Young Sir. It seems so quickly I find I'm an old man. It touches my heart to see your reactions to key moments of many of our life experiences. I'm glad you seem to like most of the videos I've watched you react to so far, but I'm truly happy you appreciate the craft and the intended poetic messages. Thank you for being open to embracing the past!!
@@ellavader4411 Thank You. I'm a bit grateful as well even though the only people i ever get to share it with are the ones following my woodworking page! Your comment did make me smile though. Thank You.
This music was written and performed before "video" was ever contemplated. They relied on the listener to close their eyes and let the music paint the images and pictures, instead of some directors imagined interpretation. I can remember when this album was first released. We sat in the attic of our house, which was easily accessible with a staircase and was almost another livable space in the house. Turning on the black lights which made posters glow, and putting this record on the player. No one said a word. We just sat back and listened, and let the music and our imaginations take us on a trip.
Hell yeah dude. Im 45 & me & my best buds still do this type shit. Lights off, put the tunes on, have a beer or 7, smoke a doob or 7, maybe eat a shroom or 7. Boom its like u went on a vacation!
True magic , what a powerful orchestra and oh those voices . I got to see the Moody Blues in Honolulu 1970 - middle of the 7th row. Was transported to another dimension .
The record label didn't want to do the album because they felt, "you can't dance to it". The lead singer replied, "but you can make love to it." Then suddenly they had a record deal.
Justin Hayward and John Lodge of the Moody Blues teamed up for an album titled Blue Jays in 75 when the band was on hiatus. I liked it a lot as it had lots of Moody Blues overtones to it. I understand it was re-released on vinyl in 2019, but I still have my old original vinyl from 75. I get rid of nothing related to music.
The pleasure watching a young person validating the music of my generation is incredible. It proves it wasnt just our music but the music for our children, and their children too. Timeless.
Without a doubt one of the very best groups of all time ❤and yes music can be timeless thank you for sharing I was lucky enough to see them in the 80s in Seattle Washington I’m 69 now simply one of the best
It's always true. Jamal "gets it" every time. Watching his reactions is like turning on a friend to the music for the first time. And it's been 50 years ago, since I actually did that with these songs.
I worked a Moody Blues show back in Raleigh in the late 90's, they had an actual orchestra with them. When this song started, the entire staff stopped where they all were & just listened. It seemed like the entire world stopped just for this song. The orchestra brought this song in particular to an entirely different level altogether. Absolutely breathtaking.
Saw them back in 70s with an orchestra. Almost unheard of back then, with exception of ELP who did as well. Unbelievable concerts , so much talent back then. Glad I am old enough to have seen and experienced them and many others.
@@detroitlady9282 I would bet that the ticket price was less than $12. I saw the Stones in 72 for 8.00 (Stevie Wonder opening). Did we live in the best of times or what?
GMc. No drugs were needed but they were greatly appreciated. Yes it's beautiful on its own but get a little buzz and put them headphones on and float away!!!!!
That would be news to Justin Hayward who never went to college, and John Lodge who has an engineering degree. Now other members might have those degrees, but Hayward and Lodge penned all the major hits for the Moody Blues.
Right now, my curtains are closed, the lights are off and I'm 18 years old when I heard this song for the first time on a darkened street and I'm on my way home from my fast food joint job. I had to stop nd listen to this. I have the album, and it is one you have to listen to and drift away with....
I admit I was nervous when I saw you were doing this. You responded just the way you should . To many of us this song is an emotional and spiritual trip. So glad you took it.
Vavy Lozano it was my parents’ wedding song too it will always be in my heart because of that. Whenever I miss them, I always listen to the song but the long version. It just one of those songs that stays because of the intense declaration of love.
In college I used to listen to this and fall asleep at night . Nothing has ever clmed me ever since like this . There is a special place in Heaven for the Moody Blues
First time I heard this song I was about 13, a poor poor girl in the mountains of Kentucky. I was listening to an old beat up radio and couldn't pick up anything on the FM side so I was listening to the AM and I heard only a few moments of it and was undoubtedly the most beautiful thing I had ever heard. That was back in the early 80s and it still moves me today.
That's a beautiful story. Reminds me how I found Mr Bungle the first time. I heard a song by them on the 📻 but didn't know who it was then a friend had the album Disco Volante and it was on it and I lost my Sugar Honey Ice Tea. Sorry just wanted to share.
This group was a force over many decades. Justice was finaly served when they were inducted in the rock and roll hall of fame in 2018 after being eligible since 1990!
You know Jamel i just thought of how jealous i am of you!!! Im sitting here watching you trully enjoy a lot of songs for the very first time. I can only imagine i had the same feeling and look that you have for these songs 45 years ago!!! Trully enjoy the journey Brother!!!
I've got my hubbs watching reaction videos now...I said the same thing. Hes getting to experience all these great musicians for the first time! Stuff we've had in our souls...its amazing! And hes truley enjoying the moment!
I also like to think that your reactions are the same as the ones I had the first time I heard these songs you listen to. I remember listening to the moody blues, and many other old bands live here in Nova Scotia we had a lot of them start here and then we got to share them with the rest of the world so we all were blessed with their songs. Todays music is ok but in my opinion they can't be compared to the classic rock I grew up listening too. I hope you keep discovering and enjoying the music of my youth. I know I enjoy watching you discovering them.
But it needs to be adressed that the melodic part was taken almost entirely from a clasical piece of music, the band's input was some arrangement and the lyrics
@@rodrigoodonsalcedocisneros4419 and the lyrics are meaningless! I agree with you, melodrama without substance, not like Pink Floyd, but how did they get it together, where did money and opportunity come from? No, this is not a meaningful song! Drama Kings?
It's called "mood music". Bsck in the day when a group of friends, and maybe even a couple of strangers, could come together just for an evening of wine, music and some pleasant conversation. Memories....ty.
This album came out during a time where you picked up a new favorite song off the radio so you went down to your local music store and bought vinyl, and took it home put it on the record player, and plopped on your bed and listened, first side a, then side b.
No kidding... I was struggling in a dysfunctional family at 17 back in 1969 and played side 1 every night when I went to bed; it was such a fitting soundtrack to my yo7ng hippy angst.
I had the absolute pleasure of seeing Justin in the recent War of the World's show. He reprised his original role singing Forever Autumn. I didn't even get to the first note before I was sobbing.
While I like ur reactions you will never understand. This is one of the best songs ever,and it wasn't just sitting back listening,it was trippin,sitting back listening ....best of times so long ago
There's still good stuff today, you just need to know where to find it. Just because it's less prevalent doesn't mean it's not there. This is true for all ages in history in some form or another.
ᵗʰᵉNight★Star Yeah, right, good luck finding it. Most of the so called music today is crap. I’m sure it is there. Somewhere. Just not in abundance as it once was. The only new music I listen to is coming from blues artists.
John Willes I’m jealous! I always wanted to listen to this in a planetarium! I can’t imagine what you experienced! I’m going to have to blue tooth this to my head phones ! I miss those years !
@@ssshadowwolf6762 Jeremy irons did the poem. First half of the concert was their biggest hits. My buddies and I were stoned and drinking beer. One of the best nights of my life. A night in white satin.
This was one of my dad's very favorite songs. The album (In Search of the Lost Chord) was frequently played on the stereo when I was growing up. It's very dramatic and deep ... a real listening experience. At the end of his life, when my dad was in hospice, he had this CD and portable CD player at his bedside. This song was playing the night before he passed. That's how much he loved it. It will always remind me of him. I think he would've appreciated your generous, thoughtful reaction. God bless you !!!
You had it round the wrong way - Michael Jackson was sounding like The Moody Blues. The Moodies invented the concept album, they were the first rock band to write for the orchestra. Pop songs had always had sound engineers who layered-in orchestral backing, but that was backing. The Moodies treated the orchestra as an essential component of music from first conception, and their relationship with the London Symphony Orchestra has been a long and fruitful one. It was the Moody Blues who inspired the Beatles to create concept albums and use their producer to arrange orchestral experiments, but they themselves were not writing for the orchestra themselves. The Moodies have been one of the most underrated bands ever. Their work can be sublime. Nights In White Satin is one of those.
CORRECTION: The Beatles pioneered the concept albums as well as incorporating an orchestra in their album and not the Moody Blues as you wrongly stated. The Beatles' Sgt Pepper album, the first concept album and which includes an orchestra was released in May 1967. The Moody Blues' Days of Future Passed, which contains Nights In White Satin, was released in November 1967. The Moody Blues even stated that they were inspired by the Beatles' Sgt Pepper album into creating the Moody Blues' first concept album.
@@labradoriteatheart Hahahaha! That old chestnut. CORRECTION: 'Days of Future Passed' was recorded and ready for release months before 'Salt and Pepper's Oily Chip Shop Van' but was stalled because the most overrated act in music history was releasng a "concept" album.
This song evokes the somber aura of an autumn night, or winter. It so perfectly captures angst, regret, as well as a specific time/season for me that I can not hear it without being whisked to the dead of night on a chilly autumn evening, reflecting on a wasted past...it just defies space and time...or more precisely, pinpoints it forever to a specific spot and with a specific feeling
I never really liked this song until one night, a few years ago, I was on a long car ride, completely exhausted. It came on the radio (satellite radio, so they played the whole song) and I just decided to let it play because I liked the station (classic vinyl). For some reason, it took me on a journey I completely didn't expect. I felt calm. I felt at peace like nothing was wrong with the world at that time. It was like a hallucination, but I wasn't hallucinating. I was just completely enthralled and in the moment, floating through a dark night alone on the highway in pure bliss. Been one of my favorite songs of all time since then. It's amazing how a person's opinion can change based on the time and place and mood they're in when they hear something. It's like hearing it for the first time. Makes me cry every time.
Funny I had a similar experience - it feeling like a hallucination. I routinely fall asleep listening to music. When I was young, one night I was awoken in the middle of the night by the poem at the end. Absolutely mesmerizing and haunting. Terrifying yet calming.
Time of the Season by the Zombies was like that for me. Never cared for it until one night I was just in a certain mood, and it came on the radio, and it was like, “Oh! I get it now!” Loved it ever since!
Something very similar happened to me with this song. I actually didn't like it for a long time until hearing it during a very atmospheric love scene n a movie i think called "Shattered" and absolutely loved it ever since! Completely changed it for me.
This is such a great song. The Moody Blues were said to be 15 years ahead of their time. Over 50 years later and still think that they are ahead of their time. Have seen them perform this song live twice. At the Greek Theater and at the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. #Fortunate
Justin Hayward wrote this song when he was 18. He was installed in the Songwriters Hall of Fame more than 30 years ago. He is one of the most successful, prolific and greatest songwriters of the 20th century.
This and many other Moody Blues songs were meant for you to just let your mind go where the music takes you. I was in 8th grade when this song came out and remember lying on my bed with headphones on and closing my eyes as soon as their songs started playing on the record.
I saw them in concert twice in the early 1970's ~~ amazing shows! Coming of age in the 1960/70's we were gifted with some of the best music ever! Experiencing this song in , shall we say, an altered state , was unreal!
The poem being read at the end was their drummer, Graeme Edge. He would read that standing at a microphone then go to the drum kit and perform. The Moody Blues were one of the first 'rock' bands to have concept albums. 'In Search of the Lost Chord", 'Every Good Boy Deserves Favour', etc. 20 years ago they went on tour and they would travel as just their band but would send the sheet music ahead to the next venues. The local orchestra there would learn the songs and play with the Moodys on stage. I got a chance to ask the lead singer Justin Hayward once if they were still nervous when they got up on stage to play. He replied that performing on stage with an orchestra they had never hit a note with was one of the most nerve wracking things they had ever done. Check out the album 'Moody Blues, Red Rock' ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zlBZJIlh3i0.html They are one of my favorite bands, and I hope they become one of yours.
Mike Pinder, who played the Mellotron, did the spoken word portions on all their albums until he left the band after Seventh Sojourn... Graeme Edge took over at that point...
That album: The Moody Blues with The Colorado Philharmonic at Red Rocks was a magical show. We were lucky and got to see the second night of that, there were no filming distractions and associated bs like the first night endured. The high quality of the sound bouncing around at Red Rocks was incredible. We had 6’th row near center seats or something like that, right in front of the sound booth. Magical and special.
Without a doubt, this is the best slow dance song ever. So much of the vibe you would get would be from the memories of where you were and who you were with. You would remember the smell of her hair, the softness of her skin, and so much more that you would take with you for decades to follow.
Yeah, they never pulled a Beatles and said they couldn't tour anymore because they couldn't recreate the sound live. This band went to great lengths to learn to play their songs 2 ways. One way in the studio which required each member to play several instruments for recordings (since they were often acting as an actual symphony orchestra) and another way for live shows (recreating the orchestra using synthesizers and such). I think they later simplified this process and just used the electronics to create the sound in studio. However, this song is from the album "Days of Future Passed" (an early effort) and here they recorded the album with the London Symphony Orchestra. They would, on occasion, perform live with an actual Symphony Orchestra backing them up, which was really cool.
I love the Moody Blues and have every vinyl recording they made. I saw them in concert some 25 years ago and we were Milli-Vanilli'd. The bass player broke two strings and the bass line didn't quit. The flute part started before the flute was up to his lips. Absolutely terrible! The original drummer was on the stage waving sticks, but not really playing and his drums were not mic'd. Plus that he was sucking oxygen between songs. There was another drummer next to him actually playing.
There were no videos in the 70s. Music was a listening experience and the visual was what you created it to be in your mind. That is why the music was so incredible and the guitar and drum solos spectacular.
You need to buy the album “Days of Future Past” and listen from beginning to end. Best heard in a dark room and just let your mind wander to the lyrics!
Love your reaction to the ending... yeah. How that album was recorded is a story by itself. They walked into a studio to record and found it already booked by a full orchestra. Guess what happened. The best thing since chocolate and peanut butter.
Glenn Despres actually, the record company wanted a record to demonstrate the brand new technology of stereo recording. The original idea was Dvorak’s “New World Symphony” for orchestra and rock band. The Moody Blues had been working on a song cycle based on an ordinary day. An orchestrator was hired to score sections for orchestra with melodies already developed by the Moody. The drummer wrote out the poetic sections to “bookend” the piece. A brilliant idea to use a reverse Gong to start the piece off and then end the grand finale with a gong stroke!! Awesome and powerful!!
godisbollocks go look at the booklet that comes with the CD. There are mellotron parts during the rock band sections but there is also a full symphonic orchestra.
This was truly a masterpiece of musical genius, and all the music I've heard again on your channel brings back so many masterpieces and musical gems that simply aren't found in todays musical experience. Close your eyes and just listen in order to understand what it was like growing up in the 60-70's era.
I was 15 when I first heard it, and it had the same impact on me. I can recite "Late Lament" to perfection, in synch with Graeme Edge - that's how completely this song has possessed me. It is good to hear from others who were affected the same way! It is like sharing a religion, without the claptrap and absurd dogma. Sharing just the beauty of a transcendent musical experience.
MARRIED MY WIFE TO THIS SONG 32 YEARS AGO - IT WAS OUR WEDDING DANCE, I LOVE HER MORE EACH DAY 3 KIDS 3 GRANDKIDS AND SHE IS STILL SMOKING HOT- HAVE NEVER KISSED ANOTHER IN WAR AND PEACE SICKNESS AND HEALTH SHE IS MY ALL , AND ALWAYS WILL BE.
My older sisters listened to them, and I fell in love. They put on the best concert ever. They sounded just like this! Was an amazing night I'll never forget.
Now imagine that you're a kid listening to the radio and this comes on and becomes a regular part of the rotation. Oh, and Led Zeppelin, CCR, etc. Soul changing and inspiring. Everyday!
@@raatoons And we didn't even think of it that way...the groups and music gods were created by us...and we didn't know....lol....hahaha...we just knew they came from us and was conveying music and lyrics about our culture!!!
I've been waiting for a reaction to this song--sorry I missed this when you first posted it, but am so glad yours was the first [and only] one I've seen. Thank you.
My fiance said that he grew up listening to this music and had the 8 track says he's heard this song so many times before. Your reaction and comments makes it fresh again. You do a great job!!! Kept doing these
Just about anything from that first Procol Harum album (even though “Whiter Shade” wasn’t on the original version)- especially “Conquistador,” “She Wandered Through the Garden Fence,” or “A Christmas Camel.” One of the best debut albums of all time.
Jamal you are truly a joy to watch and I appreciate the way you approach this music...you should be so proud of your self my friend, you have brought me a lot of joy over these past few months. Thank you.
I went to France with my high school and when we were walking around Paris this song was playing in a shoe store. It was just before they were closing for the night... streets were quiet and all you could hear was this song. Every time I hear it I'm immediately taken back to that shoe store.
I was super lucky in the 80s for my mom to take me to see the Moody Blues. They had a full orchestra behind them, and this song was mindblowing with a full orchestra. I love this song so much.
Ahhhh -- timeless !! Written by one of the band members at age 19 -- incredible ! The song was a tale of a yearning love from afar ... love the songs that have made their mark then, and are still relevant now. (love your channel !)
being english a second language I always listened to this song while being a kid and felt it had kinda like a spooky, eerie vibe to it. with the weird choir and everything. It was cool but a bit terrifying as well