What about the Moody Blues ?!
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Topic: What about the Moody Blues ?!
Posted By: claugroi
Subject: What about the Moody Blues ?!
Date Posted: November 30 2010 at 18:46
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wow, many options to vote on Denny Laine's ex-band. ------------- Symphonic Prog Master |
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Posted By: tarkus1980
Date Posted: November 30 2010 at 18:50
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They were my first favorite band, so I'm biased towards them. I don't adore them, but I still like them a lot. ------------- "History of Rock Written by the Losers." |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: November 30 2010 at 19:05
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You didn't do one for the adjective I usually apply: quaint. But I was the first vote for good. I've got everything from Days through and including Sojourn.
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Posted By: progmatic
Date Posted: November 30 2010 at 20:15
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1st 7 albums, fantastic; since then, phhhhhht. ------------- PROGMATIC |
Posted By: JesusisLord
Date Posted: December 01 2010 at 00:12
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Agreed. the first 7 are fantastic....In search of the lost chord being my favorite of the lot......Thinking is, indeed, the best way to travel .... ------------- And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. Phillipians 2:11 |
Posted By: snobb
Date Posted: December 01 2010 at 03:11
| They have some good songs is my choice to vote |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: December 01 2010 at 03:13
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Go for option #5. Sometimes they are too sweet for my taste, but In Search of the Lost Chord is a good album. ------------- 
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Posted By: friso
Date Posted: December 01 2010 at 03:24
Voted for that too. Days of Future past is a good project, but I couldn't care that much about other albums of the band. |
snobb wrote:Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: December 01 2010 at 03:32
| Somewhere in the middle of that list. |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: December 01 2010 at 03:51
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Probably the first prog band. I'm not very into them. I like what i have heard of them but they are not at my top. ------------- Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half. My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com |
Posted By: ten years after
Date Posted: December 01 2010 at 04:30
| Better than Good, but not Fantastic. |
Posted By: jean-marie
Date Posted: December 01 2010 at 05:19
| I just love them from days of future to seventh sojourn and i still listen to those unforgetable albums looking at beautiful phil travers covers, unfortunaly, it seems they were not that great on stage |
Posted By: Atoms
Date Posted: December 01 2010 at 10:15
| I just had to vote: One of the greatest bands of all time, I don't listen to them that often, but when I do, I always enjoy it. And there is not many bands that sing songs about the epic Timothy Leary |
Posted By: claugroi
Date Posted: December 01 2010 at 13:24
In Search of the Lost Chord is my favourite album too. ------------- Symphonic Prog Master |
Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: December 01 2010 at 13:29
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I'm probably one of the few people who actually thinks The Present is a good LP. I'll have to review it soon  ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org |
Posted By: seventhsojourn
Date Posted: December 01 2010 at 13:36
^ There are others.  Look forward to that one.
Second option for me, not that I'm biased or anything.
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Posted By: Ian Stuart
Date Posted: December 07 2010 at 00:29
| One of the Greatest bands without doubt - with emphasis on their initial seven albums which I lump in a class by themselves. |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: December 07 2010 at 01:58
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DotFP and ISotLC are fundamentally important in prog's development, but I had little interest in their output beyond that.
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Posted By: chrijom
Date Posted: December 07 2010 at 10:47
what about them? 
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Posted By: yanch
Date Posted: December 07 2010 at 12:59
| They have some good songs, but overall don't find them that interesting. |
Posted By: yanch
Date Posted: December 07 2010 at 12:59
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Posted By: LinusW
Date 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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Posted By: Heathcliffe
Date Posted: December 07 2010 at 23:08
| Option 5 for me. Not sure if they qualify as Prog to my mind. |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: December 08 2010 at 07:37
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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. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: claugroi
Date Posted: December 08 2010 at 18:26
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Posted By: KingCrInuYasha
Date Posted: May 22 2011 at 14:50
Fantastic band, at the very least. 
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Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: May 22 2011 at 15:02
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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). ------------- Can you tell me where we're headin'? Lincoln County Road or Armageddon. |
Posted By: MoodyRush
Date Posted: May 22 2011 at 17:21
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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. ------------- Follow me down to the valley below. Moonlight is bleeding from out of your soul. -Lazarus |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: May 22 2011 at 17:44
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I rated them fantastic, but that's only because my "greatest bands of all time" list only includes 5 groups. ------------- ...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... |
Posted By: jean-marie
Date 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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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: May 22 2011 at 18:41
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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 |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: May 23 2011 at 02:15
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A good band. Don't think I'd use an exclamation point afterwards though. Just a plain, good band, with one fantastic album. ------------- 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. |
Posted By: TheLionOfPrague
Date Posted: May 23 2011 at 10:18
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They're awesome. "Seventh Soujourn" is their best album IMO. ------------- I shook my head and smiled a whisper knowing all about the place |
Posted By: silverpot
Date 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. |
Posted By: sgt wilko
Date Posted: May 23 2011 at 14:44
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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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Posted By: mohaveman
Date Posted: May 24 2011 at 14:30
| Good but only sometimes |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: May 24 2011 at 15:22
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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. ------------- 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 |
Posted By: digdug
Date Posted: May 25 2011 at 08:21
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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 ------------- Prog On! |
Posted By: charles_ryder
Date Posted: April 30 2014 at 03:58
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Good band !
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Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: April 30 2014 at 05:05
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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. ------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385 |
Posted By: proggman
Date Posted: April 30 2014 at 19:55
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A fantastic band !
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Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: May 26 2014 at 07:17
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Fantastique!!! ------------- 
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: May 27 2014 at 04:10
| The Moodies were one of the first 'Prog' bands I got into during the mid 80's. More than 25 years later, still enjoying their Big Seven albums. Never tire from their wonderful tunes. Voted 'fantastic band'. I can live without the later things, though I do like 'The Present' a lot. |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: May 28 2014 at 17:34
| Having a big 7 albums at such an early stage in psych and prog puts them in the category of one of the best bands of all time IMO; even if I didn't much like "On the threshold of Dream", it' still a big 7 to me, with the last few being equally strong. After that early flourish, nothing measured up, but they still had a number of fine tracks later on |
Posted By: HackettFan
Date Posted: May 28 2014 at 22:54
| I voted for 'good band'. But there was not enough choices. I couldn't call them a fantastic band and good band does not give them enough credit. 'Pretty darn good band' would have been the best choice. |
Posted By: Mirror Image
Date Posted: May 28 2014 at 23:12
I never got into them. Not my cup of tea I suppose. Not progressive enough for me.  ------------- “Music is enough for a lifetime but a lifetime is not enough for music.” - Sergei Rachmaninov |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: May 29 2014 at 13:11
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Essential ------------- |