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Moody Blues or ELP
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The Magnificent Moodies....
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Emerson Lake & Palmer have a lunacy I found Moody Blues too restrained but pleasant enough for.
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The Moody Blues by a very thin margin. Their music just resonates with me more and they had more really good albums. ELP were great but apart from their first four studio albums they didn't put out a whole lot of really good material(imo).
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^Yes..it always pissed me off that ELP only did 4 solid albums....5 if you count Pictures....they were obviously capable of much more than they offered up.
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ELP! I do have respect for those who have followed the Moodies and they were real prog pioneers, but I've generally found them a touch mellow
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That was an easy choice, as I can't stand ELP !
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

The Moody Blues by a very thin margin. Their music just resonates with me more and they had more really good albums. ELP were great but apart from their first four studio albums they didn't put out a whole lot of really good material(imo).
 

They accomplished a lot in a short window of time. We also got some terrific live albums and the two Works volumes (new and previously recorded material) before they called it a day for a few years.

Count me as a fan of Emerson, Lake & Powell, though!
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Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

^Yes..it always pissed me off that ELP only did 4 solid albums....5 if you count Pictures....they were obviously capable of much more than they offered up.

I totally agree. I think ELPowell was quite good though and even Black Moon is at least halfway decent. WOrks volume 2 has some good stuff on it as well. Volume one I've never heard but apparently it's really bloated and makes tales from topographic oceans sound coherent and concise. 


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I like Works Volume 1 - but you've got to treat it as 3 solo sides and a group side. Really like Keith's Concerto and Greg's side has some good stuff (although some dodgy stuff too). Carl's side is a bit all over the place, but quite enjoyable overall. The album stands or falls on the last side and whether you like the melodrama of Pirates or not, following Fanfare.

However, even as a fan, they really needed to follow up Brain Salad Surgery after their hiatus with a solid Trilogy/Tarkus-style album, and they didn't. I do think it affected their legacy (along with the patchy nature of what followed) and I understand why those who didn't live through their tenure find them less compelling and don't rate them as highly amongst the Big Six. C'est La Vie!
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

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.
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Well said!  This Yank used to live and work in Devon UK, and I've been through Swindon.  I miss your land! 

I also said ELP on the strength of the talent of the individual band members, but the Moodies made huge contributions to prog.  
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I suppose it's just amazing coincidence that I recently picked up both of their Isle Of Wight DVD sets. It's quite fun seeing the footage they share.

Like the Moodies; when great they are magnificent and may even be better song writers. ELP hardly did songs as such - they made epic classical rock even more epic. From The Beginning is a magnificent song and Lake would have done well had he been in the Moodies.
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My persepctive has changed over time and since I cast my original vote in this poll, years ago. I'd vote for the Moody Blues these days, but still like ELP.
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I can't imagine life without either of these Incomparable bands ... but by a tiny margin, the Moody Blues.
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The Moodies, no doubt. I can't remember the last time I listened to ELP.
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I enjoy both, but ELP does it a bit more for me these days.

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ELP were the most exciting and talented of all the prog bands and often produced 'difficult' and challenging music.
The Moody Blues - also pioneering and creative but had that tendency to sound like a pop group at times (that's just me)
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How did I miss this poll over the last 10 years. LOL
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

The Moody Blues by a very thin margin. Their music just resonates with me more and they had more really good albums. ELP were great but apart from their first four studio albums they didn't put out a whole lot of really good material(imo).
I struggle to find one decent Moody Blues album. ELP on the other hand have their first four albums which are masterpieces of the genre. They lost it with Works and never really got it back but that doesn't diminish what they achieved with those first four albums.
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