Nope nope nope....you have to listen to the long version guys. ❤

@jeffjones6221

11 ай бұрын

Definitely!

@slchambers1

11 ай бұрын

Plus Late Lament…breath deep

@jogischulz2576

11 ай бұрын

...agree, or better the whole album😊

@hog7203

11 ай бұрын

👍👍 it's the only way to listen to it Imo. I don't think any reactors have done it correctly.

@slchambers1

11 ай бұрын

@@hog7203 it’s a music smorgasbord of sounds, soothing to the soul.

IMPORTANT: This album must be heard as a whole, preferably in the newly found and remastered original 1967 mix. (Even better on DVD audio.) You will hear the full versions of each song and get the full impact of the actual orchestra they recorded the album with. It's an incredible album and one of the very first true rock concept albums.

@jaquestraw1

11 ай бұрын

I wish DVD audio was still a thing 😕 I do have this on DVD-A

@kjisnot

11 ай бұрын

Great album artwork too.

@syvsinger1

11 ай бұрын

100% agree! You need to listen to the album in as good as quality as possible to get the full impact of this epic work. You'll not be sorry that you did.

@syvsinger1

11 ай бұрын

Thanks L & C for reviewing this Moody Blues cut. ❤

@johncampbell756

11 ай бұрын

@@jaquestraw1 I have a Sony 4K player that plays just averting including DVD-A, Bluray Audio and SACDs. Ironically, the thing that crashes it? 4K movies.

There's much more to this song and even more importantly: the album and the incredible impact this song has in it.

@lindabergman3127

8 ай бұрын

Absolutely right 🌹🌹🌹🌹

The writer and lead vocalist for this particular song is Justin Hayward, who still performs currently at 76 years old. It's astonishing to realize just how talented he was as a young man, having been only 19 when he wrote this.

I love this song. It was perfect for me as an angst-ridden teenager. I would call that chorus 'soaring.' There's something heavenly about it. The lyrics are deep.

@susanmurray7654

11 ай бұрын

Soaring ...yes. perfect

@Greg-io1ip

11 ай бұрын

Like a big European church cathedral sound. Special. Very nice.

@thomas2782

11 ай бұрын

ngl, when this song came out, (I was 7) I wondered why knights would be wearing white satin.

@324cmac

11 ай бұрын

@@thomas2782 Don't feel bad. I was a teenager and I thought they were talking about Knights too.

Late Lament: Breathe deep the gathering gloom Watch lights fade from every room Bedsitter people look back and lament Another day's useless energy is spent Impassioned lovers wrestle as one Lonely man cries for love and has none New mother picks up and suckles her son Senior citizens wish they were young Cold-hearted orb that rules the night Removes the colors from our sight Red is grey and yellow-white But we decide which is right And which is an illusion

@cherylwoodward

11 ай бұрын

Oh, I wished this part was included!

@vicprovost2561

11 ай бұрын

Yes, the missing epilogue. They need to hear the album!

@hipsville

11 ай бұрын

And don't cut off the gong either.

@888jimm

10 ай бұрын

👏👏👍

Moody Blues fused rock and classical music, one of the first bands to do this.

One of the most beautiful song

🥀🥀 RIP Ray Thomas 🥀🥀 Thank you for gifting us for so many years with your flute.

Just an insanely beautiful song that somehow gets more beautiful with each listen.

@324cmac

11 ай бұрын

It's another of those heartfelt songs that you feel in your body.

This song was several years ahead of its time... in the USA. Originally released in 1967, the single bombed on the Billboard Hot 100. When re-released in 1972, it went all the way to #2 on the Hot 100 and stayed there for 2 weeks.

@obiwanbenobi4943

11 ай бұрын

That must have been when I first heard it. The entire album is great. :)

@jmatthewssmith

11 ай бұрын

Our prom song and theme in 1969! We knew!

I dig the contribution by the London Festival Orchestra in their music. The Moody Blues' composition of work is deep. So many exceptional songs. I kindly recommend "Ride My See-Saw."

Great reaction guys. You should check out the live video with full orchestra! A truly amazing performance. ✌️❤️🔥

This is the single version. The album version is way more massive with the full orchestra and the outro that ends the concept album, "Days Of Future Passed" The record goes through a single day in a persons life. It has some incredible moments and themes that tie it all together. It is one of what I consider the four great influential rock albums of 1967 - - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn by Pink Floyd, Sgt. Peppers' Lonely Hearts Club Band, Pet Sounds, and this - all in 1967. Quite a year!

The Moody Blues were the first true "album rock" band. All of their albums were intended to be listened to a full side at a time. Instead of long complex songs with different time shifts and melodies, they chose to record the songs gaplessly. Their first album was a R & B album with slightly different personal and is pretty good for what it is, but their next 7 albums are all phenomenal proto-progressivie-classical (lost of mellotron strings and orchestral arrangements. Check out the song "Gypsy," "Legend of a Mind," "Question."

@suesebree8670

11 ай бұрын

So true!!!! Not to mention HEAVY lyrics

@JuniorFarquar

11 ай бұрын

The Beatles Sgt Pepper was released 6 months prior, April 67, they were 2nd at least, in Nov 67.

@WMalven

11 ай бұрын

@@JuniorFarquar Sgt. Pepper was less of a concept album than generally believed and certainly more of a psychedelic sound than a progressive sound. While the Beatles were the first [I believe] to use a mellotron (in Strawberry Fields), Pinder was heavily involved in its promotion and in training other musicians in using it. The Mellotron was the definitive sound of the Moodys through through Seventh Sojourn. Then Pinder left and a synth was introduced.

@thomas2782

11 ай бұрын

true... I have seen them twice over the years

This was the radio cut. You should listen to the album version, better yet the whole album. Days of future passed is one of the great prog albums. Saw them twice in the 70’s . One of my favorites!

The Moody Blues is another rabbit hole! lol

An unabashed and dramatic declaration of love in one of the most heart on the sleeve rock ballads...

The Story in Your Eyes...my favorite MB song. Of course this song was HUGE growing up.

@donnakubiski5572

11 ай бұрын

Mine too!.

@Ker-mk3bf

11 ай бұрын

@@donnakubiski5572 Mine three. 😂

@jono10531089

10 ай бұрын

Mine 4, but must be listened to as a package with 'procession'.

SO GLAD to see you begin a MOODY BLUES journey. It only gets better and better. AND BETTER!!!! Their albums are a real journey you must take altogether. Meaning their songs flow into each other. They are British. Please keep going.❤❤❤

Great reaction - Tuesday Afternoon is another great song among many others from the Moody Blues.

I have no words because this song speaks for itself. Love, love, love...

Original lineup put out 7 very unique albums between 1967 and about 1972. bunch of hits..

Moody Blues (English band) were big in the late 60s and70s; another rabbit hole to explore. The first time I heard this song back in the 60s it blew my mind; there was nothing like it then or since; it was so beautiful and the vocals so moving and ethereal. This song and the album it appeared on are masterpieces! Since you liked this song then you'll probably like the rest of the album which has the same symphonic orchestration. This is a concept album with the lyrics telling a beautiful story of a someone's day from morning to the night. You heard the last song of the album, the night.

@laurabrevitz3944

11 ай бұрын

I can't even imagine listening to an entire album, getting to this, and having the album end.

From 1967. It seems ahead of its time. So beautiful.

The entire "Every Good Boy Deserves Favour" album is a must

Gorgeous Beautiful Daunting song

A phenomenal British prog rock band, part of the British Invasion, active from 1964-2018, with a reorganization break 1974-1977. Actually, this masterpiece has an almost Gothic feel to it, & the album version has a spoken portion at the end, which really brings that into perspective. One of my all-time fave songs. Thanks for your reaction.

@wiredhorn87

11 ай бұрын

High Romanticism

@cdfdesantis699

11 ай бұрын

@@wiredhorn87 Gothic romance?

@wiredhorn87

11 ай бұрын

@@cdfdesantis699 Romanticism is an artistic and aesthetic movement/style that flourished during the Victorian era. It harkens back to medieval Gothic nuances as a negative response to the industrial revolution. Many music critics consider classic rock as heavily steeped in Romanticism feel. Especially bands like Zeppelin, Moody Blues, etc., with their Gothic, mystical, mysterious nuances. Look up Romanticism in Wikipedia. You'll see it then.

You should definitely watch the live version. Sublime.

Songs that changed your life. Moody Blues had a quite a few. No words...

Their music is always grand.

One of the original, great, prog rock groups. British (of course 😉)

One of the most melancholy songs ever written. IMO. Go Laa, Go Chee!

Each time I listen to this song, it reminds me once again of just how great--how truly, truly great--I am.

To get a good sense of just how well this song has done throughout the years, go to the live version and give it a listen. It will make you appreciate it even more. It’s one of the most hauntingly beautiful and emotional invoking songs you will ever hear.

There was a cosmic dimension to their music. Even their faster-paced tunes had it. Definitely a groove of their own.

@susanmurray7654

11 ай бұрын

The Story in Your Eyes...my fave!

Got to do the rest of the album. They are one of the originals. 🙏🍁

Awesome musicians and vocals and the harmonies 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

👍 Love you guys open mindedness and sense of adventure. Never knowing what is around the next corner.

When they made music they won’t it to last for a long time a long time past 56 years later you still listen to the song

Great reaction! The Moody Blues music continued through the 70's and 80's. Check out The Voice from Long Distance Voyager.

This song haunts your senses and the whole album from beginning to end is all about a day back in the sixties in a young fella’s life.Great album of the time.

Probably the best live performance I ever saw. When he hit those notes on the chorus, made my hair stand on end.

As a kid singing in into my hairbrush trying to get that emotion...lol It'll get you everytime.

This is one of the best classic rock songs ever.

Moody blues!! Great music

This song is hauntingly beautiful and was my favourite when growing up.

Days of Future Past is a concept album of Day. The album begins and ends with a poem. This is the last song of the album.

They usually play live with a full orchestra.

BUMMER!!! NO Poem at the end is a MUST HEAR.

@obiwanbenobi4943

11 ай бұрын

True, but if you do that you might as well play the whole thing to get the full effect. :)

For me, this song is right there with the Rain Song. Absolutely beautiful music!

I adore you guys. ♡

Their original guitarist, Denny Laine, left the band in 1966. He later played guitar in Paul McCartney's band, Wings.

You folks have got to watch and listen to the live version. They are much older but they bring it.

Every time I hear this I just feel like i'm floating

No gimmicks here guys pure music 😮

Iconic, not everyone's cup of tea but amazing in it's own right.

Seeing this 2x changed my life….see this live at Royal Albert Hall and you will get the chills. I promise.

Always loved this masterpiece

Such a beautiful song. !!! English band. The orchestra adds to this song immensely……:😘

Should check out there: "are you sitting comfortably"

One of the all time great love songs. This is the concept album that all the others followed.When you get a chance listen to the whole album , especially the second side which includes this tune along with Tuesday Afternoon, and Evening. Not only did they get to the seventies they played till just a few years. Go till some of them were in their seventies!

Great review! The full long version of 'Nights In White Satin' on the studio album, they recite a short poem at the end of the song, you need to hear. Please go on to review the song "Twilight Time", although you really need to hear the full album played all the way through.

Love it my generation.....

Live version with the orchestra is awesome.

Oh, wow. This is one of the best of the best. Incredible.

The Moody Blues had a 20 year + career with hits in the the mid to late 60s, 70s and 80s. Early users of the Mellotron "sampler" their keyboardist Mike Ponder was friends with The Beatles, Stones, and Yes- and got them all to use this devoice. They were the grandfathers of progressive rock along with early Pink Floyd-you have to listen to entire albums

Classical music at it's best

I love the progression under the flute solo.

The first time anyone hears this, it feels like you're in a heavenly cathedral hearing something nobody human could have imagined. I always set down what I was doing and listened quietly when it popped on the FM stereo receiver. Just breathtaking.

Justin Hayward is an often overlooked vocalist, but he is an incredible talent.

One of the finest albums ever released. Much ahead of it's time. Took 4-5 years for this song to be a "hit" on AM radio. We just wern't ready for it in 1967.

@chriscraftguy

11 ай бұрын

I thoroughly agree. So many folks consider "Sgt Pepper" as the finest album release of the 60's. "Days of Future Passed" surpasses it in my opinion with the incredible orchestrations by Peter Knight.

This brings back a memory from the 70’s. No judgement please or go ahead I don’t care lol…dark and stormy night driving to the Oregon coast,3 of us, on acid, hopping the fence at Yaquina Bay Light house and sitting on the cliff overlooking a stormy sea with big waves, the night sky swirling and shifting changing colors from black to purple, beautiful moon and listening to this album…over and over lol…amazing night.

saw them live in 1971. the frist concert I had ever been to. blew this farm boy away

They'll be playing this song 200 years from now.

They were the last band I saw live, what a show!

I looked The Moody Blues up. They are an English band and they've sold 70 million albums worldwide.

They have so many reaction worthy songs. Dig in guys.

Happy labor day good choice moti blues are excellent tone

Ride My Seesaw is another great choice.

In 1972, this was THE slow-dance song at the Junior High School dances. This song holds a special place in the heart of those kids! Including me.

The group made it until 2017. They sold over 70 million records and were inducted to the rock and roll Hall of fame. Justin Hayward and John Lodge are still touring today. I have seen Justin, their main lead singer and gifted guitarist / songwriter, twice in concert. They are were an amazing band! I hope you react to more of their music. You might listen to Melancholy Man and Story in Your Eyes to get a hint of their musical versatility. You will enjoy, I am certain.

@Cosmo-Kramer

11 ай бұрын

That's very misleading. They fizzled out in the early-mid '70s, and then made a comeback attempt in the early '80s that was criticized for sounding like a ripoff of ELO's sound from that era. After that, they never returned to relevance. Great band during their '67-'73 purple patch, though.

@williampearson9679

11 ай бұрын

@@Cosmo-Kramer that is an opinion not well founded. I saw them 6 times 1979 and after. They played new and old songs for large crowds. They were an amazing live band who half those concerts had an orchestra playing with them. I have never heard the ELO comment. I have seen ELO in concert as well and no I can’t see what you are saying. The ELO sound is one of a kind. You are not making sense. I liked their first 7 albums best, but they have always played quality music. They were not as commercially successful perhaps, but I have heard bands whose sound were not interesting to, me but extremely successful. They still have an enthusiastic following to this day. Your criticism is not warranted, but you have a right to your negative opinion.

@Cosmo-Kramer

11 ай бұрын

@@williampearson9679 It's not my opinion, it is fact. You must've been a troglodyte when, "Gemini Dream", came out because it was widely lambasted as a transparent attempt to capitalize on the ELO sound of that era (ELO has more than one sound). But you actually made my point when you conceded that The Moody Blues were no longer commercially successful after their '67-'73 purple patch -- barring that brief, but pilloried, comeback attempt featuring, "Gemini Dream". This discussion is not about what you personally find to be interesting music. It's about the band's relevance on the music scene through the years, mostly determined by the commercial success, or lack of success, of new records being released. Not nostalgia tours playing their old classics mixed in with a few new songs only the most ardent fans (like you) ever heard of and cared to listen to. I stand by my reply that your original statement is very misleading.

@williampearson9679

11 ай бұрын

@@Cosmo-Kramerwhy the vendetta against the Moody Blues? You can always find someone to say whatever you want to hear. There is a lot of passed off as music that sells well. Some may think it is good, but others don’t. Selling well is one indicator, but music is art and art is in the eye or the ear of the beholder. It doesn’t make you look smart. It makes you look bitter and small.

@Cosmo-Kramer

11 ай бұрын

@@williampearson9679 No vendetta. I already said how great they were during their halcyon days. Stop acting like a hurt fanboy. I'm just stating the facts regarding their varying relevance on the music scene throughout the years to give a clear picture to our hosts, while you're all butt-hurt that you've been criticized for not providing them with the same objective breakdown of the band's "relevance" timeline. I have nothing else to say on this matter to you, because your bias has clouded your perspective. I'll give you the last word. Go.

Released in November 1967 the single "Nights in White Satin" became a top ten US hit in 1972. Talk about ahead of its time!

Buy this album, go to my room with three friends, Spark up 3 Doobies and a Bong, Play the album and have our lives changed forever,,, for better.

This is a beautiful piece of art!

one of the slow songs that at teenage parties, if you asked a girl to dance with you and she said yes.. you hugged her tightly and the result was very good.. ❤❤😂😂😂😂this is more important for the history of the song than the musical analysis..if you are rock..

This version of Nights in White Satin is missing the poem called Late Lament, at the end. It is not complete without it. That is the way it was played on the radio back in the day. In concert they had been doing the poem at the beginning then the rest of it at the end of the concert. A deep rabbit hole of greats.

This was my mothers favorite song though it always made her cry. I never asked her why and she never said. Until her passing I couldn't understand enjoyable tears. This is just one of those songs.

When you were kids, did you ever just hear songs and think that was just what music was? That was me with many songs, this one included. I listen to it now and hear a masterpiece. How lucky I was that this was "just music" to me growing up, this and Riders on the Storm.....

That's the first time I have heard this song compared to a western😮 I saw Moody Blues live with our local orchestra backing up & it was the best concert I've been to. Perfect weather, outdoor venue & they sounded so close to the recordings.

They had a lot of great music and hit songs

@obiwanbenobi4943

11 ай бұрын

They sure did! Some of it I've not heard yet. Someday I will... :)

This was one of the very few bands I missed seeing in the day. Later on, I was able to see them in the late 80s, early 90s. I wept through the first 3 songs because they were so good live and I was so grateful I finally got to see them.

One of the best love songs! ♥ I suggest these Moody Blues songs: Tuesday Afternoon, The Voice & Question

No one else sounds like the Moodies. Justin is a massive vocalist and they just have wonderful and magical songs.

@324cmac

11 ай бұрын

The name of the band perfectly describes their music.

This is one of those tracks you would listen to with your headphones late at night when you were feeling alone in the universe as an angsty teen. Huge memories for me.

Guys I love your reactions. You know your onions when it comes to music.

Thanks for the great song!

Members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, one of the unique things about this version of the band is that all five members wrote the songs and four of them traded lead vocals.

The Moody Blues were a huge British group. That is an orchestra playing with them. I think of them as a bridge between psychedelic & prog rock. Tuesday Afternoon, Ride My See Saw, Question Of Balance, The Story In Your Eyes are some of their great songs

There is a live version recorded in the 2000s with a full orchestra. I love your reactions, but I'd love to see you do more live video reactions to these songs. I know you've done some, but there is so much more. Like I said I do love your reactions.

@unclemeat7310

11 ай бұрын

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