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Having Tangram at No 2 tells me you come at their work from a radically different place to me. To put Exit at No 1 and yet White Eagle next to Le Parc, reinforces my opposing position to yours. Here's mine: 1. Ricochet - Sublime. Despite not being truly live. 2. Rubycon - A real journey 3. Phaedra - Seminal but rougher than Rubycon 4. White Eagle - Polished. Great sound design with nods to the past 5. Exit - Brilliant departure from 70's. Thanks to Wolfgang Palm 6. Poland - Tour-de-force of their recent material 7. Force Majeure - A refreshing break from the usual, fab recording 8. Stratosfear - Haunting yet more structured 9. Logos - Precursor to Poland, good melodies 10. Sorcerer - Brutal, except for The Journey which might be my favorite piece of the whole body of work 11. Zeit - Deep 12. Atem - An interesting, raw foreshadowing of their later 70's work 13. Encore - Raw but worthwhile 14. Le Parc - Good melodies/sound design, but the herald of change for the worse. 15. Hyperborea - No Man's Land interesting, but the rest, not so much 16. Cyclone - All Peter Baumann's fault! 17. Alpha Centauri - Weird but interesting 18. Electronic Meditation - You have to start somewhere I suppose. 19. Tangram - Confused and tentative. Welcome Johannes Schmoelling 20. Underwater Sunlight - Muzak

I stumbled upon Frontier Psychiatric in 02'-04' at most, not sure... my life's never been the same since. All avalanches work (old/new, album/mix) get me going as no other. I sincerely love them, they're a part of me, I really appreciate them, I have them in my body/mind

The Moody Blues are my dad's favorite band and I'm afraid that he loves Keys of the Kingdom so he might click off this video super fast if I link it to him lol

Stoneburner just sucks unfortunately.

It just occurred to me that two of these album's names are similar to the names of songs on Gorillaz' Sound Machine project (Strange Timez and The Lost Chord). I bet that was intentional

Sorry to be that guy but "Graeme" is pronounced "Grey-Em" as opposed to "Gram". Living in the US for nearly a decade now and I can count on one hand the amount of people who have got the pronunciation right.

btw, have you heard "The Glasshouse with Butterfly" remix by Orbital? It's a song from a game Machinarium

Between Gesaffelstein's Mania and Justice's remix of their own track Afterimage, we're in the right climate for prime gabber revival

Despite being my favourite Orbital album, I understand the hate. I get that this is not what Orbital is suppose to sound. Everyone expected something masterful like Insides or Sniv but they got is an album filled with drafts and experiments. The experimental nature is what makes it my fave album since the brothers were coming out of their comfort zone. I feel like the brothers were backpedalling, intentionally creating the album and saying it sucks just because it got poor reviews. I like the fridge brilliance about the bookend and juxtaposition thing. My fave music is Funny Break (one of my top orbital songs). My least fave is Oi (I think the kazoo and sax are annoying)

15:21 I don’t know why but that part really cracked me up holy shit 😂

Since you asked about what to highlight about this album as to why not put in into dead last ranking next to Experinece, it's easily explained as stylistic preference. Experience to me is wimpy. Dated. Chipmunky. Weak pippty beats. I don't want someone walking in and catching me listening to it. Later Prodigy has BALLS. It punches you in the face. It's exciting. But this goes back to what we prefer and your reviews explain why you prefer what you do and my preferences are different. I was born and I grew up with metal and had to branch out to electronic music, and blah blah blah you get it. You grew up differently and I salute our differences.

Again. I'm trying to dig what you're doing, but more than seven minutes to cover Seventh Sojourn. Too much.

I love and appreciate this Moody Blues Top 15, but way too much on each album.

Great stuff. My own ranking would literally be their discography in order, with the blip of Strange Times being slightly better than expected at the end, and ignoring The Magnificent Moodies which I kind of think of as a different band (a la Underworld). The first three in particular are utterly magnificent, getting that mix of the cosmic and the mundane absolutely spot on. Their mix of almost painful earnestness and naivety has made them be remembered as a properly uncool band (not helped by those 80s records), so it’s always nice to come across others so passionately into them. I remember being amazed by the cover of Threshold as a kid and then listening to In the Beginning and it just being so totally bonkers; the reprise of the opening drone at the end of the album continues into the runout groove on the LP and that fascinated me, too, effectively an infinite track. Such a formative record.

7. AONO (highlights: Girls, Phoenix, Medusa's Path) 6. No Tourist (highlights: We Live Forever, Light Up The Sky) 5. The Day... (highlights: Destroy, Rebel Radio, The Day...) 4. Invaders (highlights: Thunder, Hospital) 3. Fat (highlights: Funky Shit, Breathe, Smack) 2. Jilted (highlights: The Heat, Full Throttle) 1. Experience (highlights: EITP 155, Hyperspeed)

I finally watched the whole ranking, and nice job! I’ve never listened to the Moody Blues, but I’ve always wanted to because my grandpa is a huge fan of them, and this ranking provided me with a lot of really helpful insight. It’s great how you managed to both discuss the context of the albums and what was going on when they were produced while also providing unique texts and commentary for each album, clearly demonstrating your feelings on them. Really well rounded video once again!

I agree with where you placed Keys Of The Kingdom

I'm surprised that you don't have a video on James Ferraro. I'd highly recommend his album NYC, Hell 3:00 AM.

I’ve only heard Days of Future Past in its entirety, but I’m goad you gave it such mad high praise. I feel like this is particularly fantastic 1967 production, the orchestra parts sounds clean by 2024 standards, let alone then. Not a lot of people were making concept albums like this back then in the first place and it’s just a fun experience with ambition that honestly didn’t strike me as all that pretentious tbh, but I can still see that I suppose I’ve only heard many songs outside of context otherwise, this group is awesome from what I’ve heard.

Yippee, my Q&A question from a year ago finally became a reality lol! Anyways, this was such a great vid, I think I enjoyed it just as much as the Pink Floyd one. I absolutely agree with you on that number one pick. Days of Future Passed is one of the most beautiful and spectacular prog rock albums I’ve ever heard!

Yet another band I need to get to after being dimly aware of them for twenty years. I think that initial ’67-72 run and Long Distance Voyager will be right up my alley.

This might be one of your best videos ever simply due to how in-depth and passionate it feels. I saw the #1 coming from a mile away but it didn't make it any less satisfying to finally hear you talk about it in detail, which goes for basically everything on this list too. Also I'm glad your fanbase isn't as extreme as Fantano's because if it was, I'm willing to bet there would probably be people on Twitter right now talking about how OMG OMG DAYS OF FUTURE PASSED IS A 10 IN THE WONKY ANGLE CANON (although it arguably does deserve a reaction like that considering how much more frugal you are with your 10s than he is)

How brilliant! Was not expecting this on here. Great work. Cheers!

Erm OK....I didn't see this coming but hey I am surprised in a very good way! I am going to watch this later but I know that New Horizons is my fave sooooo I can't wait to laugh at how low you probably have it rated....

Is this gonna be the last time, you're gonna make a worst to best ranking of a non-electronic band or are you doing some more later on?

Wow that is off brand! Interesting list though.

Great Video. Thank you. I've loved this band for a long time. This is my ranking: The Magnificent Moodies Keys of Kingdom Strange Times The Present Octave The Other Side of Life Sur La Mer Question of Balance Every Good Boy Deserves Flavors Seven Sojourn In Search of the Last Chord On the Threshold of a Dream To our Children's... Days of Future Passed Long Distance Voyager

Of course the album that inspired the title of the X-Men comic/film of the (almost) same name is number 1

18:58 That Patrick Bateman joke was both unexpected and hilarious

I've been meaning to give this band a further listen because I loved Days of Future Passed when I heard it a few years ago, so thanks for making this, it proves very helpful

Hivemind mentioned?? Greatest crossover of all time

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This band was the first live show I ever saw. Back in 2006 when I was a freshman in high school. One of my favorite memories with my Mom. She also introduced me to them by gifting me the compilation Gold when I graduated 8th grade. I’d never heard of them, but it was a start to a nice journey

Junk is highly underrated, when asked Anthony Gonzalez is not actually a fan of how commercially successful hurry up we're dreaming was. Anthony is such an interesting guy when you read or watch any interviews with him

Always nice to see a fellow Moody Blues fan 😄 You ever check out Blue Jays by Hayward and Lodge? It was recorded during the Moodies (first?) hiatus and probably sounds closer to a Moody Blues album than their 80s albums. (Lol, I kid, but I really like it personally)

This has nothing to do with rankings, but are you planning to review Charli XCX's discography?

Terrific band at their peak. Shame they are looked down upon for whatever bizarre reason that I never understood.

On The Threshold Of A Dream and To Our Children’s Children’s Children are my two favorite

Glad that this ranking exists honestly! I’ve been looking for a means to get into this band but have struggled, so this’ll be a helpful guide on where to start and whether they’ll be for me! Good stuff!

I don't see how using the same sounds and instruments is a negative. It makes the album sound cohesive in a way that Polychrome wasn't.

i bought dis album via internet pre ordered it , took ages for the realise, there was oficiall delay, time passed never arrived, then saw it on a record store in my city, it was clearly the oone i orderered , they where rude and give no explanation, but rebought it any way. im from Mexico

Ooh I'm intrigued by Peaceblaster and Ad Explorata, and I'll probably check out Artifact as well

Why is this album such a banger yet so emotional at the same time

amber is no.1 for me

I loved this album, but I was only "kind of" a fan before it. Or a lost fan perhaps. I used to absolutely love Middle Of Nowhere. That was one of my favorite albums of all time back then, and still is. Unfortunately I fell out of the Orbital sphere with The Alltogether. I couldn't get into it, but after listening to your thoughts on it I'd like to go and re-listen to it. My feeling at the time wasn't that it was crazier and more mental, but strangely more that it felt they were trying to be more commercial and mainstream but kind of failed. I remember the reviews weren't very good. Optical Delusion to me was a return to what I loved with Middle Of Nowhere, so for me it was one of my favorite albums last year. But that said, I've really been quite out of the loop with Orbital.

u looked so cute here o,o

7. No Tourists 6. Experience 5. The Day Is My Enemy 4. Fat Of The Land 3. Invaders Must Die 2. Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned 1. Music For The Jilted Generation (My favourite album of all time)

At the time of writing this comment, I just recently got BT’s first three albums on CD with one of my Amazon vouchers! All of them are in my top three, currently with Ima and ESCM being tied for first place (sometimes I think Ima is better than ESCM, but that can change quickly depending on my mood). As for his other albums, I don’t really like his more modern stuff that much, but if I had to choose my favourite from that period, These Hopeful Machines definitely wins it all for me!

are you planning on covering that new metamatics album?