The Moody Blues - This Is The Moody Blues poll

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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"

Bee OK, Tuesday, 23 November 2021 18:25 (two years ago) link

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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

two years pass...

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


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