# Breathe deep the gathering gloom **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [April 26, 2024, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breathe-deep-the-gathering-gloom/1000792 "2024-04-26T13:06:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2024, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breathe-deep-the-gathering-gloom/1000792/21 "2024-04-30T10:57:31Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Which song? While it could have applied to Justin Hayward’s vocals in “Nights in White Satin” it was - depending on how you look at it - the end of that song after that song often called (and often omitted) “Late Lament” (as 2 bits pointed out just above) that Mike Pinder recites and which FM radio used to play. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2024, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breathe-deep-the-gathering-gloom/1000792/22 "2024-04-30T14:08:46Z")
> [@Coriolanus](#): > > Love the Mellotron yet they rely on magnetic tape That’s the part I love the most. They never sound the same each time, and the wow and flutter, to me, adds a character missing, and not dulpicatable, from any synth or sampler. It always sounds like a weak station heard on an analog radio from the other room, fading in and out of reality. Sad, depressing, “moody”, if you will. Now this isn’t a “digital music is cold and perfect” thing, if I were in a band I’d have the best, modern synths and samplers. But the mellotron is…special. My perfect band has a mellotron, a theremin and a glass harmonica. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breathe-deep-the-gathering-gloom/1000792.md?page=1)