The Moody Blues - On the Threshold of a Dream

My Favorite

I was a major Moody Blues fan back in the era of this release. I owned every one of their albums on vinyl. I saw them in concert around 1970 and they were amazingly good live considering the amount of "studio" they always put into their work. I recently went back and purchased "Threshold" and "Lost Chord". The vocals and arrangements hold up pretty well and these guys were good players. However, some of the lyrics almost seem hokey and hard to take seriously (I really took this stuff seriously as a young kid). The poetic input is almost comical at times, but does help to frame the thematic nature of the album. Personally, I always liked "Threshold" the best with it's airy feel. Top tracks are "Lovely to See You", "Never Comes The Day" and "Are You Sitting Comfortably". I always felt that the Moodies were a great band to get high to back in the day and were very much an acid trip vehicle to evoke high-minded conversations pertaining to the universe and life's meaning etc. I was always bummed to hear that they were supposedly anti-drug guys during this period. I told myself for a long time that they only wrote the Timothy Leary is dead lines to throw us off - oh well. No matter how you cut it - the Moody Blues were "trippin" in those days and made some great "mood" music. August 19, 2008

Every young and old Hippie should have study this album

ON a threshold of a dream...I know the album in time was endless,he keeps on going the end track ...and it's surely the master piece off The Moody Blues, only for listening too the typical British accent off the storyteller...and that back in time mellotron ...great album that smells the unlimited time of the end 60 beginning 70 . May 9, 2008

The Title Tells it All: These were the final words of our Wedding Service 9/11/1971

I will not be wordy. Our entire wedding service was taken from lyrics of various Moody Blues songs .......... to this day, # 1 my Mom is still looking for the passage in the Bible, and #2 our friends who know " MB " are amazed that we could pull it off ......... and #3 we are still looking for opportunities to see Moody Blues 36+ yrs after the ceremony ! March 4, 2008

Excellent

On the Threshold of a Dream
It was a great album and it's a great CD! December 3, 2007

The album you could only dream of....

So many great albums by this band and this one stands out as my favorite. Probably the Moody Blues album that most constantly reminds me of Pink Floyd and Jethro Tull in places and seems to be heavily influenced by both bands. Check out the song you would mistake for Tull if you are only slightly familiar with Tull. Tull fans just laugh like I did. Anyway if you love progressive rock you will need this album in your collection without question. The concept and storyline put this ahead of its time and progressive albums were not normally like this till the 70s. Very much unlike other albums of its time and a giant leap for the Moody Blues. Every bit as influential to progressive rock as King Crimson in 1969.The Moodys will never get enough credit for establishing the progressive rock genre and this album is proof of that all the way through. November 14, 2007

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