Long Distance Voyager (studio album)
by The Moody Blues

Long Distance Voyager by The Moody Blues
Year: 1981
Overall rank: 4,660th   
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 80 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1981 (81st)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (685th)
Award Best albums of all time (4,660th)

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The Moody Blues bestography

Long Distance Voyager is ranked 6th best out of 29 albums by The Moody Blues on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The Moody Blues is Days Of Future Passed which is ranked number 349 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 4,900.

The Moody Blues album bestography « Higher ranked (3,699th)
Seventh Sojourn
This album (4,660th)
Long Distance Voyager
Lower ranked (5,850th) »
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

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Long Distance Voyager track list

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Long Distance Voyager rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 4,660th | 1980s rank: 685th | 1981 rank: 81st

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Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 80 votes)
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06/02/2024 20:23 tim0505   4,34182/100

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This album is rated in the top 15% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.3/100, a mean average of 74.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.4.

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75/100
From 08/31/2025 17:30 | #310771
I hadn’t listened to this album in a long time. It holds up well.
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85/100
From 02/10/2022 16:59 | #281079
Days Of The Future Passed fue un álbum precursor del rock progresivo. Los álbumes siguientes, hasta finales de los 70, forman la etapa clásica de los Moody Blues. Sin embargo, mi trabajo favorito de esta banda es esta maravilla de 1981.
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From 01/06/2022 17:01 | #278762
Aunque no se suele considerar entre los mejores, este es mi disco favorito de lso Moody Blues.
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From 09/14/2019 19:27 | #242612
Great early eighties album by the Moody Blues where they are kind of, just hanging on to prog but also embracing the more 'radio friendly' soft rock approach. Despite the loss of Mike Pinder, oh master of the Mellotron, the keyboard corner still brings forth many layers of sound that blend seamlessly into the soundscape.
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From 04/14/2019 12:01 | #234952
I reckon it's almost as good as the albums of the '67-'72 period. I felt "Gemini Dream" was an attempt to sound like ELO, who's popularity also persisted into the '80s. "The Voice" sounds like them modernized, without sounding too much like any particular new wave band. I thought when they did "Your Wildest Dreams", they went a bit soft though that album does also have the impressive "Rock 'n Roll Over You", used in Karate Kid II.
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85/100
From 07/09/2018 04:22 | #217950
Nice come-back effort. "The Voice" is as a good a song as they've ever recorded.
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95/100
From 10/28/2016 15:03 | #177635
Despite the loss of keyboardist Mike Pinder, this album proved to be the big Moodies comeback album that 1978's Octave failed to be. It has an updated sound, but loses none of the Moodies' creativity and it stands well alongside the group's earlier classic seven.
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Best Albums of 1981
1. Moving Pictures by Rush
2. Computerwelt by Kraftwerk
3. Discipline by King Crimson
4. Juju by Siouxsie And The Banshees
5. My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts by Brian Eno & David Byrne
6. Time by Electric Light Orchestra
7. Faith by The Cure
8. Dare by The Human League
9. Damaged by Black Flag
10. Deceit by This Heat
11. Youth Of America by Wipers
12. Tattoo You by The Rolling Stones
13. Fire Of Love by The Gun Club
14. Ghost In The Machine by The Police
15. The Ascension by Glenn Branca
16. Heaven Up Here by Echo & The Bunnymen
17. Face Value by Phil Collins
18. Killers by Iron Maiden
19. Movement by New Order
20. Nightclubbing by Grace Jones
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