pinto wrote:


Just played in the ensemble that toured with them. No big deal, but lots of fun. 

Justin Hayward's voice is one for the ages.  From his work with the Moody Blues, to his solo albums to the epic War of the Worlds album and live performances - what a legend!

Timeless...

Mike Pinder RIP.

I hadn't heard this song for decades, and it is such a lovely piece. I'm glad to have it back in my life.

Yeah, I stole the bass line! And I am proud of it!

i love this. beautiful lyrics.

 phlattop wrote:


Very true!  You are revealing your age!  I was there too!   WNEW FM  102.7!!!   

 DanFHiggins wrote:


I Agree!!

Listen to that bass line in the verses!   WOW!

Stopping work to sing along with Justin

the opening to this song is just lovely

LOVE the Moody Blues, but a little harder to take them as seriously ever since Spinal Tap came out…

Not just great song writers, composers and musicians.  Some -- many -- of the Moody's songs take on big themes.  These were artists.  Talented, passionate men who took the opportunity and the stage and made the most of it.  Many of their tracks, like this one, are big, grand sonic operettas.  We may never see their likes again.  

 timmus wrote:



I don't know about that. Growing up, local radio in the NYC tri-state area played Ride My Seesaw, Nights in White Satin, Lovely to See You, Tuesday Afternoon regularly in the late 70s, early 80s. And when their "comeback" album Long Distance Voyager came out, there was a lot of airplay for at least 3 songs (The Voice, Gemini Days, 22,000 Days)

O M G - such a great song from that era !!! Who didn’t dance to it?? Only debate is whether Ride My Seesaw was better?

 rrowdies wrote:


I'm sorry, that's just too many children.

Thanks, RP! They were firmly rooted in the present, yet often presaged the future, and were truly much more influential than many people nowadays might suspect... It is hard for me to miss how much the guitar in REO Speedwagon's big radio hit "Ridin' The Storm Out" resembled the satisfyingly raw and fuzzy jamming in this fabulous song from '71...

I reckon those Iron Maiden lads were cribbing off of this when they put together "Two minutes to midnight"...

thanks Bill for the best Sunday program on the planet

 tkosh wrote:

hahaha yes thats what you do to eleven and get rockin lame ass

I rated this a 9 ?

click-click-clickety-click ...

10! Much better.

 Fiddlefye wrote:

Nope, not going to feed your ego and beg you to identify yourself.

I stole the bassline for a friend's song. I was not ashamed.

I've been thinking about our fortune
And I've decided that we're really not to blame
For the love that's deep inside us now is still the same

And the sounds we make together
Is the music to the story in your eyes
It's been shining down upon me now, I realize

Listen to the tide slowly turning
Wash all our heartaches away
We're part of the fire that is burning
And from the ashes we can build another day

But I'm frightened for your children
That the life that we are living is in vain
And the sunshine we've been waiting for will turn to rain

Listen to the tide slowly turning
Wash all our heartaches away
We're part of the fire that is burning
And from the ashes we can build another day

But I'm frightened for your children
And the life that we are living is in vain
And the sunshine we've been waiting for will turn to rain

When the final line is over
And it's certain that the curtain's gonna fall
I can hide inside your sweet, sweet love forever more

Strange to think just 10 years before this song, the charts were dominated by Del Shannon, The Shirelles, Elvis, and the Everly Brothers.  Such a vast change in the music landscape.  I can't even imagine what it was like to have lived through the 1960s and experienced those changes.  And in just another 10 years, it would be acts like Rush, Peter Gabriel, and The Police.  Wow.

Solid 10

My favourite band of the early 70s starting with Our Children's Children's Children's Children

Thanks to RP, SAME AS IT EVER WAS! Firing up some legal refreshments, sipping some killer good wicked-strong local IPA libations... Trippy Moody Blues always and forever send me to Standard Orbit and above!

This one is best played loud   

Yooo what is even goin on here? Easy 10 from yo boy

I did a tour with the Moodys perhaps fifteen years ago or so and it was always a rush. Sharing the stage with one of the favourite bands of my younger years was a hoot.

 kingart wrote:
 
Hi kingart - still here, still enjoying most of the forum posts!!! Glad your diametric conundrum didn't cause any long lasting ill effects

You take care, fellow RP-er 

I did a tour with the band about twenty years ago and it was certainly one of the highlights of my career. Playing those tunes I remembered from high school with the band...

 meanderer wrote:
 
Yes, I'm still with you, meanderer.  Thanks for asking.  Funny how English works.  You can't say you'll never put two diametric metaphors in the same paragraph unless you write that those metaphors should never be in the same paragraph.  Are you still here, meanderer? 

 jimwilliams wrote:
 

Darn tootin' skippy.

 BebePassiflora wrote:
 

Moody Blues, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd, King Crimson  + ... What a great time to be alive.

 meanderer wrote:
 

Yes, I'm still here.  Thank you for your concern...

One of my favorite bands of all time. 

I really wish the drums weren't so muddy in so much of their work. There's some really good stuff there, but you have to struggle to hear it. It's almost subliminal.

 kingart wrote:
 
Except you just did...

Are you OK? Still with us kingart??

 rabaak wrote:
 
Except maybe that Donnie Osmond part. I'll go to my grave never having put him and the Moody Blues in the same paragraph. 

You had to be there to understand how revolutionary their music was. The BeeGees, Donny Osmond, Tom Jones, the Carpenters, the Partridge Family, Bread, Helen Ready were all extremely popular and played over the air waves.

I was in high school when this came out. And this song is one of their best.

I just reached Standard Orbit.

A genuine evergreen!

Long Live                                                                                                                                Radio Paradise
Rating to me:                                       A solid                                                                 8 - Most Excellent

 cely wrote: 
Try turning it up..

The musical ability of this band is powerful and undeniable, but there's just something lame about the delivery.   

Their chord changes still stop me in my tracks..

zesty ! finally hall of fame long overdue rip t Thomas

the rock and role hall of fame  finally . truely one of the best bands ever, in  my humble opinion

Straight to 10

 OleSailorSam wrote: 
9 -> 10

 lizardking wrote: 
Me 4ever

One of the 10 best albums of all time.

I Recently pick this album up (on vinyl) one of the best way open an album  (both songs) I have heard!

"No one knows who they were...or what they were doing..."

I love this song but every time the piano near the end starts I keep thinking they are going to break into the Munsters theme song...

meatmike wrote: 
Why so bitter?  It could be worse, you could have been raised on Kid 'n Play. 

Essential sonically superior stuff for the lucky and blessed among us, to be sure! Still gives me thrills and chills; so many memories too

I was raised on this $hit...

 25demayo wrote: 
Me, too.

They were — they're still playing, are — one of the hottest, smartest, most passionate bands ever. 

Bumped from 9 to 10

 RCinSoCal wrote: 
Totally!  Bill knows how to do segues...

From Wikpedia:

Procession - Recorded January–March 1971
The Story In Your Eyes - Recorded 4 November 1970

I think it's awesome that all those older songs have recording dates.  You never see that on current songs, you just get "2012" or "2005" if you're lucky.  It shows a certain craftsmanship that the engineers took the time to record all that info and make sure it was passed down.

And we can see in the news when that main track was recorded that the US was nearing mid-term elections, some Kon-Tiki adventurers spending months aboard a raft in the South Pacific (La Balsa) were sighted and rescued near Brisbane, London was abuzz with speculation about Jack The Ripper, and of course the US was trying to figure out how to pull out of Vietnam.  And Jane Fonda was arrested for drug smuggling after bringing pills into the US from Canada.  Interesting to think so much was going on around the world when this track was being cut... I guess it kind of taints the magic of it but it also gives the music some context in world history & news.

Timeless IMHO

John Lodges driving bass and Justin Hayward's guitar and vocals send me into the stratosphere every time with this beauty...

 ojibwe wrote: 
Sorry for my indesscressionnnn , you perfect soul you.  

Some comments spread the light and joy of life, others...

music is an art form..this is no exception.  I happen to admire this piece 

 Kaisersosay wrote: 
Suzanne.

Dumbass.
 

Since Susan Vega , this set has been a crapfest. This included

 passsion8 wrote: 
i love this comment. and i agree completely.

First listen, pretty shit and up its own arse. 

 DJ_Wahaba wrote: 

Get this: a glass of Uranium glass found in an attic of a grandmother

 markybx wrote:  
I have actually played with Uranium ore, (U238) I do not glow in the dark since it is relatively inert, we should envy the guy on the left, if he enjoys a half life of 4 billion years.
Or not.

..... a very BIG 9.

And if you play with uranium ore, you may end up looking like the guy on the left.

Reminds me of Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds.  Unsurprisingly of course. 

The earnestness in the vocals combined with strumming guitars and plaintive choral backing made a compelling call to the heart of my once-13 year old soul. Still does.

Music is memory with a melody. The only unchangeable thing that you can keep.

Brilliant. Defies categorization
 

Morricone to the Moody's - nice Bill!

Wow, haven't heard the moodies in a long time, one of favorite bands when this came out. This brings back good memories (middle school days)

 rsfc_carp wrote: 
Love the reply from someone who lives in Lafayette. Could he be the reincarnate of the famous Marquis of the same name?

a timeless message, love this song... I just might have to play it for the kids tonight 

VERY nice segue from Good Bad & Ugly!

The game was  fixed,  maybe you can only from Phoenix thing  reverse engineer it.

Again... you introduce me to a great, great track !!!!

..... again. 

 Baby_M wrote: 
What's the story - I'm quite intrigued

 rharvey658 wrote: 
That is insane! 

At least Guns N' Roses and a dozen people I've never heard of made it!

 Krispian wrote: 
It's a good story prompt—and one of my all-time favorite album covers.

 coloradojohn wrote: 

One of my most favorite Moodies

I remember calling my local DJ to ask & confirm who did this smoking number...and I was off, on my search that took me around Earth!

 hempmandan wrote: 
Music in the cafés at night and revolution in the air.

 hempmandan wrote: 
Baby boom demographics.

Economies on steroids.

The Vietnam War and nuclear weapons.

I am sure I missed a few. 

 hempmandan wrote: 
Um, it wasn't, 1967 was better.
Of course IMHO. 

Why was 1971 such a great year for music?
 

Oh boy does this bring back good memories. Recently out of the USCG and soon going back to school in NYC in 1971. Still have the same good old friends, too.

 rharvey658 wrote: 
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is really a hollow distinction - it's essentially Jann Wenner's personal list.  There doesn't seem to be any real logic or reasoning and it's not really a large committee of peers voting like The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences allegedly is. Still, considering some of the other inductees, it's odd that The Moody Blues are not there; apparently Wenner doesn't care for them.

Sometimes this thing can come on and just blow me away, and best of all, it links me with all the other times it ROCKED MY WORLD...

Sheer brilliance. This song never gets old. 

The Moody Blues SHOULD be in the RnR Hall Of Fame.

HUGE influence on Progressive Rock.

 coloradojohn wrote: 
I hate posting twice in a row, but yeah THAT BASS.

Mellotrons...heh...cool

chills...

Why these guys are not in the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame is beyond me.  I've read all the reasons and excuses, but don't believe them.

Hard to beat the amazing guitars and bass on this one; was an easy call to get up and air-guitar jam at a million parties of the 70s and 80s!

Great bass on this track. 

 skipperadam wrote: 
Hmmm, looks like a Les Paul, A Tele, and a Fender bass?
Not bad for a highschool band!  ; )

The blank slate that was my mind at the time I bought this LP and listened to it for the first time was taken on an unforgettable journey that is indelibly etched in my past, present, and future. Images of where I was, what I was doing and who I was with at the time dance through my mind with fondness. Music IS forever!

Ahh, it's been so long since I heard the Procession track alongside  Story.  This will always be a huge memory as I won my high school battle of the bands by playing this my senior year. 

It has been too easy over the years to forget how many great songs the Moodys did.
another one 

 Krispian wrote: 
what a cute memory :-)

very nice!

In my grade 4 class, the teacher held a contest where we were asked to write a story based on that album cover, and I won!