{"id":25443,"date":"2015-04-30T11:00:56","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toiletovhell.com\/?p=25443"},"modified":"2017-05-08T22:36:53","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T03:36:53","slug":"groundbreakers-the-moody-blues-days-of-future-passed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/groundbreakers-the-moody-blues-days-of-future-passed\/","title":{"rendered":"Groundbreakers: The Moody Blues – Days Of Future Passed<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“The Moody Blues<\/strong>? My ponytailed uncle from Des Moines loves that\u00a0band, lol. Why are we talking about\u00a0this dadprog hippy shit?” Hey, you. Shut up.\u00a0The Toilet Ov Hell<\/em> is\u00a0featuring said “hippy shit” in our Groundbreakers<\/strong> series because, believe it or not, The Moody Blues’s\u00a0landmark album Days of Future Passed <\/em>paved a crucial path for bands as diverse as Emperor<\/strong>, King Crimson<\/strong>, Rhapsody of Fire<\/strong>, Muse<\/strong>, Sigur R\u00f3s<\/strong>,\u00a0and<\/em> even\u00a0TovH favorites Sarpanitum<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Although these bands vary greatly in brutality and cheese-factor, they have all created\u00a0“symphonic rock” of some stripe – music that doesn’t\u00a0just use a stray string patch to sweeten climaxes and intro tracks once in a while, but has\u00a0traditional orchestral instruments (or a keyboard-based imitation of them) as a fundamental\u00a0element of its sound. Who\u00a0planted this seed in the consciousness of rock musicians? You guessed it; the first rock band to utilize orchestral sounds as in their music just as prominently as guitars\u00a0was\u00a0The Moody Blues, all the way back in 1967.<\/p>\n