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The Moody Blues: Days Of Future Passed (1967)

Let’s continue the trend with incredible album covers. I must have stared into David Anstey’s gorgeous collage of colors for hours as a child; Days of Future Passed was one of the few albums in my parent’s collection that was my mothers (the other was eponymous debut from Christopher Cross). But despite owning it I never actively played the music of The Moody Blues. I must have heard “Knights In White Satin” as a kid, probably on television and eschewed it for tunes that rocked harder. Once again proving you’re never too old, my fascination with progressive rock began leading me down peripheral branches, and that led to the particular chamber pop of the group, so here we are. Long story short: it was worth the rambling sojourn.

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(Un)Focused Definition Ep. 49: Better Late Than Never

By “late” I mean by a few hours…and also late is relative since I really have no deadlines other than the ones I impose on myself for this series. Usually I wake up early in the morning and do this but today I had to be a Dad and take my son all around town for various chores and Mother’s Day prep. And I have to leave again in another hour so why not make this one of those random, confusing “Here’s a bunch of stuff I either am working through or just decided to include” playlists?

Yeah…that’s what we’ll do.

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