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The Moody Blues — Nights in White Satin
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z11355
Posted: Apr 25, 2013 - 06:05
 
I was done w/ this song back in the 70's.

mread
(Sun Diego)
Posted: Apr 24, 2013 - 15:46
 
One of the local radio personalities recites the poem at the end in a heavy drunk Irish brogue.  Hilarious.

Sorry, I know it's a "you-had-to-be-there" thing, so forgive me.  But try to imagine ...

Geecheeboy
(under a crescent moon and palmetto tree)
Posted: Apr 24, 2013 - 15:40
 
This short sample motivates me to break out the original and listen to the whole thing.  "Just what you want to be, you'll be in the end..."  How many times in my life have I ruminated over that thought? Many.

elduderino
(wuerzburg)
Posted: Mar 24, 2013 - 04:10
 
always fine!!! great, timeless song!!!

ziakut
(Slightly North of Obvlivion)
Posted: Jan 20, 2013 - 09:55
 
Overblown drama...lends itself to very pretentious content. In this case with the Moody Blues...it works. I like the production and over use of strings and the stately, dramatic "breathe deep" reading...It's all part of a time gone completely from mainstream music. Never such a concept or vision is created today in this sterile, "buy one song from the artist not the album on iTunes", formulaic music society. Long story short...yes it's a bit campy and over the top...but I'll take it.

buddy
Posted: Dec 20, 2012 - 01:31
 
 fuzzy wrote:
 
{#Lol}

buddy
Posted: Dec 20, 2012 - 01:30
 
When in the hell is the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame gonna get their head out of their ass and induct these guys?  I mean....ABBA???

jocelynsart
Posted: Nov 18, 2012 - 16:50
 
a tiny bit before my time, can take it or leave it, liked it more when I first heard this than now in my late 40s

Dyn0hub
Posted: Nov 18, 2012 - 16:48
 
not terrible.

schitfitz
(Heart of the Pines)
Posted: Oct 18, 2012 - 09:36
 
This was one of those tunes that turned me away from pop way way back in late 60's. It's still one of my favs. It was one of the first songs I heard while listening to Radio Caroline. The BBC would never play anything good except on Saturday's "Allan Freeman Show" but Caroline even predated that. What ever happened to Radio Caroline? Oh well, RP a damned fine successor though.

petesoper
(Apex, NC)
Posted: Oct 18, 2012 - 08:16
 
Ah, the 60s and the psychedelic drugs before they became problematic... This song is a 10, but "Tuesday Afternoon" is a 12..

iam_overlord
(Brighton, MA)
Posted: Oct 18, 2012 - 08:15
 
And all this time I thought it was "Knights" in White Satin. I'd like to say this changes everything, but I'm still sooooo tired of this song.

Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Sep 16, 2012 - 19:00
 
"Breath deep...the gathering gloom..."  — accompanied by mellotron and gong.

grogg
(Kansas City)
Posted: Aug 16, 2012 - 07:24
 
If I could give this song an 11 I would. Was all downhill after this album.

michaelgmitchell
(Stirling, ON)
Posted: Aug 16, 2012 - 07:24
 
 rotten wrote:
Mike Pinder Era Moody Blues were great. Wish they would remix this album without the awful orchestral parts.
 
Interesting, as I was thinking along the same lines. I've found the 'Let it Be, Naked' album released without all the schlopp to be spectacular. I'd like to hear this track re-mastered without all the "stuff" and see how it stands up.

hollirg1
Posted: Aug 16, 2012 - 07:18
 
 macbags wrote:
U2 is equal to moody blues::?    8.1??
I DON'T THINK SO.
 
I do.

LongGoneDaddy
Posted: Aug 16, 2012 - 07:18
 
 ZiegZeon wrote:

The whole "Rock and Roll" Hall of Fame is a joke. The owner won't let Rush in simply because HE doesn't like Rush.
 

that's not it.  He can't speak Canadian!  give it up for Cleveland, land of Smoke on the Water/Cuyahoga.  Gotta love dem Buckeyes! ;)

ozzie1313
Posted: Jul 15, 2012 - 21:05
 
This song evokes so much emotion and so many remembrances it is both beautiful and bittersweet simultaneously.

macbags
(atlanta)
Posted: Jul 15, 2012 - 20:59
 
U2 is equal to moody blues::?    8.1??
I DON'T THINK SO.

tkosh
(Minnesota)
Posted: Jul 15, 2012 - 20:53
 
These guys played recently in Minneapolis.  Justin Hayward still sounds exactly the same..

ZiegZeon
(Tulsa, OK)
Posted: Jun 14, 2012 - 05:51
 
 Bozo wrote:
One of the great omissions in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame along with Yes, Chicago, Hall and Oates, Jethro Tull, and Emerson Lake and Palmer.  Not these guys, yet Leonard Cohen?  Puh-leez!!!
 
The whole "Rock and Roll" Hall of Fame is a joke. The owner won't let Rush in simply because HE doesn't like Rush.

hippiechick
(topsy turvy land)
Posted: Jun 14, 2012 - 05:48
 
One of the best albums evah! Still listen to it regularly

C57BL6
(RP (8 hours south of RP))
Posted: Jun 14, 2012 - 05:46
 
Heck of a nice segue from U2 on this allnighter - thanks

GeneP59
(On the edge of tomorrow looking back at yesterday.)
Posted: May 13, 2012 - 10:58
 
I gave it a 10 at the top of the page and again in the middle of the page, does that equal a 20? {#Wink}

One of the greatest ending poems/lyrics of all time. Makes you think of your life's history. {#Yes}

rhbphoto
Posted: May 13, 2012 - 10:50
 

My prom theme 1975......



rotten
Posted: Apr 11, 2012 - 18:02
 
Mike Pinder Era Moody Blues were great. Wish they would remix this album without the awful orchestral parts.

Dinges,_the_Dude
(below sea-level, N52°22', E4°52')
Posted: Mar 11, 2012 - 03:23
 
A timeless song!

miahfost
(Gothenburg, Sweden)
Posted: Mar 11, 2012 - 01:42
 
What a cloying piece of doggy do.

Bozo
(Steeler Penguin Pirate land)
Posted: Feb 08, 2012 - 08:31
 
One of the great omissions in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame along with Yes, Chicago, Hall and Oates, Jethro Tull, and Emerson Lake and Palmer.  Not these guys, yet Leonard Cohen?  Puh-leez!!!

philipr
(France)
Posted: Feb 08, 2012 - 08:30
 
 Stingray wrote:
Today I explained my shame to ask for an "11"
What to say, asking for a "12"...?

"Oooooh - how I love you!!!"
 
{#Yes} ....  mais tu est trop nostalgique 

Letters are writen


Gregorama
(Austin, TX)
Posted: Feb 08, 2012 - 08:28
 
Still sounds as good as the first time I heard it. What was it-1967 or 1968?

treatment_bound
(Duluth to Madison)
Posted: Jan 07, 2012 - 13:50
 
 neuticle wrote:
Anyone ever hear the Dickies version " Nights in White Satan" ? Kicks it..
 

No, but if you spent any time in Chicago in the early 90's, you probably heard Kevin Matthews in a giant fat suit with his "band" Ed Zeppelin cranking out a thrilling version of "Nights at White Castle".

apd
(Toronto, On)
Posted: Jan 07, 2012 - 13:47
 
Bet the Moody Blues never thought their album title would inspire a dystopian X-Men comic! 

http://www.amazon.com/X-Men-Days-Future-Chris-Calremont/dp/0785115609

Stingray
(NWO reloaded)
Posted: Jan 07, 2012 - 13:40
 
 hippiechick wrote:
Still in regular rotation on my ipod. Such a great classic album.
 

Second agreement today, "altes Hühnchen" HIPPYCHICK!

Stingray
(NWO reloaded)
Posted: Jan 07, 2012 - 13:38
 
Today I explained my shame to ask for an "11"
What to say, asking for a "12"...?

"Oooooh - how I love you!!!"

PatsyMat
Posted: Dec 06, 2011 - 18:18
 
Just what you want to be.. you will be in the end.. Oh how I love you.  40 years on.

neuticle
(fog fog fog)
Posted: Dec 06, 2011 - 18:18
 
Anyone ever hear the Dickies version " Nights in White Satan" ? Kicks it..

hippiechick
(topsy turvy land)
Posted: Oct 04, 2011 - 13:43
 
Still in regular rotation on my ipod. Such a great classic album.

fiddler
Posted: Oct 04, 2011 - 13:42
 
It's the mellotron mixed with the strings...just a really brilliant sheen.

ThePoose
Posted: Oct 04, 2011 - 13:41
 
When I was 19, I connected this song to the deep love I felt for my first real (intimate) girlfriend,
and for the last 41 years, hearing Nights in White Satin always evokes her face—and that love—in my mind and heart.

She never knew any of this.

Sigh.

gemtag
(Texas)
Posted: Oct 04, 2011 - 13:41
 
Always loved the Moody Blues. The Dickies do a great cover of this too. Almost unrecognizable.

siandbeth
(Santa Cruz California)
Posted: Oct 04, 2011 - 13:40
 
Flutes. That does it. I'll take this opportunity to go to lunch

zair99
(In Cognito)
Posted: Sep 03, 2011 - 03:44
 
 Captn_Pea wrote:
Whoa man that blew, like my mind man.... The first 30000 times I heard it on clear channel.
 
And why, oh why are you listening to anything Clear Channel?  That's why they invented CDs... or if you're all newfangled, MP3 players!  OR even more newfangled, smart phones!  Anything to avoid listening to that dreck. 

WonderLizard
(2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise)
Posted: Aug 02, 2011 - 17:57
 
For all that it was suppose to be and was and wasn't, the album was a revelation. And this is one of the great love songs ever.

vandal
(arriving somewhere, but not here. . .)
Posted: May 31, 2011 - 17:43
 

1974: slow dancing in the West Jr. High gym with Lisa Connor. . . outstanding. . . 
 

kcar
Posted: Mar 29, 2011 - 13:35
 
 SanFranGayMan wrote:
Quite edifying reading how this song/group has spanned the ages. Makes one realize that music is of time and place—and age. And how dif it's impact and meaning is over time. For many of us around when this was new, it was college time, war in Viet Nam, mind expanding drugs and the period of self-discovery—tinged with great angst about who we were, who this nation was, and a LOT of disillusionment about all that we had been fed as to what "society" was as children. That had to be all blown up and started over again—no comfortable concepts to fall back on. Drugs helped expedite the growth, if one could manage them (like everything else in life I've discovered). The Moodies, and so much of the music of the late 60s and early 70s was a refuge for us—mental salve if you will—and a great way to ponder what was real and what was "plastic", or unreal, phony, etc. The Moodies conveyed the "real", and it was in fact real, and they took us into ourselves, allowed us to re-construct our self-concepts and who we were. 

The lyrics may sound corny to some of you, and I understand that, but time has allowed me to see the contextual nature of music. It is fascinating to realize that while some of you were making out to the Moodies and having a big ole time, I was writing letters to my parents (never meaning to send) about why I would not go to Viet Nam if drafted. Red is gray to them, and yellow white, but I had to decide which was right for me, and I was not going...
  
 meloman wrote:
Well put. Music has and always will serve many purposes, but the era of which you write required more introspective, challenging, and thoughful lyrics and texts. We felt we were living a revolution and our sound track had to meet our needs. The Moodies were an important part of that very special time in the life of an entire generation.
  

 phlattop wrote:

Reposting these well written comments. Good points in both.
 

SanFranGayMan's and Meloman's thoughts really hit home. I was too young to understand the wonder and craziness of the 60s, but I grew up hearing it and feeling the echoes of it in music and other forms of pop culture. 

Yes, music is of time, place and age. Just as rap and hip/hop force older people to work to understand and appreciate their musical approaches and messages, prog rock forces young people to delve into a different world. The sixties likely offered just as much reason for optimism and dread as the world today.

Back then the specific reasons for hope and despair were different, but were the big issues all that different from our own of today? A rapidly changing society that challenged people to find their place in it, new ways of living and working, the search for truth and honesty, the effects of war and poverty and injustice that threatened to pull our societies apart...Today, we may not be as hopeful about our future, our environment and our economy, but in general terms the two eras had the same hopes and fears. 

Groups like the MB were able to draw on classical musical traditions and fuse them to a contemporary Age of Aquarius outlook. I'm sure the Blues sounded very dated and safe to some young listeners even in the 60s, but I think they connected older artistic approaches with thoughts and emotions that most young adults of age any feel. If someone in their teens and 20s today can appreciate the MB's traditional musical forms and listen to their lyrics, they might find that the music resonates with their world. 

Can we older listeners do the same, though? Can we drop the crusty "today's music is crap" attitude and work to understand the music and world of younger generations? They're going through similar struggles that kids in the 60s experienced.  We can learn a lot from them too.

Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal)
Posted: Mar 29, 2011 - 13:17
 
 On_The_Beach wrote:
What self-respecting knight would wear white satin anyway? Isn't that kind of the equivalent of the puffy shirt? I mean, come on; the other knights would mock you for sure!
 
{#Lol}  (Where is the "knee-slapping banana" icon??)  The song is "NIGHTS (as in the opposite of DAYS) in White Satin."  Anyway, totally off-topic - white satin in the sun takes on a rainbow of colors, like beta-tape. If nothing else, it would confuse the hell out of the opponent ("Wait a minute - you're wearing MY colors!  Now you're not!  Now you are!")

I still love the Moody Blues, and I still turn up their songs when I hear them. I am an old fogey with absolutely no musical knowledge. Lock me in a room and slide my meals under the door.


Art_Carnage
(DeepintheheartofTexas)
Posted: Mar 29, 2011 - 13:10
 
"Bedsitter people"?

grogg
Posted: Mar 29, 2011 - 13:09
 
Brilliant. The whole album is brilliant, actually.

Sasha2001
(Where the last of the union men run free)
Posted: Mar 29, 2011 - 13:08
 
Other pop songs had used symphinic elements by this point in the 60's, but can someone tell me if this was the first to incorporate a full movement.