The 1970's mormon lore I remember was that the lyrics to the Moody Blues tune "Knights In White Satin" was a direct interpretation of the mormon pre and post life etc. We bear hugged/slow danced to it at stake dances with the idea that it was gods message which made the dance floor grinding legit. I believed it then. I laugh now...thank god I can laugh now.

I will have to revisit those lyrics now

I wish I grew up in the 70s, seems like things were crazy but in a cool way. The 90s were a not cool crazy.

It was some good times.

One of my favorites is " if you remember studio 54 you weren't there"

Another example of twisting facts to fit the vision...very common in the mo-world...

Didn't matter to us if it paralleled pre/post life stuff. We simply said "Yeah..." and went behind the curtains on the stage to make out.

Uhhhhh....pre and post life?

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/moodyblues/thenightnightsinwhitesatin.html

it's about Briggy of course.

Great song, but I can't look at the title without being reminded of a devil worshiping criminal who used a sharpie to write on his t-shirt: The Grate Satin

And then there was the Soy Bomb dude at the Bob Dylan concert.

OMG, just watched it again. Laughing so hard. It was at the grammy's and bob dylan was performing, but then again, so was Soy Bomb:

http://videos.mediaite.com/video/Soy-Bomb-During-Bob-Dylan-Perfo

Soy Bomb Man is a force of nature!

The original lyrics were "crackpots in bizarre one piece mid evil underthings with a floppy poop shute" but that was too hard to rhyme

oh that was funny!!!

Knights in White Satin

We parents of the seventies all knew that Satin was really "Satan."

The word "knights" is actually "natas", which is satan, backwards.

"White" is actually "Black" because Satan turns everything of God upside down and backwards.

Clearly this is a subliminal satanic message and should be labeled with a warning...

Gotta share this again for the new generation. True story: I became one of these "backmasking" spotters, unwinding my teenage boy's tape of "Snow Blind" and proving to the boys that it had bad messages by playing it backwards.

Clearly, it said "smoke, smoke, smoke marijuana." I dusted my palms off with satisfaction and went to make dinner.

While I was innocently engaged, my youngest son snuck into the living room and swiped one of the Janine Brady tapes. "I'm A Mormon, yes I am...." a children's tape of pro-Mormon songs.

After dinner, he played it.

Clearly, it said "smoke, smoke, smoke marijuana."

I was mortified and the kids laughed and laughed. They never get tired of retelling that story.


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That reminds me of a quote from one of my favorite movies, Waiting for Guffman:

"I've been coming to this circle for about five years, and measuring it. The diameter and the circumference are constantly changing, but the radius stays the same. Which brings me to the number 5. There are five letters in the word Blaine. Now, if you mix up the letters in the word Blaine, mix 'em around, eventually, you'll come up with Nebali. Nebali. The name of a planet in a galaxy way, way, way... way far away. And another thing. Once you go into that circle, the weather never changes. It is always 67 degrees with a 40% chance of rain."

Hahhahahaha!!! Do the wonders of satin and his ways never cease?

(Blush) hardly

It was "Nights in White Satin"

But yeah, the 70's were fun. I kind of wish I'd been older than, but glad I wasn't now!

lol

Devoted Exmo Wrote:
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> It was "Nights in White Satin"
>
> But yeah, the 70's were fun. I kind of wish I'd
> been older than, but glad I wasn't now!


I loved that song in high school (class of '74) I thought that it was "Knights" for the longest time. I knew it was a romantic song but I thought the Knights were dressed in satin. I could never figure that out as I thought Knights should be wearing chainmail armour. DUH!! Years and years later it finally dawned on me that it was "Nights" and satin sheets. We had Moody Blues songs on a reel-to-reel and never saw the album cover.

Glad to see SantaZelph's spelling!

Devoted Exmo Wrote:
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> It was "Nights in White Satin"
>
> But yeah, the 70's were fun. I kind of wish I'd
> been older than, but glad I wasn't now!

yeah, get it right. Nights, not knights. Listened to it a lot in the sixties. Days of Future Past, "Timothy Leary's dead, oh no, he's on the outside, looking in".

When you're an angsty teen, you're going to think some song is all about exactly what you're feeling and thinking -- no matter what the song is actually about. You'll read meaning into it. But that's one of the good things about music, art and literature. It can have personal meaning.

As for me, Nights in White Satin meant "Woo! Slow dance! Boobs against my chest!"



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We perform this at nearly every wedding and it is
"Nights" not "Knights"

although at one wedding, the bride had us play it for several sailors (groomsmen) in the dress whites (she called them Knights in White Satin) even though their clothes were not satin.

LOL, I thought it was Knights too.(Class of 75)

the Deodato version was awesome.

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



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I hope you all are proud of yourselves because I read this thread earlier this afternoon but have had that song in my head ALL EVENING, even right now :)

The Knights in White Satin are those sworn to protect the honor of Lady Mondegreen.

What memories. I used to love repeating lyrics around my mom to shock her. I was especially good at Alice Cooper's "I Love the Dead." She would just shake her head and hurry from the room.

I see now that I was destined to be an exMo all along.

The sound effects were eight track heaven.

If you think you might like the Moody Blues I would recommend this one on Youtube:

The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed Full Album 1967 (HD)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y_9hwW1eV0

Beautiful pictures set to the music.

I remember sitting with my boyfriend in the highest, cheapest seats in the San Diego Sports Arena at a Moody Blues Concert enjoying the total marijuana haze in the air without ever smoking any. Beautiful music and a very relaxed vibe!