YMMV / The Moody Blues

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• Award Snub:
  • They were repeatedly ignored by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; worse yet, they weren't even nominated until 2017, despite being eligible since 1989.
  • Narrowly averted in Denny Laine's case. He wasn't originally to be inducted with the band, but Peter Asher (of Peter & Gordon), Steven van Zandt, and radio personality Cousin Brucie all lobbied to have him included. Mentioned by Laine here.
• Covered Up: Their first hit "Go Now!" was originally an obscure song by American Soul singer Bessie Banks (produced, but not written, by Leiber and Stoller).
• Fan Nickname:
  • The "Sixth Moody", for producer Tony Clarke.
  • The seven albums the band recorded between 1967 and 1972 (Days of Future Passed through Seventh Sojourn) are known as the "Classic 7" or the "Core 7".
  • "Sur La Merde" for those who don't like that album.
• Fanon Discontinuity: The Magnificent Moodies, which is almost Canon Discontinuity; neither website claiming to be the "official" site lists it, and the band implies that they do not count it through the titles of their albums Seventh Sojourn and Octave, which would be weird names for their eighth and ninth albums respectively.
• Funny Moments: Their appearance in The Simpsons in the episode "Viva Ned Flanders":
  Homer: Ahh! The Moody Blues!
  Graeme Edge: Cold-hearted Homer ditching his wife, while ancient Ned runs for his life...
  Justin Hayward: Chips of blue, and red, and white, but we decide which-
  John Lodge: Oh, can the poems! It's arse-whipping time!
  Ray Thomas: (pulls knife out of his flute) I want fatty!
• Nightmare Fuel: The music video for "The Other Side of Life" is pretty much this, considering that it's set in a Dystopia.
• One-Scene Wonder: As mentioned above, their cameo in The Simpsons.
• Replacement Scrappy: Norda Mullen has gotten a lot of hate from Ray Thomas fans.
  • Patrick Moraz was this for some, particularly as the band went further into The '80s and synths took more and more centre stage, which was frequently blamed (or Mis-blamed, as it were) on him.
• Tear Jerker: A good chunk of their output falls into this, including "Nights in White Satin", "Tuesday Afternoon", "Voices in the Sky", "Om", "Never Comes the Day", "Are You Sitting Comfortably?", "Have You Heard/The Voyage", "Eyes of a Child", "I Never Thought I'd Live to Be a Hundred/I Never Thought I'd Live to Be a Million", "Watching and Waiting", "And the Tide Rushes In", "The Story in Your Eyes", "Emily's Song", "You Can Never Go Home", "New Horizons", "For My Lady", "Isn't Life Strange" and "Your Wildest Dreams". The last one especially.
  • A special mention has to go to "Melancholy Man".

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