they're very albumy albums
Yes they are, they begin very theatrically, with spoken word and big orchestral crescendos and whatnot, and end similarly. Lots of lovely segues between songs as well. I wanted to own all the albums individually at the time (my best friend's older brother had them all) but as a kid on a budget this comp really hit most of the high points. Thanks to this thread I'm now relistening to the complete albums for the first time in ages.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Monday, 22 November 2021 21:58 (two years ago) link
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― System, Tuesday, 23 November 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link
As I mentioned above, this is the album I listened to through high school, so I had never heard "Go Now" until probably the early '80s--it wasn't anything that still got played on the radio. (And I didn't year Bessie Banks' original until years after that; it ended one episode of some history of rock and roll I was watching.) Anyway, it'd be pretty close for me between "Go Now" and "Tuesday Afternoon" if they were both on this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2L3UzM_FfE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prlWGe2EHro
Nice live version by the Wings in '76 on YouTube also, with Denny Laine singing lead.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 23 November 2021 01:06 (two years ago) link
this was a great listen and i am going to have to check out their albums
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 23 November 2021 18:25 (two years ago) link
i could have voted for five or six different songs but in the end it was "Never Comes the Day"
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― System, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link
surprised "Question" only got one vote, it's kind of a perfect song in a way
― frogbs, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 03:10 (two years ago) link
That was mine…
Then again, not many votes here overall
― Mark G, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 07:03 (two years ago) link
Legend of Mind here. So expansive and dreamy, one of the songs that made me fall in love with psych. I now realize that as pre-internet 14 year old, it was a few years before I learned who Timothy Leary was. As the song enveloped me I just assumed he was another quirky chappy like Arnold Layne or Happy Jack or Walter in "Do You Remember Walter"
― the plant based god (bendy), Wednesday, 24 November 2021 14:44 (two years ago) link
Repeatedly, I have always loved this song from the Hayward/Lodge album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bheNRb3D0I
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 23:59 (two years ago) link
(Clearly I meant “relatedly,” but I have also listened to this song many times over)For this list, it probably would’ve been Never Comes the Day as well. I am a big sucker for the stately Hayward ballads.
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 25 November 2021 00:20 (two years ago) link
I'm always surprised by who I meet who turns out to be a big Moody Blues fan. A straight-edge punk I knew in high school loved In Search Of The Lost Chord and insisted that our punk band take a high-speed run at "Legend Of A Mind." Had to convince our singer that "Timothy Leary's dead..." was sufficiently anti-hippie (ha!) and in the end we sounded a little like Nazz Nomad-era The Damned. Wish I had that recording.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 26 November 2021 08:59 (two years ago) link
Not exactly the same thing but close:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvQXuFj1Kc4
― clemenza, Friday, 26 November 2021 10:07 (two years ago) link
i voted for this.
clearly someone is enjoying themselves a lot more than the others.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68OXtuxKRr4
― mark e, Sunday, 28 November 2021 21:58 (two years ago) link
How do all 5 of them look like game show hosts
― frogbs, Sunday, 28 November 2021 21:59 (two years ago) link
I voted in this, "Tuesday Afternoon," but I'd forgotten how great the co-winner "Lovely to See" is. Actually, I think I may have always underappreciated it and just realized that now (found a thrift-shop CD of On the Threshold of a Dream). Swear to god, all that guitar interplay could be the Jefferson Airplane, and it's an oddly perfect setting for their proper English voices.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiHUAVZf_FY
― clemenza, Friday, 1 March 2024 19:21 (one month ago) link