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  2. I'm Your Captain (Closer to Home) - Wikipedia

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    "I'm Your Captain (Closer to Home)" is a 1970 song written by American musician Mark Farner and recorded by Grand Funk Railroad as the closing track to their 1970 album Closer to Home. Ten minutes in duration, it is the band's longest studio recording.

  3. Melancholy Man - Wikipedia

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    Pathos and woe spreads all over the place and I don't recommend listening to it after you've had a row with your loved one. [1] Fenton rated "Melancholy Man" as the Moody Blues' 13th greatest song, calling it "a gentle, mid-tempo ballad, featuring a prominent organ and a melodic electric guitar solo" and a "melancholic and soulful song." [3]

  4. Tuesday Afternoon - Wikipedia

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    Cash Box said that this "Stunning teen-aimed ballad picks up rhythmic punch in a development that winds up a throbbing with top forty appeal." [6]Classic Rock History critic Brian Kachejian rated it as the Moody Blues' greatest song, saying that "Justin Hayward’s beautiful lyrics and melody combined with John Lodges’ guitar work and Mike Pinder’s Mellotron presented Moody Blues fans with ...

  5. On the Threshold of a Dream - Wikipedia

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    On the Threshold of a Dream is the fourth album by the Moody Blues, released in April 1969 on the Deram label. The album reached the top of the album charts, the group's first No. 1 album in the UK. [1] According to guitarist Justin Hayward, "I think Threshold is the defining album for the Moody Blues. And it's the one in the '60's that you ...

  6. Seventh Sojourn - Wikipedia

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    Though it's overall the eighth Moody Blues album, Seventh Sojourn is the seventh album featuring this specific line-up of musicians. The first Moody Blues LP, The Magnificent Moodies, featured a substantially different line-up and sound when compared to the group's subsequent work.

  7. A Question of Balance - Wikipedia

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    Trying to wake people up from bad habits. Bad habits in my book are something that hurt other people, innocent people." [9] Hayward reflects on this songwriting process at the time: "A song is a song. There are specific Moody Blues songs that start in that quiet way.

  8. Gone to Earth (Barclay James Harvest album) - Wikipedia

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    "Poor Man's Moody Blues" was written after a journalist angered the band by referring to Barclay James Harvest as a "poor man's Moody Blues". [2] In response, guitarist John Lees wrote a song which sounded like the Moody Blues song "Nights in White Satin", but in fact was cleverly not the same - the words would not fit.

  9. Steppin' in a Slide Zone - Wikipedia

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    [5] Classic Rock critic Malcolm Dome rated it as the Moody Blues' 8th greatest song. [ 6 ] One of the most noticeable differences in the band's sound after this hiatus was that the Mellotron and Chamberlin (a similar instrument to the Mellotron) had been replaced with more widely used synthesizers , and "Steppin' in a Slide Zone" was the first ...