History Music / TheMoodyBlues

* RougeAnglesOfSatin: "Dr. Livingstone I Presume" refers to "Antarctic" eels. Presumably those would be eels that [[TheBigListOfBooboosAndBlunders aren't hinged in the middle.[[note]]In BritishEnglish at least, "artic" (short for "articulated") is a common slang term for the kind of truck where the propulsion unit is separate from the cargo space, and the two joined by a hinged connector[[/note]] Also "Nights in White Satin" is sometimes misspelled "Knights", by people who evidently don't realise that this song is from an album about a day.

[[caption-width-right:350:The classic lineup in their late 60s/early 70s heyday. Left to right: Pinder, Edge, Lodge, Thomas, Hayward.]]

* RougeAnglesOfSatin: "Dr. Livingstone I Presume" refers to "Antartic" eels. Presumably those would be eels that [[TheBigListOfBooboosAndBlunders aren't hinged in the middle]][[hottip:note:In BritishEnglish at least, "artic" (short for "articulated") is a common slang term for the kind of truck where the propulsion unit is separate from the cargo space, and the two joined by a hinged connector]]. Also "Nights in White Satin" is sometimes misspelled "Knights", by people who evidently don't realise that this song is from an album about a day.

* Creator/{{Hipgnosis}}: Designed the cover for the 1977 LiveAlbum ''Caught Live + 5'', as well as Justin Hayward's solo album ''Songwriter''.

* SanitySlippageSong: "Nervous," arguably.

* SanitySlippageSong: "Nervous".

* CerebusCallback: Eyes of a Child, parts 1 and 2.

* CanonDiscontinuity: Few people remember ''The Magnificent Moodies'' nowadays, the only album of the Denny Laine era. The album is always ignored whenever the Moodies' catalog gets remastered/reissued, and songs from the album are almost never included on compilations, despite "Go Now" being a Top Ten hit.

** TheSmartGuy: Mike Pinder

** TheSixthRanger: Patrick Moraz

* IntercourseWithYou: Quite a few; "Deep" is one example.

%% Kindly note that the whole point of the entry below is that the word is indeed mispronounced "Antartic" -- that being the point of examples of the "Rouge Angles of Satin" trope (which is named after a mangled spelling/pronunciation of "Rogue Angels of Satan"). Do not "correct" it.
* RougeAnglesOfSatin: "Dr. Livingstone I Presume" refers to "Antartic" eels. Presumably those would be eels that [[TheBigListOfBooboosAndBlunders aren't hinged in the middle]]. Also "Nights in White Satin" is sometimes misspelled "Knights", by people who evidently don't realise that this song is from an album about a day.

* RougeAnglesOfSatin: "Dr. Livingstone I Presume" refers to "Antarctic" eels. Presumably those would be eels that [[TheBigListOfBooboosAndBlunders aren't hinged in the middle]]. Also "Nights in White Satin" is sometimes misspelled "Knights", by people who evidently don't realise that this song is from an album about a day.

* ExecutiveMeddling: The Moodies wanted their Christmas album, ''December'', to consist entirely of original compositions. However, the label felt that wouldn't sell, so they forced the band to include covers of well-known songs like "[[JohnLennon Happy Xmas (War Is Over)]]" and "[[BingCrosby White Christmas]]" (covers ended up making up half the album). It marked the first time since the Denny Laine era that a Moody Blues album contained songs not written by the group.

* ThePeteBest: Denny Laine. However, he did go on to success with {{Music/Wings}}, where he played alongside [[Music/PaulMcCartney a former bandmate]] of Pete Best himself.

* RougeAnglesOfSatin: "Dr. Livingstone I Presume" refers to "Antartic" eels. Presumably those would be eels that [[TheBigListOfBooboosAndBlunders aren't hinged in the middle]]. Also "Nights in White Satin" is sometimes misspelled "Knights", by people who evidently don't realise that this song is from an album about a day.

* {{Spinoff}}: During the Moodies' first hiatus, Justin Hayward and John Lodge recorded one self-titled album under the name "The Blue Jays". This name was probably an allusion to the Moody Blues plus the shared inital letter of their first names.

* Creator/{{Hipgnosis}}: Did the cover art for the 1977 LiveAlbum ''Caught Live + 5''.

* ThePeteBest: Denny Laine. However, he did go on to success with {{Music/Wings}}, where he played alongside [[PaulMcCartney a former bandmate]] of Pete Best himself.

* MagnumOpus: ''Days of Future Passed'' is considered by many to be their masterpiece.

* ThePeteBest: Denny Laine

* MadLaughter: "Departure" ends with Graeme Edge collapsing into this as it fades into "Ride My See-Saw".

* ExecutiveMeddling: The Moodies wanted their Christmas album, ''December'', to consist entirely of original compositions. However, the label felt that wouldn't sell, so they forced the band to include covers of songs like "[[JohnLennon Happy Xmas (War Is Over)]]" and "[[BingCrosby White Christmas]]" (covers ended up making up half the album). It marked the first time since the Denny Laine era that a Moody Blues album contained songs not written by the group.

* GreatestHitsAlbum: Several, but 1974's ''This Is The Moody Blues'' - which was specially mixed and sequenced by producer Tony Clarke, with the songs crossfaded in order to flow like a "proper" album - is an especially notable example.