Re: Elton John vs. The Moody Blues

KajaGooGoo wrote:
> Back i the 1970s, there was a time that Elton John was putting out some
> very complex music which featured a lot of organs and orchestral
> arrangements. Around the same time and a bit earlier, The Moody Blues
were
> in full blast with their greatest hits coming out between the end of the
> 1960s and the early 1970s.
> 
> How did you compare The Moody Blues anthems to Elton John's greatest
ballads
> and anthems? Did you ever think that these were some of the greatest
songs
> in rock history? Do they still move you? Was there an element of
progressive
> rock to the late 1960s/early 1970s era of Elton John?
> 

Elton John was unusual in that all the forms that were dead boring by 
anyone else, sounded new and fresh from him.  Including soul music, Mick 
Jagger impersonations, and a bit of an influence of that end of the 60s 
big ballad sound such as Let it Be and Bridge Over Troubled Water.  Some 
of the music on his self-titled album probably influenced early 
incarnations of ELO.
I honestly wouldn't compare the Moody Blues to him.