Midnight Movies give the Moody Blues moody treatment in their fairly faithful cover of “Nights In White Satin.” Faithful, except that it’s sung by a woman, Gena Olivier. The dark L.A. psychedelic pop-rockers wisely left off the spoken-word poetry “Late Lament,” which you can hear at the six-minute mark of the original recording. (We always thought that moment was hilarious when we heard it on rock radio.) Anyhow, this is part of the Movies’ upcoming six-song, digital + vinyl Nights EP, which follows their sophomore album, Lion The Girl. The EP also includes “Nights In What Satin” sung in French (“Mes Reves Satin”), two remixes of a pair of Lion tracks (Nick Zinner on “Souvenirs” and James Iha on “Patient Eye,” which you can download here), and two previously unreleased Lion session tracks. Up to date? Take it away Gena…
That fuzzy Comets On Fire guitar riffing at the end pushes away from the original as well. In case you need a reminder, take a look/nostalgia trip at the Moody dudes singing on a staircase.
For what it’s worth, as a kid, at least one of us thought it was “Knights In White Satin.” Totally different story that way.
Nights EP is out digitally via New Line Records.
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not going to beat Justin’s version and her pronouncition throws me off.lol..good job though, i like the flute too
remember when rock was pushing every boundry,trying to exspand the music and the messages back in the sixties.useing spoken word,poetry,classical,jazz,emprov of any type.instead of doing the same music over and over. there was a lot of fresh new ideas in the sixties.all were at least worth a listen.and all deserved to be treated with respect for trying to move the music foward.the only thing that really held back the music was an closed mind.or an critic.sorry,both of those are the same thing,are they not?
why isn’t it in french? i dug it better when they performed it live a few years back