Editing Days of Future Passed (section)

==Reception==
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web |last=Eder |first=Bruce |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r13367|pure_url=yes}} |title=allmusic ((( Days of Future Passed > Overview ))) |publisher=[[AllMusic]]. [[Rovi Corporation]] |access-date=2009-10-11}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''The Music Box''
| rev2score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.musicbox-online.com/mb-days.html#axzz5cWVBmcPT |title=Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed (Surround Sound Album Review) |last=Metzger |first=John |website=Music Box Magazine |access-date=2019-01-13}}</ref>
| rev3 = [[PopMatters]]
| rev3score = 9/10<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.popmatters.com/feature/the-moody-blues-days-of-future-passed/ |title=The Moody Blues: ''Days of Future Passed'' <nowiki>|</nowiki> PopMatters |last=Sawdey |first=Evan |date=23 October 2008 |website=[[PopMatters]] |access-date=12 June 2016}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' (1968)
| rev4score = (mixed)<ref name="Miller">{{cite magazine|last=Miller|first=Jim|date=7 December 1968|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/themoodyblues/albums/album/89937/review/6067584/days_of_future_passed|title=The Moody Blues: Days of Future Passed : Music Reviews|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|access-date=2012-07-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080606000854/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/themoodyblues/albums/album/89937/review/6067584/days_of_future_passed|archive-date=6 June 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''Rolling Stone'' (2007)
| rev5score = (favourable)<ref name="RS67">{{cite magazine|last1=Christgau|first1=Robert|author-link1=Robert Christgau|last2=Fricke|first2=David|author-link2=David Fricke|date=12 July 2007|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/rs/albums1967-07.php|title=The 40 Essential Albums of 1967|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|access-date=2012-07-30}}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]''
| rev6score = (favourable)<ref name="Hermes"/>
| rev7 = Sputnikmusic
| rev7score = 5/5<ref name="ss">{{cite web|author=SowingSeason|date=11 March 2011|url=https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/42321/The-Moody-Blues-Days-of-Future-Passed/|title=The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed (staff review)|website=Sputnikmusic|access-date=2012-07-29}}</ref>
| rev8 = ''[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]''
| rev8score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="uncut">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7680710&style=music&fulldesc=T|title=Review: Days of Future Passed|magazine=[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]|location=London|page=120|access-date=2012-07-29}}</ref>
| rev9 = [[Yahoo! Music]]
| rev9score = (favourable)<ref name="Holdship">{{cite web |last=Holdship |first=Bill |url=http://music.ca.launch.yahoo.com/read/review/12031589 |title=The Moody Blues Reviews |publisher=[[Yahoo! Music]]. [[Yahoo!]] |access-date=2012-07-29 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121216141626/http://music.ca.launch.yahoo.com/read/review/12031589 |archive-date=16 December 2012 |url-status=dead |df=dmy }}</ref>
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Upon its release, ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' gave the album an unenthusiastic review, writing "The Moody Blues [...] have matured considerably since '[[Go Now]]', but their music is constantly marred by one of the most startlingly saccharine conceptions of 'beauty' and 'mysticism' that any rock group has ever affected."<ref name="Miller"/> ''[[New York (magazine)|New York]]'' magazine dismissed it as "a ponderous mound of thought-jello."<ref name="Mojo Magazine 2019, pg. 43">Mojo Magazine, February 2019, pg. 43</ref> However, the album has since received acclaim; for example, ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]'' cited it as a classic of progressive rock.<ref name="Hermes"/> By 2007, ''Rolling Stone''  — which had originally described ''Days of Future Passed'' as "an English rock group strangling itself in conceptual goo"<ref name="Mojo Magazine 2019, pg. 43"/> — included it in its list of the essential albums of 1967.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/50-essential-albums-of-1967-198515/the-moody-blues-days-of-future-passed-199221/|title=50 Essential Albums of 1967|magazine=Rolling Stone|year=2007|access-date=4 September 2018}}</ref>

Music writers cite the album as an early example of [[progressive rock]] music.<ref name="ss"/><ref name="uncut"/><ref>''[[Classic Rock (magazine)|Classic Rock]]'', July 2010, Issue 146.</ref> Bill Holdship of [[Yahoo! Music]] remarks that the band "created an entire genre here."<ref name="Holdship"/> [[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."<ref name="RS67"/> [[Will Hermes]] cites the album as an essential progressive rock record and opines that its use of the Mellotron, a tape replay keyboard, made it a "signature" element of the genre.<ref name="Hermes">{{cite magazine|last=Hermes|first=Will|author-link=Will Hermes|date=January 2004|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6CTUGqnYjTwC&pg=PA48|title=Essential Prog Rock|magazine=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]|publisher=Vibe/Spin Ventures|page=48|volume=20|issue=1|access-date=2012-07-29}}</ref> An influential work of the [[counterculture of the 1960s|counterculture period]],<ref>Macan, Edward. (1996).''Rocking the Classics: English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture''. Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|0195098889}}.</ref> [[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".<ref name="allmusic"/>