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Alphabet Music Meme - Q is for Question
Oct. 27th, 2015 11:08 amQ is for Question – Question, The Moody Blues (A Question of Balance)
The Moody Blues, especially in their early years, was a band whose music bounced between extraordinarily accessible (Nights in White Satin, Tuesday Afternoon from Days of Future Past), to extremely unreachable (A Question of Balance - the entire album).
As I've mentioned in other entries to this meme, my musical tastes were formed by all of the hours I spent with my eldest sister, listening to her music. My middle sister didn't hang with us and she had her own preferences. But one Saturday afternoon, the three of us were on the way to the mall (it was the 70's, that's what we did on Saturdays), my eldest sister (driving, natch) popped in an 8-track cassette of some Moody Blues album (it could have been this one, or Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, or Days of Future Past) and my middle sister goes "ARGH, I hate The Moody Blues. They're acid rock."
It was a good thing eldest sister had stopped at a red light, otherwise she might have crashed the car out of utter shock.
The Moody Blues may be a lot of things - self-indulgent, inaccessible, album-oriented, twee, silly, over-commercialized. But acid rock? No, not hardly. Not even close. Not even on the same planet.
To this day, we still tease middle sister about this.
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The Moody Blues, especially in their early years, was a band whose music bounced between extraordinarily accessible (Nights in White Satin, Tuesday Afternoon from Days of Future Past), to extremely unreachable (A Question of Balance - the entire album).
As I've mentioned in other entries to this meme, my musical tastes were formed by all of the hours I spent with my eldest sister, listening to her music. My middle sister didn't hang with us and she had her own preferences. But one Saturday afternoon, the three of us were on the way to the mall (it was the 70's, that's what we did on Saturdays), my eldest sister (driving, natch) popped in an 8-track cassette of some Moody Blues album (it could have been this one, or Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, or Days of Future Past) and my middle sister goes "ARGH, I hate The Moody Blues. They're acid rock."
It was a good thing eldest sister had stopped at a red light, otherwise she might have crashed the car out of utter shock.
The Moody Blues may be a lot of things - self-indulgent, inaccessible, album-oriented, twee, silly, over-commercialized. But acid rock? No, not hardly. Not even close. Not even on the same planet.
To this day, we still tease middle sister about this.
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