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Poll Question: What’s your favourite album?
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    Posted: January 23 2006 at 09:09

One of the first prog bands at the end of the sixties.

Which album do you prefere?
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WITHOUT A DOUBT..       ""THRESHOLD MY FAVORITE.""
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I like very much the core 7, ie, from "Days" up to "7th Sojourn", also "Long Distance Voyager" - practically all in the same level of appreciation.

But I voted "Days of Future Passed" for what it represents!

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In Search of the Lost Chord for me, good to see some Moody Blues fans
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Do you think "Days Of Future Passed" is really the first prog album?
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Honestly I had to wait until they released Long Distance Voyager to really consider them Prog'.

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This is not an easy choice. I like a lot of their first 7 albums very much. But when I'm pressed to choose one, it's going to be "Seventh Sojourn" even if it's only for the track "Isn't life strange" which always seems to stand out although I consider it to be very sentimental (but in a good sense).
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yeah, i did click in the 'Days of Future Passed' box but quickly changed my mind to 'Threshold'.
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Originally posted by ANDREW ANDREW wrote:

Do you think "Days Of Future Passed" is really the first prog album?

Arguably, yes..

Although wasn't 'Freak Out' by 'The Mothers of Invention' 1966?? If so, that may be 'arguably' the first prog album.
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SUR LA MER is the best album of the moody´s in the 80´s

"breaking" point and" deep "are the best progressive songs of the moody blues of ever.MASTERPIECE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"blue world"of the PRESENT abum also is a good progressive song

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I know you're joking about Sur La Mer, right?

I gave that disc 1 play back in the 80s and gave it to my sister. The only Moodies I ever disposed of. I also saved the bucks and never bought Keys to the Kingdom.
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I voted on On the Threshold of a Dream, although it's a very difficult choice, between the seven first ones.

And without a doubt Days of Future Passed is progressive, maybe the first progressive album of the history. In terms of progression, I think it is the first conceptual album (Sgt Peppers were supposed to be, but the guys admitted that they got tired after the first two songs and recorded regular songs to the album then), first rock album with orchestra and probably the first to use spoken poetry too.  While the other psychedelic albuns of the same time showed that rock 'n roll shouldn't have boundaries and accept every kind of ideas (most drug induced), The Moody Blues showed that rock shouldn't have any boundaries concerning about art, blending rock with orchestra, poetry in a conceptual work. This was revolutionary and was the greatest progression to rock. So if this isn't progressive rock, what is? (long songs with different time signatures? Of course not).


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Days of Future Passed has most of their best songs.
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Timoth Leary wenk wenk wenk wenk Timoth Leary wenk wenk wenk wenk.  I just love the song "Legend of a Mind."  So I guess my favorite Moodys album is:

In Search Of The Lost Chord.
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In Search Of The Lost Chord ... by a long long way actually ...it isn't their "proggiest" ... but it's definitely my favourite
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I have to go with In Search of the Lost Chord, but On the Threshold of a Dream is a VERY close second. Why can't the question be, "What are your TWO favorite Moody Blues albums?"?
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oh the power of the search button...


On the Threshold of a Dream for me .....  a great album with the added bonus of Have You Heard/The Voyage.

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    "Question" for me. The songs are beautiful, and the message has always touched me (especially that last bit). I know that other albums have more to offer, but I am most likely to listen to this one.
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Difficult, but I did for me a single cd with TOCCC and AQOB, and these albums are by now my favs. I voted for AQOB because I can't resist to Question, Melancholy Man and Minstrel song
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