Well, I Don't Know About You Guy's, maybe i'm not a "hard-core" moody blues fan, but i only like their older stuff, late 60's to early 70's, being only 16, the phychedelic trippyness of their music, from In Search, Days Of Future, Treshold, and Boy Deserve's A Favour, are the only ones i truely enjoy, but their 80's stuff... isn't bad... just wondering for anybody who was a moody blues fan when those ablums came out, were you surprised when they made stuff in the 80's, like Voyager, Sur La Mer...
i guess i'm trying to say,without being insulting... their old stuff was better, maybe it was the drugs, but will they ever make music like they used to?
-Steve

Yeah bro, I am in agreement w/ you that they totally changed their image after "Seventh Sojourn". They had a few good songs after it but I think the 80s and the old Brit pop had changed them for good. And Mike Pinder, along w/ his Mellotron and his analog Moog modular synth sound left the band.The Mellotron is the orchestral sound you here.(except 4 Days of F.P.)And the Moog is best heard in the solo for "Melencholy Man" on "A Question of Balance".Now their sound is all digital!!( It is,however, very,very cool that you dig the Moodies.I think we all have get a big smile that younger ones like yourself are picking up on them.The Moodies to me was like a religous experience...CRIKEY!!)

I love music because it has the power to fill my heart and soul with many emotions. I hate to think that beautiful music, or anything lovely and meaningful, is drug induced...but I know everything is possible. Ideally, their music was composed/influenced by natural highs of good vibrations.

I have only been a Moody Blues fan for about 4 years. So, all their music is rather 'new' to me. To hear their music is truly wonderful, but just to read the poetry of the words...that is wonderful also. Their music is "life"... just as much today as when first written.

I have been a fan since 1970, so had to go back and catch up on the really early stuff. Still listen now. I think the early stuff was fresh and inventive. Seventh Sojourn was a turning point. Less inventive musically more smooth. I loved the Blue Jays album, but there have only been flashes of the old brilliance in the later material. Some good stuff on LDV and some on Other Side of Life. But no question in my opinion the band's early work is better.

Actually,I like all the albums they have made. Even though I have been a Moodies fan for 3 years,and I'm now 12,I like alot of they're albums,and I have collected almost every single one,and really liked them.No,I don't think any of the members took 'drugs'.I don't think drugs would have anything to deal with it.The first Moody Blues song I ever heard was Your Wildest Dreams.That album that it was on was the first album I ever listened to.So,I started to think:"Why just have one Moody CD?They are so good,I think I'll start a collection!"So that's what I did.So,every Moody Blues CD just got better and better,and until now,I just got December last year,and they are still good!! I have the Days O.F.P album,and seventh sojourn,etc,and I listen to them all the time

I'm definitely more a fan of their older works, and I definitely think that some... er... "substances" played a part in their music.

Wasn't it Justin who said he plopped down in a field with his guitar, smoked some sort of African pipe, and composed a song? Maybe it was "Tuesday Afternoon" -- I can't remember which off the top of my head.


That's the start
of our guessing game...

Ya,he sat in a field with his guitar,[I don't know about the African Pipe!LOL,]in Swindon on the west of England.It was a Tuesday Afternoon [perfect song today,too!]and just started playing it on his acustic guitar.I know how he started Question:It was during the Vietnam War and he wanted to base a song on that.He had one slow easy song,and one very protesting song of what he thought about the war.So then, he thought:"Ya know,how about I put these two songs together?"so that's what he did.Question was born.But I don't sing that song in the shower though!nothing wrong with that!My favorite is:Your Wildest Dreams.All the others are cool,too! I love most of them.

I think their old music was excellent and inventive. Now, their music is less progressive but just as melodic and beautiful. They just write in a different style- but songs like 'never blame the rainbows for the rain' and 'nothing changes' are just as good as anything from their earlier career.

Don't u like December?John has the most beautiful songs.The first time I ever heard "spirit of Christmas" I cried for about an hour!

I really wish I could hear John Lodge singing "spirit of Christmas" live at a concert!! I know I will,because the last time I wento see them,I cried during Lean On Me,and Talking Out Of Turn.
[hopefully November 1st! The only closest they'll be to me.

I think most fans like them all, but have favorites. Favorite music is often connected with a memory. Who can tell if it is the music or the memory that makes us emotional? Not me.