Artist: THE MOODY BLUES
Album: TO OUR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN'S CHILDREN REMASTERED (CD)

Release date: 1969/ 2008
Media type: CD

To Our Children's Children's Children is an album by The Moody Blues, first issued in late 1969. It was the first album released on the group's newly formed Threshold Records label, which was named after the band's previous album from the same year, On the Threshold of a Dream.

It is the fourth of what are popularly considered the group's "core seven" albums from 1967-72, and as such represents the peak of their career to some. While the song chosen for the single, "Watching and Waiting," by itself was not a major hit, taken as a whole the album is remarkably balanced, featuring strong songwriting contributions from all five band members.

It was inspired by the 1969 moon landing, and the songs center around the twin themes of space travel and children, with minor-key tonalities and a distinct psychedelic influence.

To Our Children's Children's Children was critically well-received and sold well, reaching #2 in the UK and #14 in the US. The band found most of the songs impossible to perform live, due to extremely lush orchestrations and a great deal of overdubbing. The only songs from the album that were performed live were "Higher and Higher," "Gypsy" and, to a limited extent, "Candle of Life." 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.

In 2008 a remaster for single standard audio CD was issued with the five bonus tracks.

TRACKLIST:

1."Higher and Higher" (Graeme Edge) – 4:11
2."Eyes of a Child I" (John Lodge) – 3:34
3."Floating" (Ray Thomas) – 3:02
4."Eyes of a Child II" (Lodge) – 1:20
5."I Never Thought I'd Live to be a Hundred" (Justin Hayward) – 1:06
6."Beyond" (Edge) – 3:00
7."Out and In" (Mike Pinder, Lodge) – 3:44

8."Gypsy (Of a Strange and Distant Time)" (Hayward) – 3:35
9."Eternity Road" (Thomas) – 4:17
10."Candle of Life" (Lodge) – 4:19
11. “Sun is Still Shining" (Pinder) – 3:35
12."I Never Thought I'd Live to be a Million (Hayward) – 0:34
13."Watching and Waiting" (Hayward, Thomas) – 4:17

2008 CD Remaster Tracks:

14."Gypsy" (Alternate Version) (Hayward) - 4:16
15."Candle of Life" (Alternate Version) (Lodge) - 4:55
16."Sun Is Still Shining" (Extended Version) (Pinder) - 4:03
17."Have You Heard Pt. 1/The Voyage/Have You Heard Pt. 2" (BBC radio concert 17 December 1969) (Pinder) - 5:36
18."Legend of a Mind" (BBC radio concert 17 December 1969) (Thomas) - 4:33

LINE-UP:

Justin Hayward – vocals, guitar, sitar
John Lodge – vocals, bass
Ray Thomas – vocals, flute, tambourine
Graeme Edge – drums, percussion
Mike Pinder – vocals, Mellotron, organ