Every Good Boy Deserves Favour Music

ARTIST:	Moody Blues
CATEGORY:	Music
MANUFACTURER:	Polygram Records
FEATURES:	Original recording remastered
MEDIA:	Audio CD
TRACKS:	Procession, The Story In Your Eyes, Our Guessing Game, Emily's Song, After You Came, One More Time To Live, Nice To Be Here, You Can Never Go Home, My Song
UPC:	042284477222

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Every Good Boy Deserves Favour reviews by customers

The only song on this album that is not a masterpiece is "Nice to Be Here," a corny little tune by Ray Thomas (who should record a children's album.) But it's still very listenable and for that reason it doesn't detract from the album.

The introductory track, "Procession," is a highly experimental instrumental, written by all 5 band members, that features Graeme Edge playing with his new electric drum set and the rest of the band playing around with music from different periods of history (kind of like they did in "House of 4 Doors", though very different). "Procession" segueways into the rocking hit "Story in Your Eyes." Then we get the provocative "Our Guessing Game," the unabashedly touching "Emily's Song" and another rocker, "After We Came," in which all 4 Moody singers alternate on vocals. Then comes the album's cornerstone, the John Lodge epic "One More Time to Live," one of the most powerful songs in the Moodies' catalogue. It rivertingly tells the story of the history of the human race, from creation to modern times, and is inseparably linked with "Procession." After "Nice to Be Here," we get "You Can Never Come Home Again," a great ballad despite its redundancy, and the introspective and haunting "My Song."

Like the rest of the "Core-7" (the Moodies' 1st 7 albums) this album is a shining jewel in any music collection. It does what Moodies music does best: it speaks to your soul.

The Moodies continue to come back to Earth after the mystics
1970's A QUESTION OF BALANCE saw the Moody Blues begin to move away from their meditational themes towards something a bit more earthbound. It was a slow journey home, but BALANCE became the Moodies' most successful album since DAYS OF FUTURE PASSED (1967), so they continued returning to real life with 1971's EVERY GOOD BOY DESERVES FAVOUR. Of course, things don't start out too normally with "Procession", which is more like a soundscape than a real song. The sound effects can be kind of annoying at times & the "lyrics" (if you can call them that), are very rudimentary at best. But things pick up after that with the driving "The Story In Your Eyes", which was another top 40 hit for the Moodies. While Justin Hayward may have been the biggest proponent of the band's orchestral sound with songs to match, "The Story In Your Eyes" proves that he still creates a good rock tune with the best of them & the song surely is alternately beautiful & grooving. "Our Guessing Game" brings the Moodies back to ballad territory with what could be their version of a love song, albeit one that's intellectual & rises above the worn-out sentiments of "love you, can't live without you" of ordinary love songs. "Emily's Song" is another beautiful tune written by John Lodge for his new daughter, but it could also be a song about a grown woman as well & that truly makes the song a successful one. "After You Came" & "One More Time To Live" are songs that once again ponder the reasons why life can be so hard on us at times, both by society & ourselves. "You Can Never Go Home" & the closing "My Song" continue that feeling, but it's broken halfway by another patented precious & punchy song that the Moodies specialized in at the time. "Nice To Be Here" could work both as a children's song & a childlike folk song coming from either Syd Barrett, cat Stevens or Donovan. For the Moodies, it nearly borders on the cutesy, but it's still a likeable song in every aspect. Other than that, EVERY GOOD BOY DESERVES FAVOUR is really one of the Moody Blues' darkest & cerebral albums. Even with heavy emotions, it still was a sign of the Moodies becoming a bit more commercial after a few years of becoming lost in their mystical experiments. Their next album would finally bring the Moody Blues to the top of the heap, if only for a short while.

Every Good Moodies Fan Deserves This Album
Album #6 for the Moody Blues, 1971's "Every Good Boy Deserves Favour," is a very beautiful album that features some of the Moodies' spaciest sounding music ever. The opening track, "Procession," is one of the band's most progressive-sounding tracks, complete with UFO sounds, jungle & rain sound effects, chanting, grunting, and the *very first* recorded use of an electronic drumkit (courtesy of drummer Graeme Edge). Guitarist Justin Hayward's "The Story In Your Eyes" is one of the band's most-popular rockers (and they still perform it in concert to this day). This is followed by two lovely songs in the form of flautist Ray Thomas' "Our Guessing Game," and bassist John Lodge's lullaby for his young daughter, "Emily's Song." Graeme Edge's "After You Came" is another fine Moodies rocker, and one of the best songs Edge ever wrote for the group (including a terrific performance on drums, too). Lodge's "One More Time To Live," with it's partial reprise of "Procession," is a very majestic number. Thomas' "Nice To Be Here" is the most lighthearted song on the album---it's practically a children's song---but it's very, very charming. Hayward's "You Can Never Go Home" is a truly gorgeous song, and, finally, there's keyboardist Mike Pinder's "My Song," a very dramatic, haunting piece.The only reason I'm not giving "Every Good Boy" a perfect 5-star rating is because the Moodies lean a little too much on the softer, ballady side with this one, as wonderful as the ballads are. The album really only has two genuine rockers on it---"The Story In Your Eyes" and "After You Came." One or two more rockers would've certainly given the album a better-sounding balance with it's material. Nonetheless, "Every Good Boy Deserves Favour" is still a very lovely, exquisite, classic Moody Blues album. Every good Moodies fan deserves to own it!

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