NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN

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Posted on 13th February 2013 by Administrator in Economy |Politics |Social Issues

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  1. Eddie says:

    Wore the grooves off that whole album.

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    13th February 2013 at 7:45 pm

  2. elby says:

    Here’s another great song by the Moody Blues, apropo of our times:
    Lyrics:
    Ride, ride my see-saw,
    Take this place
    On this trip
    Just for me.

    Ride, take a free ride,
    Take my place
    Have my seat
    It’s for free.

    I worked like a slave for years,
    Sweat so hard just to end my fears.
    Not to end my life a poor man,
    But by now, I know I should have run.

    Run, run my last race,
    Take my place
    Have this number
    Of mine.

    Run, run like a fire,
    Don’t you run in
    In the lanes
    Run for time.

    Left school with a first class pass,
    Started work but as second class.
    School taught one and one is two.
    But right now, that answer just ain’t true.

    Ah ah ah ah, ah ah ah ah, ah ah ah ah ah
    Ah ah ah ah, ah ah ah ah, ah ah ah ah ah

    My world is spinning around,
    Everything is lost that I found.
    People run, come ride with me,
    Let’s find another place that’s free.

    Ride, ride my see-saw,
    Take this place
    On this trip
    Just for me.

    Ride, take a free ride,
    Take my place
    Have my seat
    It’s for free.

    Ride, my see-saw.
    Ride, ride, ride, my see-saw.
    Ride, my see-saw…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC4njDm5Dzo

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    13th February 2013 at 7:47 pm

  3. Eddie says:

    Timothy Leary’s dead

    No, he’s not…he’s outside, looking in.

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    13th February 2013 at 7:50 pm

  4. flash says:

    ..my all time favorite.How did you know?

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    13th February 2013 at 8:25 pm

  5. Gayle says:

    If anybody’s interested, the Moody’s have a few tour dates in Texas next month.

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    13th February 2013 at 8:33 pm

  6. AWD says:

    Memories,

    Listening to this song in the car with buddies, Southern Comfort, then rolling out the door to puke my guts up. Great days.

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    13th February 2013 at 8:39 pm

  7. sangell says:

    Moody Blues had gone past their ‘sell by date’. These guys were kicking it up a notch that year.

    The Band Chest Fever.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImvRHd1tnws

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    13th February 2013 at 9:08 pm

  8. SSS says:

    My wife and I caught The Moody Blues in concert at Wolf Trap National Park in Virginia. Decent. Excellent musicians. Admin strikes out one more time with “Nights in White Satin.” Here’s their best song.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmmPFrkuPq0

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    13th February 2013 at 9:36 pm

  9. backwardsevolution says:

    “Tuesday Afternoon” on a Wednesday night.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5Aj-HZOADo

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    13th February 2013 at 10:20 pm

  10. Stucky says:

    I, too, wore out the groves on that album. Twice!

    Days of Future Passed is an album that charts a man’s life across a day. So, when trying to get to the “meaning” of this song (if you’re into that kind of thing), you need to see in context with the entire album.

    For example, the spoken stanza at the end of the song, a lament, is part of a poem spoken in the opening song …. a mere reprise.

    In the process of talking of a man’s life they finally reach the end …. the “night”. The white satin is not a bed sheet. It is the lining of the coffin in which we lay at the end of life, an ending that goes on “never reaching an end”. The song is a long lament of a man looking back on his life, regretting things he didn’t do, chances he didn’t take, particularly of never making known his love for woman he once knew. Back to the spoken lament at the end. The final five lines are the same that start the album. I believe this symbolizes that our endings are the same as our beginnings, or “ashes to ashes, dust to dust”.

    On the other hand, this song might be about a sperm being prevented from fulfilling its destiny by a condom.

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    13th February 2013 at 12:00 pm

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