Released 21 November 1969 Artist The Moody Blues Producer Tony Clarke Genre Progressive rock | Length 40:15 Release date 21 November 1969 Label Threshold Records | |
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Recorded May–September 1969 at Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London, England To Our Children's Children's Children
(1969) A Question of Balance
(1970) Similar The Moody Blues albums, Progressive rock albums | ||
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To Our Children's Children's Children is the fifth album by The Moody Blues, released in November 1969. It was the first album released on the group's newly formed Threshold record label, which was named after the band's previous album from the same year, On the Threshold of a Dream. It was inspired by the 1969 moon landing, and the songs centre on the twin themes of space travel and children, with minor-key tonalities and a distinct psychedelic influence. It is the fourth of what are popularly considered the group's "core seven" (or Classic Seven) albums from 1967 to 1972.
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Release
While the extracted single, "Watching and Waiting," did not do well in that market, To Our Children's Children's Children was critically well-received and sold well, reaching number 2 in the UK albums chart and number 14 in the US. The album was mixed and released in both stereo and quadraphonic.
The band found most of the songs impossible to perform live, due to extremely lush orchestrations and a great deal of overdubbing. For this reason their following album, A Question of Balance, was more stripped down and basic in instrumentation. This change only lasted for one album and the next, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, saw a return to their earlier orchestral sound. The song "Out and In" originally was credited to both Mike Pinder and John Lodge, their only collaboration noted as such; but on the 1997 CD rerelease, Lodge's co-writing credit was omitted.
Track listing
In March 2006, the album was remastered into SACD and repackaged into a 2CD Deluxe Edition.
In 2008, a remaster for single standard audio CD was issued with the five bonus tracks.
Personnel
Songs
1Higher and Higher4:11
2Eyes of a Child3:24
3Floating3:00