I'm seeing now that the Moody Blues don't get some of the credit they deserve for being very innovative, very early. I know that this is true because I myself have been guilty and I read into the language of a lot of people who like prog who talk about the big three or four and the Moody Blues are never considered.
What a major transition from "The Magnificent Moodies" (1965) to "Days Of Future Passed"(1967) with no album in between. Sounds like two different bands. In fact, the later album is as progressive as King Crimson's 1969 work but not including the prog jamming of a 21st Century Schizoid Man track. This album had a lot of things I thought were only happening in later years with other bands. I mean, Nights in White Satin is kind of an early Epitaph by Crimson without the more literate lyrics.
And then 1968's album "In Search of the Lost Chord" even has some aspects that would be developed in Hawkwind and Krautrock (that Neu rhythm in Ride My Sea Saw).
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