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The fact that it took until 2018 for there induction into the rock and roll hall of fame when I see rap artist and others going before them is unbelievable. 70 million albums sold.
Just like YES! Bullshit!
Ahh, I wouldn't sweat that too much. The RRHOF is a known joke at this point.
I agree the hall is a joke
And the ones still not in
I agree that groups that deserve to be in the RRHOF are often overlooked for some crap artists. The Guess Who should be in there too but aren't.
Intelligent music from a chaotic place in time.
When you have 4 Lead singers the harmonies go off the charts.
You guys really need to listen to this entire album.
You must hear "Legend of a Mind" and "The Afternoon," which is also known as "Tuesday Afternoon!"
It's almost unfair to listen to single Moody Blues songs (even though this song was released as a single). If anybody was an "album band", at that time, it was them.
Yup....much like pulling a single Pink Floyd song out of the middle of an album. You immediately lose all context and it cheapens the listening experience considerably.
“Question” is a heater from the Moody Blues.
When I was young, this was one of my go to tripping soundtracks....😁
The song, written by bassist John Lodge is about escaping the rat race. He was disillusioned after finishing school and getting a job. So he joined a Rock and Roll band. Ofcourse! S tier for me. Especially because of Justin Haywards vocals and guitar riffs. The album has to be enjoyed in its entirety. From "Departure" on.
I've thrown "Om" on as the last song on just about every mixtape/compilation CD/playlist I've made for people since I started making them.
My daughter said she would never take me to a MB concert because I would sing louder than them.😂😂
@@aileenturrietta7553 Not louder than me!😄
@@LeChaunce To hear the sun....
@@lisamorrison2149 I'm all in!!!
"Question," "Legend of a Mind," and "Tuesday Afternoon" are outstanding choices from the "classic period" of Moody Blues, but eventually you'll want to hit their 1986 resurgence with "In Your Wildest Dreams": easily one of the best songs of the 80s.
Definitely "Question" next! Other tunes are fantastic too
I love their 80s music! "The Voice", "I Know You're Out There Somewhere", and "The Other Side of Life" are particular favorites.
Question, Legend Of Mind and Tuesday Afternoon are all great choices This whole album is great, especially side 2.
That would be Tuuuuuuuuuuuuuuesday Aaaaaaaaaaaaternoon.
Question is my fav as well
They kept their jobs for 45 years. This group has longevity.
Saw the band probably 10 times never disappointed. Another timeless compilation of musicians who invented a sound, that will endure.
A&A, their “The Voice” and “Question” are Outstanding and next for you!!
Question is good. I’d like to see them listen to Tuesday Afternoon.
@@leetroy3129 Absolutely
"Question" fo show!
i want them to react to tuesday afternoon. it sounds more like nights in white satin. question and voice are good.
The Story in Your Eyes rocks. The entire Every Good Boy Deserves Favour album is worth checking out.
Great song. I forgot about that one. I think they already reacted to it already though
That is my favorite Moody Blues song!
Already done ("Story")
moody blues reads like a tolkien novel - amazing imagery with words
Mike Pinder the keyboardist playing the Mellotron worked for that company on the side acting as tech repair and sales guy. He was friends with the Beatles, Stones, and Yes which led these groups to use the device on Tomorrow Never Knows, Strawberry Fields Forever, The Fool On the Hill Bungalow Bill, lRevolution 9, Stones: 2000 Light Years from Home, Roundabout....Yes opened for The Moodys.....so shows their influence in releasing the first Prog concept album themselves and then spawning early 70s prog in Yes
Mike made so many adjustments to his Mellotron that, when it began to not work properly, the company repair rep who looked at it gave up. "It ought to be called a Pindertron", he said, because Mike had fiddled so much with it.
@@reginag4053 ...LOL!
Mike added his own arrangement of tapes to the Mellotron too. So he could play what sounds like different instruments with each hand on one Mellotron.
Initially, the Moody's couldn't afford to buy a Mellotron, but found a used one in some sort of old folks home or other facility and bought that one.
Awrighty boys! Glad you finally got here. The Moody's were much bigger than people know.
I am 65 years old and I have been schooled by these two kids. I hitchhiked to see the Dead, Crosby Sills Nash, & BB King. I mowed Duane Allman's lawn in Atlanta one time. YET...I have NEVER EVER heard the actual beginning to this song. You guys are so much fun !!
I love this song so much, Moody Blues forever 💙💙💙✌️👏😎
Woo! The Moody Blues are my favorite! I'm glad to see them here again!
Man, I had forgotten how cool the opening to this song was...
I was 6 when this song came out. I'm now 60. The music you react to (60s70s) is the fabric of my life.
Thanks
My freshman roommate was an excellent guitarist who also had echoic memory. He could listen to a song and have the chords worked out in minutes, the solos within a couple of hours. He was a huge Moodies fan, and over the course of the two trimesters we shared a room, he learned the entire catalog. He also flunked out of school, but at least he could play every Moody Blues song.
This song was written by bassist John Lodge, and sung, mainly in unison, by Lodge, guitarist Justin Hayward, flutist Ray Thomas, and keyboard/pianist Mike Pinder. It was their encore song for concerts since the late 60's
Such a great song, as so many of their songs are. Very innovative band for all times. Loved Moody Blues 💙. S tier for me
Most flutists for some reason are not well known for their singing.
So maybe Ray Thomas and Ian Anderson are in a very small club.
Also again. This was during the war when a lot of people were singing about finding or creating a new world or utopia where people can be truly free.
The Moody Blues were the first progressive rock/ pop band!
In the last song on that LP, they found the lost chord they were looking for.
The sixties haven't been the same without the music of Moody Blues. Coming home late, going to bed and listen to them in headphones.........flying away to somewhere else.
1968, the year I was born. It's a fantastic Song. One of the best footage of it was on the TV programme Colour me Pop which is on You Tube. They swing it Old School. Greetings from the UK.
The Moody Blues released 4 albums in TWENTY FOUR months between 1967-1970. Andy, you were right; the Moodies were indeed experimenting with psychedelics and meditation. The first 4 of the "Classic 7" albums were totally concept records that deserve to be listened to in their entirety to "get" the band and their MESSAGE.
"Ride My See-Saw" was a song they performed live to the end of the band, which came to an "end" with the passing of the remaining original member, Graeme Edge (the poet of the group).
As you discover this amazing band, hopefully you'll also find that they were asking the same questions about life as their fans. And THANK YOU for talking about the album cover!!
Wish, you would chose : The Voice, Tuesday Afternoon, or Question, these are more entrancing, and such wonderful musical, and lyrical, masterpieces.
There’s literally hundreds of Moody Blues songs they could choose and I’d be happy!
very true
YES. Both of them
I like all of their albums except for Long Distance Voyager. Two good songs and the rest is trash.
@@djray369 really?? 🙄🤔😳
They always closed their concerts with this one. The core 7 albums need to be done in their entirety. Great tune and reaction.
and in order, please .imho, each album is a chapter, together a "book"
I concur. All 7 in order in their entirety. I saw the Moodies in 1989. They did not disappoint. Excellent sound, even though they played outside in a parking lot.
Core 7 + Long Distance Voyager.
To anyone who has seen them live, doesn’t it sound so musically perfect if you close your eyes? I was so impressed by them
2016, Saw them on their Fly Me High Tour...best concert ever, hands down in my then 61 years of life, and to this day!
I saw them live and they were disinterested and going through the motions - sorry
I’ve seen them 3 times back in the 90’s. The 2nd time was like that…. Just going thru the motions. Not great. The other 2 times were amazing. They are human after all.
This song was not intended to stand alone. The music in this album follows the album title. It's in search of the lost chord. "Departure" and "Ride My See Saw" are establishing the futility of life, leading to searching for more meaning. Along the way (in the album) they resort to drugs (Legend of a Mind), learn meditation and end up with religion ("Voices in the Sky","The Best Way to Travel", "The Word", "OM"). I'm shooting from the hip, here. But in the 70's when I was high, I could explain the whole thing.
I'm just a Singer (In a Rock n Roll Band) is another great one!..The Live version is banging!!!!...Graeme Edge (drummer) goes Animal (Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem) from the Muppet Show...hahaha...it's effn awesome!!!!!
They've reacted to that one: ruclips.net/video/1Y6gJ90ubgk/видео.html
(not the live version, though)
Love that song, good choice, have not heard it in a long time.
They've done that one. They really liked it.
They reacted to the song a year ago, but they have not reacted to the live version. Can you recommend a specific live version?
Excellent choice-love ‘I’m Just a Singer’! (Just never really liked ‘Seesaw’ very much. 🤷♀️)
SHROOMS!! Gents, the search begins! This i8s the opening to a great album
The Moody Blues were great pals with a guy named Timothy Leary. They even wrote a song about it all.
I love everything The Moody Blues put out there, starting from the 60’s!👍👏👏👏🍾🍷🩵💎
Growing up in the 80s, you heard two Moody Blues songs on the radio, Knights in White Satin and this.
You heard The Voice, and Gemini Dream
My favorite Moody Blues song is "Question" , it has everything. Check it out , you will love it!
It's really two songs in one. Justin Hayward said he had these two incomplete pieces, one a protest song, one a love song, both in the key of C, but was at a loss as to how to complete them. He answered that dilemma by stitching those two pieces seamlessly together to make a great song. Nancy Wilson of Heart said she used "Question" as the inspiration for the acoustic intro to "Crazy On You."
My favorite too!
Indeed. "Question" is the answer... Er, sorry, couldn't resist. Damn good song, though. You want introspective, pseudo-profound lyrics, without the pseudo--they ARE profound, actually! ) It's SUCH the good song!
That was the first song I'd heard by them. Been a fan ever since.
@@joescott8877 The "answer" coming at the end. Profound.
Seems like all the bands at the time were going psychedelic in that time period but the Moody Blues took it to a whole different level
You are right there Sis. That whole intro/experience w nature, described what I went through too and has stayed w me my whole life. Reality is so beautiful, and my ability to - be able to - accept or appreciate it has to do with me and my choices and circumstances ..
They invented prog rock. I see so many sites saying it was The Court of the Crimson King, but the Moody Blues hit it years earlier with Days of Future Passed. Both albums are great, but the Moody Blues really hit it off.
Love the wall of sound vocals. As with many songs of this time period, imagine hearing this come out of an AM radio in 1968. Like so many of their songs, revolutionary for it's time. It's hard to see it through that lens in 2022, but at the time?? Holy smokes! There was nothing else on the landscape like it.
For us who listened to this in '68, this is S tier all day.
Even into the 70s - the string of concept albums from the Moody Blue were close to perfection. The lenses of time have affected how someone just hearing them could miss the magic. It's like opening an old yearbook for us... we look at Megan and she's still perfection - but when your son sees the picture he doesn't get it.
It's hard to imagine for me, sure. I didn't listen to it until the late 80s (not my fault, age is a factor). I loved it immediately.
Sometime around 1970 or 71, a kid down the street offered to trade albums with me. He offered 2 Moody Blues albums, “Future Passed” and “Lost Chord”, which he hated because it had “orchestra music” on it. I held out, though, until agreed to throw in Zeppelin 3 (which he hated because it had acoustic guitars). In exchange, I gave him two Top Hits compilation albums I had been given for my birthday. He thought he was putting one over me because the compilations were both double-albums; he was getting 4 records in exchange for 3.
I only got to see the Moodys live once. They could only play in cities with a symphony orchestra that was willing to be their backup band. Fortunately I was able to catch them at Woodlands Pavilion with the Houston Symphony while all the key members were still alive.
A good song, but I would have picked Tuesday Afternoon as the next Moody Blues song that they needed to do.
Hopefully they'll get to that one soon
But Only if it's the Long version of course!!!
Never was a truer statement posted…
There is no wrong song from the Moody Blues. One of my all time favorites. Andy I think you are really coming around to appreciating the 60's
Love that song.
Tuesday afternoon or question for your next moody blues song. This is one of the smoothest best tracks by them :D.
One of my favorite from "The Moody Blues"!
Moody Blues legends
Beautiful classic, Tuesday Afternoon, and Evening, The Other Side of Life are my favorites MB tunes.
Their first 7 albums are classics. One of the most under appreciated bands of all time. Nobody did it like The Moodies.
Each album is a packaged EXPERIENCE. Should be played all together.
There's always got to be somebody who says a famous band was underrated. Nobody underrated The Moody Blues then or now.
Lyrics:
[Chorus 1]
Ride, ride my see-saw
Take this place
On this trip, just for me
Ride, take a free ride
Take my place
Have my seat, it's for free
[Verse 1]
I worked like a slave for years
Sweat so hard just to end my fears
Not to end my life a poor man
But by now, I know I should have run
[Chorus 2]
Run, run my last race
Take my place
Have this number of mine
Run, run like a fire
Don't you run in
In the lanes, run for time
[Verse 2]
Left school with a first class pass
Started work, but as second class
School taught one and one is two
But by now, that answer just ain't true
[Bridge]
(Ah-ah-ah-ah)
(Ah-ah-ah-ah)
(Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah)
(Ah-ah-ah-ah)
(Ah-ah-ah-ah)
(Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah)
[Verse 3]
My world is spinning around
Everything is lost that I found
People run, come ride with me
Let's find another place that's free
[Chorus 3]
Ride, ride my see-saw
Take this place
On this trip, just for me
Ride, take a free ride
Take my place
Have my seat, it's for free
[Outro]
Ride my see-saw
Ride, ride
Ride my see-saw
Ride my see-saw
Ride my see-saw...
Such a great band. One of the best ever. Great singers and writes combining Rock classical and folk on acid. This is pure art.
Most Moody Blues songs are understood/appreciated better as a part of the whole album. They were definitely an album band. Writing singles was not their thing, but they have some really awesome albums! Days of Future Passed or On the Threshold of a Dream are 2 of my favorites (& I still have my original copies of!!). A good poll would be to see which Moody Blues album we all would vote first for you to listen to 😄
I realize this is a common view but I respectfully disagree. The 1974 *This Is The Moody Blues* compilation is a better produced and tracked way to get into the band than the albums. This song included is stronger on the compilation because the guitars are turned up more in the mix, which the album version needed, you can barely hear them!
@@Trendyflute I agree that the mixing got better as newer tech became available. I guess I was going more on the over all feel & flow of their songs & how their albums told a story with a definite beginning, middle & end. That being said, music is subjective & leaves room for differing views. I guess we know which album you’d vote for 😀. Valid points.
Seventh Sojourn is my first vote. It's hard as I really love Every Good Boy Deserves Favor. Moody Blues really made amazing albums.
Absolutely magical harmonies! ❤
Guys this was released in 1968. The arrangement is outstanding. And I think of the see-saw as the ups and downs of life. 😎
Compare this to anything in popular music today---I am glad to have experienced it.
A&A as people are asking for Tuesday Afternoon, that one is on Days of Future Passed as "The Afternoon: Forever Afternoon (Tuesday?)". A title with parenthesis and punctuation!
Highly recommend covering this album in entirety on Patreon. Brilliant start to finish
"...and to name the chord is important to some, So they gave it a word and the word is...OM"
I have so much fun listening to them interpret songs and groups.
I have to agree about the volume of the guitar! Justin Hayward is an absolute beast on the guitar and needs to be heard! Next, check out “Tuesday Afternoon (Forever Afternoon),” which is the first part of the song “The Afternoon” on “Days of Future Passed.” It really should be heard in its entirety, as "The Afternoon," not just the "Tuesday Afternoon" part of the song. Feel better quickly, Alex!
The guitar is turned up in the mix on the _This Is The Moody Blues_ compilation version and it does help a lot!
“Legend of a Mind” is the other great song from this album and is a must-listen.
Listening to one song from a moody blues album is like reading one chapter in a book. We did a lot of acid back then.
I’ve been watching and waiting for you to discover more moody blues
"Watching and waiting for a friend to play with"
Every album was a "concept", listen to them all !! Keep it up !!
Good reaction. I'm heartened by the fact that college kids know what a see-saw is.
I forgot how good this was. Listening to this with good headphones really highlights how talented these guys are. Guess I took it for granted. Wow!
A&A, seeing as you don't do vids on Tuesdays, a nice Tuesday bonus should be Tuesday Afternoon. Great song!
thats a cool idea
@@TheConservativeinaction Thanks!😎
Beatles, Stones, Who and Moody Blues; psychedelics...yep! All hung out in London's swinging sixties and turned on together, then Hendrix showed up!!!
So many great songs by these guys, but my favorite Moody blues song is Your wildest dreams
Recently while going through a box I found a ticket stub from a Moody Blues concert in April 1972. The venue probably held 8 or 9 thousand people. The music was great but one of my most vivid memories was of the smoke from the weed. It was so thick I could barely see the band. Almost dream like.
This was a concept album about discovery. The opening "Departure" was written by drummer Graeme Edge, who passed away late last year, defining the journey to find "God". The song was written by John Lodge who was raised as evangelical Christian. He eschewed use of drugs or involvement in meditation and other 60's activities, although the others partook. He originally wanted to be an engineer and attended college to become one. He was disillusioned with his job in the industry and did, at his friend, Ray Thomas' (Moody flautist, singer and composer) encouragement, join the Moody Blues. Lodge is also the falsetto voice you hear.
My older brother bought this single when it was released in 1968. I absolutely fell in love with it and the Moody Blues, having bought Go Now in 1965 when it was released. I was 12!
Same, "Go Now" was a great start to a wonderful career, and them being my GOAT band, not ignoring Beatles, and a plethora of others, but for great consistency it MB's all the way.
@@emilyflotilla931 Consistency. Key word.
@@paulbrinkman5631 💯
My uncle is a very good painter, mostly oils. He’s a huge Moody Blues fan too. He’s made his own versions (close recreations with personal touches) of some of their more iconic album covers, such as the one you just showed.
AC/DC ply never disappoints. You still have many gems to discover.
The central theme of this album is finding yourself through music...yes it is a concept album
One if the best concerts I ever saw. Period.
More Moody Blues in your life is a good thing ..... My personal favorite song is Gypsy.
Crying for the memories. This song was meant for an older me. ,,,, You wonder how much psychedelics they (we) did? Their music designed for psychedelics. Their music is for tripping.
Everyone seems to forget their “Legend of a mind” with the late Ray Thomas on vocals and flute
You are, in fact, off the rails. And I am here for it! 😆
Love me some Moody Blues. I saw them play live 5 times.
This whole album is a journey
Whether or not you're a Moodys fan, it's safe to say that they're not like anyone else, and no one is like them. They are unique.
About as "rock" a sound as you'll hear from The Moodies. Always been one of my faves of theirs.
Auditory beauty at its best.
New Horizons by Moody Blues may be the most beautiful song ever written and performed. I always loved it, but even more when I found out what inspired it (the death of Justin Heyward 's father and birth of his first child).
Justin wrote some of the most gorgeous melodies of any songwriter in the pop/rock era. And an amazing guitar player with one of the best voices. MAJOR talent.
I've my nieces and nephews ALL of the core MB CDs. As long as it doesn't distract from their schoolwork. /S
"I've *given* my nieces..." Good God!
Yep Classically trained musicians writing and singing acid rock. Ah Psychedelic man
Wow I recall almost all of the lyrics from 54 years ago. Now remembering what I did yesterday, that’s problematic 😎
Lol. Just remember your address and you'll be fine.
The song is a metaphor for the struggles of milking cows and having to work in a dairy processing plant. The see-saw is the machinery that bottles the milk.
When this came out all I needed was a joint, this album and a pair of headphones. Pleasant memories for a man in his 70's.Psychodelics? One of the songs on this album is called Timothy Leary is Dead.
I've watched the video of the Moody Blues at the Royal Albert Hall soooo many times. And the best is always their finale song which is this one. They have the whole audience (many persons, uh, a bit aged) on their feet, dancing and singing along. It's on RUclips and definitely shows The MB's greatness in performance!
I appreciate these songs even more as I age. Been listening to these guys for almost 50 years and they never get old.
Like the Energizer Bunny. And it's a good thing, 'cos I don't know of any ROCK music today that is so complex, beautiful and deep.
It’s said that the two most important days of your life is the day you were born and the day you discover why.
Justin Hayward and John Lodge released an album together called “Blue Jays” that is just beautiful.
The Question, I feel, is their best song. And they have a ton of great songs.
*"Several"* tons.
Moody Blues songs are more layered than a nine layer bean dip, both with meanings and with sounds. A lyric might sound self-explanatory, but there's a message wrapped within the message wrapped within a message. Their music is never boring and forever intriguing and so glad you guys have been hooked by their mystical power.
Scrolled through most of the comments but can’t find another mention of the cultural background for “the lost chord” they are searching for. “The Lost Chord” was a poem set to music by Arthur Sullivan, of Gilbert and Sullivan of comic opera fame, but Sullivan also wrote many other musical pieces and some hymns including “Onward, Christian Soldiers”. It was still a well known song in England and would have been known to all the members of the Blues and most of the British audience for the album. (Also “Every Good Boy Deserves Favour” is the British version of the mnemonic for the lines of the treble clef, that is simplified in the US to “Every Good Boy Does Fine.”)
GOOOOOOOD MORNING A&A FAMILY!
☮️💟♾️
Being only 9 when this album came out ...the message I got from this song was BE A KID ! Make a simple thing like a see-saw a rocket ship and enjoy everything you can . I saw my aunt and uncle have great time in their teens and when they turned 20 or so the child in them died . I never let that happened and LIFE HAS BEEN AWESOME !!!!!!!!! I'VE done everything I could and I will die happy . My wife did and even said the opposite because she was so materialistic . She died of cancer at 38 ...so sad. LIVE ! To hell with big houses and ridiculously expensive cars ! They mean NOTHING ! PK
You definitely want to hear "Question", an absolute masterpiece. But it's hard to go wrong on almost anything from the Moody Blues.
That's a trip. All the hundreds of time I've heard this song and never even knew there was an intro to this until now. Every version I ever had or heard on the radio must have always been the single version.
Oh yeah, this one’s a banger! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 but truly an albums band if ever there was one.
This entire album needs to be heard on Patreon. But 'Legend of a Mind' should still be done on this channel.
Just realized this song was recorded the day I was born…