To Our Children's Children's Children [Extra tracks, Hybrid SACD - DSD, Original recording remastered]

The Moody Blues | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 18, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 1969
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Extra tracks, Hybrid SACD - DSD, Original recording remastered
• Label: Ume Imports
• ASIN: B000E8NQUO
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,944 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Full title, 'To Our Children's Children'. Japanese reissue of the British rock icon's 1969 album. Limited to 5,000 pieces, it's packaged in a miniature LP sleeve. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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42 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Fourth Great SACD Mix!, April 24, 2006

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This review is from: To Our Children's Children's Children (Audio CD)

This album is many peoples favorite, as it has a wide variety of styles, from rock & roll to ballads to 'spoken word'. Besides the orginal remixed 5.1 songs (13), we are treated to (11) more versions from the previous three albums. The full versions and alternate mixes are a surprise for those hard-core fans. Here is a list of what songs are not mentioned here:

Gypsy (Full Version)
Candle Of Life (Full Version)
Sun Is Still Shining (Alternate Mix)
Gypsy (BBC Radio Concert 17/12/69)
Sunset (BBC Radio Concert 17/12/69)
Never Comes The Day (BBC Radio Concert 17/12/69)
Are You Sitting Comfortably (BBC Radio Concert 17/12/69)
Dream (BBC Radio Concert 17/12/69)
Have You Heard (BBC Radio Concert 17/12/69)
Nights In White Satin (BBC Radio Concert 17/12/69)
Legend Of A Mind (BBC Radio Concert 17/12/69)

Musical experiences don't get much better than this. Treat yourself!

(Note: Disc 1 is an SACD mix made from the original quadraphonic tapes. Disc 2 is the original remastered quadraphonic tapes - not SACD. This is seen as Disc 1 is gold colored and Disc 2 is silver. Also note that because this was originally a quadrophonic mix, the center front speaker is not used).

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Moodies fourth SACD release is as lush, ethereal and intense as it was in1969, April 24, 2006

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J. Bongiorno (NY, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: To Our Children's Children's Children (Audio CD)

One of the Moodies greatest achievements is this haunting, beautiful work that transports its listeners to far off realms. If any band is benefited by the surround sound format, it's the Moody Blues as this gorgeous sounding SACD release proves. Sound-wise, the CD plays much better in multichannel surround (even without the SACD player -- as the Dolby Pro Logic II mimics the surround rather well) than standard two-speaker format. Alive and as profoundly moving as ever, To Our Children's Children's Children is beginning to end one of the greatest musical expressions put to record.

Sadly, the fantastic cover artwork by Phil Travers is ruined by the person or persons in charge of reproducing the cover! True of at least 3 of the Moodies' SACD releases, the cover images are reproduced way too light so that nearly all the details of the painting are faded or lost altogether! Unfortunately, this is true on the cover as well as the interior booklet! Take a look at the original pressing of the LPs or any of the prior CD cover releases and you'll see just how bad Decca screwed this up! What happened to the quality control?! It's just a shame that this definitive release does not have the definitive covers it should! For any other band, it wouldn't be such a big deal, but for the Moodies, the cover art and packaging were part of the greater whole and this oversight is a big flaw in an otherwise fantastic release. One other smaller beef is that they should have had entirely new liner notes in each release, rather than just one new paragraph and a repeat of the notes detailed on Days of Future Passed.

At any rate, the music and sound get 5 stars, but 1 star is lost due to the work done by whoever was responsible for the cover art reproduction. Phil Travers original cover is vibrant and rich. This is very washed out and drains much of the original's beauty.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Innovation, songcraft & melody beget Rock's best music, on the best format, June 8, 2006

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Phil Baird (Fort Worth, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: To Our Children's Children's Children (Audio CD)

Forty years are soon to have passed for all of us who have followed the seminal rock and roll band--The Moody Blues.
Millions of us gnash our teeth at "critics" who elected the short-lived (yes they were very good, also) "Young Rascals" to the Hall Of Fame; but not the Moodies? These misguided, effete music snobs (in the world of rock and roll--go figure) mystify all those of us who appreciate the Moodies for their risk taking, for the songs that have resonated for four full decades and will continue to do so; and for the concerts that still electrify hundreds of thousands of fans every year in the 21st century. The Moodies are a band that has an unsurpassed catalog of greatness, but some still refuse to give them their due, alas.

Our band, chock full of outstanding singer-songwriters, takes a journey into space and time with "To Our Children's Children's Children". I don't have SACD playback capabilities with my system, but the high quality components I do have: Levinson, Meridian, Wilson speakers, et al, finally got to play this Moodies masterpiece in all its awesome stereo with the release of this incredible import Deluxe CD today. I own all of the OOP Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (MFSL) recordings. "To Our Children's Children's Children" (TOCCC) sounds so much better than the heretofore great MFSL CD, that it is mind-blowing. Don't waste your money on paying for the over-priced, after-market, MFSL issued CDs, not when these new SACD releases of early Moodies albums are now the reference quality recordings you should have; if you dearly love the Moodies music.

"Watching and Waiting" is one of Justin Hayward's own personal favorite songs (co-writing credit shared with Ray Thomas), and when you hear all the "soft dynamics" of this majestic song you will find yourself noting chords and notes that you never heard before. "Gypsy", seemingly always left off of Moodies "best of" compilations (for some unknown reason), resonates with more energy and clarity and bass. The side 2, "longer version" of "Gypsy" is also outstanding. Mike Pinder's "Sun Is Still Shining" (not a personal favorite of mine before), now carries much more weight; the sitar is given its space and the whole song is just, well, really cool. If you want to hear the Moodies at their best, all the new import SACD editions are worth every penny. You will rediscover the joy of listening to concept albums by a band that basically originated the concept of making rock and roll albums cohesive, "about something", etc. Enjoy the awesome Moodies' music in the very best medium to hear them--the SACDs! Oh, and thanks Justin, for your hard work in seeing to it that these SACD releases were done so very, very well!

08/14/06 UPDATE!! Universal Records has just announced that it will release U.S. versions (of the here-to-fore only available as import purchases) of "Days Of Future Passed," "In Search Of The Lost Chord," and "To Our Children's Children's Children" on 09/12/06. So let's also hope that you may be able to get the remaining other SACD Moodies' discs from U.S. sellers (presumably at lower prices than the import versions) too, if these first three discs sell well. I owe it to Universal, after criticizing their earlier decision NOT to release U.S. versions of the Moodies SACDs, to pass along this great news.