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Disc 1:

1. Fly Me High
2. Love and Beauty - The Moody Blues, Pinder, Michael
3. Cities
4. Tuesday Afternoon (Forever Afternoon)
5. Nights in White Satin
6. Ride My See-Saw - The Moody Blues, Lodge, John
7. Legend of a Mind - The Moody Blues, Thomas, Ray
8. House of Four Doors - The Moody Blues, Lodge, John
9. Voices in the Sky
10. The Best Way to Travel - The Moody Blues, Pinder, Michael
11. The Actor
12. In the Beginning - The Moody Blues, Edge, Graeme
13. Lovely to See You
14. Dear Diary - The Moody Blues, Thomas, Ray
15. Never Comes the Day
16. Are You Sitting Comfortably?
17. The Dream - The Moody Blues, Edge, Graeme
18. Have You Heard, Pt. 1 - The Moody Blues, Pinder, Michael
19. The Voyage - The Moody Blues, Pinder, Michael
20. Have You Heard, Pt. 2 - The Moody Blues, Pinder, Michael

Disc 2:

1. Higher and Higher - The Moody Blues, Edge, Graeme
2. Gypsy (Of a Strange and Distant Time)
3. Eyes of a Child - The Moody Blues, Lodge, John
4. Never Thought I'd Live to Be a Hundred
5. Beyond - The Moody Blues, Edge, Graeme
6. Out and In - The Moody Blues, Lodge, John
7. Candle of Life - The Moody Blues, Lodge, John
8. Never Thought I'd Live to Be a Hundred
9. Watching and Waiting
10. Question
11. Don't You Feel Small - The Moody Blues, Edge, Graeme
12. It's Up to You
13. Minstrel's Song - The Moody Blues, Lodge, John
14. Dawning Is the Day
15. Melancholy Man - The Moody Blues, Pinder, Michael
16. Procession - The Moody Blues, Edge, Graeme
17. The Story in Your Eyes
18. One More Time to Live - The Moody Blues, Lodge, John
19. You Can Never Go Home
20. My Song - The Moody Blues, Pinder, Michael

Disc 3:

1. Lost in a Lost World - The Moody Blues, Pinder, Michael
2. New Horizons
3. For My Lady - The Moody Blues, Thomas, Ray
4. Isn't Life Strange - The Moody Blues, Lodge, John
5. You and Me
6. I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock & Roll Band) - The Moody Blues, Lodge, John
7. This Morning
8. Remember Me, My Friend
9. My Brother
10. Saved by the Music - The Moody Blues, Lodge, John
11. I Dreamed Last Night
12. When You Wake Up
13. Blue Guitar
14. Steppin' in a Slide Zone - The Moody Blues, Lodge, John
15. Driftwood
16. The Day We Meet Again

Disc 4:

1. Forever Autumn - The Moody Blues, Wayne, Jeff [1]
2. The Voice
3. Talking Out of Turn - The Moody Blues, Lodge, John
4. Gemini Dream
5. Blue World
6. Sitting at the Wheel - The Moody Blues, Lodge, John
7. Running Water
8. Your Wildest Dreams
9. The Other Side of Life
10. I Know You're Out There Somewhere
11. No More Lies
12. Say It With Love
13. Bless the Wings (That Bring You Back)
14. Lean on Me (Tonight) - The Moody Blues, Lodge, John
15. Highway

Rating: - moody blues comeback
truly a trip back in time for me. I haven't heard some of this music in a very long time. And, may i say, this music stands the test of time. I highly recommend this collection for any fan of the Moodys.

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Rating: - The best way to travel
This box set is ideal for those who:
- Love the Moody Blues;
- do not think all the past material was equally strong;
- love Justin Hayward;
- like John Lodge occasionally
- don't give much for the Pinder/Thomas/Edge tunes;
- move to a smaller house and feel the need to compress the CD collection.
Also, it's a nice package job (unfortunately not done by Pat Travers, that would have been something) with a colourful booklet included. What more could you want?

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Rating: - Made a fan of me
I'd had a couple of the original Moody Blues albums as a teenager so I had a good notion that this box set would be enjoyable but I didn't dream that it would be as solid and consistent as it is. You could dub this entire history to your portable mp3 player, or at least the bulk of the set which covers the original albums that made the Moody Blues' reputations.

Up through the last song from "Seventh Sojourn" the entire thing is spotless. The remainder of the set could be consolidated to round out the third disk. The weak part? From disk 3 track 8 up until their revival with "In Your Wildest Dreams" the only keeper for me was "Stepping In A Slide Zone". But from "Wildest Dreams" through the end of the set the band sets new heights with song after song.

Is this the only Moody Blues set a person needs? For my money the classic album "Days of Future Passed" got shortchanged, represented by only the two hit singles. Unlike previous compilations however, both songs are here in their entirety rather than in edited single versions. "Cities", the b-side of "Nights in White Satin", dovetails perfectly with this collection and fills the role of lost gem quite nicely. The spoken introduction to the next album isn't named in the tracklisting but it's incorporated as one track with "Ride My Seesaw".

Album after album, songs are well-chosen, discreetly leaving the occasional number that sounds dated to history, emphasizing the timeless quality of the vast majority of the Moody Blues' music. When presented as a whole these albums seem to have a narrative, building to a climax in "Seventh Sojourn" that the band simply couldn't trump.

If you get the five disk version of this box set you'll find that the concert performances are pleasant but you don't need the Tin Pan Alley nouveau "This is the Moment". Disk five is nice but not essential so if it's out of print I'd strongly recommend the four disk version.

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Rating: - A Moodies time capsule
This is one exceptional, yet at times frustrating, boxed set with terrific sound and liner notes. The first two discs cover all except one LP from the "Core Seven" - basically the first seven LPs the Lodge/Hayward era Moodies released. These two discs are simply outstanding and capture almost every worthy track from these LPs. The sequencing is excellent and the tracks still flow as well as they did on the original LPs. One puzzling exception is their first LP, the classic Days of Future Passed, which is only represented by "Nights in White Satin" and "Tuesday Afternoon" - there are certainly other worthy tracks on that effort so I can only assume that when they selected the tracks they figured that every Moodies fan will want the entire "Days" CD anyway. Again most of the essential tracks are here with just a few exceptions.

Disc 3 is a bit more problematic: It starts off very well indeed with six of the eight tracks from "Seventh Sojourn" but then we get detoured with no less than six numbers from the Hayward/Lodge venture "The Blue Jays". The tracks aren't bad, some are quite good, but this is supposed to be a Moody Blues set, right? And we're not given any tracks from the solo efforts of Thomas, Edge, or Pinder. Then we get the "Justin-fronts-10cc" track "Blue Guitar" which is also very good but musically sounds more like a 10cc number than anything the Moodies ever produced. Then we're back into Moodies territory with three tracks from uneven "Octave" - two strong tracks "Steppin' in a Slide Zone" and "Driftwood", but I would have so preferred that they dropped "The Day We Meet Again" and replaced it with the beautiful "Had to Fall In Love" or energetic "I'll Be Level".

Disc 4, after another Hayward track, gets back on track with the rest of the Moodies catalog from "Long Distance Voyager" up through "Keys to the Kingdom" (possibly their weakest LP). "Long Distance Voyager" is considered by many the Moodies first and best LP from the 2nd phase of their career and it is excellent. So why we only get three songs from it is beyond me. Certainly Hayward's "Meanwhile" and Edge's "22,000 Days" would have made nice additions and, again, I would have preferred them over some of the tracks from "Blue Jays". "Other Side of Life", "The Present", "Sur La Mer", and "Keys to the Kingdom" are nicely represented with two or three tracks each from what were uneven albums (although "Want to Be With You" and "Deep" from Sur La Mer are both pretty strong). But since it's only the best tracks from these later efforts it's a consistently strong sampler of the more contemporary catalog.

So three and a half excellent discs of Moodies music which does a fine job at presenting the early catalog in depth and the post 1980 "hits". I do recommend supplementing with:
1: "Days of Future Passed"
2: "Long Distance Voyager" and
3: 1999s excellent "Strange Times" which sees a return to an earlier guitar based sound with some excellent compositions from Lodge and Hayward.

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Rating: - New fans: Get it NOW!
For new or casual fans of the MB's (who, like myself, don't own every album they ever recorded), this set is a wonderful introduction to this awesome band. A lot of people not too familiar with the Moodies just assume the group was Justin Hayward (Nights In White Satin) and four more guys. Well, this collection will introduce you to the talents of John Lodge (incredible bassist, driving rock numbers, vocals and songwriting), Graeme Edge (one of rocks most overlooked drummers), Ray Thomas (great baritone voice, songwriter, and superb flutist), and Mike Pinder(sublime singer, piano, organ and king of the Mellotron).

This talented group are truly rock pioneers and THE most underrated band of all time. I would urge anyone who is interested in discovering the Moody Blues to get 'Time Traveller'. You will fall in love with these exquisitely talented men just as I and millions of other fans have.