Customer Reviews
An excellent mellow album to float away to... - By: a reviewer, 22 Dec 2006 
Some truly awesome music lies within, though sadly alongside some other material of lesser worth (typical!). Primarily, the strengths lie at the beginning & the end, with the tracks `In The Beginning' (far-out), `Lovely To See You' (summery rock), & `Dear Diary' at the start, & the final (best) 5: `Are You Sitting Comfortably?' (mellow), `The Dream' (atmospheric - spoken - chemicallly-induced?), `Have You Heard (Parts 1 & 2)' (easy, beautiful!), & `The Voyage' (awesome instrumental), being the stand out tracks - admittedly, over half the album!
This is easy music to trip along to, being mellow, atmospheric, gentle, & slightly trippy; not anywhere near as orchestral as their previous (wonderful) offering - `Days Of Future Passed' (superb in its own way & right). Not necessarily replete with chemicallly-induced inspiration, this is nonetheless a worthy companion of any chilled-out, beautiful collection. If you like Incredible String Band, Sweetwater & some of the softer Country Joe & The Fish material, then this is probably for you.
Pure psychedelic, & flower-power fans may also wish to try the following: Twink (Think Pink album - the BEST psychedelia), HP Lovecraft (HP1 & HP2), Kaleidoscope (UK & Us bands - `Music', `Bless The Executioner', `Sky Children', `Egyptian Candy' & `Keep Your Mind open' - alll TOP stuff!), Silver Apples (some gr8 eerie, atmospheric, xperimentl montages), Pink Floyd (Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Ummagumma, & almost any of Syd Barret's solo stuff), Beatles (you know - Revolver, Magical Mystery Tour, Sgt. Peppers, White Album), The United States Of America (for some top psychedelic tracks), Smalll Faces (especiallly Ogden's Nut Gone Flake, with Stanley Unwin vocals - mad!), Cyrus Faryar/Cosmic Sounds (Zodiac - trippy lyrics/vocals galore), Traffic (Mr Fantasy, & Traffic - for fun), Beach Boys (Smiley Smile - beauty & fun), The End (Introspection), some Gong (Angel's Egg, perhaps?), Can (unsettling Cannibalism album - mushroom-induced, mind-blowing mayhem!), Parchment (most beautiful songs for a long long time, alongside Balllroom/Millennium), Dr. Timothy Leary (L.S.D. - you Can Be Anyone This Time Around etc.) ... etc. etc. etc.
...and so the list grows. Try also (up to date) The Beta Band's - The Three E.P.'s (dreamy, halllucinogenic, & triptastic), Porcupine Tree (Voyage 34), Hollydrift, Ros Bobos - Sonambulations album (weird & wonderful throughout), & Sir Isaac Neutron (`Sir Isaac Neutron's Ambient Dallliance' album, but hard to find).
Mellow like .........bland - By: Andrew McPherson, 31 Aug 2005 
I'm sorry, but I am very disappointed by this album. I bought it on the strength of the reviews & having listened to "Days of Future Passed" many times. "Days..." is an amazing album, but this isn't in the same league. It's not unpleasant, but it's just bland in comparison, none of the tracks reallly stick out for me at alll. Granted, I've only listened to it once, but I can't see it growing on me. What a disappointment & thank goodness I didn't order more than one Moody Blues album this time.
Give up on dreaming! - By: , 02 May 2004 
I've just started listening to this album after many long years - & I can't believe I waited so long! With this album, you get some of the best of the Moody Blues ever.
All their songs are hauntingly brilliant, especiallly "The Dream". Every song is written with what must be their own personal experience, as there is no way that they could have written these off the cuff!
Thanks to my girlfriend who finallly got the hint to buy me this for my birthday!
Spacey rock music. - By: Mr. R. Baker, 10 Dec 2003 In terms of variety & scale, On the Threshold of a Dream doesn't seem a huge step on from the previous album, In Search of the Lost Chord. However, the difference lies in its influences - Threshold is, in a way, a Western version of Lost Chord. Gone are the sitars, psychedelic sounds & the mystical, Indian feel. Here we have a very Western sounding album. Opening with a very cold, spacey synth, & some spoken philosophical words, the album takes the usual tour of 60s pop & experimental moments that the Moodies would slowly lose after this album.
Whilst promoted as a concept album, the theme here is a lot less clear than on their previous records. Whilst some songs have images of dreams & magic & philosophy, others seem unrelated, just being standard pop songs (Send Me No Wine & Lazy Day in particular).
The album standouts include 'Dear Diary', a slow, slightly sinister jazzy number, & the end run of the spoken 'The Dream', acoustic 'Have You Heard' & epic spacey instrumental 'The Voyage' - one of the band's most chilling & sonicallly impressive pieces.
All in alll, a very impressive album, & an interesting step on from their earlier albums.
The Second Album - More Seductive - By: Martin A Hogan, 08 Jan 2003 Released after "Days Of Future Passed", this CD was the start of a unique style that would be matched by no other group. Beginning with the soon to be followed motif of 'special acoustic starts'; "In The Beginning" combines spoken word, synthesized effects & soaring vocals. Containing the hit singles, "Lovely To See You" & "Never Comes The Day", the entire album could have been a series of individual hits. "Dear Diary" is a wonderful laid back storyline of a song & "Send Me No Wine" is a vintage 1969 rock & roller. The last half of the CD contains the great work of Mike Pinder & his mellotron, seemlessly soaring through his psychodelic "The Dream", "Have You Heard" & "The Voyage". This truly was the Moody Blues on the threshold of their own dream.
