]The Moody Blues - In Search of the Lost Chord (1968/2006) Deluxe FLAC

The Moody Blues - In Search of the Lost Chord (1968/2006) Deluxe FLAC

In Search of the Lost Chord, released in 1968, is the third album by The Moody Blues, released through Deram Records.

In Search of the Lost Chord, released in 1968, is the third album by The Moody Blues. In Search of the Lost Chord is the album on which the Moody Blues discovered drugs and mysticism as a basis for songwriting and came up with a compelling psychedelic creation, filled with songs about Timothy Leary and the astral plane and other psychedelic-era concerns. They dumped the orchestra this time out in favor of Mike Pinder's Mellotron, which was a more than adequate substitute, and the rest of the band joined in with flutes, sitar, tablas, and cellos, the playing of which was mostly learned on the spot.
The whole album was one big experiment to see how far the group could go with any instruments they could find, thus making this album a rather close cousin to the Beatles' records of the same era.

Track Listing

Side one
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Departure" Graeme Edge 0:48
2. "Ride My See-Saw" John Lodge 3:37
3. "Dr. Livingstone, I Presume" Ray Thomas 2:58
4. "House of Four Doors" Lodge 4:11
5. "Legend of a Mind" Thomas 6:40
6. "House of Four Doors (Part 2)" Lodge 1:43

Side two
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Voices in the Sky" Justin Hayward 3:32
2. "The Best Way to Travel" Mike Pinder 3:12
3. "Visions of Paradise" Hayward/Thomas 4:15
4. "The Actor" Hayward 4:39
5. "The Word" Edge 1:36
6. "Om" Pinder 6:27

Extra tracks on the Deluxe Edition are:

"Gypsy" (Alternate Version) (Hayward) - 4:17
"Candle of Life" (Alternate Version) (Lodge) - 4:59
"Sun Is Still Shining" (Extended Version) (Pinder) - 4:07
"Gypsy" (BBC radio concert 17 December 1969) (Hayward) - 3:21
"Sunset" (BBC radio concert 17 December 1969) (Pinder) 3:54
"Never Comes the Day" (BBC radio concert 17 December 1969) (Hayward) - 4:42
"Are You Sitting Comfortably" (BBC radio concert 17 December 1969) (Hayward, Thomas) - 2:54
"The Dream" (BBC radio concert 17 December 1969) (Edge) 0:58
"Have You Heard Pt. 1/The Voyage/Have You Heard Pt. 2" (BBC radio concert 17 December 1969) (Pinder) - 5:42
"Nights in White Satin" (BBC radio concert 17 December 1969) (Hayward) - 3:12
"Legend of a Mind" (BBC radio concert 17 December 1969) (Thomas) - 4:37