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Every Good Boy Deserves Vinyl: Moody Blues reissuing seven albums on 180-gram vinyl in July

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UMeNext month, The Moody Blues will reissue high-quality vinyl versions of seven of their classic albums, spanning from 1969 to 1981.

The LPs — 1969’s On the Threshold of a Dream and To Our Children’s Children’s Children, 1970’s A Question of Balance, 1971’s Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, 1972’s Seventh Sojourn, 1978’s Octave and 1981’s Long Distance Voyager — will be released on 180-gram vinyl on July 27.

You can pre-order the discs now at TheSoundofVinyl.com in the U.S. and at Amazon in the U.K. All seven albums were certified either gold or platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for sales of 500,000 or 1 million copies in the U.S. Seventh Sojourn and Long Distance Voyager both reached #1 on the Billboard 200 chart.

A Question of Balance features the Moodies classic “Question,” which peaked at #21 on the Billboard Hot 100, while Every Good Boy Deserves Favour includes the #23 hit “The Story in Your Eyes.”

Seventh Sojourn and Long Distance Voyager each had two top 30 singles. Seventh Sojourn yielded “I’m Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band),” which reached at #12, and “Isn’t Life Strange,” which peaked at #29. Long Distance Voyager boasted “Gemini Dream” and “The Voice,” which reached #12 and #15, respectively, on the Hot 100.

Here are the full track lists of The Moody Blues’ albums being reissued on vinyl:

On the Threshold of a Dream:

Side A
“In the Beginning”
“Lovely to See You”
“Dear Diary”
“Send Me No Wine”
“To Share Our Love”
“So Deep Within You”

Side B
“Never Comes the Day”
“Lazy Day”
“Are You Sitting Comfortably?”
“The Dream”
“Have You Heard (Part 1)”
“The Voyage”
“Have You Heard (Part 2)”

To Our Children’s Children’s Children:

Side A
“Higher and Higher”
“Eyes of a Child I”
“Floating”
“Eyes of a Child II”
“I Never Thought I’d Live to Be a Hundred”
“Beyond”
“Out and In”

Side B
“Gypsy”
“Eternity Road”
“Candle of Life”
“Sun Is Still Shining”
“I Never Thought I’d Live to Be a Million”
“Watching and Waiting”

A Question of Balance:

Side A
“Question”
“How Is It (We Are Here)”
“And the Tide Rushes In”
“Don’t You Feel Small”
“Tortoise and the Hare”

Side B
“It’s Up to You”
“Minstrel’s Song”
“Dawning Is the Day”
“Melancholy Man”
“The Balance”

Every Good Boy Deserves Favour:

Side A
“Procession”
“The Story in Your Eyes”
“Our Guessing Game”
“Emily’s Song”
“After You Came”

Side B
“One More Time to Live”
“Nice to Be Here”
“You Can Never Go Home”
“My Song”

Seventh Sojourn:

Side A
“Lost in a Lost World”
“New Horizons”
“For My Lady”
“Isn’t Life Strange”

Side B
“You and Me”
“The Land of Make-Believe”
“When You’re a Free Man”
“I’m Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band)”

Octave:

Side A
“Steppin’ in a Slide Zone”
“Under Moonshine”
“Had to Fall in Love”
“I’ll Be Level with You”
“Driftwood”

Side B
“Top Rank Suite”
“I’m Your Man”
“Survival”
“One Step into the Light”
“The Day We Meet Again”

Long Distance Voyager:

Side A
“The Voice”
“Talking Out of Turn”
“Gemini Dream”
“In My World”

Side B
“Meanwhile”
“22,000 Days”
“Nervous”
“Painted Smile”
“Reflective Smile”
“Veteran Cosmic Rocker”

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