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| From | "Jaimie Vernon" <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: The Blues, Moody |
| Date | Fri, 14 Apr 2006 13:40:52 -0400 |
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AT Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 11:54:16 Ken wrote:
>I think that the best consistent songwriting was found on the classic 2-LP
>This is the Moody Blues. Their albums contain some pretty heinous excesses
>that are more or less contained on that compilation.
>
>Their catalog has been the object of frequent revision with multiple mixes
>appearing in multiple formats. And of course their cultural cachet was
>sealed with their appearance on the Simpsons some years ago. They wrote a
>few pretty good songs and perhaps we'd like them better if they hadn't
>overstayed their welcome well into the 80s.
Conversely, I always thought the Moody Blues were mind-numbingly pretentious
and pretty much disliked their entire output save for Denny Laine's "Go Now"
UNTIL the 1980s. When 'Long Distance Voyager' began shedding a multitude of
singles to radio I remember thinking "...finally....pop music."
Mind you....I was in a punk band at the time so it could have been hearing
loss causing this. :-)
Jaimie Vernon,
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