In Search of the Lost Chord [Limited Edition]

by The Moody Blues

Overview

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. It is all beautiful and elegant, and "Legend of a Mind"'s chorus about "Timothy Leary's dead/Oh, no -- he's outside, looking in" ended up anticipating reality; upon his death in 1996, Leary was cremated and launched into space on a privately owned satellite, with the remains of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry (another '60s pop culture icon) and other well-heeled clients.

Product Details

Release Date:	05/19/2014
Label:	Friday Music
UPC:	0829421180173
catalogNumber:	211807
Rank:	56512

Tracks

1. Departure
2. Ride My See-Saw
3. Dr. Livingstone I Presume
4. House of Four Doors
5. Legend of a Mind
6. House of Four Doors, Pt. 2
7. Voices In the Sky
8. The Best Way To Travel
9. Visions of Paradise
10. The Actor
11. The Word
12. Om

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Moody Blues   Primary Artist