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yanch
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Posted: December 07 2010 at 12:59 |
chrijom wrote:
what about them? |
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LinusW
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Posted: December 07 2010 at 13:03 |
I've tried quite a few times...but I just don't like them .
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Heathcliffe
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Posted: December 07 2010 at 23:08 |
Option 5 for me. Not sure if they qualify as Prog to my mind.
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Blacksword
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Posted: December 08 2010 at 07:37 |
A good band. Sometimes a very good band.. I would have liked them to have been a little more varied at times. There seems to be two Moody Blues moods; melacholic or jaunty. They do melacholy very well though. I also think Justin Hayward has one of the finest voices in rock music generally.
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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claugroi
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Posted: December 08 2010 at 18:26 |
Heathcliffe wrote:
Option 5 for me. Not sure if they qualify as Prog to my mind. |
Well, they are far more progressive thank Björk, Radiohead or any alternative rock band that was inserted on these archives...
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Symphonic Prog Master
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KingCrInuYasha
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Posted: May 22 2011 at 14:50 |
Fantastic band, at the very least.
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He looks at this world and wants it all... so he strikes, like Thunderball!
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jammun
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Posted: May 22 2011 at 15:02 |
They are a good band. I generally enjoy them as a sort of background music. We've all heard of smooth jazz; I consider the Moodies smooth prog (and that's not meant to be derogatory).
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Can you tell me where we're headin'? Lincoln County Road or Armageddon.
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MoodyRush
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Posted: May 22 2011 at 17:21 |
The Moody Blues helped get me into prog! And i've seen them twice live, my first concerts. Great band, but listened to less after I found newer music.
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Follow me down to the valley below. Moonlight is bleeding from out of your soul. -Lazarus
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The Dark Elf
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Posted: May 22 2011 at 17:44 |
I rated them fantastic, but that's only because my "greatest bands of all time" list only includes 5 groups.
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...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology...
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jean-marie
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Posted: May 22 2011 at 18:33 |
From days of future to seven sojourn , would't live without + Blue jays, surely more prog than many others
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Atavachron
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Posted: May 22 2011 at 18:41 |
one of the great bands, even more so in the context of musical evolution during the 20th century.. and on ISotLC we hear where David Gilmour gleaned a part of his sound heard on later Floyd albums, not to mention other artists significantly impacted by them
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Man With Hat
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Posted: May 23 2011 at 02:15 |
A good band. Don't think I'd use an exclamation point afterwards though. Just a plain, good band, with one fantastic album.
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Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.
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TheLionOfPrague
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Posted: May 23 2011 at 10:18 |
They're awesome. "Seventh Soujourn" is their best album IMO.
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I shook my head and smiled a whisper knowing all about the place
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silverpot
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Posted: May 23 2011 at 10:33 |
I absolutely love their first seven albums. I was fourteen when Days of future passed was released and I couldn't believe my ears. It changed my musical taste for ever.
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sgt wilko
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Posted: May 23 2011 at 14:44 |
Always had a soft spot for the Moodies.
As a spotty youth I listened to Seventh Sojourn on repeat in the 6th Form Common Room at school. From there I worked backwards and bought the rest of the "7".
Also had Octave and Long Distance Voyager on vinyl but didn't replace them on cd like I did with the others.
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mohaveman
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Posted: May 24 2011 at 14:30 |
Good but only sometimes
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HolyMoly
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Posted: May 24 2011 at 15:22 |
They were some of my earliest musical food as a kid. As such, I can't imagine a world without those first 7 albums (not counting the "Magnificent Moodies", which kinda stinks), and I proudly proclaim them "One of the best bands of all time" largely for that reason.
I'm also a fan of their next 3 albums or so (Octave, Long Dx Voyager, The Present). After that it became the Hayward/Lodge show entirely. They were their 2 best writers, but one of the things I liked best about the Moodies was the variety of songwriters and vocalists. Michael Pinder is especially missed - he wrote some of my favorites.
Edited by HolyMoly - May 24 2011 at 15:24
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My other avatar is a Porsche
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.
-Kehlog Albran
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digdug
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Posted: May 25 2011 at 08:21 |
kool band!
some of their stuff is too mellow for me
I could make up a mixed tape about 4 hrs long with awesome stuff on it though
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Prog On!
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charles_ryder
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Posted: April 30 2014 at 03:58 |
Good band !
Edited by charles_ryder - April 30 2014 at 23:56
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om mani padme hum
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irrelevant
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Posted: April 30 2014 at 05:05 |
The more I listen to them the more I'd say "one of the greatest bands of all time" ... And I haven't even heard all of their classic albums yet.
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