5 Classic Albums

Brilliant value for money, sound is great

A good collection of Moody Blues albums at a great price, card sleeves to help cut costs, but CDs are very good.

All albums, which are numbers 3-7 of the post Denny Laine Moody Blues, arrived as expected. I must admit, I had some trepidation when I ordered, having read other reviewers complaining of mixed up discs. The five albums in this package showcase the MB's at their creative peak. I had previously only had MB compilation albums, so I was pleasantly surprised when listening to these full albums to find that all the group's members contributed songs and vocals. On the compilation albums, most tracks are Justin Hayward songs, as these were the most commercially successful, but from the albums the MBs emerge as a strong collective with low egos- one of the factors behind their longevity. The diversity of members' contributions stands out as a strength of the MBs. To get five of their classic albums for this price makes this a bargain.

Received order on time so pleased with that . As for the product itself ,I thought the sound reproduction was really poor ,considering all the technology that's available there should be no problem remastering music to a reasonable degree. Can't be bothered returning it for a refund because it will not be worth the expense .

Great present

O dear looks like 4 almost copies of chidren's children's children, this from amazon warehouse as new item. Will be sending back for replacement.Real shame as the original music is superbho humwatch this spaceTA DAAAA ! :) replacement box set 5cd's all different all absolutely brilliant excellent mixes clear and the music is still happy thoughtful hippy concerned fresh and interesting different musical abilities with differing instruments but so worth listening todon't buy second hand or old stock folks it seems the newer issues have sorted the quality control issuesAB FAB as the TV series declaresthanks to amazon for prompt refund on warehouse grumble and net day on new product

Having read the old reviews I was slightly concerned about what I would receive. In reality the discs are just what was advertised and for the price represent outstanding value.

Update- new pressings of this seem to have solved the problem and are all present and correct. I'd give the updated pressings 4 stars, but don't buy this second hand.I never really got into the Moody Blues back in the 70s and this collection looked to be an opportunity to catch up. So I slapped On the Threshold of a Dream into he CD player and gave it a listen. It was OK, some nice mellotron which is always welcome. The songs seemed to change mid tracklisting and the album ended rather abruptly, but that's how they did things in the 70s. I then put To Our Children's Children's Children on. Hang on I thought, that sounds familiar. So it should - it was the same album, although this time the tracks changed at the right time and since the CD is a couple of minutes longer then the first one everything ended at the right time.Someone of dubious competence has put the music for To Our Children's Children's Children on both albums. Checking through the other CDs it's actually worse than that. A Question of Balance and Seventh Sojourn also contain the music for To Our Children's Children's Children, although Every Good Boy deserves favour seems to be the right album. 2 classic albums and 3 curiosities would be a better title for this.So if you already have these albums and are a collector of curiosities then by all means buy it. Otherwise avoid.