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Misomex777 
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 Topic: Moody Blues or ELPPosted: April 14 2011 at 16:15 |
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Which do you prefer?
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Gandalff
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Posted: April 14 2011 at 17:16 |
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Emerson Lake & Palmer.
By the way, why didn´t you extend this shortcut in one case leastways?
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thellama73
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Posted: April 14 2011 at 18:26 |
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Neither are among my favorite bands, but I slightly prefer the Moody Blues.
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SaltyJon
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Posted: April 14 2011 at 18:27 |
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Neither are even remotely close to my favorite bands, but I choose ELP.
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Posted: April 14 2011 at 19:18 |
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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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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted: April 14 2011 at 19:25 |
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Posted: April 14 2011 at 19:47 |
I was going to say that.
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Posted: April 14 2011 at 19:56 |
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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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Posted: April 14 2011 at 20:08 |
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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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The Dark Elf
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Posted: April 14 2011 at 20:51 |
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The Moody Blues, particularly their remarkable output from '67 to '72.
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Posted: April 14 2011 at 21:27 |
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ELP, on the strength of Tarkus and Trilogy.
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Posted: April 14 2011 at 22:17 |
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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. Edited by himtroy - April 14 2011 at 22:18 |
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Posted: April 14 2011 at 22:29 |
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if I could vote... you can tell my choice from my username!
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Posted: April 14 2011 at 23:25 |
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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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Posted: April 15 2011 at 00:20 |
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ELP
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Posted: April 15 2011 at 01:43 |
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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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Posted: April 15 2011 at 01:46 |
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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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Don't Bore Us, Get To The Chorus
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Posted: April 15 2011 at 06:26 |
 The 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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Posted: April 15 2011 at 06:39 |
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The moody blues!They are less technical.
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Posted: April 15 2011 at 06:55 |
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Like em both but it has to be ELP for me...
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You must be joking.....Take a running jump......
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