I don't think De Luxe is bad - I'd give it 3/5. I like the warm breezy feel of it and the first 3 tracks are quite strong, but it drops off in the second half. Musik Von Harmonia is definitely a better album.

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I have never heard one single Moody Blues album. Are they seriously that good?

Days Of Future Passed is one of my favorite albums ever.

If you don't like it you probably won't like anything else by them. But they warrant a high placement because they were the pioneers of the symphonic prog sound and are often considered the first true prog band along with Procol Harum. With DOFP, and PH's self titled debut, you could really say 67 was the year prog was born.

And surely you've heard Nights in White Satin and Tuesday Afternoon: Forever Afternoon (well, the edited down versions) on the radio before.

Good job! Really nice seeing Egg on there, and Moody Blues so high.

Days of Future Passed is great and Justin Hayward is quite underrated as a vocalist.

I may have to give them a listen to satisfy my curiosity but they have always been a band that I have never felt compelled to get into even though my dad has seen them live a couple of times and he's not into prog. Maybe that's the reason :(

Right now there's a Visa commercial that uses Tuseday Afternoon: Forever Afternoon off of DOFP.

That surprised me. Though not as much as when those McDonalds commercials used Hocus Pocus from Focus. Seriously what inspired that? Aren't McDonalds trying to appeal to young people and the "urban" market now? Why would they use music from an old Dutch prog band with a tendency for yodeling?

You know the cheapening of songs by using them in commercials is at a horrifying high when not even prog rock is safe. :(

....maybe somebody at those companies actually likes prog rock and wanted to use it in an ad

Well you totally need to check them out and Days of Future Passed is the place to start. They started off as a R&B influenced psychedelic rock band. But with Future Passed they took a giant leap forward. It introduced many of the conventions of prog. They were the first popular band to use the Mellotron on a regular basis, one of the first to embrace classical music influences, the first to make concept albums with recurring motifs throughout and to use the kind of odd time signatures and exotic rhythms that they did.

I think it goes like this.

Moody Blues and Procol Harum = Invented prog.
King Crimson = Made it into a movement.
Yes and ELP = Got it into the mainstream.