Are You Sitting Comfortably ~ Moody Blues
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- Опубліковано 21 гру 2007
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From the album On The Threshold Of A Dream, 1969
Are You Sitting Comfortably
By Ray Thomas and Justin Hayward
A wonderful classic of the Moody Blues, considered one of the bands all time favorites and still performed live today. I remember seeing for the first time live in 1970 and knowing then that this band has an insight and connection to spirit. For those that know the album, this song has an abrupt ending...hence I have it followed by the second part of, "Have you Heard" by Mike Pinder.
Take another sip my love and see what you will see,
A fleet of golden galleons, on a crystal sea.
Are you sitting comfortably?
Let Merlin cast his spell.
Ride along the winds of time and see where we have been,
The glorious age of Camelot, when Guinevere was Queen.
It all unfolds before your eyes
As Merlin casts his spell.
The Seven Wonders of the World he'll lay before your feet,
In far-off lands, on distant shores, so many friends to meet.
Are you sitting comfortably?
Let Merlin cast his spell.
Have You Heard (part 2)
By Mike Pinder
Now you know how nice it feels,
Scatter good seed in the fields.
Life's ours for the making,
Eternity's waiting, waiting,
For you and me.
Now you know that you are real,
Show your friends that you and me
Belong to the same world,
Turned on to the same word,
Have you heard?
Have you heard?
Have you heard?
Have you heard?
Have you heard?
Discovered them while in college 69-73. No car, no tv, no cell phones, no computer...but I did have this music.
Still listening in 2024 at the young age of 73.
That was a more peaceful world. Especially with the Moodie Blues playing on my eight track player in my car or this album playing in my apartment. No cell phone,, no TV. Just my stereo.
Back in the early 1970s I would put the Moody Blues on my turntable, plug in my headphones, lay down on my bed and close my eyes and just drift off to another world. The Moody Blues are my favorite group of all time and have been fortunate to see them in concert several times. There will never be another pioneering group as great as the Moody Blues. Don't tell anyone but I am 54 years old and still a member of the Moody Blues fan club.
I'm 72 and a lyricist. Lennon and McCartney had nothing on Hayward and Lodge. All talented in this timeless group !
I did too with the headphones
@@Epikcameraman And Pinder & Thomas were not exactly amateurs. Great songs came from all of them.
Same, very regularly
I did this in the 90s. Sometimes I wish I still could.
The Moody Blues comforted me and opened the doorways of my mind to far off lands and distant shores😊!
The magic of the Moody Blues is eternal.
and so are we....so it appears we will be listening to them for a long time...
YES
There is Nothing like a Moody Blues song..
God, we need music like this today. Beautiful, positive, full of love. The Moodies were so good.
Wow, after a day in todays world I kicked back and put this on and it not only put me in a different world, it brought tears to my eyes, there will never be another Moody Blues.
Just be Happy you were part of their times!
Don't be so sure of that! I too went to Woodstock, wrote poetry (that I shall publish this year), married a great Lady who gave birth to a new generation of children who think, love, and are creative in turn. The wheel has not stopped turning, and beautiful people (Melanie's great ballad) still come forth from God. Be of good cheer. Yes, we know the Phillistines prance around their phony stage and make noise ... but they DON'T extinguish the flame of Life and will be history soon.
there's no one like them, I am 68 ,still listen to my orig vinyl ,cds ,tapes in the garage . streaming in the car! they have been a staple ,and always will be!
Brings back so many good memories of my youth. What a great time
to grow up with this fantastic band. ❤️
THIS SONG IS SO HYPNOTIC AND MESMERIZING. IT TRANSFIXES YOU TO ANOTHER PLACE IN TIME. ONLY THE MOODY BLUES CAN MAKE MUSIC LIKE THIS.
I so agree!!!...... certainly takes me to another place and time....
@Gary Snow name your favorite moodys song...its a VERY difficult thing to do...theres SO many great ones to chose from its mindboggling.....
Soooooo true!!!
pink floyyyyyyd
The combination of flute guitars and harmony...do just that..💜💙👍😁
I took my 15 year old son to see The Moody Blues last night and he loved it. This was one of the songs they played. I told him to find ANY band out there that sounds this good after 42 years! This band belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and we as fans should make sure this happens!! Thank you for posting this video. DJChas
Well they made it❤❤❤about time should of happened long before this...
Chilliwack does, after 50+ years
Huey Lewis and the News does
The Doobie Brothers does
Seriously who cares about the R&R Hall of fame, they'll always be brilliant in my eyes and yours too, no doubt.
AT 67 I STILL LISTEN TO THIS TUNE AT LEAST 5 TIMES PER MONTH......THEY DONT MAKE MUSIC LIKE THIS ANYMORE...SO AHEAD OF ITS TIME
A spell that has lasted for 50 years and still brings back a lot of really good memories.
We'll said
Surely one of the most beautiful songs from the ethereal Moody Blues
One of the wonders of this world is the Moody Blues ❤️
I've been a huge Moody Blues fan since the late 60s. This song highlights how, in my opinion, Justin Hayward had the most beautiful male voice ever in the history of pop/rock music. It's good to see that even now, there are so many of you out there who still understand and appreciate how incredible this music was, and sad to think that it's like will never again be created.
Listened to this when I returned from Vietnam in 1969. Such a healing time for me.
thank you for your service sir.
So glad it was here for you-
That place was dark & angry never knew how u where going home standing up or laying in a box
So glad you made it back! Moody Blues are still here for us..some of the best music ever ..never gets old.
Hey brother, that's cool, good for the heart, mind and soul, bless you and your family
Always ahead of their time. Always touching my soul.
Classic Moody Blues. ❤
Always find my way drifting back the the moody blues, so happy to have lived in the era of real music
Favorite group of all time. Fell in love with my future wife to their music. Still in love 49 years later
God bless your marriage Stephen!
Ray Thomas' flute solos on this song never get old. I could listen to them again and again..
My Girlfriend and I listen almost daily. Never get tired of this beautiful music.
65 here, lol I was late to the party, didn't start listening til like 1973. I play these songs with my grandchildren, they have transposed the flute to keyboards and harmonicas.. as for me, I'm opening the between the days festival 8/6.. was wondering if could ever play live again.. yeah it's a Jerry/Dead tribute festival but I'm opening with a Moody blues acoustic..
@@jamespriest9658 You wouldn't maybe have the sheet music for the flute parts, please?
Absolutely beautiful...whoever gave this thumbs down shouldn't even bother listening to it. Just go off in their dark little hole and stay there. Moody Blues will live on long after the men are gone..
The Moody Blues became my favorite band almost 50 years ago. After all the great music released in that time, the Moody Blues are still my favorite band. Great composers of beautiful music, which will live on for centuries.
I got out of the Army in January 1972 and when I moved into my apartment my brother had recorded almost 6 complete albums on a Wollensak reel to reel single tape. That was my introduction to them and I have loved their music ever since. Never listened to anything else for months.
Yes, wonderful stuff. But, i think it is basically about five terrific albums in a row. Thats it for me.
Simply one of the top 5 or ten bands ever to many, but in my top three, Behind Led Zeppelin and the Who...No one now or ever wrights this kind of "take me to a distant land of wonder and miraculous visions" kind of Music...They are truly timeless.
Screw the Rock and Roll Hall of frauds. What do they know...(??)
What a time that was, magical, wonderful music. Moodies are musical royalty.
Vision Quest
Ray Thomas wrote the most beautiful music
So far far far ahead of their time!
Very far, just like the music of, The Doors.
Wrong Grasshopper! Right on Time and always when we need it.
:)
I agree 100%
Dats of future passed...😁💜💙👍
Now you know how nice it feel's, yes,I do Justin... You make my day, listening to your voice...🥀🥀🥀🥀..2022...
So happy hearing the music of The Moody Blues being played. This group's music is unbelievably beautiful and mesmerizing and a lot different from any other types of music being played at that period in time. So many beautiful tunes and sounds. In Search For The Lost Cord is one of my favorite albums, but then again, all of this group's albums were absolutely beautiful...very soothing and almost spiritual.
So sad thad young people today don't have the music of the 60's and early 70's to caress their senses.62 and still carried away by it.So wonderful,so grateful!
And I hope after all these years you are still listening to them.
Moody Blues have to be in the top five of all rock groups. Their unique sound and
dreamy lyrics always took us on surreal, incredible trips of love, peace, harmony, acceptance, tolerance and togetherness, and Brotherhood. What a great era, in which they played a huge part... WE were lucky to grow in the times where love, peace and free love and protest and hope was espoused, and not violence nor gun ownership... OH how lucky WE were.
Kinda new agey as well.
Do you know any other bands like this?
@@ai.201 I don't think there are any other bands like the Moodys, they were, and remain, completely unique.
@@debbiethomas3687 ok, so please share some of your favourite?
@@ai.201 The group "OM" is even MORE spiritual...they will put you in a "trance"if your not careful! How about the "YES"band? ENYA is pretty evolved also!
Beautifully said and completely true for so many of us who grooved to the Moody Blues all those years ago.
We'll probably never see such mastery of the metaphysical again.
I thank God I was born at the right time to have had this experience.
truth!
LSD is still out there if you look hard enough and it's still transforming lives
Many of us have been blessed to be a part of the journey, of this magnificent band.
Infinitely more than just "A rock n roll band!" :)
This song has become the hymn for my depression, in a nice way. It's a signal of hope, it's my light at the end of the tunnel. It's what reminds me that tomorrow will be another day, and it will be better than yesterday.
If it wasn't for this song and the wonderful memories it brings to my mind, remembering seeing my dad happy for the first time after his divorce with my ma, I would've committed suicide in June '20.
This song, literally saved my life.
Breathe deep. Gentle soul. Tomorrow is less wrong than today.
There is always a light at the end of the tunnel the moody let you see it...glad your still here even though I don't know you❤❤❤
There is always a song of hope in the Moody blues so stay positive and tomorrow will be better if you allow it to be. Songs like this one take us back to magical times around Arthur etc. best time of our history. Merlin etc. stay positive and plan your future and go for it. Good luck my friend.
One of my favorites but hard to choose there all wonderful....
Merlin certainly cast his spell for you, wonderful song
My favorite Moody's song from the very first album I ever bought. When listening to it, I close my eyes and drift back to my teen years of the 70s and relive them as if they were yesterday. So calming and such wonderful memories.
They wrote songs full of imagery and beauty ! Full of spiritual truth .
mike pinder-former leader of the moodies at his best........
Although this is not their most favored work, I believe that it fully defines them. A day without the Moody Blues is a day without wonder and sparkle.
Those pieces which are not "their most favored work" are among the best, and because they got little air play except on FM back in the late 60s/early 70s, it becomes a well-kept secret that those of us who revere the Moody Blues have had all to ourselves. Countless wonderful compositions that never made it to radio because of what those songs were and how they were composed. As the fathers of prog rock it took the public a few extra years to appreciate the Moody Blues, and once they were caught up they had 7 albums in the can and it was a treasure trove of progressive rock people finally appreciated. Only means the Moodies were literally years ahead of their time.
Its my favorite.
Brian E…perfectly said!
I was in uniform and this was the first song I heard when I got back in October, 1969. I bought the album and practically played the grooves off of it during the month before I went back. This is a timeless group of real musicians who were an enigma in their day. Still are to me.
Quite simply the Moodies greatest track ever, Magic !
50 yrs ago...may their music live on !!
Very lovely blend!
Mystical and Magical beauty...💙💙💙💙..
At their peak the Moody Blues have to rank in the top 10 rock groups. No doubt, they were light years ahead of time.
Somehow, this song is quintessential Moodies. Without getting into details, the nights I spent with my wife in our younger years listening to this and other Moody Blues songs were some of the greatest nights ever. The melodies bring back thoughts of a time when life was less encumbered. The Moody Blues are one of the great bands of all time.
My wife and I saw the Moody Blues every time they came to Southern California. I've been listening to them since the 60's.
@@billneice3747 yes was probably late 60's for me..my brother had the album EGBDF and I was caught been hooked since....never got to see them live though not when you lived in country part of Australia...
Psychedelics with your mate is unmatched💯
This song always sends shivers down my spine as I remember the first time I heard it and makes me believe once again in the beauty of the spirit.
The Moody Blues are just fantastic!
Thanks for posting
Moodies fan Tony
I think I am-I know I am so blessed to have grown up with their music
You were, and so was I :-)
me, too! I used to put on my (huge) head set, kick back in my wrap-around chair and listen to the Moody Blues for hours. Even back then I knew they were "ahead of their time". even now, their songs apply to what is going on. And their love songs are eternally timeless.
Kim Andrews Descartes
me too!
Who in the fuck is doing this artwork? God damn. Where r the prints. Im old school & all we had was the album covers.
I remember a wonderful weekend of love listening to this in my youth. Where have the years gone?
this is definitely a ray thomas inspired tune. the moody blues had so many great song writers and vocalists. we only have JUSTIN HAYWARD, JOHN LODGE, AND MIKE PINDER left. RIP ray and graeme.
The Moody blues are the magical mystery tour!
The extraordinary talent of the group, Mike Pinder in particular.
The Moody blues always gives you amazing songs :)
well at least while mike pinder was with them...later...well,not so much! Ha ha..
the images that the moody blues presented in their music made it so easy to close your eyes and drift to another calming place
I was a17 year old kid when I saw the Moody Blues for the first time in 1971 at the Atlanta auditorium. That was a special time for me and all of us now old farts. The Mooody's were the best band of those days. No other band played anything like them. Thanks for the song and memories.
they are way "deeper" than most bands out there thats for sure! Pure TRANSCENDENCE!!Your "HIGHER" self LOVES them.... I'm sure of that....!!!!
Moody Blues , there music is a healer and many different ways I love this beautiful music!
You certainly have fantastic taste in music my friend. Keep listening.
Masterful, melodic, magnificent Moodies !
It's the mellotron, the flute, guitar and Justin's voice❣️❣️❣️
"are you sitting comfortably as Merlin casts his spell". A mesmerizing song, from a mesmerizing album, from a mesmerizing band.
Einen guten Tee, einen Joint und Entspannung für die Seele. I love Moody Blues.
Long before there was 'Game Of Thrones', there was The Moody Blues.
Boy, doesn't this take you back about 1500 years or so? Nice.
Qwikin Inn .........yes it does...........
this is honest,real,music, great Melody's and it's really good big fan since I was 15 I'm 58 now never gets old
This wss the bands first number one lp may 1969 .
Perhaps some of the finest music there is.
Still incredible after all these years!
The Moody Blues freaking own! Legends to the max!
The best gift I evergot from a friend, this album.
RIP RAY THOMAS ! The music will live on....
Who would think I'd be kicken back comfortably in the mountains of baja listening to this tune.
This song takes me back to a wonderful time in my youth. Listening to it with my HS girlfriend...
been a fan since I first heard them in 73, seen them many times, love this track. one word sums up the moodys,, CLASS.
john bruce I first heard of them when I was in the Navy. I had to go to a Supply ship after a part for my ship and the Storekeeper had a tape of the Moody Blues going while he worked in his stockroom.
The Moody Blues music is unsurpassed. Truly Magical and Mystical, full of deep meaning and Truth that is timeless.
If my head is just right this song takes me to another level.
The Moody’s cast their spell on me when i was a mere 12 years old......now 62
Me too.
Time is passing by so quickly. I'm glad this music is timeless.
One of the best Moody Blues songs ever recorded.
Merlin has yet to be found in these woods.
satin to your ears,soothing to your mind,that is moodies
Another in a long list of great tunes!
This is my all time favorite groups. I have all their albums and cds, even the solo work. I had a chance to meet Mike Pinder in person and I got to talk to Justin Hayward on the phone when he was visiting Phoenix. Love the music.. I never get enough of them. Wish they put out more.
damn..your a "hard-core " moodies fan..like me! what was meeting Mike Pinder like He was the heart of the MB's....the essence if you will...always loved him...Mike.
MY Favourite Band of All Time
An amazing group who made magical music and made music magical. ‘Threshold of a Dream’ was, and still is my all time favorite album from them, but ‘Question of Balance’ is such a close second that I could almost say they’re tied. Whether ‘To Our Children’s Children’s Children’, or ‘In Search of The Lost Chord’ is my third favorite, I can’t say; but the two of them together are most certainly third and fourth! At the age of 72, I still love listening to their music and don’t get tired of hearing it the way I do with other groups. Other groups may have a song or two that I can listen to over and over, but not entire albums as do the Moody Blues. When I finally cross that threshold over which there’s only one crossing, if there are any in attendance at the funeral, I hope they get to listen nonstop to the music made by this group; and not just ‘the greatest hits’, but starting with ‘Tuesday Afternoon’. Let that be the time and day of the funeral, too, ‘cause I’ll finally be finding out why “..the trees are drawing me near.” It’ll be my final ‘confirmation’. Blessings to you everyone ~ ❤️🔥🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽❤️🔥
Wonderful song and fantastic lyrics
I have everything album the Moody Blues put out. By far This is the best in my opinion. It takes me to another world.
The sort of music for which the Moody Blues are best known provides a fitting listening experience for anybody who grew up as I did, with rock, pop, AC, classical and chamber music all playing in equal measure. This selection from On The Threshold Of A Dream is no exception.
timeless poetry that allows me to realize a greater and more beautiful vision of the universe
just imagine them playing On the Threashold of a Dream at Glastonbury...saturday night, the mist rolling down off the Tor...how mystical and magical would that be
That Would Be A Magical Night ! On the Isle of avalon.
1968 Heilbronn, Germany. 26th Signal Battalion, Wharton Barracks.Great listening, great band. Still listen to them as I fall asleep.
i'm so grateful to have older parents who've introduced this spellbinding music to me!
The singularly most underrated musicians in the history of music.
A Travesty that they have not been recognized by the R&R HoFame.
I guess you missed that they were inducted in 2018 just after Ray Thomas passed away..his son went in his place. He died knowing they had finally got voted in,not that they needed it. Those who know their music ,know they are one of The best groups to ever perform.
Timeless Enchanted Music ! I love it !
One of my all time favourites from the greatest band ever THE MOODY BLUES
I could not agree with you more, well said! Those are my sentiments as well.
Magical! 😀⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐💙💙💯Beautiful! 🧙♂ Totally Groovy! Still Love this today!!!!
This is incredible Artistry.... Amazing and magical....
Love this album. Ran a needle through it when I was young.
Rock will be rock, but the Moody Blues were so unique.They should have had a category by themselves. So mezmerizing. Beautul song
I am NOW sitting comfortably!
This song makes even my worst days wonderful! I get lost in words...the flute........
brings peace to my soul
and mine for the same reasons 47 yesrs later.
I was just sitting here comfortably listening to a little bit of sympathy by Robin Trower and the song s of the Moody Blues magically appeared,well what can one do hey.. Peace and Love and Rock on
me too!
Present-day, I'm a Jackie Joyant, like Coldplay, numerous bands and styles, but I always come back to my teen beginnings with the Moody Blues & Yes. Some things never grow old.
You are so right Renard. My son got me hooked on a lot of alternative bands that are out now. However, I did the same with him, with all the bands i grew up with, including these wonderful musicians.I'm 62 now and it's great to know than my son loves a lot of the music I liked. I wish more of the younger generation would listen....actually listen...to this wonderful music. Maybe we wouldn't have a lot of the crap that's out now.