20th Century Masters: The Best of The Moody Blues

Rock survivors the Moody Blues take to the music video form with enough verve and cleverness to offset a few uninspired moments. The five videos here begin with an overlapping narrative between "Your Wildest Dreams" and "I Know You're Out There Somewhere." The former begins with a smartly dressed yet unhappy woman watching the Moodies on television. In short order--via wonderfully staged flashbacks to Swinging London in the '60s--we learn she is a former love (at least for purposes of this story) of the band's lead singer and songwriter, Justin Hayward. Between the two tunes, the lady and Hayward chase one another through collapsed time, sometimes in the present, sometimes past (actors play their younger selves). After such an enterprising production, the pretentious "The Other Side of Life" video is a drag, "Running Out of Love" runs out of energy quickly, and "No More Lies" is barely redeemed by cute animation.

Tracklisting:
1. Your Wildest Dreams
2. I Know You're Out There Somewhere
3. The Other Side Of Life
4. Running Out Of Love
5. No More Lies