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Posted: October 02 2016 at 06:11
The final three of the 'magnificent seven' are more rock based. They have a more raw feel, a 'live' feel.
What I mean to say, is that the songs are more suitable to play live on stage, less instruments used, etc.
The 'rockiest' songs they recorded are on those three albums (Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Question of Balance and my favorite The Seventh Sojourn).
When you listen closely to the Moodies, you notice a lot of tempo- and stylistic chances within songs. If that isn't progressive, I wouldn't know what is.
True, they have the tendency for piano- and acoustic guitar balladry, but hey; they are just a bunch of melancholy men.
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Posted: October 04 2016 at 11:36
Kingsnake wrote:
I'm not a big fan of compilation albums, especially when a band is concept based.
But The Moodies have one of the best compilation albums ever made.
The even managed to let songs flow into eachother wich are from totally different albums.
Wich makes this compilation an entity of its own. I can't even imagine no-one like this album. Enjoy it here:
I had that one on LP back in the day. It was remarkable how well songs from unrelated albums were juxtaposed together. It even has one of Pinders' best songs, "A Simple Game", which was never released on an original LP. However,to me a not insignificant flaw is that EGBDF is only represented by one song, "Story in your eyes". For several years I steered clear of that album as a result, even though I think it's great now
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Posted: October 04 2016 at 12:13
kenethlevine wrote:
Kingsnake wrote:
I'm not a big fan of compilation albums, especially when a band is concept based.
But The Moodies have one of the best compilation albums ever made.
The even managed to let songs flow into eachother wich are from totally different albums.
Wich makes this compilation an entity of its own. I can't even imagine no-one like this album. Enjoy it here:
I had that one on LP back in the day. It was remarkable how well songs from unrelated albums were juxtaposed together. It even has one of Pinders' best songs, "A Simple Game", which was never released on an original LP. However,to me a not insignificant flaw is that EGBDF is only represented by one song, "Story in your eyes". For several years I steered clear of that album as a result, even though I think it's great now
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Posted: October 05 2016 at 00:00
^ & ^^ & ^^^ The very comp. album my sister has since around 1987 - and the collection that convinced me to buy the 'classic 7'. Compilations (sometimes) serve their purpose !!
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Posted: January 23 2017 at 19:48
Glad to find a Moody Blues appreciation thread, this band deserves much more than it gets. I was named after Justin Hayward, so I have always felt a strong emotional connection to this band. I saw him live when he came into town; my first concert and one of my favorites to date. As for albums, my favorites are Childrens Childrens Children, Question of Balance, Threshold, and of course DOFP. My favorite tracks would be Peak hour, Candle of Life, Watching and Waiting, White Satin, Dont you feel small?, and I never thought i would live to be a hundred/million. Great band.
I know they aren't listed that way on here but in my opinion they were mostly a proto prog band. I don't feel they ever really evolved into a full blown prog band in the strictest sense but that's just my opinion. The focus tended to be mostly on the songwriting. They were great songwriters though so there's really nothing wrong with that. In fact they were arguably the best next to the Beatles(again imo). One of my favorite all time bands so it doesn't matter that much to me. Still, they were an influence on prog rock and certainly played music that paved the way for future prog bands. My favorite albums are long distance voyager, days of future passed, to our children's children's children and on the threshold of a dream. A question of balance was very good too.
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Posted: January 24 2017 at 02:11
In my opinion Barclay James Harvest, Moody Blues and Beatles were a different kind of prog.
A more vocal-based prog. Beautiful melodies, that were almost never used in prog since.
The only bands that used such beautiful melodies were Queen, Abba, etc. and other pop bands.
Also the use of mellotron, classical and eastern instruments makes them kind of psychedelic, wich is a prog-sub genre. But I agree that the three bands I named were more of a influence to progmusic than full blown prog. But apparently I'm not all that into progrock, because most bands I like are protoprog, crossover prog or prog-related, except for Camel and Gentle Giant.
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Posted: January 24 2017 at 02:25
Really, after the passing of such an amazing drummer......... Jaki............::::: Yeah, I never knew him personally, though, from what his drumming ideals were - he knew what to do..... I reckon (how do you spell that????) he knew extreme drumming before it was 'in vogue'. Double kick is the MASTER !!! :.....Jaki knew this......... I love Can. ......anybody seen this Snowman ???? (Well, that's what it sounds like to me.......) sh*t........::::: I'm posting on the wrong thread - expected from such a dumb-f**k like me.....sorry........love The Moodies, love Can. A piece of my Heart breaks when we lose an amazing musician that means a lot me/us. Dunno wot to say...........
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Posted: January 24 2017 at 03:10
Tom Ozric wrote:
Really, after the passing of such an amazing drummer......... Jaki............::::: Yeah, I never knew him personally, though, from what his drumming ideals were - he knew what to do..... I reckon (how do you spell that????) he knew extreme drumming before it was 'in vogue'. Double kick is the MASTER !!! :.....Jaki knew this......... I love Can. ......anybody seen this Snowman ???? (Well, that's what it sounds like to me.......) sh*t........::::: I'm posting on the wrong thread - expected from such a dumb-f**k like me.....sorry........love The Moodies, love Can. A piece of my Heart breaks when we lose an amazing musician that means a lot me/us. Dunno wot to say...........
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Finnforest wrote:
The very comp. album my sister has since around 1987 - and the collection that convinced me to buy the 'classic 7'. Compilations (sometimes) serve their purpose !!
