mrgus wrote:

Your sister returned a birthday gift...?????

Pfff....!

So nice to hear this today!

robh wrote:
Yes, it is certainly deary.

My brother and I saw the Moody Blues back in the 80's. The Fixx was opening up for them. There were 2 younger girls sitting in front of us and asked us who the Moody Blues were. We told them they should stick around and find out.

My sister liked "Go Now" so in '69 for her b-day I bought her "In Search...", not having heard the album. She hated it and gave it back to me. As an 18 year old whose main musical influence were Beach Boys and Motown-it changed my musical life(also influenced some of my extracurricular activities)..

One of the first pioneers of Progressive Rock.

Come on Cleveland put them into the RnR Hall Of Fame

I'm sorry but this is deary.

Giselle62 wrote:
The Moodys aren't really psychedelic, though they include aspects. They were a category unto themselves- art rock, progressive, bits of classical...

Their double album This Is The Moody Blues is outstanding, picking up cool tunes from their major albums and streaming them together. I listened to it a lot for about ten years, though I don't currently own a copy, for what that's worth. I don't think "cheesy" when I hear tracks from it, but "pretentious" comes to mind occasionally.

Saw them live a couple years ago in Oakland, CA. It was a good show, if somewhat low-energy.

Cynaera wrote:


I'm a little younger, so I didn't get the MB until I hit college in 1987. My old roommate turned me on to them. We used to stay up in our dormroom at night, pouring over her vinyl, album covers and MB lyrics. I fell in love with Justin Hayward. Time stood still. Magic days of good friendship, poetry, writing and music. Life was good...

isayhoomhom wrote:


You saw them on an off night. I've seen them three times...in CT, MA and NC. They were always magic...
By the way, I used to live in Newtown. Hello, neighbor!

Everything that Fleet Foxes wishes they could be. . . but sadly, can only simulate, albeit quite poorly. . .

Very nice set there, Bill: Habib Kolte, then this, and then follow it with "Bread and Wine" by Cowboy Junkies.

Love this piece and wish that Bill would allow it to extend into the segue to "the Actor" - one of my favourite Moody Blues songs that is not often played anywhere.

I think most people who were listening to progressive rock in the 70's (and earlier!) have their own special Moody Blues memory. Mine is of staying at a friend's house temporarily while I looked for a job and tried to decide what to do with my life after California. She had shelves and shelves of books - everything from archaeology to the complete hardbound collection of Harlan Ellison. I spent a lot of time reading, drinking Café Vienna (her decadence of choice) and listening to the Moody Blues. Brief but good memories of that time...

And I still love the Moodies. I think I appreciate them more than ever, now that I'm in my fifties and have heard a wealth of other music that can't even come close to what they accomplished in their tenure.

I honestly don't know how I'd survive this life without music in it...

To those of you who love Psychedelic music; is this album considered good (if cheesy?)
Or really too dated and cheesy for most people to like?
I can stand some datedness and sort of liked the "OM" song I heard yesterday in the coffeshop. Hadn't heard most of this before.

My Dad is like the biggest Moody Blues fan... he was playing them for us one night and my wife said, "they're pretty dramatic". He disagreed... later that night on PBS, there they are, the whole orchestra, Royal Albert Hall, Ride My See Saw, WOW, very cool, I almost peed my pants! We chuckle every time we hear a MB song... any band that uses a gong, I think it's safe to say there is some drama. Thanks Dad!

I saw the Moodys in 1989 at the Mann in Philadelphia and it was one of the few truly awful shows I've seen. Weak...anemic...with two dippy background vocalists singing Nights in White Satin as if it were a Britney Spears tune. John Lodge played about every other note of his original bass lines. Sad and disappointing.

And I really like their old albums.

Saw some of the Albert Hall concert on IPTV last week. The guys still sound great!

The best! Definitely one of my desert island albums.

...memories, nice memories, sad memories, soft memories, sounds of a summer afternoon in the countryside, grey days of rain trying to learn not knowing why, breathless bicycle rides against the wind, moments of eternity, visions of Paradise - I was listening to this song constantly - no mp3 player at that time, just the natural device call ... memory