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Wed Jun-15-05 04:33 PM
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Poll question: Your favorite Moody Blues song |
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Wed Jun-15-05 04:35 PM
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but my brother's is Are You Sitting Comfortably.
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Wed Jun-15-05 07:29 PM
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32. "Are You Sitting Comfortably" |
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That's one of my favorites along with "Lovely To See You".
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Wed Jun-15-05 07:52 PM
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34. My brother is a big fan of Arthurian legend. |
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The imagery in Comfortably is nothing but Arthurian. He wants to play that at his wedding this fall but is getting some flack over it (he's having a RenFest wedding and right now the RenFest organizers don't approve of the song since it's not "period").
And now I can hear Lovely to See You playing through my head.
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Wed Jun-15-05 04:35 PM
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Wed Jun-15-05 04:38 PM
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3. You and Me from Seventh Sojourn |
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There's a leafless tree in Asia, Under the sun there's a homeless man, There's a forest fire in the valley Where the story all began.
What will be our last thought, Do you think it's coming soon, Will it be of comfort Or the pain of a burning wound?
All we are trying to say Is we are all we've got. You and me just cannot fail If we never, never stop. Ah! Never stop.
You're an ocean full of faces And you know that we believe We're just a wave that drifts around you Singing all our hopes and dreams.
We look around in wonder At the work that has been done By the vision of our Father Touched by his loving Son.
All we are trying to say Is we are all we've got. You and me just cannot fail If we never, never stop.
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Wed Jun-15-05 04:39 PM
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Wed Jun-15-05 04:51 PM
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10. Graeme Edge/Justin Hayward |
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Wed Jun-15-05 05:55 PM
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24. Damn. I forgot about that one! |
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There are really too many to choices.
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Wed Jun-15-05 04:39 PM
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5. The Voice is one of my all time favorite songs |
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Talking out of turn is another
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Wed Jun-15-05 04:43 PM
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but it's hard to choose a favorite....
I'm just a Singer in a Rock 'n Roll Band meant a lot to me in the past.......
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Wed Jun-15-05 04:45 PM
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7. I Know You're Out There Somewhere |
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Pure 80's sap. I love it.
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Wed Jun-15-05 04:45 PM
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8. "The Story in Your Eyes" |
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Wed Jun-15-05 04:55 PM
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It's got perfect rock & roll chord changes, and it rocks the best of any MB tune, IMO.
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Wed Jun-15-05 04:57 PM
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13. We are in perfect agreement |
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especially about the chord changes. Do you like America? I know they get a bad wrap, but I absolutely love playing their songs on guitar.
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Wed Jun-15-05 05:00 PM
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15. I never understood the dislike for them on this board, but I really don't |
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know much of their music, except for the couple of big hits they had. During the time they were big, I was doing mostly R&B, which back then was Memphis-style soul music.
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Wed Jun-15-05 05:06 PM
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17. If only I could play like Steve Cropper |
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Wed Jun-15-05 05:09 PM
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19. Yeah, all the Booker T. Stuff, Otis, Willie Mitchell, Wayne Cochran, |
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all that stuff was sort of a high point for me in American popular music. I've moved on to other music now, but "soul music" has always been a big influence for me.
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Wed Jun-15-05 05:16 PM
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20. Is Willie Mitchell the Al Green guy? |
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If so, I love his stuff too.
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Wed Jun-15-05 05:21 PM
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21. As a matter of fact, I think he did indeed produce Al Green. But he had |
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his own very different style in the '50s and '60s, more like Otis Redding's older stuff.
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Wed Jun-15-05 05:45 PM
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22. I'll have to check him out |
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Any recommendations about where to start?
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Wed Jun-15-05 06:24 PM
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27. I remember "20-75" and "Soul Serenade" as a couple of his best-known tunes |
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Wed Jun-15-05 07:03 PM
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31. Thanks. I'll check iTunes. |
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Wed Jun-15-05 05:55 PM
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How can anyone really pick just one?
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Wed Jun-15-05 08:30 PM
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This is a great song. I saw them a few years back and was amazed at how good they sounded so many years later. When they did Nights in White Satin that night it sounded just like the record. It gave me shivers.
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Wed Jun-15-05 04:47 PM
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Wed Jun-15-05 05:02 PM
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16. I recall taking my girlfriend (now wife).. |
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to a MB concert. She told a friend prior to going that she was going to see some blues band. :rofl:
Once she started hearing the music, she sang most of the lyrics. She did not know the band's name, but knew the music.
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Wed Jun-15-05 08:12 PM
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I haven't listened to that song in years but in high school I pracyically wore out Threshhold of a Dream.
The lyrics on Never Comes the Day are very good but I love the way the way the music is laid out.
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Wed Jun-15-05 04:59 PM
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14. They never made a bad song, but "Tuesday Afternoon" |
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will always be my favorite!
:smoke:
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Wed Jun-15-05 05:08 PM
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The Moody Blues were the first band I boughts albums by, and "Days of Future Passed" the first lp I bought, mainly because of "Forever Afternoon? (Tuesday)"...The djs on this one station I used to listen to would play the entire album track instead of the single version, which faded out halfway through the song...
I liked the weird sounds they could make, which I found out was due to the mellotron, "Legend of a Mind" and "The Best Way to Travel" being two more songs I loved.
I also like "And the Tide Rushes In" by Ray Thomas from "A Question of Balance" and "Watching and Waiting" from "To Our Children's Children's Children"...also the Graeme Edge compositions that usually started off their albums...Plus the Mike Pinder opuses like "My Song", "Have You Heard/The Voyage", and "Melancholy Man"...Plus John Lodge knew how to write some pretty rocking songs, like "Ride My SeeSaw", "To Share Our Love", "Peak Hour", oh I'm sure there are more..."The Actor" from "In Search of the Lost Chord" is another great song...
My favorite album by them is "Every Good Boy Deserves Favor"...
I don't care for their "reunion" lps, starting with "Octave", but the first seven lps are all great (or at least good, "Seventh Sojourn " was a bit of a letdown for me when it came out, after waiting for it for two years!
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Wed Jun-15-05 05:53 PM
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It's hard to pick out a song, because those early LPs were more than the sum of their parts. A particular song might have been so-so songwise, but it would have this fantastic sound in it, or just a snippet of lyric, that would become part of the aura of the whole album.
If I had to pick just one it would probably have to be "Story in Your Eyes".
And they lost a lot when they lost Mike Pinder.
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Wed Jun-15-05 05:59 PM
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26. I need to ask my dad. |
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MB is his favorite band. He sees them every time that he can go and he has everything that he can get his hands on by them.
For Father's Day he's getting a poster of the album cover from Go Now from my brother. We're having it framed for him. He'll love it for his rec room.
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Wed Jun-15-05 06:35 PM
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Their first single....
Bad ass song. That is my vote
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Wed Jun-15-05 06:44 PM
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30. "Go Now" was a great song |
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And sadly, always forgotten on the many Moody Blues compilations.
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Wed Jun-15-05 06:42 PM
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That song has ALWAYS moved me almost to tears, and to tell you the truth, I don't know why.
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Wed Jun-15-05 07:44 PM
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33. Sir, you ask the IMPOSSIBLE! |
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It's like trying to choose between the DoubleMint twins... it is a theoretical impossibility. My FINAL answer:ALL of the above, and then some... ALL of them. d
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Wed Jun-15-05 08:05 PM
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I'll give honorable mention to Gemini Dream, Veteran Cosmic Rocker, and I Know You're Out There Somewhere.
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Wed Jun-15-05 08:09 PM
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36. I had to vote for Timothy Leary's Dead...... |
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"no, no no no he's outside...looking in....."
but so many others are my favorite too....:D
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