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« on: December 27, 2005, 12:50:24 PM » |
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Alright, let's have at it for my "other" favorite band. I imagine this thread will get a very mixed reception, a lot of people seem to hate the Moodies, especially the prog heads. By The Moody Blues, I also mean the Denny Laine/Clint Warwick/Mike Pinder/Ray Thomas/Graeme Edge incarnation of "Go Now!" and "From The Bottom Of My Heart". There was a band before there were Justin Hayward and John Lodge.
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« Reply #1 on: December 27, 2005, 01:05:48 PM » |
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I was addicted for a time to Threshold and Childrens Children. That combination of acid and melotron very nearly left me in orbit a number of times. But the Moodies always left me with a soft pillow of music to crash on.
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« Reply #2 on: December 27, 2005, 01:06:56 PM » |
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You should hear the Caught Live + 5 album. The mellotron sounds positively demonic on there.
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« Reply #3 on: December 27, 2005, 01:20:44 PM » |
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Are we allowed to talk about the Justin Hayward era of the band? Cause 'In Search of the Lost Chord" is one of the best albums of the psych era bar none -- certainly one of the top ten most listenable and accessible! A solid, solid album.
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« Reply #4 on: December 27, 2005, 01:21:22 PM » |
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We're talking all eras of the Moodies here, Jon.
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« Reply #5 on: December 27, 2005, 01:34:29 PM » |
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I should love them, maybe I will someday.
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« Reply #6 on: December 27, 2005, 01:36:02 PM » |
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Breathe deep, the gathering gloom watchlights fade from every room bedsitter people look back and lament another day's useless energy spent
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« Reply #7 on: December 27, 2005, 01:40:21 PM » |
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Breathe deep, the gathering gloom watchlights fade from every room bedsitter people look back and lament another day's useless energy spent
That verse is the exact reason I can't stand The Moody Blues.
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« Reply #8 on: December 27, 2005, 01:53:05 PM » |
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Breathe deep, the gathering gloom watchlights fade from every room bedsitter people look back and lament another day's useless energy spent
That verse is the exact reason I can't stand The Moody Blues. ROFL. I love that song. I tried to listen to the rest of "Days of Future Passed", and just couldn't get into it. That song, though, is beautiful to me alone.
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« Reply #9 on: December 27, 2005, 02:15:28 PM » |
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'In Search of the Lost Chord" is one of the best albums of the psych era bar none -- certainly one of the top ten most listenable and accessible! A solid, solid album.
.. and the first album I ever bought! That album got me hooked on music totally .. 'Legend Of A Mind' .. 'House Of 4 Doors' .. 'The Best Way To Travel' .. It certainly opened my 14 year old mind at the time
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« Reply #10 on: December 27, 2005, 02:17:35 PM » |
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That verse is the exact reason I can't stand The Moody Blues. Ahhh, its pretentious and fogey but its really quite lovely, all told! You must embrace it! Emmmbraaaaace it! As a kid, "Days" was one of my first entrants into psych music in general.
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« Reply #11 on: December 27, 2005, 03:32:54 PM » |
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I liked the original Denny Laine era band, but after he left they seemed to me to take a head-first leap into overblown pomposity. As a bunch of white English guys trying to be a soul band they seemed more real to me than as "hey-look-us-be-fancy" proggers.
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« Reply #12 on: December 27, 2005, 04:11:03 PM » |
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I was playing Days of Future Passed on my little Fisher-Price record player when I was 6 years old. My mother had all of the 1967-72 albums, all of which I wore out by the time I was 10.
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« Reply #13 on: December 27, 2005, 04:12:15 PM » |
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There you go! They're psych for kiddies!
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« Reply #14 on: December 27, 2005, 04:15:05 PM » |
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They're very light as far as the psychedelia was concerned, I thought they had more in common with bands like Procol Harum as far as the psychedelia was concerned. They're not as bad as most of the progressive bands are (I'm thinking of ELP, Yes, and Rush as some examples of true suckage).
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« Reply #15 on: December 27, 2005, 04:16:37 PM » |
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They're very light as far as the psychedelia was concerned, I thought they had more in common with bands like Procol Harum as far as the psychedelia was concerned. They're not as bad as most of the progressive bands are (I'm thinking of ELP, Yes, and Rush as some examples of true suckage).
You're a man after my own heart, Jason.
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« Reply #16 on: December 27, 2005, 04:19:18 PM » |
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I love "Magnificent Moodies"...
Must get "Days of Future Past", "Nights in White Satin" is one of me favourite songs...
So haunting.
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« Reply #17 on: December 27, 2005, 04:27:23 PM » |
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You're a man after my own heart, Jason.
Ian, I always thought the prog movement was incredibly overrated. There are only two so-called prog bands that I like, Pink Floyd and the Moodies. If I wanted 25 minute solos, I'd listen to Coltrane, not Keith Emerson. Emerson's soloing has no SOUL, man!
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« Reply #18 on: December 27, 2005, 04:28:18 PM » |
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Genesis! King Crimson! SPLIT ENZ!
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« Reply #19 on: December 27, 2005, 04:29:12 PM » |
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You're a man after my own heart, Jason.
Ian, I always thought the prog movement was incredibly overrated. There are only two so-called prog bands that I like, Pink Floyd and the Moodies. If I wanted 25 minute solos, I'd listen to Coltrane, not Keith Emerson. Emerson's soloing has no SOUL, man! You need to check out King Crimson and Genesis with Gabriel on vox. Otherwise, Prog ain't nothing but a city in Czechoslovakia.
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« Reply #20 on: December 27, 2005, 04:29:30 PM » |
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Haha, you beat me to it, Idyll!
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« Reply #21 on: December 27, 2005, 04:31:10 PM » |
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I've listened to both Crimson and Genesis. I like them, but they're nowhere near being favorites of mine. They're just THERE to me. Not denying the talent of either band.
Does Kraftwerk count as a prog band? I think they do, since the Krautrock movement was all formed on the basis of the American and British prog movements.
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« Reply #22 on: December 27, 2005, 04:35:26 PM » |
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Jethro Tull!
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« Reply #23 on: December 27, 2005, 04:37:01 PM » |
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Boooooooooo! Booooooooooo!
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« Reply #24 on: December 27, 2005, 04:38:06 PM » |
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My God! ...Go listen to that
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