The Zombies – Odessey & Oracle (Vinyl) 30th Anniversay Edition
Big Beat Records (1997)
$45.00
Brand New ~ Sealed Vinyl! Lacquers Cut Directly From Original Analogue Tapes. A Late 60s Overlooked Masterpiece, Which Includes The Hit Single “Time Of The Season”.
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Brand New ~ Sealed Vinyl! Lacquers Cut Directly From Original Analogue Tapes At Whitfield Street.
Often mentioned alongside The Beatles’ ‘Revolver’ and ‘Forever Changes’ by Love, The Zombies’ ‘Odessey & Oracle’ is a late sixties overlooked masterpiece, which includes the hit single “Time of the Season”.
“We have used the mono version of ‘This Will Be Our Year’ for this anniversary edition, rather than using the fake stereo that was used on the original Stereo LP CBS LP S63280. All the other recordings were made in stereo.” – Big Beat Records
“Be not afraid;
The isle is full of noises
Sound, and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twanging instruments
Will hum about mine ears; and sometimes voices”
– Shakespeare
Side 1:
Care Of Cell 44
A Rose For Emily
Maybe After He’s Gone
Beechwood Park
Brief Candles
Hung Up On A Dream
Side 2:
Changes
I Want Her She Wants Me
This Will Be Our Year
Butcher’s Tale (Western Front 1914)
Friends Of Mine
Time Of The Season
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One of the most enduring long-players to come out of the entire British psychedelic boom, mixing trippy melodies, ornate choruses, and lush Mellotron sounds with a solid hard rock base. Odessey and Oracle was one of the flukiest (and best) albums of the 1960s, and one of the most enduring long-players to come out of the entire British psychedelic boom, mixing trippy melodies, ornate choruses, and lush Mellotron sounds with a solid hard rock base. But it was overlooked completely in England and barely got out in America (with a big push by Al Kooper, who was then a Columbia Records producer); and it was neglected in the U.S. until the single "Time of the Season," culled from the album, topped the charts nearly two years after it was recorded, by which time the group was long disbanded. Ironically, at the time of its recording in the summer of 1967, permanency was not much on the minds of the bandmembers. Odessey and Oracle was intended as a final statement, a bold last hurrah, having worked hard for three years only to see the quality of their gigs decline as the hits stopped coming. The results are consistently pleasing, surprising, and challenging: "Hung Up on a Dream" and "Changes" are some of the most powerful psychedelic pop/rock ever heard out of England, with a solid rhythm section, a hot Mellotron sound, and chiming, hard guitar, as well as highly melodic piano. "Changes" also benefits from radiant singing. "This Will Be Our Year" makes use of trumpets (one of the very few instances of real overdubbing) in a manner reminiscent of "Penny Lane"; and then there's "Time of the Season," the most well-known song in their output and a white soul classic. Not all of the album is that inspired, but it's all consistently interesting and very good listening, and superior to most other psychedelic albums this side of the Beatles' best and Pink Floyd's early work.