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What genere do The Moody Blues fit in?

mhardy6647 said:
Just to be clear - I do like 'em... but, objectively, they're a little corny, y'know, from the perspective of "modern times" ;-)

Timothy Leary's dead
No, no-no, no,
He's outside
Looking in
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Dated? Maybe. Corny? No. Tim and LSD may not be what they use to be, but I never tire of hearing that song!


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musichal said:
Just call it rock and be done with it; don't get hung up on labels.

I had a friend who was a very good singer and songwriter who occasionally performed live in his living room for his friends. He was too insecure to make anything of his abilities, and when coaxed into playing at a supper-club utterly failed due to a complete lack of people skills.

The first time I heard him play, I asked who wrote a specific song and was surprised that it was his own. I asked him what it was titled.

"I haven't titled it yet...still thinking about it."

"Oh, well when did you write it?"

"About fifteen years ago."

"Damn, Bob, that's a great song; why don't you just go ahead and give it a title?" and I continued to urge him, and to make obvious suggestions, explaining moreover that had I written a song that good, I'd certainly have titled it by now.

"Your 'Rainy Day Pictures' is pretty good."

"Now you're just trying to change the subject. You've had fifteen years to think about it, why not go ahead and give it a name tonight?"

"Hey, that's just too much pressure for me; I need more time, ease up, okay?" he replied with a laugh. Bob certainly wasn't hung up on labels, nor even titles, for that matter.
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Wow! You nearly described me! I've chickened out of being on at least 3 albums with verious artists! Put me in front of more than one person and I lose it, can't even remember my name or anything. I've tried playing live twice, formally, can't handle it.
 
I have been a huge fan of the Moody Blues since 1969 I have their entire discography. I always just put the Blues in their own file. What genera they where depends on the release. The most important dates are pre-hiatus, and post-Hiatus. During the hiatus the individual members released some really good stuff, I will not get into them here. If you want to listen to a release composed in part by Graeme Edge, and Ray Thomas listen to the soundtrack to the IMAX movie Journey Into Amazing Caves. (2001) it may be as good as Days of Future Passed, see what you think :yes:


Rock-n-Roll
The Magnificent Moodies 1965,. Titled "Go Now" in it's American release. (this LP just flat sucks, this wasn't the MB's fault Decca was a royal "A" hole play it our way or the highway at the time :thumbsdn: :puke:)

Days of Future Passed through Seventh Sojourn are known as
the "Core 7" releases which are the very best the MB produced.

(Symphonic rock)
Days of Future Passed (1967)

Psychedelic rock
In Search of the Lost Chord (1969)
On the Threshold of a Dream (1969)
To Our Children's Children's Children (1970)
A Question of Balance (1970)
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (1971)
Seventh Sojourn (1972)

Progressive Rock)
Octave (1978)
Long Distance Voyager (1981)
The Present (1983)
The Other Side of Life (1986)
Sur la Mer (1988)
Keys of the Kingdom (1991)
Strange Times (1999)
December (2003)
 
withmusic said:
Wow! You nearly described me! I've chickened out of being on at least 3 albums with various artists! Put me in front of more than one person and I lose it, can't even remember my name or anything. I've tried playing live twice, formally, can't handle it.
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Don't feel alone so many new age artists are this way. Beautiful stuff out of their studio's but don't ask them to do it in public, of course a lot of their works are difficult to perform in public. When I was performing in public at first I was nervous but I learned to submerge myself in the music so completely especially the old stuff with period instruments of the 16th and 17th century I was almost in a Zen state of meditation.
 
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The story of the MB temporary separation was interesting. The Core 7 releases had a decided metaphysical flavor to them and the band started to be regarded in a religious way with people actually asking for spiritual blessings as if the band members where holymen, and at the same time they had the feeling they were losing control of the band. This really scared them and the only way they felt they could end this was to suspend the Moody Blues as a group.
 
transmaster said:
The story of the MB temporary separation was interesting. The Core 7 releases had a decided metaphysical flavor to them and the band started to be regarded in a religious way with people actually asking for spiritual blessings as if the band members where holymen, and at the same time they had the feeling they were losing control of the band. This really scared them and the only way they felt they could end this was to suspend the Moody Blues as a group.
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You have got to be kidding me. I cannot believe the ideas of some.

Just as an aside, I got a lift early one morning (about 6.30am) after a party in 1966 with Mike Pinder who drove a 3.5 Rover, it was in Essex, who had just been to a party hosted by Chas Chandler (Animals) in London, who introduced everyone there to (loud drum role please - louder) Jimi Hendrix.

Chas Chandler had become a manager/talent scout on the break up of the Animals and while in the states bagged Mr Hendrix.
 
transmaster said:
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Rock-n-Roll
The Magnificent Moodies 1965,. Titled "Go Now" in it's American release. (this LP just flat sucks, this wasn't the MB's fault Decca was a royal "A" hole play it our way or the highway at the time :thumbsdn: :puke:)

Days of Future Passed through Seventh Sojourn are known as
the "Core 7" releases which are the very best the MB produced.

(Symphonic rock)
Days of Future Passed (1967)

Psychedelic rock
In Search of the Lost Chord (1969)
On the Threshold of a Dream (1969)
To Our Children's Children's Children (1970)
A Question of Balance (1970)
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (1971)
Seventh Sojourn (1972)

Progressive Rock)
Octave (1978)
Long Distance Voyager (1981)
The Present (1983)
The Other Side of Life (1986)
Sur la Mer (1988)
Keys of the Kingdom (1991)
Strange Times (1999)
December (2003)
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I'm good with that; but if I wanted to simplify: Progressive Rock :)
 
bogle111 said:
Just as an aside, I got a lift early one morning (about 6.30am) after a party in 1966 with Mike Pinder who drove a 3.5 Rover, it was in Essex, who had just been to a party hosted by Chas Chandler (Animals) in London, who introduced everyone there to (loud drum role please - louder) Jimi Hendrix.

Chas Chandler had become a manager/talent scout on the break up of the Animals and while in the states bagged Mr Hendrix.
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Wow! Mike Pinder, and Chas Chandler there is a musical powerhouse from the time; now that is cool. I had similar experience. A now passed on friend of mine who was a jazzist, Studio musician, and sometime radio DJ came to pick me up because he had somebody he wanted me to meet. We got to a local motel here Cheyenne, here were these two guys that looked to be about 10 feet tall and 8 feet across, muscles on muscles in dark suits standing on either side of a door. Eddie told them who he was and they knocked on the door to this room and announced Eddie. We walked and and there was Chuck Mangione. Chuck explained Eddy! how you doing!, and I was introduced. I remember thinking at the time "Wow Eddie really does know all of these people.


bogle111 said:
You have got to be kidding me. I cannot believe the ideas of some.
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The Moody Blues actually had people who would intercept them get down on in their hands and knees to ask for a blessing. It is to the groups lasting credit they didn't take advantage of the situation.
 
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LordOfTRings said:
I'm good with that; but if I wanted to simplify: Progressive Rock :)
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I honestly don't have any of my files index by genera. When I am editing a tag I will enter it in but that is all. When you mention something like Orchestral Metal, or Dark Tribal Ambient almost everybody will give you a blank stare. Of course with a lot of the artists I have I get a blank stare anyway. :D
 
Has anyone offered the possibility that the Moodys were "Baroque Pop"?
I'd say they fit that genre.
 
They fit the genre that PBS now uses during pledge drives, to attract viewers of a certain age, who remember listening to them, but haven't in years.
 
elcoholic said:
I dunno how to categorize without going berserk so I lump all Rock together as I do with Jazz. So much hair splitting gets in the way of my just enjoying the music. If there was a "Thoughtful, Life-Affirming Prog For Headphones" sub-genre then that's where I'd put them, but rowrbazzle said it very well.

What I do know is that these words from Threshold have served me well over the years in surviving the corporate jungle:

There you go man, keep as cool as you can.
Face piles
And piles
Of trials
With smiles.
It riles them to believe
that you perceive
the web they weave
And keep on thinking free.
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Wow, you did good there elco I completely agree. Their music gave me wisdom, and as funky as that sounds, its these little gems that get us through the day!

These lyrics give us hope!

A bygone era, a different time, but they were there! So, they told it better than most! I respect that . . . .
 
chicks said:
They fit the genre that PBS now uses during pledge drives, to attract viewers of a certain age, who remember listening to them, but haven't in years.
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Good call. We're getting near the era when bands like the Moody Blues are what residents will be asking to listen to at the nursing home. Certainly in another 10 years after all the Sha Na Na and Elvis fans have passed.
 
elcoholic said:
What I do know is that these words from Threshold have served me well over the years in surviving the corporate jungle:

There you go man, keep as cool as you can.
Face piles
And piles
Of trials
With smiles.
It riles them to believe
that you perceive
the web they weave
And keep on thinking free.
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A wonderful day for passing my way...

Thanks for that man. Made me put the LP on, and its been too long.
 
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