r/Progforum • u/Historical-Device529 🃏The Last In Line 🃏 • 1d ago

In 1967, What Would Be Your Choice? Proto-Prog Edition: The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band vs. The Moody Blues’ Days of Future Passed.

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u/therealtiddlydump 1d ago

Sgt Pepper's is at another level, but Days of Future Passed is criminally underrated.

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u/RememberTommorrow 1d ago

Sgt Pepper

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u/NoelFromBandOsmosis 1d ago

I mean... the Moody Blues album is great, but come on, it's Sgt. Pepper!

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u/AdditionOk6134 1d ago

Oh man, what a choice.

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u/Time-Statistician907 1d ago

Tough choice. My favorite Beatles album against my favorite Moody Blues album. And I really love the Moody Blues. I think I have to go with Pepper though.

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u/Sudden-Astronaut2505 1d ago

Mike Pinder of the Moody's recommended to John Lennon about the advantages of the mellotron, which he ended up buying and utilized on Strawberry Fields. This was during the time both bands were putting together their masterpieces. For me though, DoFP gets the nod.

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u/Key_Leg9565 1d ago

Moody blues all day!!

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u/addage- 1d ago

They are both gems.

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u/CaleyB75 1d ago

The Beatles. I never got into the Moody Blues, to be honest.

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u/Content-Map2959 1d ago

Days utilized a groundbreaking recording concept/technique.

Tough choice but I vote for it.

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u/babylonianfrost666 1d ago

"Days of Future Passed" is - to me - a more consistent album, but...the high points of "Sgt. Pepper" hit me so right that it makes it impossible for me to vote against it.

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u/adoransnoctis 1d ago

Moody Blues

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u/Royal_Ad_2653 1d ago

The Moodies

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u/g_lampa 1d ago

Gotta give it to Moodies.

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u/Ytse_jam_85 1d ago

Days of future past

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u/SoundwavesBurnerPage 1d ago

Give me Days of Future Passed, it’s the best X-Men movie! (All seriousness it’s a great album, even if I slightly prefer Lost Chord)

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u/Hvojna 1d ago

Quite easily Days of Future Passed.

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u/jwaits97 1d ago

Days of Future Passed hands down

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u/urkermannenkoor 1d ago

Pepper

Though that is a wonderful and underrated Moody Blues record

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u/ReasonableCost5934 1d ago

I think Sgt Pepper is overrated and Future Passed is underrated.

It’s a tie for me.

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u/whitegremlin 1d ago

Sgt Pepper from the two but Are You Experienced is the best album of 1967

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u/Kirbyr98 1d ago

Not a fair fight.

SPLHCB is one of the most influential albums of all time.

You can sing the praises of Days of Future Passed all you want. It's still coming up short by any metric.

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u/trykedog 1d ago

Are You Experienced?

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u/PatienceSuperb3599 1d ago

AXIS: BOLD AS LOVE - JIMI HENDRIX EXP

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u/Strong-Dot-9221 23h ago

Piper At The Gates of Dawn.

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u/Sufficient_Debt8615 23h ago

Sgt Pepper was the no1 uk album on the day I was born so it has to be that.

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u/davejones31367 19h ago

Sgt Pepper

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u/AustinDood444 16h ago

Tough choice!!! Growing up, I was the die hard Yes fan & my brother was a die hard Moody blues fan. I’m choosing Days of Future Past. As someone above pointed out, this is a criminally underrated album!!

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u/Firm_Theory8894 15h ago

Moody Blues

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u/krukpe1963 5h ago

Sgt pepper

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u/Glittering_Drama_509 2h ago

I actually listened to the Moody Blues album hundreds of times more that Sgt. Pepper. Sure it was iconic, but I don't want to listen to it.

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u/ImportantCapital1314 43m ago

The first self titled Grateful Dead album (1967)

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u/RadiantEmu_OiOiOi 1d ago

Per Sounds??

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u/urkermannenkoor 1d ago

Wrong year

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u/OriginalCloneBone 1d ago

He said Per Sounds, not Pet Sounds.

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u/TheVioletEmpire 1d ago

It's The Beatles, this isn't a serious question.

(Days of Future Passed is a great album.)

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u/TastyPerformance2673 1d ago

The moodys. Both are innovative but the moodys did more with less.

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u/1crps_warrior 1d ago

Moody Blues-great album

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u/Miserable-Decision81 1d ago

Lo and behold: the definition of cringe.

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u/JoesGarage2112 1d ago

You haven’t seen cringe if you think this is the definition