I have yet another Borders gift certificate, so I went wandering through there yesterday afternoon. I got to the CD racks and paused in front of the "Ms," thinking for some unexplained reason about The Moody Blues.
Now, back in the 1970s my beer-drinking buddies and I were absolutely enthralled by the Moodies; their seven albums beginning with Days of Future Passed and running through Seventh Sojourn were all in constant rotation on our turntables when Zeppelin wasn't. All of those records were conceived as "concept" albums; you had to listen to each of them as a whole or you really weren't getting the impact the band desired.
Given that, I was surprised to see that Borders had no boxed set of the records available. In fact, after looking at Amazon and at the Moodie's own website, there is no such boxed set. There are a bunch of CD compilations of songs from the albums, but nothing which really works to full effect, from what I can tell.
If I were the band, I'd be trying to persuade Polydor or Decca to present the entire set as a listening experience.
Posted by Linkmeister at January 6, 2010 09:57 AM | TrackBackIndeed! Maybe you can put your own compilation together from Amazon Marketplace. The Moodies were never fully appreciated by most people.
Posted by: Harry at January 6, 2010 11:19 AMAnother thing that would be compelling, from the distributors'/studios' point of view, is that older people actually pay for music. On CDs, I mean.
Posted by: Rob McMillin at January 6, 2010 11:42 AMWell, yeah, Rob, you're right. Even if you're a downloader you still burn copies, right? So the real business to be in may be manufacturer of media storage shelving.
Posted by: Linkmeister at January 6, 2010 12:10 PM