The Moody Blues: ‘To Our Childrens Childrens Children’ Deluxe Edition | Review | First Look
An unboxing and review of The Moody Blues deluxe edition of ‘To Our childrens childrens children’ – with a detailed comparison of the original mix and the new 2023 mix.
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@dizzypilots322
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 pm
My favorite Moodies album.
@rasmur1
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 pm
I looked at it on iTunes, but I get overwhelmed when there are two different versions of every song on an album.
@AJ-tp9bk
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 pm
When will I ever get my 5.1 sound system? Probably never. But I still bought this set.
@johncollins392
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 pm
Great album,great band!
@MarcoBadot-Paneels
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 pm
Never thought the Moody Blues were anything special… Overblown, pretentious, certainly nothing "magic" about them, as some of your viewers say… However, your video is interesting, and may, might, perhaps, mayhaps might inspire to give them a second listen someday. I invite you to listen to Focus or Golden Earring (from the Netherlands), the Wallace Collection (from Belgium), the Stranglers, Procol Harum, Vandergraaf Generator, etc. Much better.
@MACTRUQUE
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 pm
The most mysterious album ever made, and I doubt anyone will figure out why for many years (just like the meaning of the Beatles music, which they say is to be discovered by a future generation).
@fredschmidt100
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 pm
As a self proclaimed expert on the entire classic rock era (71yo), I have help TOCCC as the #1 album of all time, to me that is. A most, MOST ethereal quality which I have coined in my head 'cosmic psychedelic'' . .. . Question, what is Justin singing about at W&Waiting 'but where I come from I can't tell?'' & ;;here there's lots of doing etc '' ????? Something 'other worldly .. . .. . . The Moodies at there cohesive peak
@jean-philippeperetti8463
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 pm
To Our Childrens Childrens Children was my introduction to the Moody Blues, even though I had heard Nights In White Satin before. It is a masgterpiece. Period.
@andrewarthurmatthews6685
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 pm
I am often attracted to box sets but have no interest in all the included ephemera ; colour booklets , posters, tour programs etc.
Just want to listen to the music !
@andrewarthurmatthews6685
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 pm
New to your channel so decided to give it a go with this MB review.
I do wonder with all this high tech remastered music can be noticed by people like me with cheap and cheerful music systems?
@williamlangan5902
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 pm
I laughed when you said “Thundering Gypsy sounds like a porn movie!”
Your video makes me want to get it!
@tarkusnj3
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 pm
The 5.1 mix is terribly flawed. I fixed the LFE channel for the entire mix but Higher and Higher is just FUBAR. If you can't hear it, get your hearing checked. Why are voices and other instruments coming out of my subwoofer? Anyone else hear that? Rip the audio and check out the LFE channel…what a disgrace. I believe all the engineer had to work with were the quad tracks and the LFE and center channel were extracted from those files but anyone with a modicum of audio editing skills would have done a better job on the LFE. Oh yeah, the echo was probably added with audio editing software…And this is my favorite Moodies album and since I fixed what I could, it is now listenable.
@philipemery5503
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 pm
Wish I had that, muy LP. Collection of the Moody's destroyed in flood
@kentclark6420
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 pm
My favorite album of theirs. They were able to really get that child-like innocence, mixed with an almost Marry Poppins-type cosmic vibe.
@davidrauh8118
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 pm
I must admit it is my favorite of the Big 7. And everyone I know agrees. So right off the bat you say it's considered the weakest of the bunch. Don't know where that comes from, probably music critics who don't know squat.
@johngalt5411
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 pm
Lovely review. I'd love to see Blu-Jays get some love or at least a digital release of the quad mix.
@mikegarnerstories
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 pm
That "oboe" on Eyes of a Child is a bass flute.
@leolopez_0728
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 pm
I recently bought the Isle of Wight DVD, it is excellent. It is a mix of concert clips and interviews with band members (except Ray Thomas who had already died at the time the DVD was produced). Good sound and video quality considering the primitive time (1970) it was recorded.
@finlaycowan3681
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 pm
I guess the Moodies childrens childrens children will be getting born around now… I hope they like the gift left for them.
@astrosjer822
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 pm
Looks like this is just available in the US as a UK import. No domestic box set release.,
@karstenpost1477
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 pm
My copy has finally arrived. Magnificent box, lavish packaging, sweet sounds and a gorgeous booklet! I wish this item as much public as possible. Sadly, there are no advertisements to find. Seems like a hidden treasure to me ?!
@bobthebear1246
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 pm
This album took a while to grow on me, but for the past 40 years now it has been my favorite Moody Blues album, even just ahead of Seventh Sojourn which was previously my favorite. This album really needs to be played from beginning to end every time. Now that being said, I'm surprised you skipped over "Beyond." Although that was always my least favorite track, but still you did skip it over. Overall, of course, I really liked this video. I can talk about the Moodies all day.
@billmay7364
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 pm
Moody Blues Core 7 records.
Have Enjoyed them for years.
This Album ranks up there within the Classics.
Watching and Waiting is Beautiful .
Ray Thimas and Mike Pider brought the Dynamics to this Band.
They were not the same without them.
@karstenpost1477
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 pm
Just preordered my copy of the Moody Blues 4CD Deluxe Box Set. Thank you for your Information on this topic 👍🏻
@clevebaker8399
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 pm
There aren’t many bands that are on the same artistic level as the moodies.. the lp that went stratospheric!! Awesome stuff
@elfandetodo6787
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 pm
Alguien que lo suba a mp3 o flac
@Stroudtucson
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 pm
Thank you so much for reviewing and sharing this box set. Children's Children is such a magical album and I'm so pleased such a beautiful boxed set including the 1969 RAH concert has been produced now!
@petercena9497
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 pm
Nothing better than owning the Moodies core 7 albums.
This one is their best.
@FVD
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 pm
Good to see the Box format following in line with Lost Chord. Let's hope Days of Future Passed will eventually follow suit with a potential 60th Anniversary Edition where it would be lovely to hear that album in Dolby Atmos not to mention a new stereo mix if Stephen W. Tayler gets the chance. Looking forward to my copy of TOCCC in the meantime… 🙂
@rob-v1y
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 pm
Really wish I could afford this..or a proper system to play it on.
Used to manage a few records stores back in the 90's and grabbed every box set, remaster, gold disc released in the period.
Of course the tech was miles behind today's and to listen to them I would have to just plug them into my old tower PC….or the disc player in my truck.
…..but I did burn everything back in the early 2000's,,,and all of that is on sd's in my PC and truck.
Come to think of it, I doubt I could really hear much difference in fidelity because…to many concerts..too close to the stage.
Including a Moody concert back in the 90's with a full symphony backing.
One of the best shows ever.
@R01120
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 pm
Listening to this under heavy blotter LSD when it first came out was almost religious. Listening to it straight now evokes those feelings.
@jimled50jl49
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 pm
This was the 1st ever album on vinyl I ever got in my record collection for my 13th birthday. It's still my favourite album of all time today over 50 years later. I bought the vinyl again 10 years later after wearing out my copy, and then in 2006 I bought a 2 disc Deluxe Special Edition, remastered, which I believe is now unavailable….so this is …another Deluxe Edition ? Do I really need this ? … I see Live at the Royal Albert Hall is available separately, so I would guess this is a better option. I have an excellent sound system I bought in the 70's and never needed to change. They don't make these systems like that anymore .. built to last. My 2nd vinyl of this I bought in 1980 is still in perfect condition and the 2006 cd Deluxe is excellent. Nice review but another remix I don't think I need, and I have enough bonus tracks from the Deluxe cds I have.
@jasheton
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 pm
If you have already, forgive, but I’d love you to rank the albums from (2) great singer’s bands, Foreigner and Journey. I think I would enjoy your take on these.
@kaneinkansas
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 pm
"To Our Children's, Children's, Children" is simply the best concept album ever (the next best, in my mind is Al Stewart's Past, Present and Future, but totally different genre of music) and therefor, maybe the best album ever. Each song is more than good, and most are great. Also, the album has an alternating pace, hard rock, soft rock, tongue-in-cheek rock, hard rock again. I love "Out and In" its a new age version of the prodigal son parable. The album was inspired by the Moon landing. It is about what it means to be human in an advanced time with advanced technology and materialism. And the issue is, of course, what it means to be human in that context. And it comes down to dealing with loneliness. Here we are today in a deeply dystopic dysfunctional era, post covid dealing with the issues of isolation and overcomeing them. One thing they didn't anticipate was the concentration of wealth and power in the West, especially the United States, which began shortly afterwards, in 1972-3, which was a real inflection point that has damaged our society.
The concept of the concept album began with the Beatle's Sgt Pepper, but as Lennon said, setting aside the opening and the closing of the album with the album's concept, its just another Beatle's album with a collection of songs on it. The Moody Blues took the hand off of the concept album that very year, and so Day in the life goes to Life in a Day (Days of Future Passed). This is a figment of the 2nd half of the 1960s, and it culminates in 1969 in this album. Psychedelia closes shortly after 1972 with Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973). (My humble opinion).
@Ezoangelofdeath
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 pm
Thank you for doing this, my dad use to play Floating when I was a child, it brings a flood of memorys back hearing this album, and how much I miss my dad.
@syater
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 pm
In 1971 my very hip aunt counseled me that there were two albums I needed to listen to, one of which was To Our Children's Children's Children. I was 15 and she was maybe 26-27 and I'm still grateful she pointed me down that musical path I may have missed otherwise.
@brovold72
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 pm
If the stereo panning has been yanked from "Beyond" then this version is literally of zero interest to me. Would be like removing the panning from "On the Run".
@briangrigsby1842
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 pm
People always thought the Moodies had the answer. So they replied with 'I am just a singer in a Rock and Roll Band' and one of them said 'We just ask the questions in an appealing way. We do not claim to have the answers.'
@KillerBill1953
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 pm
After all these years it's still my favourite MB album, and one of my favourite albums of all those I love.
@onsenkuma1979
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 pm
In my opinion this was the best of a run of stellar albums that was hinted at with 'Days of Future Past' but actually started in full with 'In Search of The Lost Chord' and ended with 'Seventh Sojourn'. I'm still waiting for my copy from CDJapan…
@pmoran7971
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 pm
Not aa huge fan of this band, I liked a couple of their tracks, 'Ride my seesaw' stands out, plus the oddly titled song about Timothy Leary, yes he is really dead! there may be a couple more, but that is it!, however for me' I still enthuse and listen to Genesis, 'Cinema show' is a track I never tire of, but they made so many masterpieces! and then the Pop kicked in which was awful! but we still have Steve Hackett to keep the 'real' Genesis alive
@sallerterrer1285
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 pm
Fantastic sound… far ahead of its time.
@Yarin4ever
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 pm
Seems interesting, but really shouldn't cost more than 60-70$. When it will come to around 50, I might pull the trigger
@nickaustin8334
December 11, 2025 at 12:59 pm
My fave one of theirs. It's a whole vibe
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