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Kentucky_Hawkwindage 
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 Posted: April 05 2014 at 19:02 |
If forced upon me i'd rather listen to The Moody Blues-thus i cast my vote for MB's
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Posted: April 05 2014 at 19:54 |
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Both are a bit overrated Though I don't actually own Days, and thus have only heard it a couple of times.
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Posted: April 06 2014 at 01:04 |
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Moodies
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uduwudu
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Posted: April 06 2014 at 01:51 |
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Moodies album. Neither are perfect, Days is dated (in the poetry) but it's concept is clear (unlike Pepper). Both are '67 releases, both very contemporary. I suppose the best one can get from both is A Day In The Life (first class piece) and Tuesday Nights in White Satin (sic), also first class.
Good poll choice!
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Posted: April 06 2014 at 05:55 |
 uduwudu wrote:
Moodies album. Neither are perfect, Days is dated (in the poetry) but it's concept is clear (unlike Pepper). Both are '67 releases, both very contemporary. I suppose the best one can get from both is A Day In The Life (first class piece) and Tuesday Nights in White Satin (sic), also first class.
Good poll choice!
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Yeah, the poetry on DOFP is quite mediocre, and too obvious. Not sure why they kept at it for so long - only exciting the first time round IMO 
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Posted: April 06 2014 at 05:58 |
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Moody Blues. Easy choice.
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Posted: April 06 2014 at 12:14 |
Xonty wrote:
Both albums released in 1967, more towards classic music than psychedelic pop and very important precursors to progressive music. Simply, which is better?...
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Between the two albums, some 45 years later, I prefer the Moody Blues album.
Why is difficult to explain, but goes like this.
Sgt Peppers is a potpourri of songs that might not, necessarily connect to anything else, but the fact that they have some weirdness that connects them! Conceptually, it is about everything and anything that you set your mind to, and honestly, to me, that is bothersome. Oh yeah, you are conceptual and intelligent because of all the faces in the cover, not because of anything else.
From a flow perspective, the Moodies album is one of the prettiest ever done, and deserves the credit and adulation that it is given, and even though it is a massive romantic album (so un-progressive for "prog" folks!) that is really well done, and the orchestral stuff done is top knotch and beautifully done, and only Mike Oldfield, has come anywhere near that quality of work with an orchestra.
For my tastes, the Moodies win, even though after that album they became just a rock'n'roll band, which kinda undermined the strength of the first album a whole lot in my book. In the Beatles situation it was an obvious improvement on previous material away from the pop music mentality that radio had at the time for them and everyone else. Meaningless and mindless music!
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Posted: April 06 2014 at 12:41 |
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Not a huge fan of Sgt. Pepper, but haven't heard the Moody album.
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Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
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Posted: April 06 2014 at 13:43 |
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sgt. pepper
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Posted: April 07 2014 at 06:55 |
Tough choice, DOFP has some brilliant songs (Tuesday Afternoon in particular) but the orchestral sections need to be more integrated with the band songs and some of them sound a bit cheesy now. As for the poetry...
Overall, I'd have to go for Sgt Pepper. Just.
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Posted: April 07 2014 at 13:28 |
The Days Of Future Passed, a delightful album. Still, Sgt Pepper has a lot to offer.
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Posted: April 08 2014 at 01:08 |
Pepper, if only for "A Day In The Life".
Both albums are pretty good, BTW>
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moshkito
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Posted: April 08 2014 at 09:53 |
Horizons wrote:
Not a huge fan of Sgt. Pepper, but haven't heard the Moody album. |
For today's rock audience that has heard metal, hard music, punk, grundge and what not, the Moody Blues album will sound pretty sappy, washy and some folks might even call it dumb. But for the time when it came out, it was unbelievably good, and adventurous as most radio music was simply crap, just like today's with cheap DAW work done, to make you think it's good. Some think a bit of the poetry is not necessary, but being a writer I have no problem with my expression being this way, and yours that way.
But with its orchestral arrangements, it is magnificently done, and something that has never really been duplicated since, within a context that made sense and was original. The romanticism of the poetry, the orchestration and a rock band, was massive. Today, no one would give a poop about it and PA would trash it senselessly as pretentious!
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Posted: April 08 2014 at 10:00 |
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Yea I'd prolly end up calling it those things. Which is why I avoid it.
I'm not one to judge an albums quality by its influence.
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Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
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Posted: April 09 2014 at 12:14 |
It is impossible to love prog without loving the album from whence progressive rock sprung forth fully imagined, as did Athena from the forehead of Zeus.
(Hint: That album was not recorded by a group named for insects.)
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Posted: December 31 2014 at 21:44 |
dr wu23 wrote:
Both are great albums and I don't believe that one is 'better' than the other.
I think that Pepper was probably more influential, but I play the Moody Blues more these days.
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Couldn't say it any better myself !!
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Posted: December 31 2014 at 23:12 |
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dude, Sgt. Pepper, getting the HUGE home run right out of the ball park. why? to me, it's the best album ever made without question.
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Posted: December 31 2014 at 23:25 |
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I am a Beatle freak. To me they are the alpha and omega. Oddly though I will choose Days of Future Passed. Both were influential so I will set that aside. Pepper is great but I find other Beatles albums much more satisfying. The Moodies created a thing of beauty that still pleases every time I hear it.
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Posted: January 01 2015 at 00:35 |
Sgt Peppers changed the world and get's my vote by a mile 
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Posted: January 01 2015 at 05:30 |
Interesting one!
Two great albums I've played to death. I was tempted to vote for Sgt Pepper because of its huge influence. But, for me, while the album's first six tracks are particularly superb it loses it somewhat until the stunning finale with A Day in the Life. The Moodies is strong throughout (except the poetry twaddle).
For once, no vote!
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