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Poll Question: Were the Moody Blues ever a true prog band?
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Points: 1509 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 30 2013 at 13:26
Originally posted by Prog_Traveller Prog_Traveller wrote:

I now have it opened for multiple votes but please don't vote more than twice.
What's the point of the poll allowing multiple votes?
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Points: 1474 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 30 2013 at 13:16
I now have it opened for multiple votes but please don't vote more than twice.
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Points: 1474 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 30 2013 at 13:11
Originally posted by ProgMetaller2112 ProgMetaller2112 wrote:

Originally posted by Prog_Traveller Prog_Traveller wrote:

I love cute blonde girls who like prog who live in far away countries I'll probably never visit.  Tongue


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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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Points: 4091 		Direct Link To This Post 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 OceansLOL)
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Points: 8543 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 30 2013 at 09:54
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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Points: 4707 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 30 2013 at 09:22
Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

^Now that is a Prog band.

You always were a Moody dude Snow Dog  Smile

Yes, the Moody blues are Prog,  I say yes

and so are yes  Wink


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Prog On!
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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

^Now that is a Prog band.
LOL Good one.
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Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Oh they can't possibly be prog if they don't have metal in the music. Tongue

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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^Now that is a Prog band.
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Yes, I say, Yes
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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 30 2013 at 08:12
Not really. 
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Oh they can't possibly be prog if they don't have metal in the music. Tongue

I think you can pretty much predict where people will come down on this based on how much they like metal...
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 30 2013 at 07:34
Originally posted by Hercules 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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Points: 26138 		Direct Link To This Post 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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Points: 1940 		Direct Link To This Post 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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Points: 24315 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 30 2013 at 02:56
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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Points: 7024 		Direct Link To This Post 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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Points: 15921 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 30 2013 at 02:00
Timothy Leary's dead - "no no no no, he's outside, looking in".......... PROG Thumbs Up
Once upon a time, In your wildest dreams........NOT PROG Thumbs Down
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Points: 3145 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 30 2013 at 00:40
Originally posted by Prog_Traveller Prog_Traveller wrote:

I love cute blonde girls who like prog who live in far away countries I'll probably never visit.  Tongue


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