Vinyls by these guys were in abundance when I was growing up and you could usually pick one up in fairly good nick for a couple of quid, and thiat is why I have included them in this set of blogs. The Moody Blues, as far as I know, have never been considered a cool band, but luckily that doesn't mean anything at all as coolness is usually decided on by idiots. The Moody Blues were an extremely prolific and talented outfit with heaps of creativity and stylistic nuances. They are often overlooked by people looking back to the sixties for their muse as, just with modern music, retrospective music consumption often tends to follow a set of rules which are meaninglessly fashionable. The Moody Blues transcend all of this by being a warm, sincere band with a lot of integrity which is evident in everything from the beautiful album artwork to the loving care with which each song has been written and arranged. In an age when sincerity and idealism have become dirty words to some, music like this can provide a very potent antidote. It is often very thoughtful and the albums are oftentimes punctuated with spoken word "poetry" which may sound a little hippyish to some but will suit others more than just fine. Due to the fact that there are gems on all of their albums, it was incredibly tricky to choose a song to introduce so I settled on the first one I thought of, which happens to be tinted with a nice shade of psychedelic. The song, "Dear Diary", is from their 1969 album, "On The Threshold of a Dream".
