Is it ok if i don't like all the "aahaahahahaaaaaahahaaa" ?

Great sunny day music, too.

Great rainy day music.

The Moodies once did it for me, all through and through. They don't any more. Let's move on.

Moodies are always my music of choice - lots of good memories, and I agree - WHY have they not been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?  Holy cow - they set the bar for the likes of Electric Light Orchestra, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, and a host of other classical/rock bands. When Moody Blues' time comes, I'm do all I can to be there, even if I'm a ghost.

 jimbaca wrote: 
Agreed!!

Why hasn't this band been inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame?  I have seen them in concert (with and without symphony) and they are amazing!

Thank You,Walking_Turtle!"(We mellowed and invented the Internet and stuff like that instead. )"    Some fine thoughts there !  
But I am still searching for the chord that I'v lost ! 

 kaybee wrote: 
Also I really like this album cover.  But the Moodies always did have cool album art.  Too bad Bill doesn't segue into "Eternity Road" the next song on this this album.

 Walking_Turtle wrote:
 
Me too.

I've always thought that this was the best Moody Blues album. 

Thank you, Bill!

 Walking_Turtle wrote: 
Fascism sucks, donit?

jagdriver wrote: 

 hippie wrote: 

On the other hand, hopefully your spelling will improve if you keep your eyes open.

 hippiechick wrote: 
Roger that.

cool album cover artwork...

 hippie wrote: 

Might be your first trip, but some of us went 40 years ago. I definitely don't need to go again.

 :)

I like Moody Blues quite a bit... but this song is extraordinarily "ho-hum" for them.

 Walking_Turtle wrote: 
I think that guy who won the Nobel in Chemistry for "inventing" the polymerase chain reaction tripped (trips?) a lot too.  I think now he just trips and surfs, which is probably way more fun than SCIENCE!

okay.  Evidence that "tripped" was not in the past tense at least as of 1992:
(wikipedia):

"In 1992, Mullis founded a business with the intent to sell pieces of jewelry containing the amplified DNA of deceased famous people like Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe.^{<6><7>"   references and everything}

I think I would PCR that Elvis DNA with some T.Rex DNA from amber and maybe try to make an Elvisaurus Rex.  The true king

And playing on the LRC - a song called "Went to See The Gypsy" What are the odds?

 westslope wrote: 
Probably much the same as I listen to now!  I envy you the lovely spring weather you folks in BC are no doubt getting now.  Today in T.O., we're getting sleet & snow! 

 HazzeSwede wrote: 
That fear passes.  Life Itself is better than that; all manner of Gummint psyoganda notwithstanding.

Um, acid and other such molecules were all quite legal once; some still remember.  The Moodies started publishing their work back then.  BTW, one must mention in passing that most of us did not self-destruct, freak/morph irretrievably into citrus fruit, die of venereal diseases, starve or land in in jail either.  (We mellowed and invented the Internet and stuff like that instead. )

Here's a hint if one may provide a bit:  Next time you see a shot on the Telly-Vision of that world-famous multiple-dish radiotelescope that the US SETI project uses for its probing of the stars for electromagnetic evidence of intelligent life, please remember this:  The only reason that wonderful phase-adjusted multiple-dish antenna array works at all and to this day is because the chief engineer on the (Kennedy-era as I remember it) project did indeed while thus employed by the US Gummint not only drop acid and trip right lively.  While There in That Space (so best to term it) he "went Tesla" on the core challenge of his work assignment.  In bottom-line net effect, he "saw" the complex phase relationships extant among the multip

So he scribbled the maths down longhand while he had them, and double-checked his insight a couple of days later.  Then proceeded and the whole shebbamg tuned right up first shot.  Been making history ever since.

Our insightful chief engineer, however, was ultimately made to forfeit his security clearance and on-site job.  The question of how he had conceived of such a brilliant solution without months and reams of theoretical computation and peer review had started to bother some higher-ups.  So he answered honestly, as described above.  It all came out, there was this war on all manner of drug-associated things just kicking butt all over the lot at a new level of profitable activity for Law Enforcement nationwide, and the dumbing-down of all the brilliance that had emerged during that brief - almost Atlantean - era  had already been noticed my the more observent ones. 

His firing made the papers and chilled many things right dead down, hard and bad.  The decline is by now self-evident to pretty much all.

The national de-education having proceeded apace from that time forward has produced all manner of  roils and rashes of antsy anti-artsy negative-connoted media-channel comment nowa(days, though.  These days, a full twenty percent of US high school grads are reported to be convinced that the sun circles the earth and not the other way around.  ('S the propaganda on the hearts 'n' minds, y'know.  Modern fact o' life.). 

But at least there is a little bitty happiness in the ending.  The Gummint kept the radiotelescope and has not improved upon the original phased-multiple-dish-array concept to this day.  That was Nixon's pragmatism, one might quasi-facetiously surmise.  Some might indeed aver that had it been Tha Prior Admin that'd had at it instead (big timewarp so hang on), the entire lab and array would have been ill-treated like Ramallah, any Gaza hamlet under cast Lead siege, or another Waco just to force the "drugfree" point.  (Thank Heaven for even the smallest of comforts!)

Enjoy the music!  I'll enjoy with you!  :)

 hippie wrote: 
And ones you get there,there is no way out but who needs that!!?

 kaybee wrote: 
Just imagine if you had been tripping on San Pedro cactus.  What would you have listened to?  

I will have to agree that the studio albums do not hold up over time unless you are a true fan.  But after seeing them many times in concert and aquiring some live albums, these guys can still rock.  If I am going to listen to the Moodys I will always reach for the live stuff.

Maybe I just dropped too much mescaline in my youth, but I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for the overwrought, bombastic yet gentle and heartfelt music of the Moody Blues.  This is one of my favourites off of what I think may be their best album.

The Moody Blues is one of those bands that I liked when I was teenager, but doesn't hold up over the last 30 years.

 LPCity wrote: 
It was.

 matchball wrote: 

"ARE YOU SERIOUS?"