Gypsy (Of A Strange And Distant Time)-The Moody Blues

[Plaguewalkerful]

If this isnt about the Doctor, It sure fits.

[AiedailWest]

Are you SURE it's not about the Doctor?

[TheMr262626]

I love "T..o.c.c.c." To -e it is a sojour- thru Life per se fro- co-ceptio- ..The Christ is also i-plied as well as withi- us .. to the e-d or forever Alive!

[ please excuse this Key-oard ie a - c d e f g h i j k l - - o p q r s t u v w x y z ]

[trufflehund]

Went to the concert in Melbourne last Wednesday more to honour them than to be blown away. They more than exceeded my lowered expectations and the flautist was flawless as was the guitar work of Hayawrd. They were up to the mark and age has not wearied them. Really enjoyed it. Teared up during this song, it was played very well, but what else do you expect from the band that is the only band that can give Pink Floyd a run for all time excellence?

[KhazemiDuIkana]

I owe this song something for existing.

[1kellymccartney]

i used to listen to the moodies when i was depressed & it changed my outlook!

[LolasTubular]

I was a troubled, abused 14-year old when I first fell in love with this album, and especially this song. That was 39 years ago. In hindsight, I'm certain these blokes saved my life. I feel so blessed, to have recognized this brilliance at such a young age, and thoroughly embraced the concepts of love, peace, and higher consciousness, which sustain me to this day.  xo

[mahmoodnasser]

MOODY BLUES have a magic voice ..all their songs are wonderful.

I CAN LISTEN TO THEM all day and wanted more.....

Justin Hayward you are a wonderful

[1ancienttraveler]

The finest rockn roll band

[ezramead]

Right on, men. 

[jabel5]

So much happens in 3:35.

[andjkh]

Sounds very good for a240p upload

[spiritofshiloh]

Love this song could listen to it 100 times:)

[revidffum]

This is another one of those great old albums that is best listened to on vinyl...through headphones...while smoking a bong. Just sayin'....

[ezramead]

These boys did their job.

[spacepatrolman]

@ezramead justin hayward has a beautiful voice

[ottobry]

@ezramead Very well said.

[benoitlogan]

this is trippyyyyyyyyy!!

[billsondrums]

I'm gonna go ahead and say the the Moody Blues should be ranked with the Beatles as innovators of modern music.

[PiratesReport]

I'm almost convinced TOCCC is the Moodies' best album.

[WDLawless]

Think of it as an acid trip without the acid. This is without a doubt one of Justin Hayward's best works. Headphones will definitely enhance the experience.

[WDLawless]

Think of it as an acid trip without the acid. This is without a doubt one of Justin Hayward's best works.

[apemanstreetwalker]

I have never done acid and this is still one of the best albums I ever heard. Vinyl on good headphones...listened to it for hours....

[TheMetalMeltdown]

@apemanstreetwalker would doing acid and listening to this enhance ones listening experience?

[apemanstreetwalker]

@TheMetalMeltdown dunno....lemme know from the other side pls. :)

[TheMetalMeltdown]

@apemanstreetwalker haha ya right! im not into drugs or anything but i do love the music! i did shrooms for the first time a few months back and wow! it was quite an experience, i wont do it again but its definitely safer than acid so i would suggest trying that and listening to the moodys if you were at all interested.

[oriskany]

Quartered a tab of Orange Sunshine with my three best friends on a coral atoll in The Pacific. A whole lot of Moodies the whole night right up to that incredible sunrise. No other band could have seen us through like they did. Basically, a twelve hour rush.

[byrdland5d]

here comes a comet that will blow you all away!

[witnesstree]

This song is about a person who died, and now his soul wanders endless through blackness.

[gnulen]

I´ve heard this song four times in a row now :) !!

[byrdland5d]

@gnulen good then perhaps it is starting to sink in

[BlainePistolle]

and to think I love the moody blues, but never knew they had a gypsy song. /: kushti bok te latcho drom mandi roma

[goriii19582006]

Great song!  Sadly, even classic rock stations rarely play this song anymore.

[SgtCrom]

@goriii19582006, I first heard the "classic rock" format in '88 on 100.7 GRX in Baltimore. That first summer it was great. Then they devolved into the standard nationwide format where they decided to play "Crazy Train", "Roadhouse Blues", "Wish You Were Here", "Livin' Lovin' Maid" and "The Wall" over and over and over again for 22 years.

[1970ifeelalright]

@SgtCrom The curse of today's FM radio stations : Play the same 2 Led Zeppelin songs ; the same Pink Floyd songs from "Dark Side..." and "The Wall" ( you know , radio format programmers , that Floyd has earlier materials !!! ) ; the same shit over and over , ad nauseaum !

FM stations should revert-back to their origins : Jazz , Classical , Long-Play cuts , and Underground cuts !

[SgtCrom]

@1970ifeelalright, I couldn't agree more!

[oriskany]

Don't get me wrong, I have always loved the Moodies, but for those of you who are just now reading meanings into their music, this one was simply about puberty. You know, that window of time in your life when your parents were idiots, you knew everything, and there was no going back to innocence.

Only The Moodies could make it sound beautifully natural and sad at the same time.

[HKiersik]

@oriskany

mooi gezegd!

[WDLawless]

Justin says it well. I often feel as if I were left without a hope of coming home. It's nice to return home once in a while...that is, if there's still a home to return to.

[misterf1x1t]

Timeless song...Always sounded like a freight train chugging along throughout the song

[plasticglassonion222]

This song is definitely hypnotic...tks

[Keijz74]

Epicness :o)#

[hdecre55]

My favorite Moody Blues song ever!

[DanBell47]

GREAT Band!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ebeatworld]

Why does their music always remind me of Disneyland. Like, always makes me think of classic Disney.

[TheJDogShow]

Maybe because this song is from the album "To Our Children's Children's Children"? Just saying...

[zitlight73]

@TheJDogShow Now that you mentioned it yeah. I could have seen them writing the score for one of Disney's annimations or Disney animating one of their songs.

[bogquan]

I can relate to absoluteauthorityo8, in 8th grade my English teacher wrote the entire lyrics to Simon and Garfunkels "The sounds of Silence" and we had to analyze it for all it's meaning. The teachers right out of college were definitely the coolest.

[999klondike]

Wow! There where bands at one time that could actually write good songs, and play their instruments just as well. Imagine, that.

[ivliuscaesar1865]

yeah, music today sucks shit!

most stupid teenagers and there dumbass music!

[DanBell47]

Dito!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DieselProductions11]

@ivliuscaesar1865 I'm a teenager and I agree that today's music is bullshit. I love the moodies!

[ivliuscaesar1865]

@DieselProductions11 but i still do love some times of today's music, like Gorillaz, Demi Lovato, but still the MB rules!

[DieselProductions11]

@ivliuscaesar1865 I've never heard of those bands, but you seem to have a very good taste in music so I'll take you're word for it.

p.s. The music I was really referring to as bullshit.was Justin Bieber. Did not mean to offend!

[ivliuscaesar1865]

@DieselProductions11 I HATE JUSTIN BEIBER, I LOVE JUSTIN HAYWARD!!1

[Greysword1]

@999klondike Yes there were. The ramp up started in the late 50s rose to unblievable heights in the 60s right through to the 70s.; By the mid 80s the mindless boom booms tried, with no talent, to take control. You are right...there was a time of talent, music, & message. This may be where we go forward by going back......

[DanBell47]

November '69-'70.

[bloofan06]

Great band, no punk, no grunge, no goth, just great musicians playing great music! Too bad this kind of music isn't popular anymore. Rap is crap!!!

[AdamsApple1963]

@bloofan06 AMEN!

[absoluteauthority08]

a couple years after this album was out we had a music teacher come to class that "made" us listen to this entire album, and Tommy, and Emerson Lake & Palmer's newly-released Tarkus album, to study the changes in progressive rock. What a cool time it was.

[ZMethem]

Heck, I wasn't even born when this was made... But it's a great song, and a pretty good album overall.

[bloofan06]

It's too bad that rock music has gravitated so far away from this kind of music. It's pretty sad when groups like Marilyn Manson are so popular.

[bloofan06]

One of the best rock bands of all time!!!

[Weissmenchland]

I love this song, and I'm growing into a huge Moody Blues fan.

[zitlight73]

@Weissmenchland After listening to them for over 40 years I'll bet you that you'll never grow out of being a Moody Blues fan.

[zitlight73]

Did some serious cosmic tripping to this album and this particular song. When I was in high school we had to listen to this album and study it alongside Plato's Allegory of the Cave, what a great teacher.

[Dominaxel]

I like your comment zitlight73! When I was 16, I listened Gypsy in a very old house with a large cave (not Plato's one!!!), plunging into the infinite depths of this music without limits. ( High precision of listening required for distant and 'background sounds'). The long line ancestor's memory of everyone, resonates in what is not only a song, but a door in the space-time. We are all 'Gypsies' in infinity of ages. Dominique/France.

[drfaust142]

it kinda reminds me of '39 by queen. (brian may)

[DanBell47]

Justin Hayward, John Lodge, Mike Pinder, Ray Thomas, Grahme Edge

[DanBell47]

PERFECT SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Microsloth]

One of their best songs... love those classic Mellotron strings in the background!

[spacepatrolman]

@Microsloth just as  roy orbison always started his concerts with only the lonely ever since the moody blues recorded this song they always open with it and save question for the middle

[waynegarbo]

@Microsloth Yeah that Mellotron deserves a nobel peace prize.....great!

[jsilence418]

No gnome, it was actually a funny comment albeit a strange one !

[jsilence418]

Dan, you have just made another dumb comment please stop !!

[TheSubstituteGnome]

I removed his comment, don't worry.

[dirtyratmiller]

This is the song I want played at my birth!!

[TheSubstituteGnome]

At your BIRTH?

[spacepatrolman]

@TheSubstituteGnome in a world where time goes backwards is a song by jim and jean eventually the universe will stop expanding and contract gypsy is a song about a comet

[spacepatrolman]

@TheSubstituteGnome "stay right back on earth waiting for rebirth"

[waylo4526]

@dirtyratmiller you musta done some very potent acid!!...lol

[pockemonrock11]

@dirtyratmiller do you mean death?

[itowapiwaeco]

@dirtyratmiller WOW Well, I do have an opening, short term though; about 44 yrs., male, famous, rock 'n roll, name, Presley,Elvis aaron... oh, my...no-o-o...thats been given 44yr suprise re-engagement status...let me see you dirty rat miller...here we are- 11-19-1961, female, famous, actress,director, name:Jody Foster, first Saphic President of USA! Oh! First LifelongPres! Serves 22 consecutive terms, Honorable self-asphyxia at 101yrs 101 days 101minutes of age! You are aproved! Gypsy, MB ,seeya

[cschoon1213]

@ dirtyratmiller,

LOL. I want it played at my PRE-birth !

[jsilence418]

Dan, keep up the dumb comments, and it can be arranged .

[ttronc21]

hahahaha!!!!!...great comeback!

[carl0076]

Besides the Beatles, they are the best

[John283T]

Another great Moody Blues song. I can really relate to this. They really did sing about real life. And then they put awesome music to the words.

[kemmons888]

The song may confer some sort of pointer toward the spirit and feel in the fabric of our lives, but what if this song is closer to an actual history of a lone character that did something so large scale and extraordinary, that he was literally left without a hope of returning to an original home, and...would be notable enough to be mentioned in the words of a song - that only the Moody Blues could do. Perhaps but a retro-envisioned story I've had of past 5 years, but intriguing all the same.

[TheSubstituteGnome]

I think I read somewhere that this song is about a comet. I'm not sure if I should believe that, though.

[zitlight73]

@kemmons888 I take issue with that. In High School western lit class in 72 we studied this alongside Plato's Allegory of the Cave. That is why the inner cover of the album showed the Moodie Blues in a pimped-out cave You've got to make the journey out and in was the thyme to them both..

[DieselProductions11]

@kemmons888 Perhaps Justin is describing the rise of the moody blues to fame. After "Nights" and "Tuesday" there was no going back-in other words "Left without a hope of comin' home.

[SgtCrom]

@kemmons888, like the Silver Surfer, maybe?

[DanBell47]

This is THE song I want played at my funeral!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Thanks for posting this.

[MindOfKosovo]

Лепа песма.