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Points: 5319 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 01 2016 at 16:44
Originally posted by EddieRUKiddingVarese EddieRUKiddingVarese wrote:

Sorry Timothy I seem to have updet you, somehow..............................

Got any good LSD!

Still nothing important to say
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My you are a serious one............... I never have anything important to say, as that would be boastful and ignorant in present company...........
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There are always going to be those who post negatively in an appreciation thread. Then there are the ones who keep posting in the thread after their initial negativity. I suppose it is an attention seeking ploy.
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Originally posted by timothy leary timothy leary wrote:

There are always going to be those who post negatively in an appreciation thread. Then there are the ones who keep posting in the thread after their initial negativity. I suppose it is an attention seeking ploy.

When someone spouts inconsequential nonsense, it's best to ignore them. Or insult the hell out of them. Either or.

In any case, here's an interesting bit of trivia: On the Threshold of a Dream was the first Moody Blues album to go to #1 in the UK, but the single "Never Comes the Day" was a sales flop. Which begs the question, what marketing genius decided that "Never Comes the Day" would be a better single than "Lovely to See You Again", which got a hell of a lot of airplay in the U.S. even though it wasn't a single?
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Didn't the Moddy's sing Timothy Leary's Dead................

If you read the post's you will see it was a legitimate debate which was contributed to by other posters and was exploring the stages of Moody's music for better or worse.......... and my Wifes liking of them!
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Originally posted by EddieRUKiddingVarese EddieRUKiddingVarese wrote:

Didn't the Moddy's sing Timothy Leary's Dead................

If you read the post's you will see it was a legitimate debate which was contributed to by other posters and was exploring the stages of Moody's music for better or worse.......... and my Wifes liking of them!

Actually, no, I don't see any relevance in your continued participation in this appreciation thread. We got that you don't like them. Prattling on about how you prefer Zappa or Crimson, and that your wife is the only one with any common sense in your family does not make for interesting conversation.
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Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

Originally posted by EddieRUKiddingVarese EddieRUKiddingVarese wrote:

Didn't the Moddy's sing Timothy Leary's Dead................

If you read the post's you will see it was a legitimate debate which was contributed to by other posters and was exploring the stages of Moody's music for better or worse.......... and my Wifes liking of them!

Actually, no, I don't see any relevance in your continued participation in this appreciation thread. We got that you don't like them. Prattling on about how you prefer Zappa or Crimson, and that your wife is the only one with any common sense in your family does not make for interesting conversation.

Nasty Nasty Nasty. 

Well actually they did- heard it enough times to know the bloody lyrics go (seeing you said No)-

"Timothy Leary's dead.
No, no, no, no, He's outside looking in.
Timothy Leary's dead.
No, no, no, no, He's outside looking in.
He'll fly his astral plane,
Takes you trips around the bay,
Brings you back the same day,
Timothy Leary. Timothy Leary."

Some Moody's fan you are.......

You can  Prattle all you like with your responses, water of a #ucks back...... and you don't even know Moody's lyrics shame on you!


Edited by EddieRUKiddingVarese - October 01 2016 at 21:34
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Points: 46828 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 01 2016 at 21:43
hey I like the Moodies!!Thumbs Up

but I love train wreck threads even more...Clap
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I enjoy Days of Future Passed and LDV.  But I actually haven't heard a whole lot of the other early albums.  Just haven't gotten to them yet, something to look forward to!

Days is so great though, it has that really naive experimental 60s vibe. 



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On The Threshold of a Dream is my non DoFP Moodies fav Jim.  Great stuff..
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Thanks Mick.  So how different are those post Days albums, the next 6?  I always assumed they were similar sounding albums but are they? 

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here is a much better breakdown of their albums than I could do Jim. Especially as I am about to hit the sheets.

great website by the way if you haven't seen it.

http://www.johnmcferrinmusicreviews.org/mb.html
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Yeah that was a potentially time consuming questionLOL

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Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:

Yeah that was a potentially time consuming questionLOL




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Gnite man!

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Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:

Gnite man!


and to you sir! So I'm off.. have to go into working tomorrow morning. Boo for me. So with this in my ears I bid adieu.. I had the instant urge to put this on before heading to bed hahah

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Jim, I will take up the mantle a bit while Micky sleeps.  Personally, while I acknowledge that "On the Threshold of a Dream" is one of the "big seven", it's the only one that just doesn't resonate with me.  Half the songs sound like holdovers from their R&B period!  The exceptions are "Lovely to See You", "Never Comes the Day", and the Dream/Voyage.  "Dear Diary" doesn't do it for me, and "So Deep within you" sounds like the Doors!

The main difference with the albums after DOFP is that none of them used the orchestra.  They went all mellotron crazy, and somehow I think their impact is greater, less precious.  "In Search of the Lost Chord" removed any doubts as to whether they could do make it without the orchestra, and I would recommend picking it up next.  In fact, moving chronologically thru them makes the most sense.  "To Our Children's Children's Children" is also brilliant, with the first side made up of multiple mostly short songs.

They tended to start albums with long spoken parts, but dispensed with that with the final 3, "Question fo Balance", "Every Good Boy Deserves Favour", and "Seventh Sojourn", which bareky have a duff track between the three of them.  Stiil very psychedelic and ballad heavy at that stage, they really had a way with melody.  While they were groundbreaking, some prog fans tend to dismiss them due to their general adherence to conventional song structures and minimal instrumental flourishes.  Pop fans thought they were too serious for hit singles.  Yet they were one of the bigger selling bands of their time.
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Points: 12701 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 01 2016 at 22:28
Originally posted by EddieRUKiddingVarese EddieRUKiddingVarese wrote:


Some Moody's fan you are.......

You can  Prattle all you like with your responses, water of a #ucks back...... and you don't even know Moody's lyrics shame on you!
When you type, do you actually consider the words that you peck out? Or is it more akin to simply closing your eyes and letting spell check aid you with words beyond monosyllables?
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Originally posted by kenethlevine kenethlevine wrote:

Jim, I will take up the mantle a bit while Micky sleeps.  Personally, while I acknowledge that "On the Threshold of a Dream" is one of the "big seven", it's the only one that just doesn't resonate with me.  Half the songs sound like holdovers from their R&B period!  The exceptions are "Lovely to See You", "Never Comes the Day", and the Dream/Voyage.  "Dear Diary" doesn't do it for me, and "So Deep within you" sounds like the Doors!

While I appreciate your post, I think you do a disservice to On the Threshold of a Dream. If one considers the sequence of Are You Sitting Comfortably/The Dream/Have You Heard (Part I)/The Voyage/Have You Heard (Part II) as an 11 minute-long suite (and after about a thousand listens, I find that sequence to be indivisible), you have, in January, 1969, a true prog composition (not proto-prog, mind you) complete with extensive mellotron predating ItCotCK by 10 months.


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Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

Originally posted by EddieRUKiddingVarese EddieRUKiddingVarese wrote:


Some Moody's fan you are.......

You can  Prattle all you like with your responses, water of a #ucks back...... and you don't even know Moody's lyrics shame on you!
When you type, do you actually consider the words that you peck out? Or is it more akin to simply closing your eyes and letting spell check aid you with words beyond monosyllables?

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