# Nights In White Satin **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 22, 2017, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nights-in-white-satin/794399 "2017-08-22T20:04:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nights-in-white-satin/794399/1 "2017-08-22T20:04:07Z")
Nights In White Satin is one of my all-time favorite songs. When Justin Hayward sings the lines… And I love you Ohhh how I love you …it sends chills down my spine. Those words sound like they come right from his heart - like he really means them. What other songs or lines from songs do you get this feeling from? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nights-in-white-satin/794399/2 "2017-08-22T20:19:49Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/v3jJpGw_K2Y/hqdefault.jpg "The Moody Blues -- Nights In White Satin (extended)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3jJpGw_K2Y) I have the same reaction to that song, and those lines. I can remember first hearing it as a hormone-addled teenager, in love with the very idea of a wild, rapturous love like that, and practically had tears in my eyes. Annie Lennox sings “Into the West” with extraordinary emotive power, I think: [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shdiTRxTJb4) Mary J. Blige helps U2 knock “One” out of the park here: [Mary J. Blige, U2 - One (Official Music Video) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpDQJnI4OhU) And Patty Griffin gives it her all - and it’s a _lot_ - in this rendition of “Heavenly Day”: [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVy4w6vq8y8) ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nights-in-white-satin/794399/3 "2017-08-22T20:34:42Z")
Always been a fan of Justin and the Moodies. Another song of his that does it for me is _Forever Autumn_ from War of the Worlds. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nights-in-white-satin/794399/4 "2017-08-22T20:57:33Z")
Huge Moodies fan here: Justin especially. Jeff Lynn and ELO also get me the same way. “Hey, how you feelin’? Are you still the same, don’t you realize the things we did We did were all for real, not a dream I just can’t believe they’ve all faded out  Of view, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, ooh” Sent from my XT1635-02 using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nights-in-white-satin/794399/5 "2017-08-22T20:59:33Z")
> [@](#): > > Does anyone know where the love of God goes > When the wave turn the minutes to hours? Gordon Lightfoot, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nights-in-white-satin/794399/6 "2017-08-22T21:36:17Z")
I love “Nights in White Satin” too, and have ever since I was a kid. I have a lot of other songs that give me “tingle moments,” but probably the biggest one is Peter Gabriel’s “Signal to Noise.” Near the end of the song (past the 5:00 mark) there’s an instrumental bit that slowly builds to a crescendo, ending with the repetition of the line “Receive and transmit” over a pounding drumbeat (at 5:43 in [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJoSNZxLdbU)). I’ve mentioned this several times before in similar threads here, but that segment does something to me every time I hear it, no matter how many times I hear it. I _have_ to turn it up. It’s beautiful (and live, it was absolutely amazing). ---
**Author:** ![neofishboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/neofishboy/32/444_2.png) [@neofishboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neofishboy)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nights-in-white-satin/794399/7 "2017-08-22T21:57:16Z")
When I was a kid I thought it was “Knights in White Satin” and I remember thinking “Man, those dudes are totally dead”. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nights-in-white-satin/794399/8 "2017-08-22T22:36:44Z")
_Letters I’ve written Never meaning to send._ ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nights-in-white-satin/794399/9 "2017-08-22T23:39:10Z")
Another fan of “Nights in White Satin” here, but what does it for me is the flute solo. Beautiful and flowing. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nights-in-white-satin/794399/10 "2017-08-23T00:59:47Z")
Hallelujah especially the lines I quoted. It represents Delilah’s betrayal of Sampson. At his lowest possible moment, he cries out Hallelujah. Very moving moment for me. > [@](#): > > She tied you to her kitchen chair > She broke your throne and she cut your hair > And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nights-in-white-satin/794399/11 "2017-08-23T02:34:43Z")
Not just “Nights in White Satin” but the whole damned album _ **Days of Future Passed** _ really does it for me. A close second is Al Stewart’s _ **Year of the Cat** _, especially “Sand in Your Shoes”: _On Remembrance Day the bands all played, The bells pealed through the park And you lay there by the “Do Not” signs, And shamed them with your spark Now winter moans in old men’s bones As the day falls into dark And it’s goodbye to my lady of the islands._ The one that really tugs at my heart is Enya’s “Flora’s Secret,” since it reminds me of the most intense love affair of my life in the summer of 1975: \*Lying in the long grass In the sunlight They believe it’s true love And from all around them Flora’s secret Telling them of love And the way it breathes, and Looking up from eyes of Amaranthine … They can see the sky is blue Knowing that their love is true Dreams they never knew And the sky above is blue. \* (I still love you, Gina! ☹ ) ---
**Author:** ![Graymalkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@Graymalkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Graymalkin)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nights-in-white-satin/794399/12 "2017-08-23T02:36:29Z")
Jump into my machine so we can cruise on out I know a little joint where we can jump and shout… Gives me chills! ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nights-in-white-satin/794399/13 "2017-08-23T03:08:22Z")
[“May You Never”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04oZDP1Os0E) by John Martyn > [@](#): > > May you never lay your head down > without a hand to hold > May you never make your bed out > In the cold. Beautiful melody and sentiment? ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nights-in-white-satin/794399/14 "2017-08-23T03:14:18Z")
_History shows again and again How nature points up the folly of men_ Prescient lyrics for today’s environmentally challenged world ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nights-in-white-satin/794399/15 "2017-08-23T03:53:14Z")
White Satin was pretty poor armor for a Knight. That’s all I gotta say. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nights-in-white-satin/794399/16 "2017-08-23T04:38:04Z")
[_White Bird_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MRCxLocUDI) by It’s A Beautiful Day does it too. \*White bird In a golden cage On a winter’s day In the rain. White bird In a golden cage Alone. The leaves blow 'Cross the long black road To the darkened sky In its rage . . .\* ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nights-in-white-satin/794399/17 "2017-08-23T13:24:39Z")
A great cover of [_Knights In White Satin_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gRTQw3o54w). ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nights-in-white-satin/794399/18 "2017-08-23T13:47:14Z")
One of few albums that you _must_ play all the way though. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nights-in-white-satin/794399/19 "2017-08-23T13:58:55Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > Always been a fan of Justin and the Moodies. Another song of his that does it for me is _Forever Autumn_ from War of the Worlds. OMG! I forgot all about that song. I just added it to my playlist. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nights-in-white-satin/794399/20 "2017-08-23T14:08:22Z")
> [@neofishboy](#): > > When I was a kid I thought it was “Knights in White Satin” and I remember thinking “Man, those dudes are totally dead”. Same here, and I would picture the knights from Monty Python and the Holy Grail when it came on the radio. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nights-in-white-satin/794399.md?page=2)