Disc 11. Day Begins, The
2. Dawn: Dawn Is a Feeling
3. Morning: Another Morning, The
4. Lunch Break: Peak Hour
5. The Afternoon: Forever Afternoon (Tuesday?) / Time To Get Away (Evening)
6. Evening: The Sunset / Twilight Time
7. Night: Nights in White Satin
Disc 21. Tuesday Afternoon - (alternate mix, previously unreleased)
2. Dawn Is a Feeling - (previously unreleased, alternate version)
3. Sun Set, The - (previously unreleased, alternate version)
4. Twilight Time - (alternate vocal mix, previously unreleased)
5. Nights in White Satin - (mono single version)
6. Fly Me High - (mono single version)
7. I Really Haven't Got the Time - (mono single version)
8. Love and Beauty - (mono single version)
9. Leave This Man Alone - (mono single version)
10. Cities - (mono single version)
11. Long Summer Days - (Stereo Version)
12. Please Think About It - (Stereo Version)
13. Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood - (previously unreleased, BBC Saturday Club 9/5/67)
14. Love and Beauty - (previously unreleased, BBC Easybeat Session 20/9/67)
15. Leave This Man Alone - (previously unreleased, BBC Easybeat Session 20/9/67)
16. Peak Hour - (previously unreleased, BBC Easybeat Session 20/9/67)
17. Nights in White Satin - (previously unreleased, BBC Dave Symonds Session 1/1/68)
18. Fly Me High - (previously unreleased, BBC Dave Symonds Session 1/1/68)
19. Twilight Time - (previously unreleased, BBC Dave Symonds Session 1/1/68)
The Moody Blues: Justin Hayward (vocals, guitar); Ray Thomas (flute, harmonica); Mike Pinder (keyboards); John Lodge (bass); Graeme Edge (drums).
Additional personnel: Peter Knight (conductor); The London Festival Orchestra.
Includes liner notes by Hugh Mendl.
All tracks have been digitally remastered
This is a hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both regular and Super Audio CD players.
The Moody Blues: Justin Hayward, Graeme Edge, John Lodge, Mike Pinder, Ray Thomas.
Additional personnel: London Festival Orchestra.
Recording information: 1967.
DAYS OF FUTURE PASSED is the Moody Blues' true contribution to rock history: the most cohesive integration of rock songs with orchestral music ever produced. Asked by Deram Records to create a rock reworking of Dvorak's "New World" Symphony, the Moodies instead wrote their own symphony, a song cycle that describes the emotions that accompany each part of the day, from dawn ("Dawn Is A Feeling") to night (the classic "Nights In White Satin"). The songs are connected by lush orchestral passages in which the basic musical themes are reworked. Meanwhile, the band had already begun to sound like its own orchestra, using signature Mellotron string sounds, flutes, tympani and multiple vocalists.
Spin (01/04, p.48) - "...[The LP] made a prog signature of the Mellotron, a primitive tape-loop-triggering keyboard that tripsters still covet..."
Uncut (p.120) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he Moodies wrote songs about Timothy Leary and the astral plane, recited sixth-form verse over flutes and sitars, and made concept albums without a concept.....Symphonic."