The Moody Blues.. can only do these songs.....Days....and...on a Threshold....two of their Greatest Albums ever.....had both in the early 1970s on Cassette and Albums.... now I'm 62 years old.... still listening 🎧...who is with me listening 🎧 to this in 2024😊
Still with you. Saw them live 4 times..going to see a tribute band with a full orchestra on the 11 th. Never get tired of listening to them since I first heard them on my brothers 8 track in 68. First 8 track tape I brought for my 67 lemans when I got my license in 1970….Great dating music in the back seat!
I am 73 and still love it. Saw them a few years ago, awesome. Nights in White Satin.will still be good in 50 more years. I really like the graphics too.
I don’t need anything when I listen to the Moodies.put my head phones on put on an album and I’m lost in a beautiful journey listening imo.to one of the best bands ever I’m sitting comfortably.
The Moody Blues came to the Kentucky State Fair, of all places, and gave a concert there back in the early part of this century. I took my older sister, who clearly had misgivings about any group I was so enthusiastic about. But she was completely enthralled by them! No surprise there. I gave her one of their albums so she could continue the awakening at her home. 🙂
On my deathbed, I only want to listen to the beautiful and gentle Moodies. The music of my soul. My favorite band since I was 15 and in 50 years have never tired of them.
@@Paradoxicon999 Peace to you too. Tough choice among Lost Chord, Threshold, To Our Childrens' and Question. Depends what mood I'm in. I have a particular love for Question because I saw them on that tour. I couldn't live without Watching and Waiting, though.
@@carlgold3366 I love the "core eight" albums with Michael Pinder. Tough choices there. I absolutely love "I never thought I'd live to be a hundred/Million". Stay safe friend!
The Moody Blues made music that glides between space and time, lifting us into the pastures of the sun and putting our souls to flight. I am deeply grateful to be born in the 1950s at a time when magic and mystery enriched our minds and music rocked us like a mother 💐🌷
@Booner761 I was born 1953.At 69 years realized have personally known people born in 3 centuries!Tonite I sing Never Comes the Day at karaoke. Don't think I'll raise the goosebumps that song gave me since was 19.Seems best way to say thankyou to those artists.
I hadn’t played on the threshold of a dream for 10 years, and tonight I relaxed and listened to it again. I’d forgotten what a brilliant arrangement of sounds and lyrics they produced , I was transported back to my fond youth when I played the grooves off this album. Now 65 and still In love with their sound.
Just saw John Lodge and the band he's been playing with for a few years, including his son-in-law, John Davison, of Yes. Played a mixed set of JL's music then performed all of Days of Future Passed. Pretty incredible to hear it in person. July 2023, Coronado Theater, Rockford, IL
No other group has had the power to make my soul soar above the clouds or to bring tears to my eyes like the Moody Blues. True power through magnificent music.
Well said my friend. The Moody Blues were on another rock dimensional plane all their own. Their music was uplifting, thoughtful, and brought emotion to us.
@@ericsays8801 Amazing what a little LSD and Meditation(TM) will do for your creativity...and it didn't hurt that they were all great musicians to boot!
@RUSSIAN ROBOT the flower will blossom when it is READY...and not before...I was READY this lifetime+am eternally grateful to the events in my life that helped me "BLOSSOM"...(from an old "FLOWER CHILD" of the 60's)
Never comes the day l played over and over again because of the words and my emotions that would take awhile to sort and I knew l getting better when I started singing lazy day and it worked as over singing it I left it alone and about 2 months ago I brought up the Moodies and just sang it as if I had been rehearsing a lot of years had passed, word perfect I think. As others have commented the variation but incredible song's year on year. I feel privileged I saw them live but what an array of songs we have to get lost in.
Brian, that is one of my favourite songs by these great musicians. However, the song that edges out Never Comes a Day is New Horizons off the Seventh Sojourn album. They had so many great songs.
I still remember hearing "Nights in White Satin" on my car radio on a lonely overnight drive Christmas 1967. I was overwhelmed with the lyrics and the instrumentation. Later, having bought "Days of Future Passed" and, even now, few days go by when I don't find myself singing one of their songs softly to myself, some 54 years later. Justin Hayward has an incredibly expressive voice and his music writing is beyond compare. Timeless.
They were, and are, a musical treasure... when I was listening to them in the early 70's, I had no idea of the profound messages they were sharing. Cheers!
@@lesliemultack4548 a V12 2-stage super-charged engine made by Rolls-Royce during WW2 to power the Spitfire and P51 "Mustang" fighter planes...are you REALLY serios? King Arthur and the Knights of the Round table ring a bell? Geez
Listening to the Moody Blues' music is all the drugs you'll ever need...... yeah, music is the only drug for the soul. Every song they've written calms you and makes you think more and more. If only life could be a pleasant as their music is, this world would be a much better place.
Yes The Moody blues were very underrated! But they were very impactful for society! Like LSD! But in a genuine holistic approach! Music is love! David Crosby!
I loved the Moody Blues in thr 70's I was fouteen years old, I still love them today. It's Easter Sunday, we are in quarantine, They can still make me cry -
My friend I tend to feel differently, I'm so so high that I feel I'm out of. This picture this world Far Far away& life was for making others happy not us😞
When I first heard Lazy Day so many years ago, I thought it had the most beautiful vocal harmonies I had ever heard, and after all this time, it still does. Such a funny little song, with those soaring vocals to make it special.
Ray Thomas was a master at writing lyrics. Try "Thinking is the best way to travel"- a masterpiece, but you have to be lying down, ERYES CLOSED, with headphones..... Kiss Kiss, peace and love!
When music still gives you goosebumps, after hearing them for the first time, you know how great the artist is. The Moody Blues are truly great. GOD!!!! I LOVE THIS BAND.
@@sharonkelley1530 Thank-you Sharon, for responding to my comment about this wonderful band. I've loved them since I was a child. I'm 64 now. Their music takes you away to a better place.
It was my pleasure, Stephen. By the way, are you a Smothers Brothers fan, too? They are SO funny! And they sing great, too! You'll find a lot of their videos on TH-cam. Enjoy! And long live the Moody Blues!
Incredibly deep, textured, lyrical, groundbreaking and the epitome of cerebral bliss. I can not imagine life if the members of this band did not cross paths.
In 68 I was in Basic training when Tuesday Afternoon came out, I was dumbstruck, I had already heard Nights in White Satin, but this was at Ft Ord and I remember hearing this thinking what the fuck have I done with my life being in training for Viet Nam. I spent the next three years in prison for refusing to serve. The Moody's were a big part of my life from then to the Octave album and just petered out after that. But Great Times and a perfect soundtrack to life.
A dream of mine came true on the night my wife and I saw the Moody Blues on stage in Vancouver. Sadly, Ray Thomas had passed but the concert was delightful, ending with The Question as the encore. Fantastic!
@@amusicalautobiography6629 born in 54 and hooked forever..they are my "drug" of choice...I'm AWAKE for 15 years now, and their music compliments my state of mind perfectly LOVE and LIGHT to all sentient beings! Namaste.
He was only 23 or so when he wrote that song. Definitely an old soul. In the same vein, he was The Actor. The lyrics to the gorgeous, slower part of Question also have incredible lyrics that just don't seem like they could come out of someone so young.
@Articulate Management Fair points. I was 23 not that many years after Justin. I wasn't thinking about today's 23 year olds, just my own experience. In any case, I think all the Moodies were uncommonly wise for their ages, at least per what they put in their songs.
This is album made a gigantic impact on me the summer of my 17th year. I spent most of the summer with a cousin in Virginia Beach. We lived in a house on the beach with about 20 of his friends. Had my first major love and listened to this album just about every day.
Unfortunately Lazy day Sunday afternoon is a fainting distant memory in modern time. But alas. For me it is a very real thing. Listen to the words and tunes and you will be revived
One of the most beautiful and unique sounds of rock and roll. Reality with a cosmic and psychedelic sound. It almost seems like they figured everything out. All you need to do is listen. Sounds even better in full stereo.
Yes.One of the first to use orchestas, different instruments like the sitar, and that organ like instrument I don't understand. Who wrote these songs? Sounds like a poet. Some of the songs are so simple, like Lazy Day, almost boring, but then...they take you somewhere else. It's amazing. Does anyone know whomever wrote the songs also produced them? The production is the best part of their sound. I love the titles of songs, and album. "In Search of the Lost Chord" Wow, I love that. But I heard one of the Moodies give an interview that they got that line from Jimmy Durante. They are oodly polite, talk well of one another, and seem to be upper class gentlemen...which is unusual for a rock band in the 70s.In other words, until that infamous trial, they seemed to practice what they were preaching, peach, love, togetherness. mixed with these incredible stories, usually love songs. They seemed to be unusually happy people. Then they get this big spiritual following they don't really want and they write that song, I'm just a singer in a rock and roll band...to tell their fans, yeah, that's all they are. They weren't great singers. But those harmonies were beautiful. It was the way it was all put together, lyrics, prouduction, harmonies, the experimentation with formats....Ride mY See Saw is interesting, is starts fast, does the political or spiritual part, then slows down completely then does a romantic plea for personal change.
Also, Candle of Life and Watching And Waiting are almost beautifully haunting and hypnotic all together and mesmerizing!!! Phenomenal!!! I'm smiling big time!!!
This album is forever embedded in my brain. I was born in 1967, and my parents played this album continuously. I concur with other opinions here in the comment thread, this album is their masterpiece...
Sean Spring-I can totally agree with you!-I was born in 1963, and my mother was a very loyal Moody Blues fan. As a matter of fact, the very first 45 record that I purchased from the local record shop was "The Story in Your Eyes", by the Goodies. I feel quite fortunate also that I got to see the Moody Blues in concert, about 4 times in Los Angeles. As I listen to all of their unbelievably iconic albums today, at age 57, I truly feel like their music takes me to another place-a beautiful and peaceful place, and has a healing affect on me just like it did when I was 8 years old-The Moody Blues were so ahead of their time that their music sounds so right today,timeless and flawless as always!
I sit here watching this absolutely beautiful video listening to the wonderful music thinking at age 72 that I don't even know what love really is. I guess I used to think I did. I've had 2 marriages and 3 children. No contact with any of them any more. I have some difficult health issues and somehow just keep floating along. Not on drugs-don't drink. I think I float in the universe. Somehow everything is OK-as it "should" be. Does anyone know what I mean? June 15, 2020.
I am almost the same age and also have 3 kids and had 2 marriages. Real love is what you feel for your kids, and being 'in love' is when you cannot stop thinking about someone.
@@kentruthseeker Thank you for taking the time to reply. But my children have chosen to leave me out of their lives. I think if they would talk to me we could change that dynamic. The universe and two different kinds of cancer have brought some other people into my life and I guess I "love" them. There just seems to be so many different kinds of love and we tend to use that word quite a bit.
74 here. Divorced after twenty years. Four children. Still close to my kids. The other parent ran off the rails it seems. Human beings confuse love with infatuation. That's why so many relationships fail. True love is deeper, unshakeable.
@@timjones7547 Thank you for your words and thought. Am glad u are close to your kids. I guess I have never known what you are talking about. There seems to be quite a few people that feel that way. I wish you well and joy. As for me I am "in love" with learning right now. The computer is fairly NEW to me. Imagine that at my age!
Kathleen, something I can’t clearly identify is moving me to respond to your post. I have fleeting moments of clarity and a sense of peace with all that has transpired in my life, things I’ve done and failed to do, along with things that have been done, or have just befallen, me along the journey. Maybe that’s close to what you mean when you say you “float in the universe”.....I don’t profess any special wisdom, or God forbid any “answers”, but these closing words from the movie American Beauty ring true for me.........”And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can’t feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life.”
Such a beautiful song. It brings tears to my eyes. The Moody Blues are a magically electric lightning bolt to the soul. Transcending the meaning behind what seems ordinary.
"If only you knew what's inside of me now, you wouldn't want to know me somehow." Sadly, these words have echoed in my mind several times over the past 50 years. Excellent song, though.
One of the most UNIQUE and AWESOME group of musicians that has ever been! I've been listening to the Moody Blues for OVER 45 years and I will never get tired of their AMAZING abilities and their amazing creativity. Music has gone far downhill since the days of this kind of music!
The Moody Blues.. can only do these songs.....Days....and...on a Threshold....two of their Greatest Albums ever.....had both in the early 1970s on Cassette and Albums.... now I'm 62 years old.... still listening 🎧...who is with me listening 🎧 to this in 2024😊
Me at 72 years
Still with you. Saw them live 4 times..going to see a tribute band with a full orchestra on the 11 th. Never get tired of listening to them since I first heard them on my brothers 8 track in 68. First 8 track tape I brought for my 67 lemans when I got my license in 1970….Great dating music in the back seat!
I am 73 and still love it. Saw them a few years ago, awesome. Nights in White Satin.will still be good in 50 more years. I really like the graphics too.
70 and listening now
61 still listening to the moodies
I just want to go to heaven and know that I will still be able to hear the Moodies when I get there …
I am here, sitting comfortably, it's Tuesday morning, and I have met someone and I'm hoping that we are on the threshold of a Dream.🌛✨
*_Did Merlin cast his spell???_* 🤔😉
I don’t need anything when I listen to the Moodies.put my head phones on put on an album and I’m lost in a beautiful journey listening imo.to one of the best bands ever I’m sitting comfortably.
The Moody Blues came to the Kentucky State Fair, of all places, and gave a concert there back in the early part of this century. I took my older sister, who clearly had misgivings about any group I was so enthusiastic about. But she was completely enthralled by them! No surprise there. I gave her one of their albums so she could continue the awakening at her home. 🙂
Good Job !!
Seriously?
I pray the Moodies will all be in heaven and play some impromptu concerts for the fans❤
On my deathbed, I only want to listen to the beautiful and gentle Moodies. The music of my soul. My favorite band since I was 15 and in 50 years have never tired of them.
They are the greatest ever and forever
Right!!? I have not listened to them for quite awhile and ever soo calming ❤️
ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS. Pink Floyd, the WHOLE album Dark Side, also!
YESSSS!!
I've loved their music for 50 years too. It's perfect.
I'm 72 and keep "riding your see-saw" since I was 14...
Me too- 72😢😅
These young lads helped me heal from my time as a Navy Hospital Corpsman in Vietnam. They somehow made the world make sense again.
I understand that sentiment completely, I saw enough of the world to transcend what ordinary men see… we are Brothers in arms… Iraq 2005…
If I were marooned on an island, and had only one band to hear, I would choose the Moody Blues...
I a traffic album or 2 happened to get mixed in I would be fine with that.
They're one of the groups that, if all other music disappears, I could get through life just listening to them.
I only need their music Carl.They are my souls delight and always will be .God Bless em all.
💟
Right. If you were stuck on a desert Island, which would you pick. for me it would be "On the Threshold of a Dream" Peace to you brother!
@@Paradoxicon999 Peace to you too. Tough choice among Lost Chord, Threshold, To Our Childrens' and Question. Depends what mood I'm in. I have a particular love for Question because I saw them on that tour. I couldn't live without Watching and Waiting, though.
@@carlgold3366 I love the "core eight" albums with Michael Pinder. Tough choices there. I absolutely love "I never thought I'd live to be a hundred/Million". Stay safe friend!
I’ve loved the Moody Blues since 1969. They’re the very best.
I sooner be alive to listen to it all time and time again fore the last 40 odd years. Nothing to compare.
I have loved the Moodies since listening to them in 1967. Their music is timeless. Wonderful compositions. Luv the greatest band ever!
Magnificent indeed.... To calm our world maybe.....
The Moody Blues are totally in a class of their own. I think 🤔 they’re historic.
yes...the're histerical..esp. with the "lazy day" lyrics
@@mustangmikep51 What?
@@nickbloom6861 history....histerical....its a joke...a play of words...sorry/bad joke
@@mustangmikep51 I just read this. I hope you meant historical instead of hysterical.
@@mustangmikep51 I see that you were making a joke. Most of the people who love the Moody Blues don’t think it’s funny.
Here I am, again on Tuesday. I am so grateful for these songs here. Thank you.
A musical prayer for NO War ....
The Moody Blues made music that glides between space and time, lifting us into the pastures of the sun and putting our souls to flight. I am deeply grateful to be born in the 1950s at a time when magic and mystery enriched our minds and music rocked us like a mother 💐🌷
well said....born in 54......I fully agree
born in '48 and couldn't agree more.
Moody Blues brother you said it
Born in ‘50 … Ditto!🎸💕☺️👍
@Booner761 I was born 1953.At 69 years realized have personally known people born in 3 centuries!Tonite I sing Never Comes the Day at karaoke. Don't think I'll raise the goosebumps that song gave me since was 19.Seems best way to say thankyou to those artists.
I hadn’t played on the threshold of a dream for 10 years, and tonight I relaxed and listened to it again. I’d forgotten what a brilliant arrangement of sounds and lyrics they produced , I was transported back to my fond youth when I played the grooves off this album. Now 65 and still In love with their sound.
Tell me about it ! I hadn't listened in years, and now have a different, yet similar perspective, to it.
54 years and counting. I will always love their music. These songs never get old.
Just saw John Lodge and the band he's been playing with for a few years, including his son-in-law, John Davison, of Yes. Played a mixed set of JL's music then performed all of Days of Future Passed. Pretty incredible to hear it in person. July 2023, Coronado Theater, Rockford, IL
No other group has had the power to make my soul soar above the clouds or to bring tears to my eyes like the Moody Blues. True power through magnificent music.
Me
ME
Well said my friend. The Moody Blues were on another rock dimensional plane all their own. Their music was uplifting, thoughtful, and brought emotion to us.
@@ericsays8801 Amazing what a little LSD and Meditation(TM) will do for your creativity...and it didn't hurt that they were all great musicians to boot!
@RUSSIAN ROBOT the flower will blossom when it is READY...and not before...I was READY this lifetime+am eternally grateful to the events in my life that helped me "BLOSSOM"...(from an old "FLOWER CHILD" of the 60's)
Exactly💖
Never comes the day l played over and over again because of the words and my emotions that would take awhile to sort and I knew l getting better when I started singing lazy day and it worked as over singing it I left it alone and about 2 months ago I brought up the Moodies and just sang it as if I had been rehearsing a lot of years had passed, word perfect I think. As others have commented the variation but incredible song's year on year. I feel privileged I saw them live but what an array of songs we have to get lost in.
No other group has talked to me like The Moody Blues....
The pictures you have chosen to go with the music are excellent !
Lyrically and musically, there are not too many bands out there that wrote so many incredible songs. What a magnificent band.
My wife and I saw them the year before drummer and Moody poet-lauriate Graham Edge died. She kept saying "I didn't know they did that song too!"
Still love listening to The Moodies at age 78..
"Never comes the day" is the perfect song with perfect
lyrics, exceptionally sung by the brilliant Justin Hayward.
Brian, that is one of my favourite songs by these great musicians. However, the song that edges out Never Comes a Day is New Horizons off the Seventh Sojourn album. They had so many great songs.
I just can’t get enough of the Moodies. I’m 69
So few actually understand that our hearts and souls are still living and crying out for the depth our cousins lay before us...
I still remember hearing "Nights in White Satin" on my car radio on a lonely overnight drive Christmas 1967. I was overwhelmed with the lyrics and the instrumentation. Later, having bought "Days of Future Passed" and, even now, few days go by when I don't find myself singing one of their songs softly to myself, some 54 years later. Justin Hayward has an incredibly expressive voice and his music writing is beyond compare. Timeless.
LONG LIVE "THE MOODY BLUES" !!! I SAY THIS BECAUSE I EXPERIENCED THE BEST DAYS OF MY LITTLE SO CALLED LIFE WITH THESE GUYS!
They were, and are, a musical treasure... when I was listening to them in the early 70's, I had no idea of the profound messages they were sharing. Cheers!
I think that they wrote “deep songs” like a John Lennon deep!!!
Who is Merlin?
@@lesliemultack4548 a V12 2-stage super-charged engine made by Rolls-Royce during WW2 to power the Spitfire and P51 "Mustang" fighter planes...are you REALLY serios? King Arthur and the Knights of the Round table ring a bell? Geez
One word "Chills"😁😁
I listened again. this is such beautiful music Isn't anybody today capable of making music like this?
Listening to the Moody Blues' music is all the drugs you'll ever need...... yeah, music is the only drug for the soul. Every song they've written calms you and makes you think more and more. If only life could be a pleasant as their music is, this world would be a much better place.
We are making the world better, by listening to music like this.
Yes The Moody blues were very underrated! But they were very impactful for society! Like LSD! But in a genuine holistic approach! Music is love! David Crosby!
DITTO 🙏💜🙏💙🙏💜
I loved the Moody Blues in thr 70's I was fouteen years old, I still love them today. It's Easter Sunday, we are in quarantine, They can still make me cry -
Amen
Thank you for making the words dance Lancelot. More than you know. Gwenevier.
My dad played me this when I was about 3 or so. Utterly incredible piece of music.
The whole album, I add.
Bless your dad.
Of all their great albums, On the Threshold of a Dream is my favorite. One can get 'high' just by listening to these songs and the moods they evoke.
mine too, my fave....absolutely ethereal
Unlocking the lsd door in your brain. I love that . Yum!!!
Love ur name. Could use about 10,000 of those.😎
My friend I tend to feel differently, I'm so so high that I feel I'm out of. This picture this world Far Far away& life was for making others happy not us😞
i have this on a half speed master. in my top ten favorite albums
When I first heard Lazy Day so many years ago, I thought it had the most beautiful vocal harmonies I had ever heard, and after all this time, it still does. Such a funny little song, with those soaring vocals to make it special.
Ray Thomas was a master at writing lyrics. Try "Thinking is the best way to travel"- a masterpiece, but you have to be lying down, ERYES CLOSED, with headphones..... Kiss Kiss, peace and love!
When music still gives you goosebumps, after hearing them for the first time, you know how great the artist is. The Moody Blues are truly great. GOD!!!! I LOVE THIS BAND.
Even better when they give you goosebumps the 1000th time you've heard them
Timeless!!!!
I know what you're feeling, Stephen. The Moodies are just SO wonderful! I pray that their music will NEVER be forgotten by future generations.
@@sharonkelley1530 Thank-you Sharon, for responding to my comment about this wonderful band. I've loved them since I was a child. I'm 64 now. Their music takes you away to a better place.
It was my pleasure, Stephen. By the way, are you a Smothers Brothers fan, too? They are SO funny! And they sing great, too! You'll find a lot of their videos on TH-cam. Enjoy! And long live the Moody Blues!
The moodies are the most relaxing music i love to fall a sleep to listening since 15 yrs old !
R i p to the soul of the Moody Blues
Great family man FIRST
Then the very best writer and singer
❤️💜
THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER MOODY BLUES. THANK YOU.
*_"you know it's true!_* /
*_we all know that it's true!"_* 🎶
Incredibly deep, textured, lyrical, groundbreaking and the epitome of cerebral bliss. I can not imagine life if the members of this band did not cross paths.
I catch myself whistling all the flute parts, and firing up the old Mellotron for the Pinder parts.
In 68 I was in Basic training when Tuesday Afternoon came out, I was dumbstruck, I had already heard Nights in White Satin, but this was at Ft Ord and I remember hearing this thinking what the fuck have I done with my life being in training for Viet Nam. I spent the next three years in prison for refusing to serve. The Moody's were a big part of my life from then to the Octave album and just petered out after that. But Great Times and a perfect soundtrack to life.
By far my favorite group of all time
I love the moody blues and now girl friend does too and she doesn't even really listen to music
One of my favorite bands of musicians ...absolutely!!!!
A dream of mine came true on the night my wife and I saw the Moody Blues on stage in Vancouver. Sadly, Ray Thomas had passed but the concert was delightful, ending with The Question as the encore. Fantastic!
Have always loved the MOODY BLUES since the 60's.
YES! Born in 1950 and discovered Moody Blues while in college! God Bless! :)
Loved them since the 70s
Go now!!
and now your in your 60's!!(like me)
@@amusicalautobiography6629 born in 54 and hooked forever..they are my "drug" of choice...I'm AWAKE for 15 years now, and their music compliments my state of mind perfectly LOVE and LIGHT to all sentient beings! Namaste.
This is all you will ever need to listen to. For all seasons and generations
"If only you knew what's inside of me now, you wouldn't want to know me somehow" - what an incredible lyric
Thought provoking...that's what they were about.
everyone is hiding something. if someone found out what it was, they would usually shrug and wonder why you beat yourself up for so long
that line is about people's insecurities....great line
He was only 23 or so when he wrote that song. Definitely an old soul. In the same vein, he was The Actor. The lyrics to the gorgeous, slower part of Question also have incredible lyrics that just don't seem like they could come out of someone so young.
@Articulate Management Fair points. I was 23 not that many years after Justin. I wasn't thinking about today's 23 year olds, just my own experience. In any case, I think all the Moodies were uncommonly wise for their ages, at least per what they put in their songs.
I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO CLASSIFY THESE GUYS, IN A CLASS OF THEIR OWN. OTHERWORLDLY. HAVE ALWAYS LOVED THEM, ALWAYS WILL.
thank God they come from the UK and from Birmingham as well same as Black Sabbath but other end of the music scale lol
otherworldly. definitely
They did it all, As a kid, I didn't even know they were the same band ,playing all these different songs.
There will be no other
@@ericsays8801 there doesnt need to be they need to start putting out more albums
This is album made a gigantic impact on me the summer of my 17th year. I spent most of the summer with a cousin in Virginia Beach. We lived in a house on the beach with about 20 of his friends. Had my first major love and listened to this album just about every day.
Just came back from Virginia Beach..a real nice place to relax and enjoy some R+R...and watch the F18's fly by....!
jjosport wow me too!but in 1969 in NH
You don't have to be stoned to listen to the Moody Blues. That Mello sound still floats you away.
Absolutely right! If folk need to inhale or inject or smoke till "the cow's come home" that's up to them, but the high IS The Music!
@@dougreed2257 I used to be high listening to the Moody Blues, don't get high anymore but the music is still as great as ever
@@heidelberg2358 right on, moody blues music gives you an endorphin high!
Thanks🏃♂️
What a magnificent group of musicians!
this feeds my soul
always did
❤
Unfortunately Lazy day Sunday afternoon is a fainting distant memory in modern time. But alas. For me it is a very real thing. Listen to the words and tunes and you will be revived
The Moodies were a group of their own ,Yesterday, and Tuesday,and not forget the Nights of White Satin,and SO MANY MORE🤗👌🖖👋
Listening to mb makes me sad to think what people will b Listening to in twenty years
No need to be sad ... people will still be listening to the Moody Blues in 20 years, and beyond.
Just listen to the background vocals, folks. Sounds like a men's choir. No one does it better....PERIOD!
I find it hard... I love all Moody Blues stuff, but really, this is my number one... I love singing this so much
One of the most beautiful and unique sounds of rock and roll. Reality with a cosmic and psychedelic sound. It almost seems like they figured everything out. All you need to do is listen. Sounds even better in full stereo.
So true...
you should hear it in 5.1 surround sound I heard new sounds Iv'e never heard in 55 years.
give a little bit more, and take a little bit less!
cheers 🍻
A great trio of songs. No musician(s) work like this these days. These are timeless songs. They're incredible!
The GREAST BAND IN THE WORLD . Even in there off time the songs were there waiting to be sung.we'll never see this again.
The Moodies were/are so unique and extremely talented with a sound of their own, somewhere between rock and folk!
Yes.One of the first to use orchestas, different instruments like the sitar, and that organ like instrument I don't understand. Who wrote these songs? Sounds like a poet. Some of the songs are so simple, like Lazy Day, almost boring, but then...they take you somewhere else. It's amazing. Does anyone know whomever wrote the songs also produced them? The production is the best part of their sound. I love the titles of songs, and album. "In Search of the Lost Chord" Wow, I love that. But I heard one of the Moodies give an interview that they got that line from Jimmy Durante. They are oodly polite, talk well of one another, and seem to be upper class gentlemen...which is unusual for a rock band in the 70s.In other words, until that infamous trial, they seemed to practice what they were preaching, peach, love, togetherness. mixed with these incredible stories, usually love songs. They seemed to be unusually happy people. Then they get this big spiritual following they don't really want and they write that song, I'm just a singer in a rock and roll band...to tell their fans, yeah, that's all they are. They weren't great singers. But those harmonies were beautiful. It was the way it was all put together, lyrics, prouduction, harmonies, the experimentation with formats....Ride mY See Saw is interesting, is starts fast, does the political or spiritual part, then slows down completely then does a romantic plea for personal change.
@@jschuler53 The organ like instrument was a mellotron the first sampler it worked with tapes of 7 seconds one under each key
@Bill Hulston Hayward*
And classical.
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Absolutely the very best rock group of all times. God has truly blessed them. Still rocking concert halls in 2019
My favourite Threshold songs with Justin’s great vocals a great video portrayal of these timeless songs 💙
Their music makes my heart happy
Also, Candle of Life and Watching And Waiting are almost beautifully haunting and hypnotic all together and mesmerizing!!! Phenomenal!!! I'm smiling big time!!!
Awesome road trip music it is hypnotic
Children's Children has the best Mellotron with Seventh Sojourn (I know Chamberlain) a close second.
Beautiful music never to be forgotten
I'm 67 and still love the Moodys...😊
No one ever wrote what we all knew was the truth we longed for! I love the Moody Blues!
What a wonderful band.
Stella Ercolani Whoever put the visuals together on this one = nice.
You could play are you sitting comfortably nonstop and I would never get tired of it.
I think I have a few times before.
Totally agree
My sentiments !! Not a better group anywhere.
Add me to that list, also.
Pity whoever put this together put up some silly lyrics that didn’t even resemble the correct ones!
Thanks for the lyrics and the images are perfect.
This album is forever embedded in my brain. I was born in 1967, and my parents played this album continuously. I concur with other opinions here in the comment thread, this album is their masterpiece...
in the top ten if not the top five albums ever made. I have this on a half speed master some where. will have to dig it out and record it.
Me to, June 18, 1967, This truly a,,,MASTERPIECE.
Sean Spring-I can totally agree with you!-I was born in 1963, and my mother was a very loyal Moody Blues fan. As a matter of fact, the very first 45 record that I purchased from the local record shop was "The Story in Your Eyes", by the Goodies. I feel quite fortunate also that I got to see the Moody Blues in concert, about 4 times in Los Angeles. As I listen to all of their unbelievably iconic albums today, at age 57, I truly feel like their music takes me to another place-a beautiful and peaceful place, and has a healing affect on me just like it did when I was 8 years old-The Moody Blues were so ahead of their time that their music sounds so right today,timeless and flawless as always!
I was born 1966 and I too grew up with their music. I'm glad I did.
Merlin certainly cast a good spell over The Moodies for a long time and arn't we glad of it.☺
Helped me find a path to my authentic self. How could I repay that gift.
I sit here watching this absolutely beautiful video listening to the wonderful music thinking at age 72 that I don't even know what love really is. I guess I used to think I did. I've had 2 marriages and 3 children. No contact with any of them any more. I have some difficult health issues and somehow just keep floating along. Not on drugs-don't drink. I think I float in the universe. Somehow everything is OK-as it "should" be. Does anyone know what I mean? June 15, 2020.
I am almost the same age and also have 3 kids and had 2 marriages. Real love is what you feel for your kids, and being 'in love' is when you cannot stop thinking about someone.
@@kentruthseeker Thank you for taking the time to reply. But my children have chosen to leave me out of their lives. I think if they would talk to me we could change that dynamic. The universe and two different kinds of cancer have brought some other people into my life and I guess I "love" them. There just seems to be so many different kinds of love and we tend to use that word quite a bit.
74 here. Divorced after twenty years. Four children. Still close to my kids. The other parent ran off the rails it seems. Human beings confuse love with infatuation. That's why so many relationships fail. True love is deeper, unshakeable.
@@timjones7547 Thank you for your words and thought. Am glad u are close to your kids. I guess I have never known what you are talking about. There seems to be quite a few people that feel that way. I wish you well and joy. As for me I am "in love" with learning right now. The computer is fairly NEW to me. Imagine that at my age!
Kathleen, something I can’t clearly identify is moving me to respond to your post. I have fleeting moments of clarity and a sense of peace with all that has transpired in my life, things I’ve done and failed to do, along with things that have been done, or have just befallen, me along the journey. Maybe that’s close to what you mean when you say you “float in the universe”.....I don’t profess any special wisdom, or God forbid any “answers”, but these closing words from the movie American Beauty ring true for me.........”And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can’t feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life.”
The brilliant light of Justin Hayward. Never Comes The Day is perfect.
It's the very best song from Justin Hayward..
Took me forever to find the name of this gem. Worth the years of searching!
The Mighty Moody Blues ❤.. the Best
Such a beautiful song. It brings tears to my eyes. The Moody Blues are a magically electric lightning bolt to the soul. Transcending the meaning behind what seems ordinary.
Saw them at Hollywood Sportatorium 70 or 71
35000 jammed in trppin our brains out, they had the Melatron going it was huge ha ha..
The past two years have been the worst of my life. The moodies are with me every day, helping me get through it.
Hopefully it ends soon
I think about the days of my innocence. I thought everything was perfect. Then I got older. Wish we had more bands like The Moody Blues.👍🙋♀️🍷💝
Veal? NO! Lamb Today! poor Lambchops ... Love the Moody's. Great Channel HistoricusJoe. - Sandy
Thanks. I have a new TH-cam channel. Same name Historicusjoe.
"If only you knew what's inside of me now, you wouldn't want to know me somehow."
Sadly, these words have echoed in my mind several times over the past 50 years. Excellent song, though.
Made my 1960s and 70s very special.
Dont forget about their producer, Tony Clark. He's the guy who put all the music together
Very good point Eric
poor tony..he had a rough life...but didn't we all? LOL
@@mustangmikep51 Right, producers don't get enough credit(even if they put all the pieces together).
One of the most UNIQUE and AWESOME group of musicians that has ever been! I've been listening to the Moody Blues for OVER 45 years and I will never get tired of their AMAZING abilities and their amazing creativity. Music has gone far downhill since the days of this kind of music!
aye!
"It's the most beautiful marriage that exists between sceneography, image and music". Ennio Morricone
I have admit I Love the Moody Blues as much as I Love the Beatles. Thank You Ray for the flute. RIP.
It is so hard to describe how the Moodys music affects me. I always feel better with a little melancholy.
Just simply brilliant...way ahead of their time.
One of my many favorite songs...Justin wrote some really Beautiful songs..
I am 71 and when I go I hope to be listening to days of future past