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Hawkwise 
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Posted: June 20 2008 at 16:18 |
The Father's of Prog
 
 
 
I Give 5 stars to them all
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Posted: June 20 2008 at 16:36 |
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Beautiful albums, I love the Moody's too! Lost Chord and Threshold are def. my favs, but as you point out, they're all fantastic.
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Posted: June 20 2008 at 16:46 |
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Lost Chord and Threshold are my two fav's to and both Recorded i believe before In the Court of the Crimson King , so to me they are the Fathers of Prog , Threshold is a Beautiful and Warm lovely Album .
When the white eagle of the North is flying overhead,
And the browns, reds and golds of autumn lye in the gutter dead.
Remember then the summer birds with wings of fire flame,
Come to witness springs new hope, born of leaves decaying.
And as new life will come from death,
Love will come at leisure.
Love of love, love of life and giving without measure,
Gives in return a wonderous yearn for promise almost seen.
Live hand in hand and together we'll stand, On
the threshold of a dream.
Graeme Edge 1969
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Posted: June 20 2008 at 18:54 |
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All 5 star albums for sure. EGBDF is my favorite with Threshold and Lost Chord following closely behind. The Moraz years weren't bad either. Justin Hayward was a good solo artist too.
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Posted: June 20 2008 at 19:41 |
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nice.. very nice thread...
On the Threshold of a Dream has long been my favorite from them.. especially the closing suite.. oh the mellotron on that ...
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Sacred 22
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Posted: June 20 2008 at 20:43 |
 micky wrote:
nice.. very nice thread...
On the Threshold of a Dream has long been my favorite from them.. especially the closing suite.. oh the mellotron on that ...
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I enjoyed them as a teen very much and still enjoy them today.
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Posted: June 20 2008 at 22:17 |
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I love Days, Lost Chord, Seventh Sojourn, and Long Distance Traveller. The albums in between, I still have a hard time getting into. Though, whenever I listen to their best of, I get the itch to go back and check them out at my local second hand music shop. It wouldn't be the first time that the second listen is when an album or band clicks.
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Posted: June 20 2008 at 22:36 |
Yes, despite having Patrick Moraz as bonus on later albums, that was the Moody Blues. Say, did anyone find that lost chord I misplaced? 
Edited by Slartibartfast - June 20 2008 at 22:37
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted: June 20 2008 at 23:49 |
How right you are my bright little star!
(Except for maybe that first album...)
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Posted: June 22 2008 at 05:02 |
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The Moodies, 'Big seven' albums are indeed all classics. My favourite is actually 'To our childrens, childrens, children' That album has a beautiful flow, and a great atmosphere. Mike Pinder plays some of the finest Mellotron parts in prog rock, in my opinion, and Justin Hayward has one of the purest voices going.
I also really like 'Seventh Sojourn' It's not an album that gets as much praise as the others, but I think they close that chapter in their career very triumphantly. Of the later albums, I've only heard 'Long distance traveller' It's not a bad album.
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Posted: November 20 2008 at 20:49 |
Time to Bump 
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Posted: November 21 2008 at 06:10 |
Moodies threads always need bumping. Their fans are in relatively short supply around here sadly. Thats my perception, anyway..
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Posted: November 21 2008 at 06:18 |
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I'm a big Moodies fan myself. I think my favorite album by them is Every Good Boy. Although all of their first seven are excellent. I also think Long Distance Voyager is a fantastic album. Octave, The Present, Keys of the Kingdom and Strange Times are also all pretty decent. Never liked The Other Side of Life or Sur La Mer (although the song Breaking Point I really like). Another great "Blues" album is the Blue Jays. That and EGBDF are the two albums by them I listen to the most.
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Posted: November 21 2008 at 06:40 |
^ I've cited EGBDF as my favourite Moodies album before (twice) - it is the lesser-rated of the magnificent seven, but IMO the best.
One more time to live and I have made it mine
Leave the wise to write for they write worldy rhymes
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Steven in Atlanta
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Posted: November 21 2008 at 08:35 |
Slartibartfast wrote:
Say, did anyone find that lost chord I misplaced?
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It's behind the couch.
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Posted: November 21 2008 at 08:36 |
Slartibartfast wrote:
Say, did anyone find that lost chord I misplaced?
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It's behind the couch.
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Posted: November 21 2008 at 19:30 |
OK, thanks, I was going to check down in the cushions, though that might be where the lyrics we lost went.
Edited by Slartibartfast - November 21 2008 at 19:32
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Posted: November 21 2008 at 19:43 |
Dean wrote:
^ I've cited EGBDF as my favourite Moodies album before (twice) - it is the lesser-rated of the magnificent seven, but IMO the best.
One more time to live and I have made it mine
Leave the wise to write for they write worldy rhymes
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One More Time to Live is my favorite song off of EGBDF too.  Although, You Can Never Go Home is also a favorite. The Dreamer (the bonus track on the SACD version) is also really, really cool. That, along with the BJ's (ummmm...little side note here...I'm referring to the Blue Jays - the Hayward/Lodge collaboration - not actual BJ's, which of course rule in ways that a Moody Blues album never could)...anywho, EGBDF and the Blue Jays are the two albums that I get totally lost in when I listen to. Not to say the others aren't great, but those two just seem to take me somewhere else.
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Posted: November 21 2008 at 21:35 |
Here's my sacrilege.
Every time I hear ITCOTKC I think "Didn't I hear at least half of this on a Moody Blues album." I am by no means a King Crimson expert but for all the claims that they originated the prog sound, I point back further.
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You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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Posted: November 21 2008 at 22:27 |
Negoba wrote:
Here's my sacrilege.
Every time I hear ITCOTKC I think "Didn't I hear at least half of this on a Moody Blues album." I am by no means a King Crimson expert but for all the claims that they originated the prog sound, I point back further. |
There is no sacrilege from you  . ..I love KC , this is even one of my top 3 bands but i always think prog started with Nights in White Satin among a few others back in 1967...........
Yes, the Moodies were there big time at the birth of prog!  ..and first hour- KC members for sure listened to the Moody Blues a lot!
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