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Earthmover 
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 Posted: January 30 2013 at 13:26 |
 Prog_Traveller wrote:
I now have it opened for multiple votes but please don't vote more than twice.
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What's the point of the poll allowing multiple votes?
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Prog_Traveller
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Posted: January 30 2013 at 13:16 |
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I now have it opened for multiple votes but please don't vote more than twice.
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Prog_Traveller
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Posted: January 30 2013 at 13:11 |
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Jonathan
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Posted: January 30 2013 at 10:33 |
In my opinion they were one of the First Prog Rock Bands ever. If they aren't Prog then nothing is.
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twosteves
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Posted: January 30 2013 at 10:20 |
Maybe it's because as big a band as Moodies were--non of their albums show up in top 100---guess the group is not too popular on this site (but then again neither does legendary prog album Tales from Topographic Oceans  )
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The Doctor
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Posted: January 30 2013 at 09:54 |
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I don't see how anyone could consider their first seven (Hayward) albums anything but prog. Even Octave and Long Distance Voyager still had some remnants of prog, although after that, the prog aspects were pretty much gone from their music. But their first seven albums are classic prog.
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I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you?
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digdug
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Posted: January 30 2013 at 09:22 |
Snow Dog wrote:
^Now that is a Prog band. |
You always were a Moody dude Snow Dog 
Yes, the Moody blues are Prog, I say yes
and so are yes 
Edited by digdug - January 30 2013 at 13:08
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Prog On!
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HolyMoly
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Posted: January 30 2013 at 08:45 |
Snow Dog wrote:
^Now that is a Prog band. |
Good one.
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Prog Sothoth
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Posted: January 30 2013 at 08:39 |
Slartibartfast wrote:
Oh they can't possibly be prog if they don't have metal in the music. 
I think you can pretty much predict where people will come down on this based on how much they like metal...
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The biggest slice of pie in my review chart is actually extreme/tech metal, so there are exceptions to that theory. Love The Moodies, particularly OTTOAD and TOCCC.
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Snow Dog
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Posted: January 30 2013 at 08:35 |
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^Now that is a Prog band.
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digdug
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Posted: January 30 2013 at 08:30 |
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Yes, I say, Yes
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Snow Dog
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Posted: January 30 2013 at 08:12 |
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Not really.
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: January 30 2013 at 07:43 |
Oh they can't possibly be prog if they don't have metal in the music. I think you can pretty much predict where people will come down on this based on how much they like metal...
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Dean
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Posted: January 30 2013 at 07:34 |
Hercules wrote:
If you were alive and listening to music in the late 60s (and I was) you would know that the Moodies were one of the bands that defined the genre.
So - yes, uneqivocally. |
Absolutely.
You guys can't keep trying to re-write history just because it doesn't fit with your modern interpretations of what is and what isn't Prog Rock. You can't make stuff up either. What happened, happened; what was, was.
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HolyMoly
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Posted: January 30 2013 at 07:33 |
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There is a distinction between "prog" the style and "progressive" the adjective. That said, I've been a lifelong Moody Blues fan (literally; I was listening to them daily at age 4) and I see their first four (not counting the Denny Laine period, natch) albums as crucial building blocks for what would become "prog" the style (exemplified by Crimson's first album). However, I do believe that all of their "big seven" albums are progressive (the adjective). Subtle difference, but one I've come to accept here.
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Posted: January 30 2013 at 07:28 |
Yes.
Definitely concerning their late 60s releases. Even their early 70s stuff had prog elements intact ("One More Time To Live" for sure, "Isn't Life Strange" to some extent)
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someone_else
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Posted: January 30 2013 at 02:56 |
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Proto-prog at least. Days of Future Passed and In Search of the Lost Chord were imho progressive enough to justify their inclusion in PA.
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Hercules
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Posted: January 30 2013 at 02:49 |
If you were alive and listening to music in the late 60s (and I was) you would know that the Moodies were one of the bands that defined the genre.
So - yes, uneqivocally.
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Tom Ozric
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Posted: January 30 2013 at 02:00 |
Timothy Leary's dead - "no no no no, he's outside, looking in".......... PROG 
Once upon a time, In your wildest dreams........NOT PROG 
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ProgMetaller2112
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Were the Moody Blues ever a true prog band?
