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Posted: January 29 2013 at 22:56
I am wondering how anyone could argue against the Moody's progressiveness? DoFP is both conceptual and symphonic with repeating themes echoed between the orchestra and the band for the lenght of the album - a thing virtually unheard of in 1960s rock. And then there is the song cycle "Are You Sitting Comfortably"/"The Dream"/"Have You Heard" (Pt 1)/"The Voyage"/Have You Heard" (Pt 2) from Threshold of a Dream. Mike Pinder's mellotron composition is fantastic, and there is nothing better from that era mellotron-wise this side of In the Court of the Crimson King. Or "House of Four Doors"/"Legend of a Mind"/"House of Four Doors (Pt2) from In Search of the Lost Chord. Why is this even a question?
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Posted: January 30 2013 at 00:37
The early progressive bands and the genre itself became true prog with the arrival of ITCOTCK. THerefore I voted for "yes but only in the early days before KC." After that KC changed the game as to what was considered real prog.
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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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Posted: January 30 2013 at 07:33
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 07:34
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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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...
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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Were the Moody Blues ever a true prog band?
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Once upon a time, In your wildest dreams........NOT PROG 
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