I've Had The Great Opportunity to See This Band. They Have Always Been My ALL Time FAVORITE BAND! From the Very Beginning Of Their Sojourn! What's Not To Like!!!! Too ALL The Moody Blues fans great knowing YOU ALL
MIKE PINDER MOVES FORWARD AS OF THREE HOURS AGO PER NEWS MEDIA, BUT HIS MUSIC STAYS WITH US ON PLANET EARTH. THANKS MIKE. YOUR LOYAL FANS WILL ALWAYS BE YOUR HALL OF FAME.
never read so many positive and heartfelt comments about a group some 50 yrs. past.Thats what the Moody Blues left for us.what a wonderful contribution .thxm
Of all the rock bands that came out of the '60's, The Moody Blues set the bar high. The Beatles may have been first with the concept album, but the Moodys ran with it and made it their own. And what's remarkable for me, they did it without smashing guitars, riding motor cycles inside hotels, or tripping out on drugs. And they are still out there, playing their music. I loved them then, and still do. Their style, their music lifted you up and took you on a journey. It still does :-)
Oh yes, Peter Simmons is so right. LSD, psilocybin and cannabis. It's too bad the masses ruined these things, but in the right hands.....Well it sort of made all of this possible. Do not confuse these things with the death drugs of today.
The Moodies had that wonderful distinctive way of letting one song lead into the next, the way "Procession" does with "The Story In Your Eyes". It was such a creative device that both connected the songs while introducing a new song, to such beautiful dramatic effect. After so many years, thank God the R&R Hall finally came to their senses and inducted the most deserving band not in the Hall. Congrats to Justin, John, Graeme, Ray, Mike, and Denny!
I would have to add that the poet who didn't sing, drummer Graeme Edge, also contributed greatly. This album was the first in which a song by Edge had a melody, but not the first that had an impact.
First Moody’s album I bought. After listening, I went out and bought all their previous albums. Two weeks ago saw a tribute band “Go Now” with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and it was fabulous playing so many classic Moody Blues songs. Have seen the Moody Blues at least 7 times live.
From the days when putting an album on to the turntable was an event. Those of us who were there didn't know how lucky we were and those that follow will never understand.
I don't think Justin gets the credit he deserves for his guitar work...I think he is a virtuoso on the instrument...No one else sounds like him...That is the hallmark of a great guitarist...His sound is instantly recognizable...
"Procession" just makes my hair stand up. It has that "Dawn of Creation" feel about it. Back in 1971, a lot of AM stations would play it along with "Story".
Far and away, my favorite band of all time!!!! This is album I listened to when my marriage was in trouble. It put my mind at ease and everything worked out!! Thank You Moodies!!!
Been to two of their concerts and got a chance to see Justin Hayward a few years ago in a small venue. Got hooked on them in 1970 and have all their albums -- even the breakaway group "Bluejays". Everyone of them is my favorite.
I imagine myself being born just 20 years earlier. Instead of hearing such wonderful spacey music like this as an adolescent, giving me such wonderful thoughts, I'd be listening to Vaughn Monroe, Ole Blue Eyes and Deano Martin. Man how lucky I was.
I haven't listened to this since I was a hippie at the University of Colorado in the early 70's...hanging out in a dimly lit dorm room with friends passing around a doobie.
Having all their albums, their music was more than music, when you put on their albums you are putting on a needed emotion of spiritual calming. So many times through the last 5 decades have M-Blues gave me that therapy.
How lucky can one be but to have been alive in a musical era with the giants who entertained, inspired, and instructed us in how to dance ,live add live with one another as the Moody Blues have?
Their album covers alone were works of art and beauty! But their music was simply ethereal and took you along many rides and flights of fancy.They were part of an era to never be seen again....
I met the most beautiful girl in 2011, by 2012 we were together every day, Most beautiful voice. We would sit up and listen to videos all night. Even though she was born in 1975 she just admired the beauty of the Moody Blues. The Voice, Story in Your Eyes were two we would sing and dance along with... I send my memories out to other's that may have met someone as I did...I know you can imagine meeting someone and sharing music through the night.
The initial swirling sound represents the Seeders of the Stars descending. When the ship lands we hear the generator musically decelerating ( I just noticed that the first scene of the 1977 movie" Close Encounters" begins with a very similar swirling sound! And probably Spielberg expanded this "Procession" brainstorm in "Close Encounters", cause his ets use a melodic way of comunication !) The Planet is still desertic. Then comes the little help to initialize the CRE-A-TION
I was a Freshman at Leeward College on Oahu when this came out. Scored some Owsley Orange Sunshine and made my way to Tantalus Drive overlooking Honolulu and put the 8-track on. I have not been the same since...
Just listening to the right rear channel of the quad mix. Had the sound turned up and I heard a very distinct heart beat during the first few seconds ! Can you hear it ? I love listening to the seperate instruments and vocals on each of the 4 seperate channels played through the whole system !
I have long covid at the moment, and have had since new-year 2021, I suffer from brain fog and can't really concentrate, but listening to the moody blues relaxes me, this is a top song/tune.
I remember being 3 yrs old and my father playing this song very loud. I used to be so afraid of the intro with the cavemen. I would hide under the bed when it came on.
Graeme was always on the forefront of alternative percussion, I remember an interview he did around 1985 claiming to have great things in store while promoting an album release, electronic drum speaking. I believe this album was the first I ever bought.
Their first 6 albums (thats the only ones I have listened to) are masterpieces. Its sad that I never gave these guys a chance when I was younger, im in my 50s and have just discovered them and all 6 of these are beautiful
It's so like 70s-80s which it is and loved it.... Without a doubt 70s,80s and 90s are the revolutionary years in music industry,i was born in 93" so mostly grew up listening to 90s(well mostly Hindi songs as I'm an Indian) but no matter what country you belongs to those years had the best music and I just love vintage music and 80s had the best songs in the history of this industry (in my opinion) I just 80s American and British songs ❤️
So impressive intro. I don't know if I'm wrong, but since I listened to it for the first time, I imagine an extraterrestrial plate coming to a primitive earth, teaching our primitive relatives how to be humans. I find some similarity with the first part of the 2001 A space odyssey book by Arthur C. Clark. The whole album is definitely out of this world, a really master piece.
I been listening this two tracks since childhood, and to me "The story in your eyes" is incomplete without "Procession", both are like one track, both telling two parts of the same story. The way it draws you into it to then take you in a journey is just brilliant.
The biggest Ambient-Mystica-Song from all of the Rock-History... is this! No People are more fantastic, than those digging-up Chrystals out of the Mountain-Rocks! (Pat, Switzerland)
The very first album I ever bought....right here. I bought it at P.J. Snodgrass Boutique in Bedford Ohio......cool place in it's day. That would have put me in 8th grade.
So far ahead of it's time, or was it. Perhaps with the technology of that time and the state of society's evolution people were able to create a narrative that stands. I never stopped following music but as sure as eggs is eggs I have not heard another Dark Side of The Moon or Close To The Edge or Suppers Ready or this lovely tune Early 70's gotta make you wonder. Maybe Epochs cycle around.
Dale McNamee ....Absolutely!!! I’d swear this organ to mellotron transition has me levitating 3 feet off the floor with tears of joy streaming down my face! This is the sound of God smiling.
Came here from seeing a video about the first electronic (triggered) drums ever used in a recorded song. Then I recognized that the vocal sample around 3:00 is used in the song 'Jaylib - LA to Detroit' around the 0:15 timestamp. I love accidentally finding connections in music while listening to classics like this.
The Moody Blues don't get nearly the recognition they deserve.. And the way The Story In Your Eyes transitions from Procession HITS HARD!!
That is ok that they don't get that recognition. They have a silent following that even better. I will take the Moody Blues over the Beatles any day.
Best MB album, IMHO💙
@@tommhill9948 My first of theirs and still my favorite.
I don't care what anybody says these guys were waayyy ahead of there time ...
WAYyyyyyyyyyy AHEAD! but NOW is the TIME!! The World is goin to change soon BIG TIME! wait and see....
@@mustangmikep51 A BEAM A LIGHT WILL FILL YOUR HEAD AND YOU WILL REMEMBER WHAT'S BEEN SAID MY DARLING............
👼🙏👽💞🌎⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
@@sharonallison9922 "By all the good men this World has ever known".... Namaste'
@@mustangmikep51 *AND GOOD "WOMEN"..........
SOME OF US ARE........WHERE ARE YOU ON YOUR JOURNEY ? WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED MY DARLING ?........👼👽💞🙏🌎⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Lets not forget that they are all classically trained muscians 😎
I was wondering about this. Thanks.
That is not true.
I want to give a thumbs up to every comment .. there's no one like the Moody Blues
I've Had The Great Opportunity to See This Band. They Have Always Been My ALL Time FAVORITE BAND! From the Very Beginning Of Their Sojourn! What's Not To Like!!!! Too ALL The Moody Blues fans great knowing YOU ALL
Seeing Justin next month for the 23rd time…💙
I have been a fan since the beginning. I am now 71 and still love them.
The Moody Blues were the classiest rock band.
MIKE PINDER MOVES FORWARD AS OF THREE HOURS AGO PER NEWS MEDIA, BUT HIS MUSIC STAYS WITH US ON PLANET EARTH. THANKS MIKE. YOUR LOYAL FANS WILL ALWAYS BE YOUR HALL OF FAME.
Ninguem no brasil comenta? Que pena bons tempos do museu do disco
Mano! Sequência top!
Também comprava no Museu, Breno Rossi e em todas as lojinhas do prédio Grandes Galerias da Avenida S. João.
never read so many positive and heartfelt comments about a group some 50 yrs. past.Thats what the Moody Blues left for us.what a wonderful contribution .thxm
AMEN to that!!!
Absolutely!
Actually, it was all because of me
Of all the rock bands that came out of the '60's, The Moody Blues set the bar high. The Beatles may have been first with the concept album, but the Moodys ran with it and made it their own. And what's remarkable for me, they did it without smashing guitars, riding motor cycles inside hotels, or tripping out on drugs. And they are still out there, playing their music. I loved them then, and still do. Their style, their music lifted you up and took you on a journey. It still does :-)
The Beatles beat them out only by about five months. Days of the Future past released nov 1967 vs Sargeant Peppers late May 1967
Where do you think this all came from if not LSD? As did most of the sixties music that wasn't bubble gum.
Oh yes, Peter Simmons is so right. LSD, psilocybin and cannabis. It's too bad the masses ruined these things, but in the right hands.....Well it sort of made all of this possible. Do not confuse these things with the death drugs of today.
@@petersimmons3654 . Yes sir!
Not from what me grandfather said he did some tripping with these mates
The Moodies had that wonderful distinctive way of letting one song lead into the next, the way "Procession" does with "The Story In Your Eyes". It was such a creative device that both connected the songs while introducing a new song, to such beautiful dramatic effect.
After so many years, thank God the R&R Hall finally came to their senses and inducted the most deserving band not in the Hall. Congrats to Justin, John, Graeme, Ray, Mike, and Denny!
yes indeed true artists timeless music
great comment mark all the moody blues fans i know tend to appreciate there great artistry
@@douglasmurphy9127 amen
A long time overdue. Ray should have been able to enjoy the moment.
Amen .
The Moody Blues should be the message Earth beams to the Universe. The Universe says thank you.
The best production of the first seven albums for sure. Plus the songs are all stellar. Justin ain't carrying the weight by himself.
64yrs old...
I STILL jump when "Desolation!" 😲
I'm 67...and I still do the same!!!
I think what makes the Moodies so great was their masterful use of the Mellotron and having four great songwriters and vocalists.
I would have to add that the poet who didn't sing, drummer Graeme Edge, also contributed greatly. This album was the first in which a song by Edge had a melody, but not the first that had an impact.
First Moody’s album I bought. After listening, I went out and bought all their previous albums. Two weeks ago saw a tribute band “Go Now” with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and it was fabulous playing so many classic Moody Blues songs. Have seen the Moody Blues at least 7 times live.
My dad was right all along!!!!! I didn't realize how the GREATEST rock song ever written could get any better!!!!!
I was SERIOUSLY mistaken.
68 years old and still love the Moody Blues and U can get lost in there music !
65 and loving the Moody Blues they are the best of all time.
Their music!
Cry for what we are.
Laugh at what you cried for!
From the days when putting an album on to the turntable was an event. Those of us who were there didn't know how lucky we were and those that follow will never understand.
Perfect summation
These guys are from another planet
Glorious
No words come to mind
Their way beyond masterpieces
Thankyou Lurch!
In my first apartment I laid on the floor and put my head between the 2 speakers and listened to the genius of the moody blues.!
OMG!
That's the best way to listen music 👌
There are few bands who come close to Moody Blues. A very few.
J’écoutais Moody Blues il y aura bientôt 50 ans...par la musique de ces temps, j’ai tout ressenti. Merci la vie !
one of their best albums. the moody blues will take you to a place you have never been to. without even moving.
True that !! Talent galore...
@@MaynardGKrebs-gv4vy wow man like dude. maynard i thought you passed away. keep in touch man. always your best friend dobie gillis.
" Thinking is the best way to travel ".....
The story in your eyes is simply stunning. Such a brilliant track.
A truly INSPIRED track !
My fav MB song.
Bought this LP twice......does it ring a bell? One of the best.....everlasting joy. Thank you MB.
that 1st "DESOLATION!" makes Me, jump, EVERYtime!😳
I played my older brother's record alone at home, 10 years old, that kinda freaked me out LOL.
Namaste
What a brilliant band. How could they be forgotten? They are such groundbreakers and innovators. I hope they get their due before its too late.
they did it, pal !!!!!!!!!!!
the time, has come, my friend !!!!
@TeamUSASportsFan Ain't that a bitch ...
It's a shame that Ray passed away before they were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Shame. . The most talented band in Rock History. ..
That would be nice! They deserve it!😁❤
I hate the grateful dead. Long live moody blues
I don't think Justin gets the credit he deserves for his guitar work...I think he is a virtuoso on the instrument...No one else sounds like him...That is the hallmark of a great guitarist...His sound is instantly recognizable...
Its Devine Intervention, God listens to music.............
The all time baddest ass intro to a song ever
Higher and Higher is on the same level.
Die moody Blues sind einfach einzigartig geil...
The whole of this wonderful album is like a ticket to another world.
"Procession" just makes my hair stand up. It has that "Dawn of Creation" feel about it. Back in 1971, a lot of AM stations would play it along with "Story".
I kinda of think of this as the 'spooky' moodys album, I mean look at that album cover
Far and away, my favorite band of all time!!!! This is album I listened to when my marriage was in trouble. It put my mind at ease and everything worked out!! Thank You Moodies!!!
Been to two of their concerts and got a chance to see Justin Hayward a few years ago in a small venue. Got hooked on them in 1970 and have all their albums -- even the breakaway group "Bluejays". Everyone of them is my favorite.
This band always made me love everything
I imagine myself being born just 20 years earlier. Instead of hearing such wonderful spacey music like this as an adolescent, giving me such wonderful thoughts, I'd be listening to Vaughn Monroe, Ole Blue Eyes and Deano Martin. Man how lucky I was.
Finally they are in the Rock and Roll hall of fame!!!!!!!!!!!!! I saw them in concert and it was amazing!!
A masterpiece that was appropriate back then and still is today From the Ashes we can build another day
I haven`t heard this version since I was a child and it brings chills to my spine.... So AWESOME!!!!
I Have The Album It In Mint... Love It.... I Jam It Big Time !!!!
Only the Moody Blues could do this style. ❤🌌🌠
I haven't listened to this since I was a hippie at the University of Colorado in the early 70's...hanging out in a dimly lit dorm room with friends passing around a doobie.
I was a wannabe hippie in rural Western Colorado about that time. Moody Blues rocked our little world.
thinking is the best way to travel
I was in c springs at the same time i wore out my moodies tunes
Huh?
That buzz in the first 15 seconds . . . I've had that since 1971. It was stopped for a few seconds about 10 years ago. Rascals.
People tend to decide to leave when I show up.
Love Justin's guitar work, but man, the bass line is a dynamo!
Justin and John released a great album called Blue Jays (gat it
This just might be the best bass in all rock music.
Having all their albums, their music was more than music, when you put on their albums you are putting on a needed emotion of spiritual calming. So many times through the last 5 decades have M-Blues gave me that therapy.
Yes! I have -never- seen my 84 year old father more chill than when listening to The Moody Blues 🙌🙌🙌
It's Music That Makes You Feel Good :)
Moody's ROCK! Some of the best guitar : )
I got my comment wrong earlier. They did get in The Hall of Fame. And RIP Ray.❤ Loved his voice.
How lucky can one be but to have been alive in a musical era with the giants who entertained, inspired, and instructed us in how to dance ,live add live with one another as the Moody Blues have?
Their album covers alone were works of art and beauty! But their music was simply ethereal and took you along many rides and flights of fancy.They were part of an era to never be seen again....
Listening to their music brings me hope. 💖
💖
God bless my father for raising me up with this album playing almost every day. Taught me to appreciate good music.
I bought this album at the J C Penny's in Dickinson, ND 1971 and still have it in my collection
1970's early years, Army... wanted to get away, we would jam on the Moody Blues, smoke up and just mellow with their sound! It helped us mentally..
I met the most beautiful girl in 2011, by 2012 we were together every day, Most beautiful voice. We would sit up and listen to videos all night. Even though she was born in 1975 she just admired the beauty of the Moody Blues. The Voice, Story in Your Eyes were two we would sing and dance along with... I send my memories out to other's that may have met someone as I did...I know you can imagine meeting someone and sharing music through the night.
So many great albums, I have them all. The most under rated band in rock and roll....
Listen to the remaster of "Procession" with good headphones.....amazing!!! In my opinion this is the magnum opus album for the lads.
My first Moody Blues album and still my favorite.
David Ray What a great way to open an album!
The initial swirling sound represents the Seeders of the Stars descending. When the ship lands we hear the generator musically decelerating ( I just noticed that the first scene of the 1977 movie" Close Encounters" begins with a very similar swirling sound! And probably Spielberg expanded this "Procession" brainstorm in "Close Encounters", cause his ets use a melodic way of comunication !)
The Planet is still desertic. Then comes the little help to initialize the CRE-A-TION
yes but i regard their first 7 albums as masterpieces amazing band
"Days of Future Past" was the Moody. Blues' best album--sorry.😊💒
I was a Freshman at Leeward College on Oahu when this came out. Scored some Owsley Orange Sunshine and made my way to Tantalus Drive overlooking Honolulu and put the 8-track on. I have not been the same since...
None of us have.
Justin was a GREAT rock guitarist, talent oozed from his fingers!
no, Justin IS a great guitar talent
We saw them in the '80s. Was amazing.
This brings a tear to my eye.
Probably my favorite Moody Blues track . I bought the album in 1972 .
Sounds fantastic in the car when you are stuck in traffic .
The Story In Your Eyes is the best track ever!
Just listening to the right rear channel of the quad mix. Had the sound turned up and I heard a very distinct heart beat during the first few seconds ! Can you hear it ? I love listening to the seperate instruments and vocals on each of the 4 seperate channels played through the whole system !
I have long covid at the moment, and have had since new-year 2021, I suffer from brain fog and can't really concentrate, but listening to the moody blues relaxes me, this is a top song/tune.
What a way to open an album!!! Absolutely fantastic
omg I have been looking for this song for over ten years. this so reminds me of my father who passed away in 2005
Soon the lake will be warm and we can swim forever. Blackness of night shines in the glass water . Infinte lights of stars.
The terms that describe the Moody Blues, and first come to mind, are class and culture.
Man, that opening riff of Story is nasty. I can listen to it over and over. Sweet!
Classic band, extreme imagination and creativity in their music. Different sounding songs than other groups of that time in Rock.
Amazing. The history of music in a few seconds!Just great!
I remember being 3 yrs old and my father playing this song very loud. I used to be so afraid of the intro with the cavemen. I would hide under the bed when it came on.
Bebechen same here lol✌
HISTORY!
This piece features the first
electric drum kit ever built!
Graeme was always on the forefront of alternative percussion, I remember an interview he did around 1985 claiming to have great things in store while promoting an album release, electronic drum speaking. I believe this album was the first I ever bought.
Didnt the beach boys use electric drums on the song do it again in 1968?
Their first 6 albums (thats the only ones I have listened to) are masterpieces. Its sad that I never gave these guys a chance when I was younger, im in my 50s and have just discovered them and all 6 of these are beautiful
It's so like 70s-80s which it is and loved it.... Without a doubt 70s,80s and 90s are the revolutionary years in music industry,i was born in 93" so mostly grew up listening to 90s(well mostly Hindi songs as I'm an Indian) but no matter what country you belongs to those years had the best music and I just love vintage music and 80s had the best songs in the history of this industry (in my opinion) I just 80s American and British songs ❤️
History of the world, Part 1 reminded me of this.
love the bad ass guitar riff right before the song! The song is self is awesome, rock with a choir like sound. Justin rules!
So impressive intro. I don't know if I'm wrong, but since I listened to it for the first time, I imagine an extraterrestrial plate coming to a primitive earth, teaching our primitive relatives how to be humans. I find some similarity with the first part of the 2001 A space odyssey book by Arthur C. Clark.
The whole album is definitely out of this world, a really master piece.
I been listening this two tracks since childhood, and to me "The story in your eyes" is incomplete without "Procession", both are like one track, both telling two parts of the same story. The way it draws you into it to then take you in a journey is just brilliant.
The biggest Ambient-Mystica-Song from all of the Rock-History... is this!
No People are more fantastic, than those digging-up Chrystals out of the Mountain-Rocks!
(Pat, Switzerland)
The very first album I ever bought....right here. I bought it at P.J. Snodgrass Boutique in Bedford Ohio......cool place in it's day. That would have put me in 8th grade.
A masterpiece
Procession is certainly an interesting song. But the beginning / lead in to the Story In Your Eyes is musically sublime.
So far ahead of it's time, or was it. Perhaps with the technology of that time and the state of society's evolution people were able to create a narrative that stands. I never stopped following music but as sure as eggs is eggs I have not heard another Dark Side of The Moon or Close To The Edge or Suppers Ready or this lovely tune Early 70's gotta make you wonder. Maybe Epochs cycle around.
WhatI want to feel one more time is the great anticipation of opening and playing the latest Moody Blues album.
............A TIMELESS CLASSIC...........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A little wine, windowpane and the Moody Blues!🌝🪐🎇
This was the first album of there's I bought. I was about 14 now 65.
"DESOLATION!!!" STILL makes Me, jump, 40 plus years, later!!!😳🤣 I anticipate it...but? Never prepared?!
I know same here 😂
I love the part from 4:00 to 4:25 where the organ flows into the Mellotron...
Dale McNamee ....Absolutely!!! I’d swear this organ to mellotron transition has me levitating 3 feet off the floor with tears of joy streaming down my face! This is the sound of God smiling.
I was reading your comment just as it hit the 4:00 mark.. and it was delightful! 😉😁💜
The Mellotron is one of a kind...
Came here from seeing a video about the first electronic (triggered) drums ever used in a recorded song. Then I recognized that the vocal sample around 3:00 is used in the song 'Jaylib - LA to Detroit' around the 0:15 timestamp. I love accidentally finding connections in music while listening to classics like this.
Listen to this through a headset, you will hear sounds that you can't hear without a headset. The Moody Blues music is amazing!
Just fantastic - Nothing more to say.