy sabbatical, the Moodies made a comeback in 1981, and with an updated sound (more synth, less Mellotron) the hits began anew. The last section of this album features the songs that brought the Moody Blues back to life. THE BEST OF THE MOODY BLUES is a definitive and accurate portrait of the group, and a good place for neophytes to begin.

Customer Reviews

Great CD, worth every penny
[One CD, with a running time of 78:22] This collection of Moody Blues hits would better be called, "The Moody Blues Through The Years." The songs run from their early Go Now (1964), through I Know You're Out There Somewhere (1988). Along the way, we get the touching Isn't Life Strange, the haunting Forever Autumn, the radiant The Voice, and many other great songs.

My one and only complaint is that Nights In White Satin is included without Graeme Edge's spellbinding poem Late Lament. I have always found that poem to be a fantastic epilogue to the song. But that's such a minor complaint. This is a great CD, and well worth the money.

By the way, the sleeve includes a one or two-sentence story of each song, and a conversation between John Reed and Justin Hayward, which tells the story of the band. Nice bonus!

Just the essentials
This compilation includes all the essential Moody blues tracks from their first UK sixties hit (Go now) to the eighties (I know you’re out the somewhere), plus Blue guitar and Forever autumn, two hits that Justin Hayward had without the Moody blues.

Among the classics here are Nights in white satin, Ride my see-saw, Voices in the sky, Question, Story in your eyes and Isn’t life strange.

Such is the legacy of the Moody blues that there is only room for the essentials on a single CD. I bought the double CD, singles+, instead. It contains all the tracks here and much else besides. Before you decide to buy this, I suggest you check that collection, which I’ve already reviewed.

Reviewing the Moody Blues album of the greatest works.
In this album, the producers have collected some of the Moody Blues greatest works, ranging from the soft, smooth lyrics of " Nights In White Satin " to the fast-beat, rock 'n' roll hit of " I'm Just A Singer ". Other good songs to listen to are the ones which are solos by either Justin Hayward or John Lodge, such as " Voices In The Sky ". The two of them sing many songs together as well as solos such as the famous " Isn't Life Strange " to the meaningful and sorrowful " Forever Autumn. " I would recommend this album to anyone who wants a review of the Moody Blues greatest works or just want to listen for pure enjoyment.