My Musical Evolution – Part 289 Roach Days Revisited Isn’t Life Strange

During The Scratchy 45 Days, The Moody Blues was synonymous with Nights In White Satin In The Academy Days, that expanded to include The Voice. The notion of Won’t you take me back to school was something I occasionally dreamt about but aprt from that, I really didn’t know much about The Moody Blues. Oh except that middle school joke about the radio station WPMS where they play three weeks of Moody Blues and one week of Ragtime.

You can imagine how cool it was to find a Compact Disc that had both Nights In White Satin and The Voice on it. This was still a couple decades before the download a single song age [a practice that I do not condone] so in order to get that one song from The Scratchy 45 Days, I had to find it on an album somehow. I freely admit that this method makes the project more expensive but the benefit is the bonus acquisition of stuff that the you didn’t know you were missing.

That was especially true in the case of Voices In The Sky. It is a Best Of compilation ad as susch there are numerous tracks here that support that claim. Some of them were familiar some that became my favorites, I had not heard before.

Isn’t Life Strange is one of those that I had never heard before but it reached me. It strikes me as oddly interestesting that even as a young man I was somehow aware of the passage of time and the cycle of the years as they related to a lifetime and the generations before and those to follow. Isn’t Life Strange is a song that tapped into that emotion in some way. I made video for that song using old home movie footage from my Grandparents that was taken in the 1950’s it seemed to go along with it.

The rest of the album delivers as well and here again as with America, the pursuit of a single song has a ripple effect through My Musical Evolution and I would become a fan of The Moody Blues during The Roach Days. It makes me wonder if this would have happened if the Compact Disc did NOT impress me they way that it did. It also underscores the connected nature of My Musical Evolution and how things that might have seemed insignificant way back then were anything but. That is why I feel compelled to drop as much stuff in these posts as possible because we never know when that moment of inspiration will germinate or which spark will develop into flame.

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