I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band) - The Moody Blues | College Students' REACTION!
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Our first time diving into The Moody Blues!! We’d been getting asked about them for a LONG time now and we’re here to hit it! Loved their sound, what’s NEXT?! 🙌🏻🔥
Nights In White Satin, Question
What's next? How about Brownsville Station - MARTIAN BOOGIE
Your first time...WOOOW
Nights in White Satin - Long version
You both need to hear "Tuesday Afternoon" & "Nights in White Satin" off of the "Days of Future Passed" album if not the whole album in its entirety as it is meant to be and was back in the day. Some circles claim the Moody Blues were the earliest of the prop rock genre with that album.
Nights In White Satin, Tuesday Afternoon, Question, The Story In Your Eyes, Ride My See-Saw, there's so many more to name.
Great list! You took the words right out of my mouth!
Love The Moody Blues ...all greats keep them coming
Pretty much the ones I was gonna suggest.
Ditto
Good choices
When you take a look at "Nights in White Satin", make sure you find a copy that's labeled as 'full version' or 'long version'.
absolutly!
Yes!!! Agreed...do NOT listen to the radio version first!
yes, breath deep the gathering gloom, the long version
Get the remastered version..makes a big difference
Nights is my fave of the Moody Blues.
The story behind this song written by John Lodge: “This is where one of the lyrics for came from… I remember coming back from a tour and there was a whole load of people camped out in my front garden! I was like, ‘Er… What are you doing?’ and they all said, ‘John, we’ve come to tell you you’re going to save the Earth. You’re going to be flying the spaceship and fly us all to safety…’ And I was like, ‘Pardon? Just a minute, I actually don’t like flying! So it won’t be me.’ And they said, ‘When the time comes, it will be you.’ “So that’s when I started thinking: ‘Hang on, I’m just a singer in a rock ‘n’ roll band. I know nothing.’
One of my favorite groups growing up, they had such deep lyrics and were spiritual in their message. So many great hits from them and most of the members of the Moody Blues are still together performing to this day.
Actually it was one person who carried a sign saying something like "10 days until the Moody Blues save the world, 9 days until... etc." Then was upset when they didn't do anything miraculous. Lodge said, "I'm just a singer in a rock 'n roll band"
That is so 1960's. It was a wonderful time, and things like this could easily happen. But everybody just went with the flow for the most part. And if you realized you were a little out there, it was like, "Maybe I'm a little confused, but I'll figure it out eventually." And it was kind of funny. For me it was a much better time than now.
It's not multi-tracking on the voice. Four of the five members at the time could sing, so it was them harmonizing.
And they harmonized perfectly ❤️👏👏👏👏👏
It was live.
This was bassist's John Lodge's song about how, at the time, people seemed to look to rock stars for answers to the world's problems, and his response is contained in this song: he had no answers.
Ozzie : I Don't Know hmmm
Yeah because people had started to look to them as gurus of sorts. Positive messages in their songs had people asking them to bless their babies and all.
True, much like "I'd Like to Change the World" by Ten Years After. Young people were searching for answers and occasionally a songwriter would help them, so expectations got high. Turns out you have to find your own answers.
I wish stars wold think the same thing these days and just perform and not get into politics they are out of touch with the general populace people need to quit worshiping them as leaders
@@grahamthedark I hear that!
Oh goodness, "The Story in Your Eyes" is magical both musically and lyrically. "Nights in White Satin" is an experience.
Meh. Their Earlier stuff is much higher tier than that commercial pop
@@penderyn8794 Long Distance Voyager and Strange Times have gravitas. Octave and Keys to the Kingdom etc. not so much
Story in Your Eyes is a deeeep song about what's basically happening now in 2020-2021. If you want a relevant followup to Just A Singer... go with Story in Your Eyes.
@@penderyn8794 Their earlier stuff is a lot of fun.😁
@@penderyn8794 I agree with you, but if you want to get young people who like hard rock into the Moody Blues, The Story in Your Eyes is a good introduction.
The Moody Blues is a giant of a rock n roll band. Beautiful, pure story tellers that could craft melodies, play, and sing with the very best of them.
The story is that the Moodys were doing a concert and one guy in the audience expected their songs to change the entire world, just by their performing. He heckled them as they left the venue, shouting “you didn’t change anything!” The guitar player thought “why are you mad at me? i’m just a singer in a band.” Then he wrote this song. I’m not sure that’s the actual series of events, but it is a great story, befitting a great song. Whatever the reality of it was back in the day, the song is just as philosophical as many of the Moody Blues songs turned out to be throughout their entire history.
The Moody Blues well is pretty deep, think you guys would enjoy diving in.
They were also part of the British Invasion and had their first hit with "Go Now" with Denny Laine on lead vocals.
I just learned that 'Go Now' was their only #1 song in the UK, definitely worth a listen.
Love this track so much!
I love the way "Go Now" sounds nothing like the Moody Blues of later years....no orchestra or that wall of sound. Just gritty singing and the bare minimum of instramentation.
Unpopular and probably controversial opinion but for me, the first record with Go Now, Let Me Go, I Go Crazy was their best work by far
Later lead guitarist for Wings...
Even though I hate being older sometimes I love the music I grew up with...
especially when all the older band members start dying off.
One of the most incredible bands in the history of music, bar none.
The Moody Blues did songs that had mystical and metaphysical themes. They had a following that included many fans who looked to them for direction and purpose in their lives. This was their swan song in a manner of speaking. It is the final cut on the last of their essential seven albums (Days of Future Past to Seventh Sojourn) and was a statement to those fans that "we don't have the cosmic answers you think we do - we're just singers in a rock and roll band.
Yea was gonna make this same comment, their fans had gone a little apeshit so the bassist wrote this song.
Great post! I think Alex understood the essential meaning but just didn't have the context that you provide. Love your avatar--I'm sure you know the link between those essential seven albums and In the Court of the Crimson King. Call it the essential eight--I had and loved them all. When the Moodys broke up after Seventh Sojourn, and then the Wetton era KC did the same, left a great void in my life musically for some time. Moodys later stuff was good, I just never got into them as deep as I had done before.
Thank you - you saved me some typing!
@@PK1971PK Don't get me started. :-) I was almost one of those goofy fans myself.
I was haunted by Greg Lake's voice the first time I heard King Crimson and that album lives forever in my head. Last time I saw the Moodies was a couple of years ago. They were down to Justin, John, and Graeme - and Graeme was kind of going through the motions with a second drummer carrying the bulk of the percussion. I still loved every minute as they performed all of Days of Future Past.
Well stated. As another person said, you saved me a lot of typing. One other related comment. A lot of their fan base was heavily into acid and really did believe these guys had the answers. Check out the song "Legend of a Mind" about Timothy Leary.
FYI: The Moodies 'Question' was the inspiration for the intro to Heart's 'Crazy on You'...
My personal favourite of these guys, is “The Voice”, but they have so many to choose from.
“The Voice” is my favorite as well.
And mine!!
Same here
"A thousand pictures can
be drawn from one word
Only who is the artist
We got to agree
A thousand miles can
lead so many ways
Just to know who is driving
What a help it would be"
Wow! What a powerful statement.
Deep dive into these guys so many great songs.
"Legend Of A Mind" is a great trippy song. It starts out with the lyric, "Timothy Leary's Dead".
Yay! Another fan of this song!
@@ETBrenner And then there were three! 😄🎼🎶🎵😂
No, n-n-no he's outside, looking in. :)
LOVE Legend of a Mind. With Hayward, Lodge, and Pinder all in the same band, Ray Thomas sometimes gets overlooked. He added a lighter touch at times when the band was getting too deep. RIP Ray. Love your flute playing. Beautiful.
OM!
Ride My Seesaw, Nights In White Satin, The Quetion, Tuesday Afternoon, and my FAVE Melancholy Man. Enjoy the ride fellas!
"For My Lady" is a gem from that album and entirely a different style of song.
Nights in White Satin, Dawn is a Feeling, Gypsy, The Actor, Out and In, Dear Diary, Question...and on and on and on. A very long list of great songs.
A & A just getting to the Moody Blues now is kinda like the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame waiting so long to induct them. So long overdue!
They are in the hall of fame.
@@Shawney-jf6kc Yes, they were inducted in 2018 after years and years of fans clamoring for their inclusion.
IKR?? A&A has been on for 2 years and this is the first time??
You’re gonna wish you heard them sooner! 😉
@@paulhislop4591 ya. I know. I think the reviewers got them there.
very well said
The Moody Blues have guided many a psyconaught back to a calm, peaceful place when the trip got too intense. ...or so I've heard. Lol
Me too 😂😂😂
I can testify!
Timoth Leary's Dead.
The album To Our Children's Children's Children is a phenomenal album by Moody Blues.
They are an Iconic band! Other bands wish they could even come close to them! One of the greatest rock in history!
About fucking time dudes. The most disrespected band in rock history (even ahead of Rush) is The Moody Blues. One of the most influential bands in rock history. Justin Hayward's beautiful voice and great guitar. John Lodge's great bass. Question is the song to do next. Lyrics dudes, lyrics, just like this song. Story In Your Eyes after that. Late 60's and early 70's, getting high and listening to The Moody Blues was considered a religious experience.
There’s reason for that...
At least bobgorman didn't say underrated.
Gray Edge is a legend as well.
@@shortpom6 Ummm.... If you like Graeme Edge so much you could have at least spelled his name correctly. (blame spellcheck?)
@@TheMirolab Miro, just a friendly FYI, he refers to himself as Gray, as do his friends.
Ride My Seesaw on Tuesday Afternoon.
When they toured America in the 70"s audiences listened to their more mystical songs and started to believe that the band had the answer to the meaning of life. This is their answer.
Pretty sure the constant “Group Vocals” aren’t just one guy, it’s the whole band more or less singing together
While I am in the camp that thinks that "Nights In White Satin" should be next, I am hoping that "Ride My See-Saw," "The Story In your Eyes," "Tuesday Afternoon" and "Gypsy" are not far behind.
Absolutely!
Love Gypsy!!!
You all forgetting the 80's hits...Do NOT do that!
Ride My See-Saw is my favorite Moody Blues song. This is a must.
@@BeatLA24 To me it sounds like Psychedelic surfer music, which is an upbeat groove. The 4th track of Days of Future past "Lunch Break Peak Hour" has a similar groove starting at 4 mins. into the track.
This group is truly Legendary. “Nights In White Satin” is one of the most
incredible songs ever written. One of my Favorites is “Tuesday “Afternoon.”
Every song on that album is incredible. It's a journey that must be taken.😍😍😍
I know it was "poppy"", but I've always loved "Wildest Dreams"
@@gailcox5753 Days of future past is an incredible album, but I grew up listening to it. I'm not sure many young people could wrap their head around it. I love the spoken word part that comes after "The Night"
These guys put out entire high quality record albums back in the day like they were candy. You could party all night playing nothing but The Moody Blues. They were really that talented.
Love how you guys are thinking here. I’ve loved this band all my adult life, the number of comments you are getting, with the love that is usually contained within them, tells you everything you need to know!
Try everything they have done, look for live stuff on RUclips too, they were sensational.
The video released for I’m just a singer was awesome too.
The Moody Blues were one of the early groups to put out a concept album. Their second album, Days of Future Passed, has songs that progress through the day, starting with "The Day Begins" and ending with "Nights in White Satin". Two of the songs are real standouts, those being "Tuesday Afternoon" and "Nights in White Satin". I would suggest "Nights in White Satin" is their most iconic song and it would be a good choice for your next Moody Blues song.
I get that the show is singles, but Days of Future Past would be a great longer special show.
Really the album is just like one never ending song in many styles
Nights In White Satin is a must next. It is their masterpiece.
I love playing that song on my geeetar because I love the lyrics. Makes me happy! 😄
A and A are more rock n roll. But yeah Nights is a beautiful song.
I totally agree!
Just be sure to put on your 70s prom tux before listening to it. (It was everybody's prom song in the 70s)
@@MagravatorMag It's a great song Maggie.
I am sooo excited!! My boys have finally opened the door to the Moody Blues. Guys they have so many great songs. I do hope you delve in deeper. They really do have it all. Please please check out "Nights in White Satin", "Story In Your Eyes", "Tuesday Afternoon" . There are just too many to name them all. I love their lyrics they are not a band that just throws words together. The words they write mean something. Once again great reaction guys. Lots of love and stay safe.
I saw the Moody Blues sometime in the 1980’s at Tanglewood, an outdoor venue In Massachusetts. Great concert. Great band. Great reaction. More please? Also, need more female rockers!! Especially Linda Ronstadt. Please🥰
Nights in White Satin is one of the bookends of rock (be sure to get the long version). And, keep in mind, the writer , lead singer, and lead guitar is 19 when this song was recorded.
Never heard the Moody Blues? Man gotta hear Nights In White Satin, Question, Tuesday Afternoon, so many others.
I was just going to recommend the same.
hard to believe nobody hearing of the Moody Blues since they spanned 3 decades and sold over 80 million albums.
@@marktrail8624 6 decades, Mid 1960s to now.
So glad to see y’all checking out The Moody Blues. They put out some pretty amazing music. Powerful and intense. One of my favorite groups back in the day. And still.
I'm 34 and the Moody Blues are my all time favorite band!! They have a ton of great music with well written lyrics! I'm excited for you guys to dive into their catalog, be sure to check out - Question, Legend of a Mind, the Story in Your Eyes, Blue Guitar, Forever Autumn, Ride My See-Saw, Voices in the Sky, Living in a Land of Make Believe, New Horizons, The Actor, and many many more
when you do "Nights in White Satin" you must do the long version!
Absolutely!!!!!! Accept nothing less!
"Nights in White Satin"
The Moodies got me through my teen years! Their music is so relevant to what we are all going through at this crazy time in history. Poetic and visionary💥
Please do more.
OMG!!! I haven't heard this song in soooo long. My momma& I saw them in concert ( may she rest in peace, love you momma❤) they were great!!!✌
seeing your faces when the bass starts after the drums at the beginning is the best part of reaction videos... I grew up on this stuff... "The Story in Your Eyes" is my other favorite Moody Blues song...
Nights in White Satin is their biggest song, by far. Very underrated band. If the technological quality of their recordings wasn’t dated, their stuff would sound even more incredible.
Justin Hayward and John Lodge are genius writers/arrangers. They were major players in what made 70's music so effing good!!
"Ride My Seesaw" is a great song by the Moodies as well!
In concert they are magnificent!
You 2 never cease to amaze me. Instead of just going yea, ugh, uhuh every single song, every single video, you actually LISTEN to the music, take it all in and give legitimate opinions on what you just listened to. Keep up the great work and keep pushing for that well deserve 100k subs !
So many beautiful songs by the Moody Blues. Hidden gem is “New Horizons”, but Nights In White Satin and Question are must listen! Great job as always! 😎🎶❤️
Just start doing Moody Blues albums. It will be easier on you. First out of the gate should be Days Of Future Passed. Enjoy guys.
This was such a pleasant surprise! I love The Moody Blues! I dont think I've ever seen y'all so caught off-guard at the start. This is an incredibly good song. The lead singer, Justin Hayward, is quite active on @The Moody Blues RUclips channel and has been releasing amazing acoustic performances over the past year. Your next Moody Blues song should be "Question," and then check out "Nights in White Satin" and "Tuesday Afternoon (Forever Afternoon)."
In that order...
The Moody Blues bring back wonderful memories of my youth. I recommend Tuesday Afternoon - it's dreamy and hauntingly beautiful.
Thanks for tasting the Moodies. The first time I saw the Moody Blues was the first time I cried at a live performance. There are a lot of feels in their music and the sauce gets deep. Their early use of the mellotron, synthesizer and flute gives them great depth and emotional content. Go Now, was a great early '60s hit that hinted at their strengths but they bloomed as writers and musicians when Justine Hayward joined. Go on, guys!
Their early albums were on a different plain. Amazing! They were spiritual and Zen. They were looked to by their fans for "the answer". They responded by saying "I'M JUST A SINGER IN A ROCK AND ROLL BAND".
Love the Moody Blues!!! Ride My See-saw is my favorite. There is no other song like it that I can think of. Especially when you add the Departure intro.
That guitar solo is the shizzle!
C'mon, let's push for this one.
Yes! That's one of the many reasons why I want them to do a full-album reaction to In Search of the Lost Chord, and why that album is a personal favorite of mine.
"the story in your eyes" is a MUST!
This is my uncle’s absolute favorite band. He has recreated several of their album covers on canvas for his home.
They always had the best album covers! Very cool uncle!
More history from the old musician...due to their lyrics and songs a lot of fans were putting the Moodies into Guru status and the guys were NOT having it...hence this song. a fun fact (not too fun for the band) whenever they play their greatest hit Nights in White Satin they have to pay royalties because as young musicians they signed a shady publishing deal that made them customers for their own early music.
From what Taylor Swift is going through, nothing's changed. Sleazebag companies...
There is no band like them. Try the song Question. Its 2 songs in one. Anything from their first 7 albums.
The Moody Blues has a career that spanned three decades. From the 60s well into the MTV era. I can't think of a bad song from them. All are musical masterpieces.
I've been waiting for you guys to get to the Moodies. This song just hits sooo hard musically, lyrically, and emotionally. John's bass just smacks you in the face.
Next Moody blues song has got to be nights in white satin! Love y’all’s stuff, keep it up!
Moody Blues - Nights in White Satin (full version), Question, Tuesday Afternoon
Days of Future Passed is worth a full listen.
Can't go wrong with Moody Blues, they have an incredible catalogue of music!
Live, all three singers would sing this. Towards the end, they each sang "I'm just a singer in a rock and roll band" alone then sang it together as they walked across the stage together. It was a famous move that fans knew to expect.
Nights in white satin, please
Remember early 70's hanging around with friends late night smoking something the Moody Blues usually got put on the turntable at some point.
It's a haze but I remember! lol. :)
My dearly departed sister's favorite band. Saw them in concert 3 times with her. This was their closing song every time. Great song to end the concert.
My condolences but you have these memories! God bless 🙏 🙌❤
the story behind this song is that a fan was pushing for the band to provide enlightenment and we they didn't got real upset and the band member who wrote the song basically was answering by saying hey, I'm just a singer in a rock n roll band and I don't have all the answers
A&A, Their "The Voice" and "Question" are next for you!!
Question, has just got to be next, the bass line is amazing, even the slow middle bit is fab, before creeping back into the heart and soul of the track. ❤️
Wore out the grooves on Question when it came out!
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I've always liked "question" or "Tuesday Afternoons", and then there is the classic "Nights in White Satin". Any one of those would be a great choice from the Moody Blues.
Loved how they combined poetry into some of their songs like “Have You Heard”. No one else was that artistic.
Nice one guys! They were awesome in concert. Love it when you dig into the words
Instant smiles 🤟😄🤟🎸 Lots of nuggets from them
1) Question - fast as chit right hand 12 string strumming (that I loooooove playing and singing myself)
2) Ride my See Saw (upbeat)
3) Nights in White Satin (despite being a slow song you may very well call it an “S banger”)
4) Story in Your Eyes
5) Tuesday Afternoon
6) Isn’t Life Strange
" ISN'T LIFE STRANGE "
hits the very core of the emotions
one of my all time favs of theirs
deffo worth a listen
{:-) PAV uk
yes the full version will be my funeral song
Thank you for your reaction, always love your videos.
This song was written in response to a particular segment of their fans. You may have noticed that their songs sometimes dip into the Mystical. And a portion of their fans decided that they had "the Answers to Life, the Universe, and Everything".
“Are You Sitting Comfortably?” was written by angels - one of the most beautiful songs I’ve ever heard
I love that song, especially on headphones. Never Comes The Day too!
I agree!
It's dreamlike
Singer Justin Hayward did some amazing singing on Jeff Wayne’s epic album “War of the Worlds”. Check out the song “Forever Autumn”. And you must have heard “Nights in White Satin” though you might not remember it now. It’s one of the most aired song.
I sold high end home audio equipment and their beautiful Forever Autumn was one of my go to demo songs to make speakers sing.
Forever Autumn is one of my favorites
We used to get high to this group a lot. This is a REAL band, original voices, talented musicians.
Thanks for circling back to the Moody blues guys. I was having a bad day, but you guys managed to make my day!😁
Everything you guys love about progressive rock is most likely traced back in some way to the Moody Blues.
That is so true...
Yep. They were definitely out in front of the wave in 1967. Just posted above how Mike Pinder introduced the Mellotron synthesizer to the Beatles, not to mention to the public in general through several albums of Moodys magic, thus firmly anchoring synthesizers into prog rock and into popular music generally.
@@ETBrenner not to be that guy, but a Mellotron is not a synthesizer.
@@artrock101 I stand corrected. I submit though that the Mellotron was a forerunner of the now-ubiquitous "techno-magical keyboards that can make amazing sounds," whose popularity inspired techies to do it better with improved digital technology, eventually resulting in true samplers and synthesizers.
@@ETBrenner They are different technologies developed along the same timeline.. a Chamberlain was a precursor to the Mellotron and had been out since the 50s.
Everyone below talks about "Nights in White Satin." But if you want a banger, review "The Voice."
I agree, The Voice is one of my faves from Moody Blues.
@@jefffiore7869 Agree. "Tuesday Afternoon", "The Story In Your Eyes" and "Ride My Seesaw" are also excellent songs from the Moody Blues.
Great song, but I preferred Gemini Dream, off that album.
@@stephenriggs8177 Yes. They had a LOT of great songs.
Agree
One of the best "psychedelic" bands of the 60's/70's. Beautiful music and arrangements and lyrics and production values. Really a gem of a group.
The combo of 'Procession' and 'The story in your eyes' (need both together) is the most amazing of all their songs. It will blow your mind.
The MB lyrics were so trippy, some of their crazier fans literally thought they were some kind of prophets. This song is a reponse to that.
That is the best interpretation that I have come across. Now, I understood it better.
I think their music was so beautiful that people compared them to prophets. I grew up with that music. I lived those days.
Exactly! Glad someone else understood this tune.
If you’re going to do a Moody Blues album, I would definitely recommend Days of Future Past. Now that is a concept album! It contains two of their most popular songs, Tuesday Afternoon and Nights in White Satin. The concept is that the album takes you through an entire day, from morning through till nighttime.
Nights in White Satin is the song that vaulted them into the stratosphere. Absolutely essential.
Gives me chills to listen to.
The Question made an impact on my youth, to question why we are always at war
I have seen a live version of this song and after it finished the poor drummer was absolutely knackered
(Sitting On) The Dock of the Bay, a fine song featuring parentheses, by Otis Redding.
And "The Concept Album" is born - or more accurately: Comes of age. There was a strong social conscience emerging in popular music at the time and we were looking for something to help us understand the enormous changes going on around us - bands like the Moodies articulated a lot of what we were thinking.
Days of future passed, well with a nod to sargent pepper. The concept album was born.
This song was written to people who seemed to think Rock Band members, were somehow more enlightened than all of us "regular" people. They were saying, "We don't know the answers to the world's problems either." "I'm just a singer in a Rock and Roll Band." Very refreshing, and truthful response.
“Nights in White Satin” is almost a religious experience.
Especially live!!
They like to infuse classical instrumentation in their songs. They're not bad live. You should check them out live at Red Rocks. They performed with the Colorado Symphony.
Saw them at red rocks. What an awesome venue!
@@williamlucas4656 You're so lucky!
@@williamlucas4656 I saw that show too - just amazing in that venue 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I was there. I prefer them with Pinder.
Saw them in Foxwood, MA with the live orchestra, great show!
The “Days of Future Past” album is a must listen to.
just make sure ya give credit to the song by spelling it passed, would be correct.
@@marktrail8624 my bad
When a Moody's song come on the radio, it just is in a different category that's hard to define. The vocals and orchestral motifs lend it in a way unlike any other band.
The Moody Blues are my all-time favorite band. Thanks for this.