Maaaan please rract to gloria by the doors, but you have to react to the cool version and Morrison had a police trouble for singing it right so please men. The doors is one of thr best psychedelic bands and have this organ also you love. ruclips.net/video/xis84YBN5F0/видео.html
Next do Question I had this album 50 years ago at the age of 10 played it in a stack with Iron Butterfly Live, Jimi Hendrix Axis Bold As Love and Santana III
Justin Hayward, the singer has a ytube thing on Tuesday afternoons with stories about how their songs came to be. Just FYI, all. A fun discussion is was Days of Future Passed, or Sgt Pepper's the beginning of prog/concept rock?
@@marimcge nope. just don't think a lot of YOUNG black men listen to the moody blues is all i mean . and to see that music cross cultures, like al green, marvin gaye, the isley brothers and many many more did with me, is fantastic . it proves that we really are all one . have a wonderful day .
@@cweefy Well you’ll be amazed. The point was stop making assumptions. Second point please stop referring to someone’s skin color as defining their culture. This is American music and as Americans we all listen!!!
I'm a 70- year-old lady and this was "my music" as a young adult (saw them in concert, still love it). Your commentary on this masterpiece was priceless. I laughed until tears were running down my cheeks. Glad you've discovered the Moody Blues, so glad I discovered you. Cheers!...from a new subscriber.
Ms.Linda 57 here n have seen them live too.Watching Mr.Jamel enjoy what we grew up luvn is priceless he truly enjoys it n is very honest with his reactions.God bless
This is when people were actual artists. Singers, songwriters and musicians. They didn't "sample" other artists work. They did there own. They were original.
As a photographer, I covered one of these performances for a newspaper in Northwest Indiana. Though I had heard these tunes back when I was a teenager I garnered a whole new appreciation for them when I heard them live. I downloaded them from from Napster afterward.
My wife and I saw them on our 25th Wedding Anniversary with the Rockford, IL Symphony, 26 June 1997. I scored center, front row seats for us. Nights in White Satin is "Our Song."
Please study this whole album. Not just on the channel, but in your "off time" as well. I use this album as a music theory tool, and as an English/Poetry appreciation tool, for my daughter's lessons. She's 15 and loves this entire album. During my study of this album I have found 4 ways of viewing the story line: A day in a life. A life in a day. The life of a love. The love of a life. The entire piece is one continuous circle, where the opening sound is the closing sound, but backwards. Fading into existence where it faded out. I have been studying this album since 1990, and diacussing it with my daughter for a few uears now. Reliving the discoveries I've made over the years through her joy if discovering something new about the album. Enjoy the ride.
Days of Future Passed was one of the earliest concept albums in rock. Each song is part of the day. The most famous is the Night in Nights in White Satin.
The Moody Blues are one of the greatest band's out there ! They were so good to help relax me after Viet Nam ! They are good at setting up your mood, to help you calm down and take a breath ! They can make you happy or make you cry ! Song's like, The Tide Rushes In , Watching and Waiting ! You can get very emotional listening to !
The second half of this is a whole other song, BTW, called "Time to Get Away." Further down the Moodies rabbit hole: "Ride My See-Saw" "Legend of a Mind" "The Dream"/"Have You Heard (Part 1)"/"The Voyage"/"Have You Heard (Part 2)" "Higher and Higher" "Gypsy (Of a Strange and Distant Time)" "And the Tide Rushes In" "The Story in Your Eyes" "My Song" "Isn't Life Strange" "I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock 'n' Roll Band)"
"Is there a chance this brother might be just a little bit high?" LOL There is EVERY CHANCE. The Moody Blues are my favorite band - I've seen them more times than I can count, & it'll never be enough. If you haven't already, I highly recommend you react to their song "Question". Also, "Isn't Life Strange?". Beautiful songs. (My band covers Tuesday Afternoon, btw, & I get to sing lead!)
Remember mate when peeps said you need to listen to Pink Floyd albums rather than songs... ahhhh so it goes with the Moody Blues. This song is from the album Days of Future Pass... which basically covers the journey of a day. This was one of the first concept albums and the use of a proper orchestra to support a band as well as heavy use of the mellotron. The Moodies became associated with concept albums such as 'A Question of Balance.' as well as being associated with art and progressive rock.
The album cover from In Search of the Lost Chord was my favorite, I think. I went to the Long Distance Voyager (Remember Gemini Dream and The Voice?) concert in ?1990? And another MB concert before that one....(198X?)
You can tell it from the way its structured.. They used the keys of an orchestral movement, complete with samples/allusions to other songs on the album.
Actually, it’s Days of Future Passed. Still have the CD somewhere. I got to see them doing the whole album live with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. An amazing show!
I’ve been listening to the Moody Blues for over 50 years, here’s a few of their other songs that you might enjoy: “Question”, “The Story in Your Eyes”, & “Ride My See-Saw” As always, thanks for the smiles, memories and the shared journey.
Listening to the Moody Blues is like walking through all the stages of one's life. Their music encapsulates the variety of human emotions which is why, unfortunately, many people don't find them overly appealing. There is also their eerie, uncanny sound. It makes you ruminate your existence in a way which only great music can do.
It seems to be tied in with Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon and The Moody Blues' Days of Future Passed that seem to have more meaning as I've grown older.
@Natalia Their Live at Red Rocks was a great album. My mum loves MB and I listened to a lot of it but it's only as I've grown older that I see what she saw and understand it better. I've noticed that with a lot of music that I loved I now can understand it at a deeper level.
As a HUGE Moody Blues fan of over 50 years, I will tell you much of them if you'd like to know. "Tuesday Afternoon" is part of the concept album, "Days of Future Passed" (1967). The album was the first of its kind to fuse rock and classical music together. Unbeknownst to the record label, Decca, the way it recorded, the 5 members of Moodies, along with producer Tony Clarke, hired several studio musicians (credited on the record as 'The London Festival Orchestra'). This album was one of the first true stereo one. Jamal, you asked if they were high? The Moody Blues released FOUR studio albums in barely over 24 months between Nov 1967- Nov 1969, all of which were concept albums. The Moodies have many, many songs that are hits, per se. Most of which were written by Justin Hayward. Nights in White Satin, Voices in the Sky, The Actor, Lovely to See You, Are You Sitting Comfortably?, Never Comes the Day, Gypsy, Watching and Waiting, Question, The Story in Your Eyes, The Land of Make-Believe, Driftwood, The Voice, Blue World, Your Wildest Dreams, I Know You're Out There Somewhere, Say It With Love, and one of my favorite songs, Forever Autumn (a non-Moodies song). And those are only songs by Justin Hayward! Now, if you'd like to add songs by the other 4 Moody Blues band members (3 of which also sang lead vocals on their songs). You can tell now how much I love this group!! 💙💙💙💙💙
Thanks for your comment, Justine! I got a huge kick out of Jamal's reaction. I'm a HUGE Moody Blues and Justin Hayward fan myself - nice to "meet" you here!
You consider yourself a fan of theirs and not include...for example, the whole album "On the Threshold of a Dream", then...the list goes on and on and on...
@@shawnkilbane6693 you don't know me and to post a reply to me like that is mean. How many tattoos dedicated to the Moodies do YOU have? I've loved this band since I first heard "Nights in White Satin" in 1967!! I was 8!! 💙
And this was just part of Tuesday. The entire album takes you through the course of a single day, from "The Day Begins" until "Nights in White Satin", and this piece is the afternoon portion into the early part of the evening.
For the Moody Blues you should listen to In Search of the Lost Chord (whole album like we did) and On the Threshold of a Dream (whole album). Then consider these were done in the 60s, no computers or modern keyboards and effects. They had to innovate sounds.
You are helping us all, including yourself, at this time, when we are all dealing with a lot of life's problems. I hope you're growing spiritually from this gift of music. We love you Jamel.
@@Wolverines77 that's actually Justin's solo work... for a BBC project... Not taking anything away from you, I regularly pine for their music and those days, best band ever.
saw them at the Royal Albert Hall in 2002 and they were absolutely magnificent. Some 50years since i first saw them at the legendary Isle of Wight '70 fest.
The Moody Blues were the first (along with the Beatles) to bring a symphonic element to rock ‘n roll. But make no mistake - these guys could rock the house. Check out “The Story in Your Eyes” or “I’m Just A Singer in A Rock and Roll Band.” Their song “Question” has some extreme highs and lows, making it a fascinating musical ride. And of course their classic “Nights In White Satin” is a crowning achievement. And we’ll never forget their debut hit, “Go Now.” One of the often overlooked groups of the ‘60s/‘70s, the Moody Blues belong in the top ten rock groups of all time. PS: You’d be surprised at all the great music that was written by people who were high at the time. ;-)
I grew up with these songs. They played a 50th Anniversary tour of the "Days of Future Passed" album in 2017. It was a fantastic concert hearing the entire album played in order (plus other great hits). They still sounded great 50 years later.
Been listening to the Moody Blues from birth. My dad would come home from work (even when I was a newborn, according to my mom), turn down the lights, put on a record (you know, the old 12" vinyl LP), lay down on the floor, and just let the music take him away. It's honestly one of my first solid memories, and it's been reinforced every single night for the first decade of my life. Here's the thing: From Days of Future Passed through The Seventh Sojourn - about seven albums - each album has to be listened to from start to finish. Put on a record, turn out the lights, relax, and listen to the whole damn thing. Then move to the next one at a later date. My dad wasn't high when he was listening to these, and neither was I. That said, it's well understood that the band was floating through the 60's and 70's - at least until their break in 1974. From my experience, you don't need to be high to listen to these guys. If you just relax, close your eyes, and go wherever the music takes you, you'll be levitating by the time it's done. Stop listening to just single songs from those albums. They were never intended to be singles. The best way to experience them is to listen to the entire album.
I was blown away when this first came out in my teens. Just like your dad, I would kick back in a comfy chair with the best headphones I could afford and just bliss out to the whole album. No expensive enhancements necessary - it was a super cheap high that my parents couldn't complain about. Except for skipping homework, of course.
This is music as art. Like Pink Floyd's _Dark Side of the Moon_ and The Beatles' _Sgt Pepper's, Days of Future Passed_ deserves to be heard from start to finish.
Where I grew up, they never played the Beatles "A Day in the Life" without the Sargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Reprise in front of it - the Two go together incredibly well, it makes that quite the journey too. I think a law should be passed that says you cannot play "A Day in the Life" without the Reprise in front of it, as it is on the album. The Reprise is a heavy metal hard rock version with 4 part harmony from ALL the Beatles (including Ringo), something very rare for them (I'm not aware of another) - and then goes from this fast beat heavy metal hard rock sound and then slides into the mystical ballad like sound that opens the Day in the Life. As most are aware, the Day in the Life is really two songs, the bridge is a McCartney penned song and the rest is Lennon. By putting the Reprise in front of it you now have a suite that includes three different songs/melodies, with one of those melodies being offered up three times. It becomes more than just a great song. Like the Moodies here and in very many places, its as Jamal says, a journey.
You're exactly right, the "Days of Future Passed" should be listened to all at one time. We had a "Reel to Reel" tape recorder growing up...and in high school, my older brother decided he didn't have room for it, so I claimed it. I eventually taped all my L.P.'s so I could listen to my music on my head phones! Most of my albums were hard rock/heavy metal...and my mom hated it!
You betcha! This album is really meant to be listened to from beginning to end on headphones, when it came out, I was never high on anything but the talent of these gentlemen, they do take you on a journey!
When I was much younger, a bunch of friends and I were coming of a day of mild hallucinogens. We were listening to the radio and the station was in the habit of playing full albums without interruption at this time of night. There was no introduction, they just said “here we go” and I heard the opening notes. My friends were more into heavier rock and were going to change the station. Having heard the whole album before, I sternly protested and said that everyone needed to just lay back and relax. By the end, which seemed like both hours and seconds at the same time, they were all grateful I insisted they all listen. Straight or otherwise, I believe it is nearly impossible to not appreciate the majesty of the work of art!
Been watching you for about a month now and have to say you're a credit to the human race! Appreciate that you are willing to listen to and embrace music from my generation. In other words, I had this album when it first came out on vinyl! Thanks for all you do!
This is what was called: “Album Rock”. It was not uncommon for Album Rock radio stations to play whole album side at one time, and full album without a break. Instead of “Singles” cut at 3:30 minutes. Many albums were pretty much the whole side of the record. RUSH, with their Pts.1-3, And others. This was fairly common. I love your channel. I here long forgotten songs and have to add them to my Playlists.😁 Music is an international language all it’s own. It also possesses healing powers, and brings people together - all people. Also, it’s hard for people to fight, when everyone is dancing.😁 Love your channel. 📻🙂
There was a small underground FM station a couple of blocks from where we lived, back about ‘74. They’d just put on an album and wander off every once in a while, leaving some dead air until someone noticed. We’d go over, hang out with the DJs, smoke a doobie, have a beer. It was a very different time.
I was one of the DJs that would put on a side. Actually, I was there to assist with the news but as with a lot of radio stations if someone didn't show up, you were the DJ. It was a very special time and you could never do what we did in the early 1970's. Whenever a new album would come out, like Zeplin or Floyd or Moody Blues and others, we would advertise we were presenting the whole album (usually at midnight on a Friday or Saturday) and we would get big Arbitron numbers for the timeslot. Also, you could spend more time with your girlfriend in the control room because you were usually the only one there.
joonzville Yeah, there were a few around. We had a Collage station that would do most anything. KWUR- U.R.-90.3 Washington University, St.Louis. I lived near enough, and had a good enough radio to pull it in most of the time, though technically [just] outside of their coverage range, considered “ fringe “ area. They did some crazy things❗️ Stuff NO ONE could ever get away with. 📻😁
This was actually two songs off their concept album, Days of Future Passed. They worked with a full orchestra for it. Each track represents a different part of the day, which in turn is meant to be representative of a lifespan. This was the "afternoon/evening" tracks, which in turn lead into the major hit, Nights in White Satin.
It was the '70's. Everyone was stoned. I was born in 1990 and my dad introduced me to this music. You don't need to smoke pot to appreciate good music of any genre.
Hey Jamel, I also grew up in this era and OMG!!! Their music, the poetry, the classical touch seemed to me like they were a step above and beyond . A total experience!!! Take a bow Moody Blues, your music will last forever!!! So beautiful man!!!! I’d never, ever get tired of their music, so many songs you gotta listen to!!!!!!
Of course you are my bright little star, I've pile of file, pretty files of you forefathers fruit, and now to suit our great computer, your magnetic ink. I'm more then that, at least I must be. There you go man keep as cool as you can it riles them to believe that your perceive the webs they weave and keep on thinking free.
@@rondias6625 yep, it's annoying. Like Kravitz doing American Woman, video had scantily clad women, I don't think he realized or just decided to bastardized it. American Women is a protest song against the Vietnam war. And so many do remixes totally butchering classics.
@@woodrose50 all they can see these days are dollar signs..they are clueless to what was really going on and why songs were written in the first place..
Jamal, this album was released when I was 20. I was at a party with my girlfriend and we were both spaced out on our first hit of LSD and laying on the floor. Days of Future Passed came on and we were mesmerized by the sound, something we'd never heard before. I was hooked for like on the Moody Blues.
It warms my heart to hear a young man such as yourself listening and reviewing some good classic rock! Thank you for the review! I grew up with this music and most of my library contains music of this age and type. Thank you again!
You might get there with marijuana, or you might get there with with meditation; you might get there with music like this, or it might just suddenly dawn on you out of the blue... the important thing is to get there somehow... everybody needs a little Tuesday Afternoon magic in their lives! Take a few minutes each day to gaze at a tree, or the clouds... Life is so special, and so beautiful, still, even amidst the madness...
The Moody Blues albums are concept albums. You need to listen to them as a whole to understand them. Also understand the era they were written in. The album The Present, about love found and lost, which happens to be my husband and mines album, he sang it to me when we dated, was followed with the second half of the story where they find each other again with the album The Other Side of Life. We didn't see each other for 5 years when the new album came oug, it fit our story. We have been married 31 years. So please listen in total.
One of my favourite bands of all time. Seeing them live in concert with our local symphony performing at an outside venue under the stars was AMAZING . Glad you enjoyed all the nuances of the Moody Blues ❤️
Remember, this was one of the first “concept” albums and one of the first to use a full symphony. It was their first album and it tracked a typical day from dawn to night
That was just the afternoon, there's still the dawn, morning, evening, twilight and night on that album! (well, this reaction was really for two songs, Afternoon and Evening)
I had the privilege to see these guys during their Red Rocks tour in the 90's and their Strange Times tour in 1999. Both times they toured with a symphony orchestra. This was my mother's favorite band of all time and it was an honor to see them in concert. They were one of the first, if not the first rock bands to intertwine the rock genre with classical symphonics.
"Melancholy Man" is another masterpiece. There are so many songs that come to mind I love by "The Moody Blues." As you said their songs are constructed in a way which makes transitions between different parts of a particular song so smooth.
I fell asleep listening to Melancholy Man on 8 track. The tape got messed up somehow and when I woke up it was replaying that song over and over. Apparently it looped while I was asleep and I could not get that damn song out of my head for weeks. To this day I can't listen to it anymore. "A beam of light will fill your head....." AHHHHHHHHHH!
I am 67 yrs old and in my honest opinion The Moody Blues are undeniably and unquestionably the best group ever to have made music to this standard. I have all their album's and listen to them regularly.
"Breathe deep the gathering gloom...." "Days of Future Passed" was like a composition with many movements... not an album with individual, unrelated cuts.
That moment when you find yourself staring out the windshield to see what's ahead and you realize you should have been looking out of the passenger window the whole time.
I been watching your reactions and you do a great job!!! Thank you for bringing back the music that I grew up on!!!! Many of these groups I've seen live!!!
A unique band, with members of singular talent. Another song of theirs I really like is called "My Song." People often overlook them as the pioneers in mixing electronics and psychedelics.
"Y'all be floatin'." Not necessarily, but it is good music for just sitting somewhere, closing your eyes, and letting the music carry you away all on its own. As you said, it is a journey. Hopefully you enjoyed it though. :D
Yes it is good music to "float" with. But there are ways to float, that don't involve drugs...yes? The Moody blues Solidly, Represent Rock and Roll. a music style that changed the course of civilization that cant be said about Jazz or Classical music ! from playing in bars in England the band now has symphony orchestras around the world, playing symphonic versions of these old "hippy drug songs" ...
This is actually two songs, afternoon and evening, what comes next is sun set, twilight time and the night (Nights in White Satin). The story of the album is quite interesting. The record company wanted to show off their stereo sound (which was rather new in 1967). The record company wanted the MB to work with a symphony orchestra on a version a classical work (I think Vivaldi's four seasons). The Moodies didn't want to do that, they already had a concept of songs that told the story of a day in the life. So the record company agreed to record their Days of Future Passed with songs about times of day, and have a composer (Peter Knight) provide symphonic segments to transition between songs. The use of the Mellotron (tape recording of strings) and flute playing by Ray Thomas of the Moodies, made the songs by the band sound a lot like the orchestra, so it flowed together almost seamlessly. The album is a timeless masterpiece. Oh hell yes, we hippies got stoned and often spent the whole evening listening to Moody Blues records (sometimes with a little King Crimson or Yes thrown in too).
I found them when I was 15 or 16 in 1975 and wore out all of their first 7 albums. I liked their deepness, philosophical ness, and sorrowful ness and their instrumentation. I was the only one of my friends that like this. My friends liked disco or the Eagles.
Talk about memories flooding back! Hours spent listening to wonderful mind-bending music. Long live the music of an era that changed the world! And yes I was stoned and I liked it!!!!! Stay kind to each other!!!!!!!!!!
When my parents saw them live back in the early 90's, they had the whole London Symphony backing them. My dad said the only band to outshine the Moody Blues in concert was Pink Floyd.
Love to see how open-minded, open-eared you are. I love the Moodies (I'm 63) and it is heartwarming that a younger man can get totally into an experimental orchestral-rock-pop album from late 1960s. Music is truly universal.
I bought this album when it came out (I was 16, I'm 71 now) and I and all my friends fell in love with it immediately. Even most of our parents liked it. It was a landmark album merging rock and classical elements in a way that satisfied both camps. Mike Pinder's use of the Mellotron helped define the instrument and opened its use by hundreds of musicians. The reason for my entry today is that the original pressings on Deram Records were horrible, at least the US pressings. As good as this music is, we were only hearing a portion of its majesty. I hear amazing detail in these new remixings and remasterings. Thank you for posting this version and your on-point comments.
The band famously was supposed to be working on a rock version of Dvorak’s “New World Symphony” for Decca Records, but asked for privacy from the studio. They talked the conductor for the symphony into creating arrangements for their stageshow, and then recorded their own concept album instead in one week. The orchestra created arrangements that wound each song together into the concept of one day in the life of a man. Justin Hayward has a magnificent voice. He has often talked about the effects of drugs on his work, but they added, and didn’t detract, from what he created back then. It was like lightning in a bottle.
😂😂😂😂 “All of this is goin down on a Tuesday?!” I love your reviews! Every time you give that look and suggest people are “high”, I laugh and then say, he ain’t lyin. lol 😂
I'm loving your reactions to this music that I grew up with. Jamel, you should have heard this live.....I heard them in concert at the Forum in Inglewood, CA, I think it was 1974. So glad you are enjoying this. You rock!
"This was written by lead singer Justin Hayward, who explained: "I sat down in a field, smoked a funny African cigarette, and that song just came out. It was a Tuesday afternoon." My older brother had all their albums and played them all the time. To me they were okay, but you really could not skate to them as I based most of the music I liked back there by what I could skate to.
@@christinerobinson548 basically what it boils down to is a big roller skater.. if you know anything about The Moody Blues LOL that's not music you really roller skate to... so basically if com editor did not think he could roller skate to the band or the songs then they weren't that good to him.
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Maaaan please rract to gloria by the doors, but you have to react to the cool version and Morrison had a police trouble for singing it right so please men. The doors is one of thr best psychedelic bands and have this organ also you love.
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Jamel, please react to Chris Stapleton's new song "Cold"!! It's so good I've had it on repeat all the way to work this am!!!!
Reaction? Please. 😁👍
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I had this album 50 years ago at the age of 10 played it in a stack with Iron Butterfly Live, Jimi Hendrix Axis Bold As Love and Santana III
Justin Hayward, the singer has a ytube thing on Tuesday afternoons with stories about how their songs came to be. Just FYI, all.
A fun discussion is was Days of Future Passed, or Sgt Pepper's the beginning of prog/concept rock?
A young African American man raised in East L.A grooving to the Moody Blues 🥰 the world is getting better! Music unites us.
It gives me hope!
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Hmmm... ok. Glad you think blacks only listen to rap. No racism here...😒
@@marimcge nope. just don't think a lot of YOUNG black men listen to the moody blues is all i mean . and to see that music cross cultures, like al green, marvin gaye, the isley brothers and many many more did with me, is fantastic . it proves that we really are all one . have a wonderful day .
@@cweefy Well you’ll be amazed. The point was stop making assumptions. Second point please stop referring to someone’s skin color as defining their culture. This is American music and as Americans we all listen!!!
Dark room, headphones on, eyes closed is the best way to listen to this.
smiller987123 glow in the dark posters....and a lava lamp.
Smoke a joint slowly
@@rayjennings3637 Especially if you play the album through your headphones while dozing off. You may end up taking that voyage with brave Ulysses...
smiller987123 yes, that’s how I spent much of my youth! Love them
@@laurakali6522 ...and some incense burning.
I'm a 70- year-old lady and this was "my music" as a young adult (saw them in concert, still love it). Your commentary on this masterpiece was priceless. I laughed until tears were running down my cheeks. Glad you've discovered the Moody Blues, so glad I discovered you. Cheers!...from a new subscriber.
Ms.Linda 57 here n have seen them live too.Watching Mr.Jamel enjoy what we grew up luvn is priceless he truly enjoys it n is very honest with his reactions.God bless
Ditto!😊
Man, I rember when. 65 now and still am moved by this music. Damn right we were high and enjoying life!!!
Hey all you 60 ers out there, how cool was it growing up in this age?
It was very very cool, and very very interesting! Never a dull moment...
Groovey
For all the problems that the '60s had I trade everything I have to be back there as opposed to this crap that's going on today...
This is when people were actual artists. Singers, songwriters and musicians. They didn't "sample" other artists work. They did there own. They were original.
So cool I never left.The truth of the space,love,oneness, the Moodies conveyed is always present.Thank you MB's.
In the 1990s, the Moody Blues toured the nation and performed with each city's symphony orchestra. Talk about a majestic experience
It was fantastic! My departed Wife and I saw them in Orlando, truely magical.
Saw that tour
As a photographer, I covered one of these performances for a newspaper in Northwest Indiana. Though I had heard these tunes back when I was a teenager I garnered a whole new appreciation for them when I heard them live. I downloaded them from from Napster afterward.
Been to a few of those shows. They were brilliant and magical.
My wife and I saw them on our 25th Wedding Anniversary with the Rockford, IL Symphony, 26 June 1997. I scored center, front row seats for us.
Nights in White Satin is "Our Song."
Please study this whole album. Not just on the channel, but in your "off time" as well. I use this album as a music theory tool, and as an English/Poetry appreciation tool, for my daughter's lessons. She's 15 and loves this entire album. During my study of this album I have found 4 ways of viewing the story line:
A day in a life.
A life in a day.
The life of a love.
The love of a life.
The entire piece is one continuous circle, where the opening sound is the closing sound, but backwards. Fading into existence where it faded out. I have been studying this album since 1990, and diacussing it with my daughter for a few uears now. Reliving the discoveries I've made over the years through her joy if discovering something new about the album. Enjoy the ride.
Omg never thought about it this way!!! AMAZING
Love it.
This is an album that really needs to be listened to from start to finish. A true work of art. Similar to The Dark Side of the Moon.
Could you tell me how you use it as a music theory tool? There's so much inspired harmony, mostly in Pinder's Mellotron and Lodge's bass parts.
Justin Hayward. One of the greatest rock voices of all time. And the Moody's harmonies are epic.
Days of Future Passed was one of the earliest concept albums in rock. Each song is part of the day. The most famous is the Night in Nights in White Satin.
The extended version of Nights in White Satin is the best too.
Bingo
Nights in White Satin is such an awesome song!
Nights in White Satin was a bigger hit and got more airplay. But I always felt Tuesday Afternoon was a hair better.
I can't begin to explain what memories this invokes. (I'm weeping inside for my lost youth.)
I would only want to go back to my youth if I had the chance to do things better.
Let me in that time machine with you.
we all are
Worth being old.
Me too
Many nights I listened to the entire album front to back and trees were involved. It's a masterpiece
The Moody Blues are one of the greatest band's out there ! They were so good to help relax me after Viet Nam ! They are good at setting up your mood, to help you calm down and take a breath ! They can make you happy or make you cry ! Song's like, The Tide Rushes In , Watching and Waiting ! You can get very emotional listening to !
Yes!
I did not get into them until the mid 80s. They have a great sound.
I get tears in my eyes from Mr. Thomas's flute....
Justin Hayward is one of the best voices in rock. VERY underrated.
Anthony, I was 13 when I first heard Justin sing. Honestly it really was like his voice descended from heaven. I never never tire of hearing him sing.
Don't forget Ray Thomas! I always loved his rich baritone voice.
Couldn't agree more Anthony. Forever Autumn...
AND a criminally underrated guitarist
I was not aware they were underrated ... I highly rated them ... read their bio ...
The second half of this is a whole other song, BTW, called "Time to Get Away."
Further down the Moodies rabbit hole:
"Ride My See-Saw"
"Legend of a Mind"
"The Dream"/"Have You Heard (Part 1)"/"The Voyage"/"Have You Heard (Part 2)"
"Higher and Higher"
"Gypsy (Of a Strange and Distant Time)"
"And the Tide Rushes In"
"The Story in Your Eyes"
"My Song"
"Isn't Life Strange"
"I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock 'n' Roll Band)"
You beat me to Just A Singer !
"Dear Diary" "Lazy Day" "Floating" "Out and in"
I love Mike Pinder's Out and In.
@@FVD that entire album is a masterpiece...
ComeOnIsSuchAJoy I’d add Questions to that list otherwise excellent primer on them.
"Is there a chance this brother might be just a little bit high?" LOL There is EVERY CHANCE. The Moody Blues are my favorite band - I've seen them more times than I can count, & it'll never be enough. If you haven't already, I highly recommend you react to their song "Question". Also, "Isn't Life Strange?". Beautiful songs. (My band covers Tuesday Afternoon, btw, & I get to sing lead!)
I was definitely high when I saw them in 1994
Moody Blues was known as "The smallest symphony orchestra around" due to the number or instruments they played.
True but this album used an orchestra of underpaid musicians from the London Symphony Orchestra who were recruited and directed by Peter Knight.
Remember mate when peeps said you need to listen to Pink Floyd albums rather than songs... ahhhh so it goes with the Moody Blues. This song is from the album Days of Future Pass... which basically covers the journey of a day. This was one of the first concept albums and the use of a proper orchestra to support a band as well as heavy use of the mellotron. The Moodies became associated with concept albums such as 'A Question of Balance.' as well as being associated with art and progressive rock.
The album cover from In Search of the Lost Chord was my favorite, I think. I went to the Long Distance Voyager (Remember Gemini Dream and The Voice?) concert in ?1990? And another MB concert before that one....(198X?)
They were basically the forerunners of prog rock.
You can tell it from the way its structured.. They used the keys of an orchestral movement, complete with samples/allusions to other songs on the album.
Yes Indeed
Actually, it’s Days of Future Passed. Still have the CD somewhere. I got to see them doing the whole album live with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. An amazing show!
I’ve been listening to the Moody Blues for over 50 years, here’s a few of their other songs that you might enjoy: “Question”, “The Story in Your Eyes”, & “Ride My See-Saw”
As always, thanks for the smiles, memories and the shared journey.
Both 'Question' and 'See-Saw' are the more rock side of the Moodies. Dig it!
YES,They have SO MANY GREAT SONGS !!! Justin Hayward is an AWESOME SINGER !!! 👍💓🎼
YES ,Me ,Too !!! Since the early 70's !!! 💓☮️
The Voice, I'm Just A Singer (In a Rock-and-roll Band), Never Comes The Day, New Horizons, Watching and Waiting.
My 3 favorites
This type of music is what happens when 5 brilliant musicians get together to create music that touches the soul.
I'm still listening at 70.
Listening to the Moody Blues is like walking through all the stages of one's life. Their music encapsulates the variety of human emotions which is why, unfortunately, many people don't find them overly appealing. There is also their eerie, uncanny sound. It makes you ruminate your existence in a way which only great music can do.
It seems to be tied in with Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon and The Moody Blues' Days of Future Passed that seem to have more meaning as I've grown older.
They have always been one of my fav bands.
@Natalia Their Live at Red Rocks was a great album. My mum loves MB and I listened to a lot of it but it's only as I've grown older that I see what she saw and understand it better. I've noticed that with a lot of music that I loved I now can understand it at a deeper level.
Beautiful comment!
Beautifully said. Reminds me of my childhood and my dad, who passed away last January.😢😢 Incredible song. 🎶
As a HUGE Moody Blues fan of over 50 years, I will tell you much of them if you'd like to know. "Tuesday Afternoon" is part of the concept album, "Days of Future Passed" (1967). The album was the first of its kind to fuse rock and classical music together. Unbeknownst to the record label, Decca, the way it recorded, the 5 members of Moodies, along with producer Tony Clarke, hired several studio musicians (credited on the record as 'The London Festival Orchestra'). This album was one of the first true stereo one.
Jamal, you asked if they were high? The Moody Blues released FOUR studio albums in barely over 24 months between Nov 1967- Nov 1969, all of which were concept albums. The Moodies have many, many songs that are hits, per se. Most of which were written by Justin Hayward. Nights in White Satin, Voices in the Sky, The Actor, Lovely to See You, Are You Sitting Comfortably?, Never Comes the Day, Gypsy, Watching and Waiting, Question, The Story in Your Eyes, The Land of Make-Believe, Driftwood, The Voice, Blue World, Your Wildest Dreams, I Know You're Out There Somewhere, Say It With Love, and one of my favorite songs, Forever Autumn (a non-Moodies song). And those are only songs by Justin Hayward! Now, if you'd like to add songs by the other 4 Moody Blues band members (3 of which also sang lead vocals on their songs). You can tell now how much I love this group!! 💙💙💙💙💙
Thanks for your comment, Justine! I got a huge kick out of Jamal's reaction. I'm a HUGE Moody Blues and Justin Hayward fan myself - nice to "meet" you here!
,@ Justine April. Like Bring Me No Wine, one of my favourites.
...and don't forget Go Now...
You consider yourself a fan of theirs and not include...for example, the whole album "On the Threshold of a Dream", then...the list goes on and on and on...
@@shawnkilbane6693 you don't know me and to post a reply to me like that is mean. How many tattoos dedicated to the Moodies do YOU have? I've loved this band since I first heard "Nights in White Satin" in 1967!! I was 8!! 💙
The Moody Blues were just so damned good. The best, most creative music came out of the late '60s.
One of my all time favorite songs ever. This one will NEVER get old. Brings me to tears every time.
"All of this is going down on a Tuesday?!" Yes, sir...it sure is.
Troy Reichert 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 Classic Jamal!!
I had a report to do in High School Humanities class : " The Good Man ,The Good Society". This was one of the songs used !! 👍😁
Yup. Lovin it
And this was just part of Tuesday. The entire album takes you through the course of a single day, from "The Day Begins" until "Nights in White Satin", and this piece is the afternoon portion into the early part of the evening.
For the Moody Blues you should listen to In Search of the Lost Chord (whole album like we did) and On the Threshold of a Dream (whole album). Then consider these were done in the 60s, no computers or modern keyboards and effects. They had to innovate sounds.
To Our Children's Children's Children.
You are helping us all, including yourself, at this time, when we are all dealing with a lot of life's problems. I hope you're growing spiritually from this gift of music.
We love you Jamel.
This is one of those albums you listen to from beginning to end. A masterpiece.
Finally you found this masterpiece. There is nothing like this band anywhere. The are so unique. I love this song.
Saw them in live in an Art Noveau theater in South Bend, Indiana about 4 years ago...BEST CONCERT EVER in my 66 years of life! Truth...
As much as I love their popular hits, my favorite tune of theirs is "Forever Autumn"...
@@Wolverines77 that's actually Justin's solo work... for a BBC project... Not taking anything away from you, I regularly pine for their music and those days, best band ever.
This is "the" song for me. I love everything they do/did but this one just grabbed my soul and has never let go.
The whole country was a little high back then! I was there. :}
Oh! Yeah! Nothing sounds like the Moody Blues. Lots to explore.
For me the Blues are up there with bands like Queen, The Doors, The Beatles & The Stones
Amen. Began in 1964. 'Cept for a brief hiatus in the 70s steadily working and touring. With no scandals or overdoses just quietly, steadily working.
saw them at the Royal Albert Hall in 2002 and they were absolutely magnificent.
Some 50years since i first saw them at the legendary Isle of Wight '70 fest.
I couldnt agree more 😀
The Moody Blues don't even breath the same air as the others, esp. Queen. I detest any noise from the Moody Blues... Pitiful group.
@@TheTussman, then you're a real jerk.
Imagine seeing this live... at an outdoor venue, overlooking a beautiful lake. Freaking magical!!
The Moody Blues were the first (along with the Beatles) to bring a symphonic element to rock ‘n roll. But make no mistake - these guys could rock the house. Check out “The Story in Your Eyes” or “I’m Just A Singer in A Rock and Roll Band.” Their song “Question” has some extreme highs and lows, making it a fascinating musical ride. And of course their classic “Nights In White Satin” is a crowning achievement. And we’ll never forget their debut hit, “Go Now.” One of the often overlooked groups of the ‘60s/‘70s, the Moody Blues belong in the top ten rock groups of all time. PS: You’d be surprised at all the great music that was written by people who were high at the time. ;-)
He said "all this going down on a Tuesday?" 😆
Lol. That was hilarious !😂😂
Listen to the entire “Days of Future Passed” album - the whole album merges like that
This album is another one that must be listened to from beginning to end (with headphones). It changed lives and is a sonic experience.
Totally agree, for its time 1967, it was amazing; the sound and production was ahead of the game.
@@Jack-D-Ripper the year I was born 1967. Hard to believe. That’s when you had to have talent.
@@shotgunblast28 i was 11 and just starting Senior School. 🙂
I grew up with these songs. They played a 50th Anniversary tour of the "Days of Future Passed" album in 2017. It was a fantastic concert hearing the entire album played in order (plus other great hits). They still sounded great 50 years later.
Been listening to the Moody Blues from birth. My dad would come home from work (even when I was a newborn, according to my mom), turn down the lights, put on a record (you know, the old 12" vinyl LP), lay down on the floor, and just let the music take him away. It's honestly one of my first solid memories, and it's been reinforced every single night for the first decade of my life.
Here's the thing: From Days of Future Passed through The Seventh Sojourn - about seven albums - each album has to be listened to from start to finish. Put on a record, turn out the lights, relax, and listen to the whole damn thing. Then move to the next one at a later date.
My dad wasn't high when he was listening to these, and neither was I. That said, it's well understood that the band was floating through the 60's and 70's - at least until their break in 1974. From my experience, you don't need to be high to listen to these guys. If you just relax, close your eyes, and go wherever the music takes you, you'll be levitating by the time it's done.
Stop listening to just single songs from those albums. They were never intended to be singles. The best way to experience them is to listen to the entire album.
I was blown away when this first came out in my teens. Just like your dad, I would kick back in a comfy chair with the best headphones I could afford and just bliss out to the whole album. No expensive enhancements necessary - it was a super cheap high that my parents couldn't complain about. Except for skipping homework, of course.
I love the Moody Blues live. To be so immersed in their musical journey is delightful.
This is music as art. Like Pink Floyd's _Dark Side of the Moon_ and The Beatles' _Sgt Pepper's, Days of Future Passed_ deserves to be heard from start to finish.
Indeed
Don't forget Tull. Love me some Aqualung.
Seems sacrilegious not to play this album from beginning to end or any of the Moody blues from beginning to end!!
Where I grew up, they never played the Beatles "A Day in the Life" without the Sargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Reprise in front of it - the Two go together incredibly well, it makes that quite the journey too.
I think a law should be passed that says you cannot play "A Day in the Life" without the Reprise in front of it, as it is on the album.
The Reprise is a heavy metal hard rock version with 4 part harmony from ALL the Beatles (including Ringo), something very rare for them (I'm not aware of another) - and then goes from this fast beat heavy metal hard rock sound and then slides into the mystical ballad like sound that opens the Day in the Life. As most are aware, the Day in the Life is really two songs, the bridge is a McCartney penned song and the rest is Lennon. By putting the Reprise in front of it you now have a suite that includes three different songs/melodies, with one of those melodies being offered up three times. It becomes more than just a great song. Like the Moodies here and in very many places, its as Jamal says, a journey.
You're exactly right, the "Days of Future Passed" should be listened to all at one time. We had a "Reel to Reel" tape recorder growing up...and in high school, my older brother decided he didn't have room for it, so I claimed it. I eventually taped all my L.P.'s so I could listen to my music on my head phones! Most of my albums were hard rock/heavy metal...and my mom hated it!
High as hell here. You, me, Moody Blues, coffee and my bong. It's a FANTASTIC Tuesday in my world! How about the rest of y'all!?!?
I wish!! Enjoy. 🤩
@@PaintedCavern I'll pull one for ya, brother!
Here goes.....
Enjoying a mimosa! Cheers eh! 🇨🇦❤️
I’d like to join your world! 😀
@@lisawall3386 😄👍
You betcha! This album is really meant to be listened to from beginning to end on headphones, when it came out, I was never high on anything but the talent of these gentlemen, they do take you on a journey!
Same here. We were little kids too young to be high yet
When I was much younger, a bunch of friends and I were coming of a day of mild hallucinogens. We were listening to the radio and the station was in the habit of playing full albums without interruption at this time of night. There was no introduction, they just said “here we go” and I heard the opening notes. My friends were more into heavier rock and were going to change the station. Having heard the whole album before, I sternly protested and said that everyone needed to just lay back and relax. By the end, which seemed like both hours and seconds at the same time, they were all grateful I insisted they all listen.
Straight or otherwise, I believe it is nearly impossible to not appreciate the majesty of the work of art!
Been watching you for about a month now and have to say you're a credit to the human race! Appreciate that you are willing to listen to and embrace music from my generation. In other words, I had this album when it first came out on vinyl! Thanks for all you do!
This is what was called:
“Album Rock”. It was not uncommon for
Album Rock radio stations to play whole album side at one time, and full album without a break. Instead of
“Singles” cut at 3:30 minutes. Many albums were pretty much the whole side of the record.
RUSH, with their Pts.1-3,
And others. This was fairly common.
I love your channel. I here long forgotten songs and have to add them to my Playlists.😁
Music is an international language all it’s own. It also possesses healing powers, and brings people together - all people. Also, it’s hard for people to fight, when everyone is dancing.😁
Love your channel.
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There was a small underground FM station a couple of blocks from where we lived, back about ‘74. They’d just put on an album and wander off every once in a while, leaving some dead air until someone noticed. We’d go over, hang out with the DJs, smoke a doobie, have a beer. It was a very different time.
@@joonzville I might have been one of those people. Was it in San Diego? Album rock made the late night go easier.
I was one of the DJs that would put on a side. Actually, I was there to assist with the news but as with a lot of radio stations if someone didn't show up, you were the DJ. It was a very special time and you could never do what we did in the early 1970's. Whenever a new album would come out, like Zeplin or Floyd or Moody Blues and others, we would advertise we were presenting the whole album (usually at midnight on a Friday or Saturday) and we would get big Arbitron numbers for the timeslot. Also, you could spend more time with your girlfriend in the control room because you were usually the only one there.
Jeff S
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What radio station did you work at❓❓
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joonzville
Yeah, there were a few around.
We had a Collage station that would do most anything.
KWUR- U.R.-90.3
Washington University, St.Louis. I lived near enough, and had a good enough radio to pull it in most of the time, though technically [just] outside of their coverage range, considered “ fringe “ area. They did some crazy things❗️
Stuff NO ONE could ever get away with.
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This was actually two songs off their concept album, Days of Future Passed. They worked with a full orchestra for it. Each track represents a different part of the day, which in turn is meant to be representative of a lifespan. This was the "afternoon/evening" tracks, which in turn lead into the major hit, Nights in White Satin.
Twilight Time fits in there somewhere
@@FBodStudios right, sorry. Evening leads to Twilight Time, which leads to Nights. I was working from memory.
Thanks, I never knew that! : )
So was I ;)
Love the conceptual approach. It can work well as it did here.
It was the '70's. Everyone was stoned.
I was born in 1990 and my dad introduced me to this music.
You don't need to smoke pot to appreciate good music of any genre.
This album came out in 1967....
Hey Jamel, I also grew up in this era and OMG!!! Their music, the poetry, the classical touch seemed to me like they were a step above and beyond . A total experience!!! Take a bow Moody Blues, your music will last forever!!! So beautiful man!!!! I’d never, ever get tired of their music, so many songs you gotta listen to!!!!!!
The expression on your face is PRICELESS!! Thank you sooooo much!!!!
"nights in white satin", "ride my see-saw", and "melancholy man" are all must listens.
Of course you are my bright little star, I've pile of file, pretty files of you forefathers fruit, and now to suit our great computer, your magnetic ink. I'm more then that, at least I must be. There you go man keep as cool as you can it riles them to believe that your perceive the webs they weave and keep on thinking free.
@@woodrose50 thats it isnt it..there arent anymore truely free thinkers these days..just copy cats...✌
@@rondias6625 yep, it's annoying. Like Kravitz doing American Woman, video had scantily clad women, I don't think he realized or just decided to bastardized it. American Women is a protest song against the Vietnam war. And so many do remixes totally butchering classics.
@@woodrose50 all they can see these days are dollar signs..they are clueless to what was really going on and why songs were written in the first place..
Dont forget "question"
They are great in concert. Ive seen 3 times over 40 years. Like golfing to a symphony!!
The Moody Blues. Best concerts I aver attended, period. Absolutely wonderful, through and through.
"A little high?" Jamel, this was the 60s! We were ALL a little high!
Don't forget acid and other psychedelics in the 60s and at least early 70s.
Preach
😁
Or a lot!
Exactly!
Oh man, you need a deep dive on Donovan! Mellow Yellow, Sunshine Superman, Hurdy Gurdy Man, Season of the Witch, Wear You Love Like Heaven...
Excellent request!
Catch the Wind
Yes please!!!!!
If you like Donovan and haven’t seen this little film, it’s a real treat.
ruclips.net/video/GEsSD7uPr2k/видео.html
Thomas Richard Oh, yes. Donovan, please Jamel.
Jamal, this album was released when I was 20. I was at a party with my girlfriend and we were both spaced out on our first hit of LSD and laying on the floor. Days of Future Passed came on and we were mesmerized by the sound, something we'd never heard before. I was hooked for like on the Moody Blues.
It warms my heart to hear a young man such as yourself listening and reviewing some good classic rock! Thank you for the review! I grew up with this music and most of my library contains music of this age and type. Thank you again!
“How many songs in there?” 😂😂😂😂 (Edit: and we’re not halfway through yet! Wait for it J!)
😀 Yep... maybe all of them?
Robert Poss 😂
I laughed & thought that!
B Mils77 🙌🤣
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You might get there with marijuana, or you might get there with with meditation; you might get there with music like this, or it might just suddenly dawn on you out of the blue... the important thing is to get there somehow... everybody needs a little Tuesday Afternoon magic in their lives! Take a few minutes each day to gaze at a tree, or the clouds... Life is so special, and so beautiful, still, even amidst the madness...
The Moody Blues albums are concept albums. You need to listen to them as a whole to understand them.
Also understand the era they were written in.
The album The Present, about love found and lost, which happens to be my husband and mines album, he sang it to me when we dated, was followed with the second half of the story where they find each other again with the album The Other Side of Life. We didn't see each other for 5 years when the new album came oug, it fit our story. We have been married 31 years.
So please listen in total.
One of my favourite bands of all time. Seeing them live in concert with our local symphony performing at an outside venue under the stars was AMAZING .
Glad you enjoyed all the nuances of the Moody Blues ❤️
Remember, this was one of the first “concept” albums and one of the first to use a full symphony. It was their first album and it tracked a typical day from dawn to night
That was just the afternoon, there's still the dawn, morning, evening, twilight and night on that album! (well, this reaction was really for two songs, Afternoon and Evening)
Oh your face is pure joy. It's like looking at my grand children seeing things for the first time. Beautiful
I had the privilege to see these guys during their Red Rocks tour in the 90's and their Strange Times tour in 1999. Both times they toured with a symphony orchestra. This was my mother's favorite band of all time and it was an honor to see them in concert. They were one of the first, if not the first rock bands to intertwine the rock genre with classical symphonics.
I have seen them at Red Rocks many times, it's the perfect setting.
One of my friends suggest listening to this whole album outdoors, with good earbuds, at sunset.
He was right.
I’m doing that right now!
Of course he was...it's Days of Future Passed! 😘
"Melancholy Man" is another masterpiece. There are so many songs that come to mind I love by "The Moody Blues." As you said their songs are constructed in a way which makes transitions between different parts of a particular song so smooth.
Mike Pinder, the melatron/keyboard guy, sings lead on “Melancholy Man.
I fell asleep listening to Melancholy Man on 8 track. The tape got messed up somehow and when I woke up it was replaying that song over and over. Apparently it looped while I was asleep and I could not get that damn song out of my head for weeks. To this day I can't listen to it anymore. "A beam of light will fill your head....." AHHHHHHHHHH!
Melancholy man. By far my favoiurite Moody Blue's song.
Classic Moody Blues 🇬🇧 🖤
I'm 71 years old , greatest music
I am 67 yrs old and in my honest opinion The Moody Blues are undeniably and unquestionably the best group ever to have made music to this standard. I have all their album's and listen to them regularly.
The question is never "were they high", but "HOW HIGH WERE THEY"?
Saw them in concert early 80s and 2 tabs in I was watching the concert from above the stage. ✌🏻❤
Lol. Way high 😂😂😂
No Shit!!!
high, high ,HIGH. is another one of their songs
Not too high to make great music.
"Breathe deep the gathering gloom...." "Days of Future Passed" was like a composition with many movements... not an album with individual, unrelated cuts.
"WAIT WAIT WAIT all of this is going down on a Tuesday?" HAHAHAHA--love this guy!!
The album is titled “Days of Future Passed; they are describing different times and facets of a complete day
This song is one amazing masterpiece. Every part of it is music to the ears. It's truly like digging up buried treasures from the past!
That moment when you find yourself staring out the windshield to see what's ahead and you realize you should have been looking out of the passenger window the whole time.
Watching your face is the best! Love the Moody Blues, hope you're enjoying too!
I been watching your reactions and you do a great job!!! Thank you for bringing back the music that I grew up on!!!! Many of these groups I've seen live!!!
A unique band, with members of singular talent. Another song of theirs I really like is called "My Song." People often overlook them as the pioneers in mixing electronics and psychedelics.
"Y'all be floatin'." Not necessarily, but it is good music for just sitting somewhere, closing your eyes, and letting the music carry you away all on its own. As you said, it is a journey. Hopefully you enjoyed it though. :D
Yes it is good music to "float" with. But there are ways to float, that don't involve drugs...yes? The Moody blues Solidly, Represent Rock and Roll. a music style that changed the course of civilization that cant be said about Jazz or Classical music ! from playing in bars in England the band now has symphony orchestras around the world, playing symphonic versions of these old "hippy drug songs" ...
My parents loved the moody blues, and they were “floating” too LOL
Your like having a good friend over and playing your favorite songs for him, thanks
I've loved this song for a long.time and never heard the long version. Thank you 😊
This is actually two songs, afternoon and evening, what comes next is sun set, twilight time and the night (Nights in White Satin). The story of the album is quite interesting. The record company wanted to show off their stereo sound (which was rather new in 1967). The record company wanted the MB to work with a symphony orchestra on a version a classical work (I think Vivaldi's four seasons). The Moodies didn't want to do that, they already had a concept of songs that told the story of a day in the life. So the record company agreed to record their Days of Future Passed with songs about times of day, and have a composer (Peter Knight) provide symphonic segments to transition between songs. The use of the Mellotron (tape recording of strings) and flute playing by Ray Thomas of the Moodies, made the songs by the band sound a lot like the orchestra, so it flowed together almost seamlessly. The album is a timeless masterpiece.
Oh hell yes, we hippies got stoned and often spent the whole evening listening to Moody Blues records (sometimes with a little King Crimson or Yes thrown in too).
It was actually Dvorcak's "New World Symphony," not Vivaldi. 😊
And it was the amazing Mike Pinder on Mellotron. Who later taught Paul McCartney....
I was around at that time and I remember. And yes, we always got stoned to the Moody Blues
@@DG-uh8uv I was just 2 when the album came out, and didn't discover it until the 1980s -- and immediately became a huge fan of the Moodys....
The moody blues are so underrated
They are in the hall of fame. Not underrated.
Yes.
@@Shawney-jf6kc the hall of fame is not the be all and end all
I found them when I was 15 or 16 in 1975 and wore out all of their first 7 albums. I liked their deepness, philosophical ness, and sorrowful ness and their instrumentation. I was the only one of my friends that like this. My friends liked disco or the Eagles.
Talk about memories flooding back! Hours spent listening to wonderful mind-bending music. Long live the music of an era that changed the world! And yes I was stoned and I liked it!!!!! Stay kind to each other!!!!!!!!!!
"How many songs in here?"
Well, I see you've entered the prog-rock realm, Jamel!
He made reference to thinking how many songs were in the intro of Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding.
@@jonnuanez2843 Yes, I remember that one.
More songs than Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody possessed - yet still never receiving proper recognition!
When my parents saw them live back in the early 90's, they had the whole London Symphony backing them. My dad said the only band to outshine the Moody Blues in concert was Pink Floyd.
Saw them in '93 (I think) with the Rockford Symphony Orchestra. Place just reeked of Mary Jane. I was pregnant, so...but I still had a blast!
My wife and I saw them 3 times at Jones Beach Theatre with the Long Island philharmonic backing them. Phenomenal!
Love to see how open-minded, open-eared you are. I love the Moodies (I'm 63) and it is heartwarming that a younger man can get totally into an experimental orchestral-rock-pop album from late 1960s. Music is truly universal.
I bought this album when it came out (I was 16, I'm 71 now) and I and all my friends fell in love with it immediately. Even most of our parents liked it. It was a landmark album merging rock and classical elements in a way that satisfied both camps. Mike Pinder's use of the Mellotron helped define the instrument and opened its use by hundreds of musicians.
The reason for my entry today is that the original pressings on Deram Records were horrible, at least the US pressings. As good as this music is, we were only hearing a portion of its majesty. I hear amazing detail in these new remixings and remasterings. Thank you for posting this version and your on-point comments.
The band famously was supposed to be working on a rock version of Dvorak’s “New World Symphony” for Decca Records, but asked for privacy from the studio. They talked the conductor for the symphony into creating arrangements for their stageshow, and then recorded their own concept album instead in one week. The orchestra created arrangements that wound each song together into the concept of one day in the life of a man.
Justin Hayward has a magnificent voice. He has often talked about the effects of drugs on his work, but they added, and didn’t detract, from what he created back then. It was like lightning in a bottle.
You should check out "Question" by Moody Blues next. Great track.
Great video as always Jamel!
😂😂😂😂 “All of this is goin down on a Tuesday?!” I love your reviews! Every time you give that look and suggest people are “high”, I laugh and then say, he ain’t lyin. lol 😂
I'm loving your reactions to this music that I grew up with. Jamel, you should have heard this live.....I heard them in concert at the Forum in Inglewood, CA, I think it was 1974. So glad you are enjoying this. You rock!
Mike Pinder and the mellotron - honey for the ears!
An underrated master of the mellotron! Few used it better!
@@chadpollet7452 Pinder is a brilliant composer.
This song kicks ass.
Classically trained, jazz, rock, spiritual all in one. So much vocal depth. Beautiful melody, message.
Growing up, we had all the Moody Blues Albums. Why they aren't in the Rock And Roll H.O.F. is a mystery!!
They were inducted in 2018.
"This was written by lead singer Justin Hayward, who explained: "I sat down in a field, smoked a funny African cigarette, and that song just came out. It was a Tuesday afternoon." My older brother had all their albums and played them all the time. To me they were okay, but you really could not skate to them as I based most of the music I liked back there by what I could skate to.
yes indeed Justin like the weed he talked about that during the making of nights and white satin too LOL..
I kind of want to experience a funny cigarette. Lol
Yeah. I'll have what he's having!😃✌
What does the second have of your last sentence mean? It's going to bug me until I find out.
@@christinerobinson548 basically what it boils down to is a big roller skater..
if you know anything about The Moody Blues LOL that's not music you really roller skate to...
so basically if com editor did not think he could roller skate to the band or the songs then they weren't that good to him.
Seven classic albums in five years, birth of prog rock here.
Well, I’m in my 60’s now and listened to this in the 70’s. Days of future past indeed. I never get tired of it.