The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle
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Artist: The ZombiesEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Import
CD Release Date: 2001-04-09
Music Label: Repertoire
Soundtracks:
- Care of Cell
- Rose for Emily
- Maybe After He's Gone
- Beechwood Park
- Brief Candles
- Hung Up on a Dream
- 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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Free Music Review: On an odessey
Hit: 5 Stars
Many bands (the Beatles, the Beach Boys) at least dabbled in psychedelica, but the Zombies are often overlooked. For the 30th anniversary of "Odessey and Oracles," the Zombies' best album was rereleased in a new form, proving that their enchanting psychedelic pop has aged exceeedingly well.
The Zombies were unusually good at taking perky, sweet, lush music and wrapping it around a more serious song, such as the upbeat "Care of Cell 44" (guy writing to his jailed girlfriend), or the lovely "A Rose For Emily," a poignant little song that tells of a lonely woman doomed to stay lonely. "And as the years go by/she will grow old and die/The roses in her garden fade away/Not one left for her grave..."
But the Zombies aren't all sadness wrapped in happy music. There are perky songs about being happy in love, losing a love and hoping she'll return, and reminiscing about "golden days and golden summer nights." The album ends on a reassuring note with the laid-back "Time of the Season," which sounds like the ultimate hippie anthem.
I have no memories of the 60s, since I was only born in the eighties. But "Odessey and Oracle" gives a rosy glow to that era,. Psychedelic flair minus the hazy, and every song is a gem. Though "Time of the Season" was the sleeper hit from the album, it's not the best or catchiest song on here -- it's just one of many excellent ones.
Rod Argent was definitely an outstanding songwriter. He was able to create atmospheric and beautiful songs with very simple writing ("Brief candles in her mind/bright and tiny gems of memory"). Perhaps his finest moment here is "I knew he when summer was her crown/and autumn sad/how brown her eyes," as a kick-off to a colorful look at a woman compared to all the seasons.
Colin Blunstone's vocals were well-suited to the music: a bit husky, quite pleasant and mellow. The music itself was generally based on guitar, gentle drums, pretty piano, and wavering Mellotron, with a bit of accordian coming in in one song. There's a rich interweaving of many instruments, in all sorts of pop music. Some is almost classical in tone, some is uptempo stuff that is perfect for the radio.
The Zombies were in peak form in "Odessey and Oracle," churning out some of the purest pop music ever. As sweet and exquisite as it was in the 1960s.
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German digipak reissue of the British Invasion act's 1968 album with 16 bonus tracks, 'I'll Call You Mine', 'She Loves the Way They Love Her', 'Imagine the Swan', 'Smokey Day', 'I'f it Don't Work Out', 'I Know She Will', 'Don't Cry For Me', 'Walking in the Sun', 'Conversation Off Floral Street', 'I Want You Back Again', 'Gotta Get a Hold of Myself', 'Goin Out of My Head', 'She Does Everything For Me', 'Nothing's Changed', 'I Could Spend the Day' and 'Girl Help Me'. Digipack. 2001 release.Digipak reissue with 17 bonus tracks. Completely different than the US version on Big Beat.
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