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〕 | rev2 = ''Rolling Stone'' (1968) | rev2Score = mixed | rev3 = ''Rolling Stone'' (2007) | rev3Score = favorable | rev4 = ''Spin'' | rev4Score = favorable | rev5 = Sputnikmusic | rev5Score = 5/5 | rev6 = ''Uncut'' | rev6Score = | rev7 = Yahoo! Music | rev7Score = favorable }} ''Days of Future Passed'' is the second album and first concept album by English rock band The Moody Blues, released in November 1967 by Deram Records.〔 After two years performing as a struggling white R&B band, The Moody Blues were asked by their record label in September 1967 to record an adaptation of Antonín Dvořák's ''Symphony No. 9'' as a stereo demonstration record.〔 Instead, the band chose to record an orchestral song cycle about a typical working day.〔 Recording sessions for the album took place at Decca Studios in West Hampstead, London during 9 May – 3 November 1967.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed CD Album )〕 The band worked with record producer Tony Clarke, engineer Derek Varnals, and conductor Peter Knight.〔 The album's music features psychedelic rockers,〔 ballads by singer-songwriter and guitarist Justin Hayward, Mellotron played by keyboardist Mike Pinder,〔 and orchestral accompaniment by the London Festival Orchestra.〔 Music writers cite the album as a precursor to progressive rock music.〔〔〔''Classic Rock'', July 2010, Issue 146.〕 Bill Holdship of Yahoo! Music remarks that the band "created an entire genre here."〔 David Fricke cites it as one of the essential albums of 1967 and finds it "closer to high-art pomp than psychedelia. But there is a sharp pop discretion to the writing and a trippy romanticism in the mirroring effect of the strings and Mike Pinder's Mellotron."〔 Will Hermes cites the album as an essential progressive rock record and views that its use of the Mellotron, a tape replay keyboard, made it a "signature" element of the genre.〔 An influential work of the counterculture period,〔Macan, Edward. (1996).''Rocking the Classics : English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture''. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195098889.〕 Allmusic editor Bruce Eder calls the album "one of the defining documents of the blossoming psychedelic era, and one of the most enduringly popular albums of its era."〔 == Background == Members of the group have claimed that originally, the Moodies' British label, Decca Records, had wanted them to record an album based on Dvořák's ''New World Symphony'' for the newly formed Deram Records division in order to demonstrate their latest recording techniques, which were named "Deramic Sound." Instead, the band (initially without the label's knowledge) decided to focus on an album based on an original stage show that they'd been working on. However, Decca recording engineer Derek Varnals disputes this story, claiming that even at the start of the sessions in 1967 there was no intent to record a Dvořák album and that talk of this project did not emerge until the mid-1970s.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sound On Sound (Classic Tracks: The Moody Blues "Nights In White Satin") )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Days of Future Passed」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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