rank the songs on the zombies' "odessey and oracle"

for some reason this album finally clicked with me last week, and I now have no idea how I ever didn't love it

"Time of the Season" not v representative of the album, so that being the standout hit doesn't do it any favors

Already boggling at my low ranking of Maybe After He's Gone just there. It's that kind of album

what instrument plays that high tone in the chorus of brief candles? is it mellotron?

sounds like a hammond to me

it doesn't really sound like mellotron to me except that it doesn't have any attack like other mellotron sounds
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According to the ever useful Planet Mellotron site, it is a mellotron - strings. In fact, according to Rod Argent it's a mellotron:

... we wanted to do it by reproducing every single note that was on the original album. Things like 'Hung Up on a Dream,' 'Brief Candles,' 'Changes'—these all require extra harmonies which we overdubbed at the time, and extra keyboard parts which I did on the mellotron.

Oh hold on though, on listening to the song, the high pitched tone, that could be a guitar!

It's hard to tell. I'm listening to the Marquis Enterprises Ltd. version on Spotify and it says "Mono Version," but that ain't mono.

Played as a lead guitar part here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at1rYffo8dw

thanks. it sounds more keyboardy than guitary to me on the original recording but it's also buried in the mix a little so who knows