# This Is The Moody Blues

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This Is The Moody Blues is a two LP (later two CDs) compilation album by the Moody Blues, released in late 1974 while the band was on a self-imposed sabbatical. Though all of the songs were previously released on albums (with the exception of "A Simple Game" which was a 1968 B-side), several of them are heard here in distinctly different mixes. Like the Moody Blues albums of the time – but unlike most compilation albums, including later Moody Blues compilations – the songs on this album segue seamlessly, without silence between tracks. On the original LP, this was true of the songs on each side; when the album was remastered for CD, each disc was also blended, so that "Legend of a Mind" segues into "In the Beginning", and "Watching and Waiting" segues into "I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band)".
The album was the first release to provide a separate name for "Late Lament", the symphonic coda and spoken poem that closes "Nights in White Satin".
This Is The Moody Blues was a commercial and critical success, reaching #14 in the United Kingdom and #11 in the United States.

## Original track listing
### Side One

* "Question" (Justin Hayward) (from A Question of Balance, 1970) – 5:39
* "The Actor" (Hayward) (from In Search of the Lost Chord, 1968) – 4:11
* "The Word" (Graeme Edge) (spoken poem from In Search of the Lost Chord, remixed over instrumental "Beyond" from To Our Children's Children's Children, 1969) – 0:51
* "Eyes of a Child" (John Lodge) (from To Our Children's Children's Children) – 2:34
* "Dear Diary" (Ray Thomas) (from On the Threshold of a Dream, 1969) – 3:56
* "Legend of a Mind" (Thomas) (from In Search of the Lost Chord) – 6:37

### Side Two

* "In the Beginning" (Edge) (from On the Threshold of a Dream) – 2:06
* "Lovely to See You" (Hayward) (from On the Threshold of a Dream) – 2:35
* "Never Comes the Day" (Hayward) (from On the Threshold of a Dream) – 4:39
* "Isn't Life Strange" (Edited version) (Lodge) (from Seventh Sojourn, 1972) – 5:32
* "The Dream" (Edge) (from On the Threshold of a Dream) – 0:52
* "Have You Heard? (Part 1)" (Mike Pinder) (from On the Threshold of a Dream) – 1:23
* "The Voyage" (Pinder) (from On the Threshold of a Dream) – 4:08
* "Have You Heard? (Part 2)" (Pinder) (from On the Threshold of a Dream) – 2:08

### Side Three

* "Ride My See-Saw" (Lodge) (from In Search of the Lost Chord) – 3:32
* "Tuesday Afternoon" (Hayward) (from Days of Future Passed, 1967) – 4:04
* "And the Tide Rushes In" (Thomas) (from A Question of Balance) – 2:54
* "New Horizons" (Hayward) (from Seventh Sojourn) – 5:06
* "A Simple Game" (Pinder) (B-side to UK "Ride My See-Saw" single, 1968) – 3:18
* "Watching and Waiting" (Hayward, Thomas) (from To Our Children's Children's Children) – 4:21

### Side Four

* "I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band)" (Lodge) (from Seventh Sojourn) – 4:11
* "For My Lady" (Thomas) (from Seventh Sojourn) – 3:54
* "The Story in Your Eyes" (Hayward) (from Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, 1971) – 2:45
* "Melancholy Man" (Pinder) (from A Question of Balance) – 5:05
* "Nights in White Satin" (Hayward) (from Days of Future Passed) – 4:33
* "Late Lament" (Edge, Peter Knight) (from Days of Future Passed) – 2:33

## Charts

| Chart (1974–1975) | Peak position |
| Canada Top Albums/CDs (RPM) | 2 |
| New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) | 22 |
| UK Albums (OCC) | 14 |
| US Billboard 200 | 11 |

## Certifications

| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
| Canada (Music Canada) | Platinum | 100,000$^^$ |
| United Kingdom (BPI) | Gold | 100,000$^^$ |
| United States (RIAA) | Gold | 500,000$^^$ |
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