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Moody Blues or ELP
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Poll Question: Which do you prefer?
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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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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 Confused
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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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Like em both but it has to be ELP for me...
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The moody blues!They are less technical.
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LOLThe 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.
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Two bands I think are OK, but not very high on my lists of favourites. ELP by a thin margin. Must however credit the Moody Blues to be among the first few prog recordings I discovered (in search of the lost chord).
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ELP are my favourite band.
 
The only Moody Blues album I own is Question and I never manage to get very far past the opening track. I used to have Days Of Future Passed which is a very important seminal work but not nowadays a favourite of mine.
btw Justin Hayward is from my home town of Swindon along with Rick Davies of Supertramp and the new wave band XTC. Just thought I would throw that in!
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EP&P, Tarkus and Trilogy are all 5 star albums for me. Brian Salad Surgery starts the descent into self indulgence so one star taken off for me.
On the other hand the early Moody Blues albums are a mixture of syrupy 60's pop with a bit of psychedelic pop thrown in for good measure. I like Days of Future Passed but the full orchestra makes it a bit like listening to Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf. The Moody's best album for me is Seventh Sojourn but it's not in the same class as any of the first four ELP recordings.  
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The Moodies.  Though I never really listen to either band anymore I must say they are much better.  I used to absolutely LOVE ELP's S/T and Pictures, and still do, however the Moody Blue's have WAY more good albums as well as more feel.  Sometimes ELP was too showy and emotionally lacking for my tastes and I only like those two albums, plus the SONG Tarkus.  Whereas ELP has Days of Future Passed, In Search of the Lost Chord, Seventh Sojourn,  On the Threshold, To Our Children's Children, Every Good Boy Deserves Favor, and others, as well as the John Lodge and Ray Thomas collaboration Blue Jay.  

Just listen to Seventh Sojourn or In Search of the Lost Chord and you'll see that it tops everything ELP ever released.  


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ELP, on the strength of Tarkus and Trilogy.
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The Moody Blues, particularly their remarkable output from '67 to  '72.
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I love ELP!

Just listen to Tarkus and you'll see that it tops anything ever produced by The Moody Blues... If you add to that the entire Trilogy and Brain Salad Surgery albums, the choice is obvious (at least for me)....

I would like to add that The Moody Blues is a great band...

Edited by ProgressiveAttic - April 14 2011 at 20:10
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I guess it depends:
 
Do you prefer somnolent bordering on narcoleptic music, with hippy-dippy lyrics?
 
Or do you prefer aggressive, bombastic music, with hippy-dippy lyrics?
 
I vote for the latter, any time, except when I want to chill.
 
 
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Originally posted by thellama73 thellama73 wrote:

Neither are among my favorite bands, but I slightly prefer the Moody Blues.

I was going to say that.
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Originally posted by SaltyJon SaltyJon wrote:

Neither are even remotely close to my favorite bands, but I choose ELP. 
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ELP for me.  Although I do have all of the Moodies first era except for the debut.
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Neither are even remotely close to my favorite bands, but I choose ELP. 
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