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In 1986 they enjoyed renewed success with their album The Other Side of Life and in particular with the track " Your Wildest Dreams " – a US Top 10 hit ( and No. 1 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary singles chart for two weeks ) which garnered a Billboard Video of the Year award after being frequently featured on MTV.

Newly hired producer Tony Visconti, and Barry Radman, a synth programmer formerly hired by Moraz, delivered a modern sound the Moodies had been after in order to remain competitive with their pop contemporaries.

The album's title song also charted in the US, at No. 58.

The renewed interest in the band ensured a younger audience from this point on, with many of their longtime followers remaining loyal despite a fair number of older fans finding the current albums of this period far more lightweight in content.

For example, John Lodge had gone from writing powerfully reflective mystical or humanitarian themed pieces such as " House of Four Doors ", " Candle of Life " and " One More Time To Live " to quirkier items such as " Here Comes The Weekend ", " Rock and Roll Over You " and " Love is On The Run ( From Me )", while Hayward's songs seemed less the deeper drama of numbers such as " The Actor ", " Dawning is the Day ", " You Can Never Go Home ", " The Land of Make Believe ", etc., to pleasant ( and more radio-friendly ) perennial far simpler songs about lost love and romance (" Your Wildest Dreams ", " No More Lies ", " I Know You're Out There Somewhere " etc .).

There were still some deeper songs being created by the band, however, (" The Voice ", " 22, 000 Days ", " The Other Side of Life ", " The Spirit ", " Deep ", etc.

) but the overall tone of the band had become noticeably a more lightweight commercialised one ; presumably this was with record company agreement to keep in accordance with the then prevailing times.

Significantly their live shows from this period included a good number of their eighties album tracks, however over time more of the " Core Seven " album era favourites would gradually begin to reappear in their playlist.