ruclips.net/video/yGd764YU9yc/видео.html The Tragically Hip. That is the full movie. Then you will understand..... ruclips.net/video/DbIZ1IuqCzU/видео.html Thirty Eight Years Old. Have a go at that song. The version linked says, " Like most Canadians, I'm a fan of The Tragically Hip. I've never seen a video for this song, so I created one myself. Enjoy." in the description.
those lyrics, man -- i had never really paid attention before -- "How can we understand Riots by the people, for the people Who are only destroying themselves? And when you see a frightened person Who is frightened by the people Who are scorching this earth I'm just a-wandering on the face of this earth Meeting so many people who are trying to be free" ... that really hits home
Your reactions are great. Refreshing to see you appreciate the music I grew up with. The Moody Blues had a unique sound that can’t be replicated. Their lead singer Justin Heyward is great.
Love the selection. Lovely our attitude Please let the entire song finish before connecting. You break the momentum and if you waited. I promise. It will be never No Mater what. Keto it up Try to let it play all the way through 🎼🔥
JStarStar00 yes. The spirit surely did. But the quote sixties un quote (meaning the era’s sound) bled over. Sounds don’t pay attention to dates just as the “sixties” didn’t start in 1960
In the late sixties, the Moody Blues had, because of their beautiful, insightful music (and the heavy use of psycho-active substances) developed a large following of "searchers" who looked to the band as their spiritual gurus. As you can imagine this quickly became overwhelming and indeed frightening for a group of talented musicians to deal with. Hence the song "I'm just a singer in a rock n' roll band" was created to help them deal with the madness.
Yes, and they were also Scientologists. I was introduced to them from some of those people and they almost considered the Moody Blues their official band.
@@LadyIarConnacht There is no real evidence that any of the Moody Blues band members were scientologists, or had anything to do with the organization. (I don't doubt that some scientologists might have said that to you -- but those guys say a lot of things; claiming that "celebrity X is one of us!" is a popular recruiting tactic.) L. Ron Hubbard was a fan of the Mellotron, and the Moodies used the Mellotron a lot in their early albums, so it also wouldn't surprise me if a lot of cult members liked the band (or purported to) because they knew their leader liked it -- but that hardly counts as any actual connection between the band and the cult.
Forever Autumn, The Voice, Are You Sitting Comfortably, Your Wildest Dreams, Voices In The Sky. Shoot they’ve been around since the 60s-the list goes on and on!
@@j.dragon651 Eddie lived in Tennessee until 78, then he got mad about laying brick in snow, packed up his stuff and moved here to Florida. He's been here ever since lol.
You must check the Moody Blues song "Question." The acoustic guitar riff in that song inspired Nancy Wilson to write the guitar riff in "Crazy on You."
Can you believe that song didn't chart when they released it!? Criminal. Threshold is my favorite of their albums. I think my favorite tracks from it are the two featuring Ray Thomas on lead, Dear Diary and Lazy Sunday. They remind me of someone out of a Camus story, experiencing alienation and an extensional crises with the world around him. I love Dear Diary. Such an underrated song!
@@matthintz9468 Matt, OTTOAD is my favorite Moodies album too and "Never Comes the Day" is an intimate masterpiece. To this day I can't hear it without tearing up. Absolutely essential Moodies.
Bonnie Lemenager I had an amazing reaction to Ride My Seesaw in concert LA early 70’s? It was a kind of peak experience! Energy out the top of my head, no kidding, really happy! like nothing I’d felt before.
@@Ohhapppyday888 Carolynne, I saw them live in July of 1980 during a very wet, stormy night. I had lawn seats, but everyone was so soaked by the rain, we had to hold onto each other to keep from slipping down an embankment. Magical concert; wouldn't have missed it for the world! Ah, youth!! Good times.
@@derickwilliams8660 "Go Now" is a great song (especially Mike Pinder's piano solo), but I don't really think it's one of their better songs. I know Denny Laine left soon after that, so it really doesn't help capture the MB sound.
little known fact about the moodys, they are the only rock band to have 5 albums in the top 100 at one time...not zeppelin...not michael j...not madona...the moodys!
The Moody Blues have some really great songs! Ride My Seesaw, Nights In White Satin (Extended Version), Your Wildest Dreams, Tuesday Afternoon, I Know You're Out There Somewhere, Question, Gemini Dream, Isn't Life Strange, The Other Side of Life, I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band), The Story In Your Eyes, Late Lament, Talking Out Of Turn, and The Voice among others.
Every album that we ( myself and my 3 brother's ) owned of the Moody Blues got played on one of the three stereo systems in our house almost daily. My dad had one, in one of those big consoles, my older brother had one, and my youngest brother had his own. My brother 2 years younger than me used my dad's since he had a reel to reel tape recorder that you could record 6 or 7 LP's on one big reel....and listen to a lot of music at one time. Me.. I mainly listened to groups like Led Zeppelin, Steppenwolf, Nazareth, Grand Funk Railroad and other "Hard Rock" bands. I was the "metal head" in our family. The Moody Blues though seemed to attract every type of music fan....main because their music was just awesome. I still enjoy listening to them today...50+ years later.
How can we understand Riots by the people, for the people Who are only destroying themselves? And when you see a frightened person Who is frightened by the people Who are scorching this earth (Scorching this earth) Scorching this earth (Scorching this earth)..... .....And if you want the wind of change to blow about you And you're the only other person to know, don't tell me I'm just a singer in a rock and roll band I'm just a singer in a rock and roll band
@@bonnielemenager4030 Jamal - If you're doing 'Gypsy' from the album 'To Our Children's Children's Children', listen to 'Higher and Higher' - You'll appreciate the "Ten Billion Butterfly Sneezes"!!
@@johnpartington8873 Yes, the whole album is awesome. As you probably know, John Partington, the concept was taken from the fascination the world felt for the moon landing. The first track actually tries to mimic the sound of a rocket taking off, but because no one had actually heard one lift off before, they did their best. "Watching and Waiting" is one of the other tracks I really love. "Keep on thinking free"!
The Moodies were far more cerebral than than rest of their contemporaries. Every repeated listen is more satisfying than the previous. That's artistic durability.
Back in the day, fans were so obsessed with Moodies, theyd come back stage and tell them their kids were named after them and or want the guys to Bless them..no lie!! Thats kind of where this song came from...once I met John Lodge nicest person ever, he told me about that! But they sure love and appreciate all their fans for sure!!! xxxx tysm for this
I saw them live in '87. They came on stage and the whole audience surged to their feet and stayed there. It was just thousands of hard-core fans, all ages. Best energy I ever saw.
Yes I could have done that, my son Elvis and my daughter Presley, Presley is taking off in America for daughters. Elvis Presley in my home, how's that 😊
I feel very privileged to be the first to watch and comment on this one. I love the Moody Blues. I was impressed by the fact that when I saw them in concert, they sounded exactly like the record...(they didn't change anything). Sometimes, I think bands improvise because they really can't remember how they did it when they recorded it.
I only just saw them in concert a couple years ago for their 50th Anniversary of Days of Future Passed and I was blown away, I became totally obsessed with them.
Actually Justin would frequently change up the second guitar solo and extend it. It was always epic, I never got tired of seeing what he would do with it. I hope Jamel might check out one of the live versions some time.
@@bmils7799 I followed them on a tour with a friend round the UK in 1996, because they didn't play the UK very often. I think we did 8 concerts. We were then privileged to see Justin at a tiny venue in his home town of Swindon at a charity event.
Jamal, there's footage of their entire set at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970 playing in front of 600,000 people! Just a heads up. Incredible show. There might be some single videos from that show.
The Moody Blues had very spiritual and esoteric meanings in a lot of their songs. In the 60's and early 70's people were looking for answers to their spiritual questions. Because of a lot of their lyrics a lot of people thought they had the answers but they were searching just like everyone else. Hence this song. Question is a great song to react to next. 😃 Love the shirt! 🌼✌
At one point, guitarist/vocalist Justin Hayward thought to himself "Maybe I DO have the answers", but, in the end his own upbringing (he describes his family as "People of deep faith") led him to conclude that he didn't have the answers.
This was a shot back at John Lennon when he claimed more people were interested in The Beatles than God...It was their way of saying we're just musician not gods..Tge Live version is awesone
THE MOODY BLUES, "JUST A SINGER IN A ROCK AND ROLL BAND".... A TOTAL UP BEAT ROCKER BECAME MY FAVOURITE BY THIS BAND...THAT'S RIGHT 70'S A REAL COOKER.
We grew up with the Moody Blues, driving around the English countryside just listening to this music. We saw the Moody Blues live about 10 years ago in Oxford. They were just great and we had a great nostalgic time. Fab!!
I like to blast this song whenever I want to numb my brain and drive all thoughts from it, the insane closing instrumentals especially really do a good job with that. Also check out: Ride My See-Saw, Steppin' in a Slide Zone, Question, Isn't Life Strange, The Voice, Melancholy Man, Gypsy, The Story In Your Eyes, Gemini Dream, Nervous, The Other Side of Life, Your Wildest Dreams, I Know You're Out There Somewhere
I saw them in concert a couple years back. Let’s face it, they’ve been at it about 50 years so I didn’t know what to expect. WELL..they sounded just like their records! The audience were on their feet. It was great!❤️
as a teen, after hearing this song, I wondered who Timothy Leary was... there was no internet then and searching was far more difficult. But there were the blessed saints of pre-Google, the Librarians. I asked my school librarian and she was able to answer me immediately, or at least put me onto some reference material. I'm sure she must have had some questions about my state of mind and potential substance abuse though I had no idea of the weightiness of that question.
Back in the day...The Moody Blues generated a cult-like following who found heavy meanings in their music. They were implored by these followers to speak great truths. This is their statement back to them: "I wish I knew". After all, I'm Just A Singer... Coincidentally, it also ended their essential seven albums.
That's kind of the main problem with the world, not just today, but forever it seems. Always waiting on someone to give you the answers and certainty you crave. Read the chapter "On Disciples" in "Thus Spake Zarathustra" by Nietzsche.
This song was written by John Lodge (bass, vocals) and closes out the 1972 album, Seventh Sojourn. It was the final song before the Moody Blues took a 6 year hiatus, before coming back with 1978 record, Octave. Again, I am a HUGE Moody Blues fan (they are my #3 close behind Rush and Yes). The album, Seventh Sojourn ends with this "warning on the face of this earth." The record opens with an ominous song written by the most spiritual member of the band, Mike Pinder called "Lost in a Lost World" which is a DEEP cut. The band came back together again in 1978, recorded Octave, and before they were to tour, Mike Pinder left the band. I believe it was because he was finally fed up with the whole rock band experience. If you want to get a glimpse of where his head was, listen to his 1976 solo album, The Promise. It is very short, clocking in at about 33 minutes (most albums are around 40 minutes). "I'm Just a Singer (in a Rock and Roll Band" makes a simple statement; yet very poignant for the times. Just say, "I've said my peace and I leave the all up to you" - 'Out and In' (Moody Blues song off of the 1969 album "To Our Children's Children's Children" [My personal favorite!] 💜💜💜💜💜
Such an amazing song, the nonstop energy, the brilliant drum intro and the drums throughout, the great guitar, bass and keyboards, the relentless two-part harmonies, the deep lyrics and the arrangement overall. A total and complete classic.
The original prog rock band. Funny, back in the day we called it classic rock because almost all their songs were recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra. Excellent stuff, my man.
Jamel, you nailed it. People look to celebrities for answers to form their opinions when they should just inform themselves and form their own opinions. Hey, why are you asking me? I'm just a singer in a rock and roll band. What do I know that you don't already know? What can I do that you can't do?
The Moody Blues was a fantastic band and when traveling in the US they usually recruited local symphony or college music programs to accompany them on stage. I had seen them 3 times at different venues. They were not a drug band, top notch musicians serious about their music and lyrics.
Some of my favorite Moody Blues songs follow. Please forgive my laziness in not providing links. "Dear Diary", "Twenty-Two Thousand Days", "Legend of a Mind", "Questions"
I've loved this one and "Question" for forty years - one of the few groups that just gets better for me as time goes along. Thanks for taking that trip with us.
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In my opinion “isn’t life strange?” By the Moody Blues is their best song in terms of “the feels”. Such a great song. Please consider doing a reaction for this one, you won’t regret it!
J, you should definitely check out “Question”. One of the most insightful and poignant songs they composed. 👍🎶 The studio version from “A Question of Balance.”
Love the whole album and I got to see them on their "long distance voyager" tour. It was a phenomenal concert but there were more people outrageously drunk and tripping out than at any other concert I had ever been to.
Moody Blues is my all time favorite band. They wrote everything they sang and recorded. I’ve seen them in concert a couple times and they don’t even sweat while performing. Perfection!!!!! Late 60s early 70s and even mid 80s with Surlamur. I know you’re out there somewhere.
Their early albums had a theme that kind of ran through the whole of each album, concept albums. Definitely worth checking out Days of Future Passed(67), In Search of the Lost Chord(68), On the Threshold of A Dream (69), To Our Children' s Children's Children (69), A Question of Balance, (70), Every Good Boy Deserves Favour(71), etc.
If you get to "The Story In Your Eyes" make sure you pair it with "The Procession" which opens my favorite Moody Blues album "Every Good Boy Deserves Favour".
Melancholy Man has always been one of my favorite Moody Blues songs. Saw them live when they did their tour with local symphony orchestras as guests. Saw them with the Peoria Symphony Orchestra.
This one is kinda different than what you normally hear from them but it's still greatness! Still the great lyrics tho, that never changed. This was done in 1972 and written by John Lodge. This whole album is a great listen, you won't regret it. This was early in their career, Pinder was still playing the piano. Yeah, sometimes that's all it takes is saying something and then, hey, that would make a great song!
@Marco von Catfish the present is great, leaning more toward their so called "classic seven". ALL their albums are. barring the ability of tony clark to continue producing their albums they are now producing their own albums, music, and they are back to "classic seven" mode ! but they have to make a new album ! each one write at least 2 songs per, just as before !
@Marco von Catfish what's formulaic ? I have to disagree. they NEVER deliberately put out fillers.i can see they are true efforts to live up to what is expected of them. and when they started producing THEIR OWN music it is a true return to form. did you not buy strange times ? and december ? and the two new songs on journey into amazing caves ? to say NOTHING about Justin's moving mountains, view from the hill, spirits of the western sky, John's 100,000 light years ago. a LOT of great Moody blues music. indeed ALL of their solo works are masterpieces. TIME FOR A NEW ONE ! 🙂
Love this song!! In high school I dated a guy who played guitar and sang, who was super-into the Moodys. Heard their stuff a lot, such a great group. So great to hear it again. Throwbackness at its best! 🥰
Love me some Moody Blues! When I was a teenager I had a homemade tape of their greatest hits I made to listen to in the car. I made from the albums I had and wore that tape out and remade it several times! You've barely scratched the surface of what they have to offer
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The Tragically Hip. That is the full movie. Then you will understand.....
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Thirty Eight Years Old. Have a go at that song.
The version linked says, " Like most Canadians, I'm a fan of The Tragically Hip. I've never seen a video for this song, so I created one myself. Enjoy." in the description.
those lyrics, man -- i had never really paid attention before --
"How can we understand
Riots by the people, for the people
Who are only destroying themselves?
And when you see a frightened person
Who is frightened by the people
Who are scorching this earth
I'm just a-wandering on the face of this earth
Meeting so many people who are trying to be free"
... that really hits home
Your reactions are great. Refreshing to see you appreciate the music I grew up with. The Moody Blues had a unique sound that can’t be replicated. Their lead singer Justin Heyward is great.
Love the selection. Lovely our attitude
Please let the entire song finish before connecting. You break the momentum and if you waited. I promise. It will be never
No Mater what. Keto it up
Try to let it play all the way through 🎼🔥
Stepping in the slide Zone
The “sixties” didn’t end in 69 It was still goin on In early 70s like this.
Yep, just like the 70s lived on in the early 80s.😊🥰
The Sixties ended with Abbey Road and Altamont.
@@JStarStar00 And Led Zeppelin II, maybe.
JStarStar00 yes. The spirit surely did. But the quote sixties un quote (meaning the era’s sound) bled over. Sounds don’t pay attention to dates just as the “sixties” didn’t start in 1960
ted ritola exactly!
In the late sixties, the Moody Blues had, because of their beautiful, insightful music (and the heavy use of psycho-active substances) developed a large following of "searchers" who looked to the band as their spiritual gurus. As you can imagine this quickly became overwhelming and indeed frightening for a group of talented musicians to deal with. Hence the song "I'm just a singer in a rock n' roll band" was created to help them deal with the madness.
Yes, and they were also Scientologists. I was introduced to them from some of those people and they almost considered the Moody Blues their official band.
I've been a huge Moodies fan most of my life and I'd never heard the Scientology thing
@@faeryedark If they were it did not effect their music. The Moodies were a fantastic band.
The group was disavowing the "Cosmic" messages in their previous songs.
@@LadyIarConnacht There is no real evidence that any of the Moody Blues band members were scientologists, or had anything to do with the organization. (I don't doubt that some scientologists might have said that to you -- but those guys say a lot of things; claiming that "celebrity X is one of us!" is a popular recruiting tactic.) L. Ron Hubbard was a fan of the Mellotron, and the Moodies used the Mellotron a lot in their early albums, so it also wouldn't surprise me if a lot of cult members liked the band (or purported to) because they knew their leader liked it -- but that hardly counts as any actual connection between the band and the cult.
Forever Autumn, The Voice, Are You Sitting Comfortably, Your Wildest Dreams, Voices In The Sky. Shoot they’ve been around since the 60s-the list goes on and on!
GREAT BAND with GREAT SONGS !! I have LOVED THEM since the beginning !!! 👍💜🎼
And still touring (not THIS year, though!)
Except Forever Autumn wasn't written by any of them. And was a solo effort by Justin Heyward (part of Sound track to War of the Worlds)
My hubby just walked by and said "I used to love to trip to the Moody Blues" lol.
Gosh were getting up there!
I did too. The good old days.
I might know him?
@@j.dragon651 He's from Nashville. Where are you from?
@@deannacrownover3 I am from the North East but I have retired to 8 miles north of Kingsport Tn.
@@j.dragon651 Eddie lived in Tennessee until 78, then he got mad about laying brick in snow, packed up his stuff and moved here to Florida. He's been here ever since lol.
You must check the Moody Blues song "Question." The acoustic guitar riff in that song inspired Nancy Wilson to write the guitar riff in "Crazy on You."
Right. And Ann Wilson helped induct The Moody Blues into the Rock and Toll Hall of Fame.
@@bonnielemenager4030 Correcto mondo
Great song!!!
Just saw that interview with Nancy saying that not long ago. That's cool.
How about Ride My See Saw? That has been my favorite since I was too small to ride one! lol.
Never Comes The Day is an amazingly constructed song.
Frank Day that’s a pretty song. I love Are You Sitting Comfortably.
Can you believe that song didn't chart when they released it!? Criminal. Threshold is my favorite of their albums. I think my favorite tracks from it are the two featuring Ray Thomas on lead, Dear Diary and Lazy Sunday. They remind me of someone out of a Camus story, experiencing alienation and an extensional crises with the world around him. I love Dear Diary. Such an underrated song!
I like the live version best.
@@welshwitch2126 Are you sitting comfortably and nice to be here
@@matthintz9468 Matt, OTTOAD is my favorite Moodies album too and "Never Comes the Day" is an intimate masterpiece. To this day I can't hear it without tearing up. Absolutely essential Moodies.
When the Moody Blues Rocked. Do My Seesaw. I Think it was the late 60's
"Ride My Seesaw" was amazing in concert. So much energy!
Bonnie Lemenager I had an amazing reaction to Ride My Seesaw in concert LA early 70’s? It was a kind of peak experience! Energy out the top of my head, no kidding, really happy! like nothing I’d felt before.
Yes! That's my favorite song of theirs.
Ride my See Saw! My favorite track and the Moodies best.
@@Ohhapppyday888 Carolynne, I saw them live in July of 1980 during a very wet, stormy night. I had lawn seats, but everyone was so soaked by the rain, we had to hold onto each other to keep from slipping down an embankment. Magical concert; wouldn't have missed it for the world! Ah, youth!! Good times.
Moody Blues had a lot of radio play in the 70s.
Question
Story in your Eyes
Legend of a Mind
Ride my See Saw
Never Comes the Day
Timothy Leary is dead, No Nom he's outside looking in.
How about Ray Thomas's "Veteran Cosmic Rocker" from "Long Distance Voyager"? That one blows me awat every time! RIP, Ray Thomas!
AND HOW ABOUT GO NOW!!!
@@derickwilliams8660 "Go Now" is a great song (especially Mike Pinder's piano solo), but I don't really think it's one of their better songs. I know Denny Laine left soon after that, so it really doesn't help capture the MB sound.
little known fact about the moodys, they are the only rock band to have 5 albums in the top 100 at one time...not zeppelin...not michael j...not madona...the moodys!
Please do not mention Michael J or MAdonna in the same sentence as the Moodies. Not worthy
Damright! They had a niche in music that more people responded to. Their Music had something that no other had, and will Not ever have
I'm a huge Moody's fan but never knew that. Thanks!
The Core Seven are holy
Great musical scores, intelligent lyrics, great singing. Just all came together in this one group. They're dated but timeless.
The Moody Blues have some really great songs! Ride My Seesaw, Nights In White Satin (Extended Version), Your Wildest Dreams, Tuesday Afternoon, I Know You're Out There Somewhere, Question, Gemini Dream, Isn't Life Strange, The Other Side of Life, I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band), The Story In Your Eyes, Late Lament, Talking Out Of Turn, and The Voice among others.
YES ,YES ,YES !!! GREAT MUSIC !! 👍💓
Every album that we ( myself and my 3 brother's ) owned of the Moody Blues got played on one of the three stereo systems in our house almost daily. My dad had one, in one of those big consoles, my older brother had one, and my youngest brother had his own. My brother 2 years younger than me used my dad's since he had a reel to reel tape recorder that you could record 6 or 7 LP's on one big reel....and listen to a lot of music at one time. Me.. I mainly listened to groups like Led Zeppelin, Steppenwolf, Nazareth, Grand Funk Railroad and other "Hard Rock" bands. I was the "metal head" in our family.
The Moody Blues though seemed to attract every type of music fan....main because their music was just awesome. I still enjoy listening to them today...50+ years later.
Don’t forget Simple Game.
I'd like to add Timothy Leary and The Actor.
OMG, The Story in Your Eyes is just among their very, very best!
This then brings The Byrds- So You Want To Be a Rock and Roll Star
Then CCR playing in traveling band
Excellent song! As is the cover by the band, Nazareth!
the cover by the Move is good too
Moody Blues are one of the gods of Rock n' Roll......nothing sounds like them today!!!
This band doesn't get enough credit. What music should be like.
Check out “Story in Your Eyes “.
Absolutely
Great request
A must! Their absolute best song ! Perfect arrangement! Great production!.
@Marco Cattalani Yes - a must.
It's a RIPPER!
Time to go down the whole Moody Blues rabbit hole.
The Story In Your Eyes, Gemini Dream, Your Wildest Dreams, and The Voice all must hear Moody Blues songs. also The other side of life.
"Music is the traveler crossing our world
Meeting so many people, we're bridging the seas." Thanks to you, Jamel!
"Gemini Dream" for some 80s Moody Blues 😀
And your shirt matches the album!!
"The Other Side of Life" video was very trippy and way ahead of its time. Guyliner!!
WOW!! I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING!!! MY FAVORITE SONG OFF THE ALBUM WAS "GEMINI DREAM"!? & I'm a Gemini ♊
How can we understand
Riots by the people, for the people
Who are only destroying themselves?
And when you see a frightened person
Who is frightened by the people
Who are scorching this earth (Scorching this earth)
Scorching this earth (Scorching this earth).....
.....And if you want the wind of change to blow about you
And you're the only other person to know, don't tell me
I'm just a singer in a rock and roll band
I'm just a singer in a rock and roll band
Not even funny how what's "old" ain't so old!
DO YOU HEAR THIS B.L.M. AND S.J.W. IT WOULD BE WISE FOR YOU TO LISTEN
@@derickwilliams8660 It's Okay To Be White
So apropos and timeless..
@@derickwilliams8660 they don’t care.
Gotta do “Question “, studio version
Yes, and "Gypsy", too. There's a reason these guys are still doing their thing over 50 years later.
@@bonnielemenager4030 Jamal - If you're doing 'Gypsy' from the album 'To Our Children's Children's Children', listen to 'Higher and Higher' - You'll appreciate the "Ten Billion Butterfly Sneezes"!!
@@johnpartington8873 Yes, the whole album is awesome. As you probably know, John Partington, the concept was taken from the fascination the world felt for the moon landing. The first track actually tries to mimic the sound of a rocket taking off, but because no one had actually heard one lift off before, they did their best. "Watching and Waiting" is one of the other tracks I really love. "Keep on thinking free"!
No way. This live take is phenomenal: ruclips.net/video/-wDHvmCVRxU/видео.html
Check it.
Can't listen to Question without listening to The Balance! The songs go together.
Oh yeah!!! My favorite Moody Blues song.
The Moodies were far more cerebral than than rest of their contemporaries. Every repeated listen is more satisfying than the previous. That's artistic durability.
Back in the day, fans were so obsessed with Moodies, theyd come back stage and tell them their kids were named after them and or want the guys to Bless them..no lie!! Thats kind of where this song came from...once I met John Lodge nicest person ever, he told me about
that! But they sure love and appreciate all their fans for sure!!! xxxx tysm for this
I saw them live in '87. They came on stage and the whole audience surged to their feet and stayed there. It was just thousands of hard-core fans, all ages. Best energy I ever saw.
@@LadyIarConnacht
I love it!! There really is nothing like that of the energy
of a Moodies concert...its truly Magical!!! xxx
Yes I could have done that, my son Elvis and my daughter Presley, Presley is taking off in America for daughters.
Elvis Presley in my home, how's that 😊
Grew up listening to these guys. Most of their songs you need to be in the”right state of mind”. Try Question next
How about "Gypsy" or "Candle of Life"? "Eternity Road" is also amazing.
The Question. Long version !
Another vote for The Question (long version!)
theyll put you in the rsom
When I started listening to them I was 10 or 11. Way too young for psychoactive substances but already into serious lyrics with messsages.
Lovely to see you again my friend by The Moody Blues
Yes, and with the intro, "In the Beginning."
Yes with the intro.
“Safer and Evans- in the year 2525” will blow your mind! Love what you do buddy!
If you do the Moody Blues you have to check out "Nights in White satin" and "I know I will find you somewhere".
1000% AGREE
He already did nights in white satin
he already reacted to Nights
Wildest Dreams, Tuesday Afternoon, Question
@@rhm5158. Thanks. I'll keep on looking for it. I looked for it in his channel and didn't find it
You must do "Ride My See Saw"...The full version with the poem at the start...
Yes!
I think the first part/poem was called "Departure." (But wouldn't shock me if I'm wrong)
@@realmcaz It is...You're not wrong...
You need to do "The Story in Your Eyes." I love the lyrics in that one, and it has a great melody and hook!
Procession/Story in Your Eyes - must go together
My jam of 1972. Check out "The Story in Your Eyes" from 1971.
Only with "Procession" before it.
The Story in Your Eyes might be my favorite Moody Blues song, it's epic af
Yes it is! 😊
My Fav!
Had the Same Fast Rockin' Sound of "I'm Just a Singer In a Rock & Roll Band".
I feel very privileged to be the first to watch and comment on this one. I love the Moody Blues. I was impressed by the fact that when I saw them in concert, they sounded exactly like the record...(they didn't change anything). Sometimes, I think bands improvise because they really can't remember how they did it when they recorded it.
I'm jealous you got to see them in concert! I remember this album well!
I only just saw them in concert a couple years ago for their 50th Anniversary of Days of Future Passed and I was blown away, I became totally obsessed with them.
Actually Justin would frequently change up the second guitar solo and extend it. It was always epic, I never got tired of seeing what he would do with it. I hope Jamel might check out one of the live versions some time.
@@labyfan1313 Welcome to the fold! That was such a lovely tour; I saw it twice myself.
@@bmils7799 I followed them on a tour with a friend round the UK in 1996, because they didn't play the UK very often. I think we did 8 concerts. We were then privileged to see Justin at a tiny venue in his home town of Swindon at a charity event.
One of their best songs. A beaut
Jamal, there's footage of their entire set at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970 playing in front of 600,000 people! Just a heads up. Incredible show. There might be some single videos from that show.
Here's a video...
ruclips.net/video/N_J-hmyAS6c/видео.html
There is a DVD of their performance (I have it)!!
This song was not played at that concert. This came out almost 3 years later.
@@marktrail8624 ok. My bad,.
The Moody Blues had very spiritual and esoteric meanings in a lot of their songs. In the 60's and early 70's people were looking for answers to their spiritual questions. Because of a lot of their lyrics a lot of people thought they had the answers but they were searching just like everyone else. Hence this song. Question is a great song to react to next. 😃
Love the shirt! 🌼✌
Yeah someone neglected to tell them that there's no such thing as spirits.
At one point, guitarist/vocalist Justin Hayward thought to himself "Maybe I DO have the answers", but, in the end his own upbringing (he describes his family as "People of deep faith") led him to conclude that he didn't have the answers.
@@robertleeluben Sure there are. You've got your vodka, whiskey, gin, rum...
@@vinnynj78 Well ya got me there
Omg this one and “the story in your eyes” are the best ever!
This was a shot back at John Lennon when he claimed more people were interested in The Beatles than God...It was their way of saying we're just musician not gods..Tge Live version is awesone
Haha, no thats not true at all
Justin Hayward wrote "Nights in White Satin" when he was just 19 years old!! And what a beautiful song it is!
THE MOODY BLUES, "JUST A SINGER IN A ROCK AND ROLL BAND".... A TOTAL UP BEAT ROCKER BECAME MY FAVOURITE BY THIS BAND...THAT'S RIGHT 70'S A REAL COOKER.
"Isn't Life Strange" next please, another Moody Blues' classic
Awesome song....he was trying to tell people he didnt have all the answers.....but you have to love the start up and the killer bass riff!
We grew up with the Moody Blues, driving around the English countryside just listening to this music. We saw the Moody Blues live about 10 years ago in Oxford. They were just great and we had a great nostalgic time. Fab!!
It's about time that you got to The Moody blues ,wonderful music !!!!!!!!!
"The Voice" is another classic by them.
I like to blast this song whenever I want to numb my brain and drive all thoughts from it, the insane closing instrumentals especially really do a good job with that. Also check out: Ride My See-Saw, Steppin' in a Slide Zone, Question, Isn't Life Strange, The Voice, Melancholy Man, Gypsy, The Story In Your Eyes, Gemini Dream, Nervous, The Other Side of Life, Your Wildest Dreams, I Know You're Out There Somewhere
Moody Blues....grew up with them...but appreciate their full sound more now than ever... superb band...
I saw them in concert a couple years back. Let’s face it, they’ve been at it about 50 years so I didn’t know what to expect. WELL..they sounded just like their records! The audience were on their feet. It was great!❤️
Check out Legend of a Mind! Timothy Leary's Dead . . . .
Yes
No.....he's outside..
Looking in..😉
Lisa Rainbow brings you back the same day.
as a teen, after hearing this song, I wondered who Timothy Leary was... there was no internet then and searching was far more difficult. But there were the blessed saints of pre-Google, the Librarians. I asked my school librarian and she was able to answer me immediately, or at least put me onto some reference material. I'm sure she must have had some questions about my state of mind and potential substance abuse though I had no idea of the weightiness of that question.
CEC416 Timothy Leary!?!?? Go to the principles office right now!?!
Back in the day...The Moody Blues generated a cult-like following who found heavy meanings in their music. They were implored by these followers to speak great truths. This is their statement back to them: "I wish I knew". After all, I'm Just A Singer...
Coincidentally, it also ended their essential seven albums.
And Justin Hayward's guitar solo at the end still holds up. Wonderfully underrated guitar master.
"Timothy Leary is dead"
(Lol, I still have "In Search of the Lost Cord"
I remember some of those theories. I also recall this was the single that followed on the success of the re-release of "Nights in White Satin".
That's kind of the main problem with the world, not just today, but forever it seems. Always waiting on someone to give you the answers and certainty you crave. Read the chapter "On Disciples" in "Thus Spake Zarathustra" by Nietzsche.
"He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"
This song was written by John Lodge (bass, vocals) and closes out the 1972 album, Seventh Sojourn. It was the final song before the Moody Blues took a 6 year hiatus, before coming back with 1978 record, Octave.
Again, I am a HUGE Moody Blues fan (they are my #3 close behind Rush and Yes). The album, Seventh Sojourn ends with this "warning on the face of this earth." The record opens with an ominous song written by the most spiritual member of the band, Mike Pinder called "Lost in a Lost World" which is a DEEP cut. The band came back together again in 1978, recorded Octave, and before they were to tour, Mike Pinder left the band. I believe it was because he was finally fed up with the whole rock band experience. If you want to get a glimpse of where his head was, listen to his 1976 solo album, The Promise. It is very short, clocking in at about 33 minutes (most albums are around 40 minutes).
"I'm Just a Singer (in a Rock and Roll Band" makes a simple statement; yet very poignant for the times. Just say, "I've said my peace and I leave the all up to you" - 'Out and In' (Moody Blues song off of the 1969 album "To Our Children's Children's Children" [My personal favorite!] 💜💜💜💜💜
Oh so lucky to have grown up with this band, and the music of this generation.
Jamel, Their "Your Wildest Dreams" is next for you!
I think Your Wildest Dreams is my favorite Moody's song.
I Know You're Out There Somewhere is my favorite after Nights in White Satin.
@@paulinwoburn9680 Candle of Life tied with On This Christmas Day
First MB song I heard, back in the Eighties.
Those I had heard the name "Moody Blues" before, somewhere.
I love Your Wildest Dreams and I know Your Out There Somewhere. ❤️❤️❤️
My band 🎧🎶 Muddy Blues! 😊 Moody
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This Will send your energy level to NUCLEAR!!!!!!!
Such an amazing song, the nonstop energy, the brilliant drum intro and the drums throughout, the great guitar, bass and keyboards, the relentless two-part harmonies, the deep lyrics and the arrangement overall. A total and complete classic.
The original prog rock band. Funny, back in the day we called it classic rock because almost all their songs were recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra. Excellent stuff, my man.
Yay 🙌 just to know is driving
Jamel, you nailed it. People look to celebrities for answers to form their opinions when they should just inform themselves and form their own opinions. Hey, why are you asking me? I'm just a singer in a rock and roll band. What do I know that you don't already know? What can I do that you can't do?
The Moody Blues was a fantastic band and when traveling in the US they usually recruited local symphony or college music programs to accompany them on stage. I had seen them 3 times at different venues. They were not a drug band, top notch musicians serious about their music and lyrics.
Some of my favorite Moody Blues songs follow. Please forgive my laziness in not providing links.
"Dear Diary", "Twenty-Two Thousand Days", "Legend of a Mind", "Questions"
Brother Jamal, you've got to try out the song "Question"!
"The Voice " by the Moody Blues
Late 60's very early 70's. I would put one their songs on at home alone with a girl and she would melt. The ladies loved them.
Someone recommend Question be the next Moody Blues song to react to. After listening to it again for the first time in decades I agree. 💯
I've loved this one and "Question" for forty years - one of the few groups that just gets better for me as time goes along. Thanks for taking that trip with us.
Just found your channel and have spent the last couple of hours clicking through previous videos. I realised I had been smiling all the time ive been watching! From Freebird and Stairway, the lesser known to me Iron Butterfly to the greatest ever Queen and so many other amazing songs and groups. What a great discovery - its like watching the greatest hits of my life :) Keep them coming. Stay safe. Be yourself.
"The Voice" and "Wildest Dreams" my daughters used to dance around to those two, oh and "I Know You're Out There Somewhere"
"That's got 70's all over it!"
And that's a very good thing. 👍
In my opinion “isn’t life strange?” By the Moody Blues is their best song in terms of “the feels”. Such a great song. Please consider doing a reaction for this one, you won’t regret it!
Here’s a video for those interested: ruclips.net/video/ESER7DFXWiI/видео.html
J, you should definitely check out “Question”. One of the most insightful and poignant songs they composed. 👍🎶 The studio version from “A Question of Balance.”
always loved how this song slowly builds up at the beginning and then just let's go, chugging along faster and faster. so good.
Moody Blues Wildest Dreams and I Know You're Out There Somewhere. These need to be done back to back.
Give “Talking Out of Turn” off the Long Distance Voyager album a go. A very good Moody Blues album IMHO. You are killing it Jamel!
Love the whole album and I got to see them on their "long distance voyager" tour. It was a phenomenal concert but there were more people outrageously drunk and tripping out than at any other concert I had ever been to.
After being asked by WAY too many fans for the answers to life, the universe and everything (homage to Douglas Adams),...
Yes! You felt it too! At the 2:00 mark...GOOSEBUMPS! Gets me EVERY SINGLE TIME!
So underrated and more talented than so many “ popular” garbage groups in the 70’s
Please check out “The Story In Your Eyes” by the Moody Blues. If you liked this one you’ll love that one.
I like Ride My Seesaw and Question better than this one. Hopefully you'll cover those. 👍
dont you feel small, it happens to us all
Ride My See-Saw is my favorite Moody Blues song. I hope Jamel reacts to it sometime.
@@BeatLA24 Mine as well. Best arranged the intro all the way to the end is a masterpiece.
Moody Blues is my all time favorite band. They wrote everything they sang and recorded. I’ve seen them in concert a couple times and they don’t even sweat while performing. Perfection!!!!!
Late 60s early 70s and even mid 80s with Surlamur. I know you’re out there somewhere.
Moody Blues - my all -time favorite band.
"Ride My See-Saw"
is another gem.
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Their early albums had a theme that kind of ran through the whole of each album, concept albums. Definitely worth checking out Days of Future Passed(67), In Search of the Lost Chord(68), On the Threshold of A Dream (69), To Our Children' s Children's Children (69), A Question of Balance, (70), Every Good Boy Deserves Favour(71), etc.
I was so excited when I saw this song here! Love it! And agree with those who suggested the song “Question.” 🖤
Thre earnestness in their voices is hard to ignore...
Spencer Davis Group !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for this. Please please please do the Marmelades”Reflections of my Life “ live 1969.
Great song!
The song is amazing ,one the great tunes,one hit wonders,
Rush, Moody Blues and Yes. My top three favorite bands over the past 40+ years.
Great band saw them live in the 80's one of the best shows I have ever seen.
If you get to "The Story In Your Eyes" make sure you pair it with "The Procession" which opens my favorite Moody Blues album "Every Good Boy Deserves Favour".
also try moody blues "Question" a great message as relevant today as it was back then
Too many questions to ask these days 🤔
Melancholy Man has always been one of my favorite Moody Blues songs. Saw them live when they did their tour with local symphony orchestras as guests. Saw them with the Peoria Symphony Orchestra.
The Moodies had 4 lead singers at the time, and they all sang this one together.
when you do Question..do live version from Red Rocks!!!! yessss!!!
This one is kinda different than what you normally hear from them but it's still greatness! Still the great lyrics tho, that never changed. This was done in 1972 and written by John Lodge. This whole album is a great listen, you won't regret it. This was early in their career, Pinder was still playing the piano. Yeah, sometimes that's all it takes is saying something and then, hey, that would make a great song!
ALL their albums are. BEST BAND EVER ! 🤘
@Marco von Catfish the present is great, leaning more toward their so called "classic seven". ALL their albums are. barring the ability of tony clark to continue producing their albums they are now producing their own albums, music, and they are back to "classic seven" mode ! but they have to make a new album ! each one write at least 2 songs per, just as before !
@Marco von Catfish NEVER ! KEEP GOING ! NEVER STOP BEING CREATIVE ! man bite your toungue
@Marco von Catfish what's formulaic ?
I have to disagree. they NEVER deliberately put out fillers.i can see they are true efforts to live up to what is expected of them. and when they started producing THEIR OWN music it is a true return to form. did you not buy strange times ? and december ? and the two new songs on journey into amazing caves ? to say NOTHING about Justin's moving mountains, view from the hill, spirits of the western sky, John's 100,000 light years ago. a LOT of great Moody blues music. indeed ALL of their solo works are masterpieces. TIME FOR A NEW ONE ! 🙂
Love this song!! In high school I dated a guy who played guitar and sang, who was super-into the Moodys. Heard their stuff a lot, such a great group. So great to hear it again. Throwbackness at its best! 🥰
I think you know that most of your audience is 60yo + it is so much fun to watch you keeping great music alive. THANKS
Aww, you should have watched the video clip.
Ride My Seesaw next, brother. And the video as well... 😁👍
Yes! The original promo clip
The Story In Your Eyes
One of the great videos of the 80s is Wildest Dreams. MB have many great songs. Gemini Dream, the Question, Driftwood, Other Side of Life.
Love me some Moody Blues! When I was a teenager I had a homemade tape of their greatest hits I made to listen to in the car. I made from the albums I had and wore that tape out and remade it several times! You've barely scratched the surface of what they have to offer