Rank Top 6 Moody Blues albums

[hippypants]

1. Days of Future Past - the first spot was the hardest as it's sort of a tie with my second pick
2. On The Threshold of a Dream
3. To Our Children's Children
4. In Search of The Lost Chord
5. Seventh Sojourn
6. A Question of Balance

[klothos]

1. Every Good Boy Deserves Favor
2. Days of Future Past
3. Long Distance Voyager
4. To Our Children's Children's Children
5. In Search of The Lost Chord
6. A Question of Balance

[bob_32_116]

Isn't there another thread on this?

Anyway, doesn't matter, I'll play:

1. Days of Future Passed (not "Past")
2. A Question of Balance
3. Seventh Sojourn
4. On the Threshold of a Dream
5. Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
6. Long distance Voyager

Lost Chord and Children's Children are not far behind.

[hippypants]

Bob, thanks for playing along

It's Children's Children (not Childreen's). :P

[Trane]

Lost Chord
Threshold
Children's Children
Future Passed

don't care about the rest

[Mister Triscuits]

1. In Search of the Lost Chord
2. On the Threshold of a Dream
3. A Question of Balance
4. Days of Future Passed
5. To Our Children's...
6. EGBDF

What, no votes for The Magnificent Moodies?

[mogrooves]

1 To Our Children's Children
2 In Search of The Lost Chord
3 On The Threshold of a Dream
4 A Question of Balance
5 Every Good Boy Deserves Favor
6 Days of Future Past

[bob_32_116]

Apart from the top 3 albums on my list, the Moodies always seem to include at least one track that makes me cringe a bit. Lost Chord has "Dr Livingstone, i Presume", and I also find "House of Four Doors" a bit too contrived. Threshold has "Lazy Day"; Children has "Floating"; EGBDF has "Nice To Be Here"; LDV has "Nervous". Seventh Sojourn comes close with "I'm Just a Singer", but it's really only the ending that annoys me a little.

I often find that it's Ray Thomas's songs the let things down a fraction, although on A Question of Balance his contributions are really outstanding.

[zravkapt]

Chord
Children's
Threshold
Days
Seventh
Question

[Birdy]

Days Of Future Passed
To Our Childrens...
In Search Of The Lost Chord
On The Threshold..
Every Good Boy..
A Question Of Balance

[grego]

To Our Children's Children Children
On The Threshold of a Dream
Days Of Future Passed
In Search Of The Lost Chord
A Question Of Balance
Every Good Boy..

[Hobo Chang Ba]

Days Of Future Passed
In Search...
To Our Children's...
On The Threshold...
A Question...
Every Good Boy...

[saatuk]

1 To Our Children's Children
2 In Search of The Lost Chord
3 A Question of Balance
4 On The Threshold of a Dream
5 Days of Future Passed
6 Every Good Boy Deserves Favor

[WytchCrypt]

Must admit I've only got "This is the Moody Blues" and it was always enough for me

[Oreb]

To Our Children's... is IMO far and away their best.

2 In Search of The Lost Chord
3 On The Threshold of a Dream
4 Long Distance Voyager
5 EGBDF

[Trane]

Actually, the question should've been:

which of the classic 7 Moodies would you bump out in to have your top 6 ??

or


which two of the classic 7 Moodies would you bump out to have in your top 5??

[bob_32_116]

Based on a "Round Robin" tallying of all the rankings supplied so far, the aggregate ranking is:

1. children Wins 5 Ties 2 Losses 0
2. chord Wins 4 Ties 2 Losses 1
3. dream Wins 4 Ties 1 Losses 2
4. future Wins 3 Ties 3 Losses 1
5. sojourn Wins 2 Ties 1 Losses 4
6. question Wins 1 Ties 1 Losses 5
7. voyager Wins 0 Ties 3 Losses 4
8. boy Wins 0 Ties 1 Losses 6

[hippypants]

Thanks for the tally, Bob.

[Tangram]

The Moodies are a singles group for me. I really like DoFP but one of the classic 7 has to go and make room for LDV.