We Thought “Nights in White Satin” Would Help
Teenagers don’t merely listen to records. Sometimes they assign those records jobs. In today's episode of Dave’s Side One, Dave remembers discovering The Moody Blues’ Days of Future Passed with his friend group around 1976. The album was already nearly a decade old, but it felt like a discovery. And somewhere along the way, Dave and his friends became convinced that “Nights in White Satin” might be instrumental in their quest for teenage romance. It wasn’t. The strategy failed completely. The record stayed. Behind the joke is something real about the way music works when we’re young. A song…
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