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Snow Dog 
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I suppose everyone knows that ELP are one of my favourite bands by now. Were my very favourite in the seventies.
I love the Moodies too. But not as much. Nowhere near as much actually.
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jean-marie
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Posted: April 15 2011 at 07:39 |
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What a strange poll, these two bands are so much different, love both but the moodies did more good albums IMO, anyway i would never think comparing Emerson and Mike Pinder
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Posted: April 15 2011 at 07:41 |
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I'm going to vote for ELP. They are more varied, more fun and in the last couple of years I've really warmed to them, and listen to them a lot more than the Moody Blues.
I much prefer Justin Hayward as a singer to Greg Lake though. To our childrens, childrens, children is my fave MB album, and probably the only one I consider as good as my top ELP choice which would be Trilogy. |
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rematpac
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Posted: April 15 2011 at 08:32 |
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 If that's your reason,I think you'd be more comfortable listening to country/western than to prog.Progressive:(definition)-advocating progress,as in technology(2)progressing;advancing;improving.
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Posted: April 15 2011 at 09:12 |
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I love the Moodies.... but I love ELP much more
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I know what you mean about Question of Balance - brilliant opening track then it goes into this silly one that I forget the name of and it's all downhill from there.
Days of Future Passed and In Search of the Lost Chord are both excellent, but overall I prefer ELP.
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Posted: April 15 2011 at 11:29 |
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 (Just kidding!  )Well I'm obviously going to disagree with your assessment of The Moody Blues' music... ''soft, simple and folksong''? I would say that The Moodies' fame rests not on DOFP alone, but on the series of the core seven albums they released between 1967-72. The Moodies were a major influence on King Crimson, Mike Pinder revolutionised the Mellotron (its technology and its techniques), Ray Thomas likewise was a pathfinder for the flute in rock music. The Moodies also took the concept of the concept album to new heights. But enough already.
Now, are you saying that traditional music is in some way inferior to classical music. Interesting. That would be a good subject for a thread of its own. What about Western Art music that is based on traditional folk music? Tchaikovsky, Smetena, Sibelius, Grieg, Dvorak, Bartok (one of Emerson's favourites) among others all made use of traditional music.
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Posted: April 15 2011 at 11:40 |
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Ditto, although Pictures At An Exhibition was actually the first prog album I bought with my own money as a spotty teen. Still remember venturing into the big smoke (well, Glasgow city centre) to get it and BJH's Early Morning Onwards for the cost of one full-price album. Happy days! Before that it was T.Rex for me... and I always wanted corkscrew hair. Never did get that chopper either.
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Posted: April 15 2011 at 11:45 |
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^^^ Honorable mention for the Seventh Sojourn album. I think it's their second best after 'To our childrens...'
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Posted: April 15 2011 at 11:50 |
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Yes, I'm torn between those two myself.
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Of course I own the 7 core albums of The Moodies.I just listened to Seventh Sojourn about an hour ago,great album.I also own their 1st for it's historical importance and Long Diostance Voyager,a good comeback album.I am thinking of checking out Octave because Moraz being on it.I'll tell you what I think might make another great thread:just how incredibly many bands have a core of 7 studio albums.
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Snow Dog
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Posted: April 15 2011 at 13:12 |
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^Patrick Moraz isn't on Octave.
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Posted: April 15 2011 at 13:18 |
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Posted: April 15 2011 at 14:01 |
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 I guess I can" try" to understand if you think ELP are too showy(virtuoso)for your own personal tastes,but lacking emotion???Now I've heard everything! Which of their albums fails to take you through the entire gamut of human emotions to the utter most extreme?
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Posted: April 15 2011 at 14:18 |
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Mmmmm, it's hard. I really like both bands, but I choose MB.
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Posted: April 15 2011 at 14:25 |
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I like both of them, but im gonna have to vote ELP.
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Posted: April 15 2011 at 14:34 |
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Hi,
It's not a hard choice.
Moody Blues ... because ELP, by the time they hit the road, already were representing a part of the rock music world that became ugly, and was about the excesses and the abuses, rather than the music itself.
Granted, it was the time for abuses, excesses, drugs and what not ... but I'm not sure that it was necessary all around, and while a few of the pieces by ELP are very nice and meaningful, in the end, with the exception of a piece or two in each album, some of the stuff was not as enjoyable or as good for me. And in this sense, I thought that the Moody Blues were a bit more serious about their music and work, albeit I would agree that they tried to get "poetically cute" to get more attention ... but their first album is, in many ways, a much more important listen when it comes to the histroy of rock music ... because it really showed that young folks that played rock music could do some very nice and important things that were far more than just a radio song!
ELP, and I like and have the first several albums, is very nice ... and the "violence" they tend to do some things is very clear and a valid point and attitude in music and its expression ... however, after one kill ... it's a game?
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Posted: April 15 2011 at 14:41 |
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No it isn't a game. It's a band making music. Some may like it some may not. It was never a game.
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Posted: April 15 2011 at 14:45 |
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Close call, neither are my favorites, but I really enjoy both. Funny thing is, I haven't been listening for any of these bands for like 6 months, and then I put on an album by both of them yesterday. After my recent experience, I'll say Moody Blues, but it could be ELP tomorrow.
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Posted: April 15 2011 at 15:07 |
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 We don't listen to ELP 40 years later because Emerson stabbed his organ with knives,or he spun around on a grand piano while playing from a death-defying distance at the top of a coliseum,we listen to it today for it's music only which has stood the test of time very well.Sure ELP knew that it would unfortunately take more than their serious music to make it to the top of the Rock heap,but on their 1977 tour they went bankrupt ,lost their own record company,Manticore,and everything trying to take a full hand-picked orchestra on the road with them for their music's sake.Very few bands have taken their music more seriously,Emerson composing a serious Piano Concerto,which included using a 12-tone tone row in part of the composition because he wanted his composition to be taken seriously by classical composers as well and atonal music was still the style for classical composers at the time and almost a prerequisite back then.
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The only obvious reason I can think of that someone would ask for their preference between these 2 band's is the entirely completely disticntive styles between them.One is usually very hard-core, complex and classically oriented while the other is soft,simple and folksong like oriented.Most of The Moody Blues fame rests on it's ground-breaking Days of Future Past coming out in 1967 which clearly was far superior to Emerson's 1st album of that same year,The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack.Otherwise,I think a person would be hard-pressed to find any other band in history that could stand up to album's like Tarkus,Trilogy,Brain Salad Surgery,etc.