She's back, with a vengeance. The article that I could work on all day and still feel like there's more to do. Got a favourite remix of a song that is at least 10 years old? Post it in the comments, preferably with the original! Bonus: The 1936 Original: Benny Goodman and Peggy Lee - Why Don't You Do Right The 2010 Remix: Gramophonedzie - Why Don't You The Goods The 1966 Original: Jefferson Airplane - Somebody To Love [...]
Fans have made a strong case for the following bands and artists who weren't nominated this year and aren't in the hall of fame yet. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame recently announced their nominees for the 2011 induction, and as usual, it left many people disappointed. While there were some good candidates on the list, it's impossible to please everybody. However, ardent fans have made a strong case for the following bands and artists who weren't nominated this year and aren't in the hall of fame yet.

Yes I Love You by Molly Lambert "Nights In White Satin" The Moody Blues, 1967 Band member Justin Hayward wrote the song at age nineteen, and titled the song after a friend gave him a gift of satin bedsheets. The song itself was a tale of a yearning love from afar, which leads many aficionados to term it as a tale of unrequited love endured by Hayward. The band and orchestra makes use [...]
following on from my recent revelation that i'd accidentally become some kind of hub for moody blues internet piracy - with 40,000 downloads in 6 weeks of a recent edit i uploaded (lets just say between you and me that none of the mp3s i post here ever generate close to that traffic) - i thought i'd redress the balance by posting a few of my favourite moody blues youtube clips. they are more than just "nights in white satin" and they are more than just a daggy not-quite-psychedelic 60s band that became a horrendous 80s dinosaur band. that said, [...]
Midnight Movies give the Moody Blues moody treatment in their fairly faithful cover of "Nights In White Satin." Faithful, except that it's sung by a woman, Gena Olivier. The dark L.A. psychedelic pop-rockers wisely left off the spoken-word poetry "Late Lament," which you can hear at the six-minute mark of the original recording. (We always thought that moment was hilarious when we heard it on rock radio.) Anyhow, this is part of the Movies' upcoming six-song, digital + vinyl Nights EP , which follows their sophomore album, Lion The Girl . The EP also includes "Nights [...]