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The Moody Blues appreciation thread
« on: June 24, 2010, 01:17:04 PM »
I saw them last week on the opening date of their tour, so in preparation, I listened to In Search of the Lost Chord and A Question of Balance.  I had completely forgotten how great this band is.  Since the show, I've been listening to TMB a lot, and borrowed a few discs from my brother.

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Re: The Moody Blues appreciation thread
« Reply #1 on: June 24, 2010, 01:21:47 PM »
They have some great tunes. Question is probably my favorite song.

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Re: The Moody Blues appreciation thread
« Reply #2 on: June 24, 2010, 01:29:08 PM »
I saw them often in the 80s, early 90s... very enjoyable.
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Re: The Moody Blues appreciation thread
« Reply #3 on: June 24, 2010, 01:39:24 PM »
Days Of Future Passed is a great album, and they have many other great ones too. The Story In Your Eyes is perhaps my favourite song of theirs.
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Re: The Moody Blues appreciation thread
« Reply #4 on: June 24, 2010, 02:10:35 PM »
I have DOFP, Seventh Sojourn, and TOCCC.  Days of Future Passed is one of my all time favorite albums.

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Re: The Moody Blues appreciation thread
« Reply #5 on: June 24, 2010, 02:28:50 PM »
I LOVE The Moodies!  Definitely one of the more overlooked bands in the rock genre; they were one of the first prog rock bands, yet they never seem to get credit for that, which is a crying shame.

Anyway, I like most of their stuff, even some of the pop rock stuff of the 80s, but the first seven albums are where it's at.  Favorites are In Search of the Lost Chord, To Our Children's Children's Children and Every Good Boy Deserves Favour.  I actually think Days of Future Passed is arguably the least best of the seven, although I still dig it.

Plus, how many bands can say they have had four legitimately very good lead singers like the Moodies did back in the day?

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Re: The Moody Blues appreciation thread
« Reply #6 on: July 12, 2010, 06:05:31 AM »
Saw them in Bethel Woods on Saturday. They kicked so much ass. Justin Hayward sounds as good now as he did then

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Re: The Moody Blues appreciation thread
« Reply #7 on: July 13, 2010, 01:04:40 PM »
Justin Hayward sounds as good now as he did then

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Plus, how many bands can say they have had four legitimately very good lead singers like the Moodies did back in the day?

It's also very cool that every member contributed musically.  It doesn't seem like that happens often anymore.
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Re: The Moody Blues appreciation thread
« Reply #8 on: July 13, 2010, 01:22:10 PM »
Do you think there's enough interest in a survivor?

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« Reply #9 on: July 13, 2010, 01:24:08 PM »
Sadly, probably not.  I mean, look at how few posts this thread has gotten.  Doing a Survivor with less than 10 people participating always seems pointless to me. 

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« Reply #10 on: July 13, 2010, 01:27:37 PM »
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Re: The Moody Blues appreciation thread
« Reply #11 on: January 06, 2011, 11:10:33 PM »
At the end of a long day, there are few bands better to chill to.  The Moodies are gonna help me off to dreamland tonight... :hat

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Re: The Moody Blues appreciation thread
« Reply #12 on: January 07, 2011, 12:46:57 AM »
I've only been a Moody Blues fan for about six months now, and only have three albums so far, so I look forward to hearing the others. One of my favorite songs at the moment is "The Actor" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VDGwPiyLS8

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Re: The Moody Blues appreciation thread
« Reply #13 on: January 07, 2011, 01:18:44 AM »
I have a Moody Blues-related story I'd like to share.

This past Christmas my Dad and I were driving back to my house after visiting relatives. I was listening to my iPod and wasn't paying attention to the classic rock station my Dad was listening to. Suddenly, I became aware that my Dad was very, very angry about something. I took off my headphones and was greeted with this: "What the fuck is this? This isn't rock, this is just pussy crap. Fuck this radio station, they keep playing all this artsy-fartsy bullshit. You hear this, Drew? [sarcasm on] Isn't this the greatest fucking song you've ever heard? ROCK ON DUDE!" [/sarcasm]

I was just like...sure Dad, yeah I agree, chill out.

I had never heard of The Moody Blues before, and I still have no idea what they sound like because my Dad was too busy blowing a gasket about how much he hated it, and I couldn't hear the song over him yelling. I don't know what the song was either, maybe you guys could help me identify it. He kept mentioning how the song started out with some "queer ass narration" followed by "some fucking gay classical stuff" after which the guitars entered and it became a "normal song." Kind of vague, but does anyone know what song it might have been? I'm curious and would like to listen to it.
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Re: The Moody Blues appreciation thread
« Reply #14 on: January 07, 2011, 01:35:10 AM »
Meant to see them with my dad before he passed... never was able to.. I grew up on them.

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Re: The Moody Blues appreciation thread
« Reply #15 on: January 07, 2011, 08:48:00 AM »
Gadough, I'd say it is likely the song was either "Ride My See-Saw" or "Nights in White Satin."  The former has a brief spoken narration at the beginning, but no real classical parts, while the latter has plenty of classical bits but narration at the end (not the beginning), but it is possible that your father, who seems to have terrible taste in music :lol, was confused and just ranting.  Given that the song was being played on the radio, it was probably one of those two songs.

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« Reply #16 on: January 07, 2011, 09:22:43 AM »
I saw them many many times in the late 70s and early 80s..great band
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Re: The Moody Blues appreciation thread
« Reply #17 on: January 07, 2011, 09:40:45 AM »
Gadough, I'd say it is likely the song was either "Ride My See-Saw" or "Nights in White Satin."  The former has a brief spoken narration at the beginning, but no real classical parts, while the latter has plenty of classical bits but narration at the end (not the beginning), but it is possible that your father, who seems to have terrible taste in music :lol, was confused and just ranting.  Given that the song was being played on the radio, it was probably one of those two songs.

Yeah that's it, it was Knights in White Satin. Thanks. :D
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Re: The Moody Blues appreciation thread
« Reply #18 on: January 07, 2011, 10:22:39 AM »
Looks like the fail is genetic, Gadough.

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Re: The Moody Blues appreciation thread
« Reply #19 on: January 07, 2011, 10:32:56 AM »
I saw that you had replied to the thread and I instantly knew that you would say something like that. :lol

SO PREDICTABLE
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Re: The Moody Blues appreciation thread
« Reply #20 on: January 07, 2011, 12:09:50 PM »
Looks like the fail is genetic, Gadough.

 :lol :lol

And it is NIGHTS, not Knights, Gadough.  Not trying to nitpick or being a grammar nazi, but that is one song title I always see people mess up. :facepalm:

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Re: The Moody Blues appreciation thread
« Reply #21 on: January 07, 2011, 01:05:22 PM »
It's not my fault calling it Nights in White Satin is deliberately misleading. They're basically asking for people to mess it up.
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Re: The Moody Blues appreciation thread
« Reply #22 on: January 07, 2011, 01:51:02 PM »
Isn't that a cover song? Or am I confusing it with something else.

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Re: The Moody Blues appreciation thread
« Reply #23 on: January 10, 2011, 11:56:02 PM »
No, it is an original song, not a cover.

And more people really need to get into this band.  They deserve much more love than they usually get. :censored

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Re: The Moody Blues appreciation thread
« Reply #24 on: January 11, 2011, 12:54:13 AM »
I've only been a Moody Blues fan for about six months now, and only have three albums so far, so I look forward to hearing the others. One of my favorite songs at the moment is "The Actor" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VDGwPiyLS8

That's a beautiful song.  Probably my favorite of Lost Chord.
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« Reply #25 on: January 11, 2011, 11:20:11 AM »
For me, it is hard to top "Legend of a Mind," but In Search of the Lost Chord is chock full of killer tunes.  "Visions of Paradise" has always been a personal favorite of mine, even though it is one of the lesser-known songs from that record.  "The Actor" is definitely a great one, as well.  And we can never forget about the classic, "Ride My See-Saw." :metal

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« Reply #26 on: January 11, 2011, 11:59:27 AM »
Voices In The Sky and The Best Way To Travel are also aces on that album.
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Re: The Moody Blues appreciation thread
« Reply #27 on: January 11, 2011, 11:37:17 PM »
Definitely.  I remember one of the old classic rock stations here in St. Louis did a top 100 classic rock albums list way back in the mid 90s, and I was pretty happy when In Search of the Lost Chord came in at around number 15.  It definitely helped that the main DJ at night on that station was a huge Moodies fan, but that album really is that good.  So is To Our Children's Children's Children, which I rate just a hair below ...Lost Chord.

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Re: The Moody Blues appreciation thread
« Reply #28 on: January 13, 2011, 09:30:13 PM »
NP:  Question of Balance

Question is a great song (especially the middle part  :D )
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Re: The Moody Blues appreciation thread
« Reply #29 on: December 23, 2011, 12:36:58 PM »
BUMP

Every Good Boy Deserves Favour  :heart

One More Time to Live is amazing.
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« Reply #30 on: December 23, 2011, 12:38:06 PM »
I have to give credit to Seventh Sojourn, what an underrated album.
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« Reply #31 on: December 23, 2011, 01:56:50 PM »
Definitely love One More Life to Live; it's one of my two or three favorites on EGBDF.

Seventh Sojourn is very good, although I admittedly like most of the others (from the first seven) better. 

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« Reply #32 on: December 23, 2011, 03:42:40 PM »
Oh good, a Moody Blues thread. One of my favorite bands. ALBUM RANKINGS:

1. Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
2. Long Distance Voyager
3. To Our Children's Children's Children
4. In Search of the Lost Chord
5. A Question of Balance
6. Seventh Sojourn
7. On the Threshold of a Dream
8. The Present
9. Days of Future Passed
10. Octave
11. Keys of the Kingdom
12. Strange Times
13. The Other Side of Life
14. Sur la Mer

I never heard December. And DOFP might seem low, but anyway...

Sadly, this band is underrated.
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« Reply #33 on: December 23, 2011, 06:11:17 PM »
I LOVE The Moodies!  Definitely one of the more overlooked bands in the rock genre; they were one of the first prog rock bands...
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By my reckoning...they are not "one of"...they ARE the first.  DoFP predates ITCOTCK by almost two years.  (Days was Nov 1967, Crimson King was October 1969)

Sgt Pepper should probably get credit as the first prog album...but The Moody Blues (IMHO) are the first prog rock band.
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