Tuneful Tuesday: The Actor by The Moody Blues

Welcome back to Tuneful Tuesday! Last time I shared a song with you from my first favorite band, The Seekers. Today, I’ll share a song from another band I fell in love with: The Moody Blues.

The Moody Blues started out as a rhythm-and-blues band, but they only really had one hit as such, and after a couple years and some personnel changes, they changed their vibe pretty dramatically. They have the distinction of releasing one of the first commercially successful concept albums (as far as I know, anyway), Days of Future Passed, and are (depending somewhat on your definition) one of the first progressive rock bands.

The Moody Blues have some really beautiful music and lyrics. They’re one of the few bands where you can take their lyrics (for some of their songs, anyway) and recite it as poetry, and it still sounds good. Take this, for example:

“Between the silence of the mountains

And the crashing of the sea

There lies a land I once lived in,

And she’s waiting there for me.

But in the grey of the morning

My mind becomes confused

Between the dead and the sleeping

And the road that I must choose.”

See what I mean? It’s beautiful. Some of their songs also have this very cool quality of seeming to transport you to a different world- it’s hard to describe, but it’s cool. (Good books can do it too.) The song I’m sharing does that for me; I hope you enjoy it, too.