Colin Blunstone's "One Year"...

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I saw this at the record store for a wallet-strangling $14.99, but it's in very good condition and it IS by the voice of the Zombies himself. As someone who counts "Odessey and Oracle" as one of his favorite albums ever, do I NEED this album?

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Friday, 28 October 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

Yes, it's nice and Zombian. His later stuff is not so great though.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 28 October 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

Yes, it's good. (Grow to love it? Maybe. I sat on it a few months before it worked for me.) "Caroline Goodbye" is a great song. I'm partial to one of the album cuts, "Her Song." It's not a great, great album, but 15 bucks is not too much to pay to get it.

― Billy Pilgrim (Billy Pilgrim), Friday, 28 October 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

It's good but not great. I'm glad I own it, but I don't play it as much as any of the zombies stuff.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 28 October 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

personally i like it just as much as odessey. not the same sort of album by any means. but quite charming in it's own way. i probably listen to it more than odessey actually. i love it. that one and the follow up "ennismore" are good stuff.

― grauzone, Friday, 28 October 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

It's really wonderful and worth it.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 28 October 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

One Year has Blunstone's incredible version of Denny Laine's "Say You Don't Mind".

BTW- If you like 60s pop then track down those Denny Laine singles -- sweet.

― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Friday, 28 October 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)

It's GREAT! It features Argent and White, so it kinda is the Zombies. Caroline Goodbye is the prettiest song EVER. Ennismore is pretty good also, but only get if you've fallen for One Year.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 28 October 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

colin blunstone

― jaxon (jaxon), Friday, 28 October 2005 22:11 (twenty years ago)

i have One Year, and think all the songs are wonderful, great orchestration, but for some reason, it doesn't work for me as an album. the songs are too stylistically diverse to "flow"

― jaxon (jaxon), Friday, 28 October 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

I love the flow of this album- each side starts with a relatively peppy number before flowing into the more melancholy and orchestral bits. Each side feels like a suite to me. And I've been very impressed so far from what I've heard of the follow-up Ennismore.

― ColinO, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 14:53 (seventeen years ago)

This album's a keeper by all means. I think it's among the great lost albums. Especially stunning is "Though You Are Far Away."

― mottdeterre, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 15:08 (seventeen years ago)

I bought the Water reissue last week - still a good album, and a perfect vehicle for colin's tenderly neurotic voice.

― Marco Damiani, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 15:23 (seventeen years ago)

He sang Misty Roses when I saw The Zombies two years ago. Onstage he described this album as "a fairly good pop record with some very... avant-garde arrangements". It was great. His voice was pure and perfect as ever.

Interesting, he is a dead ringer for Alan Rickman. He even does these crazy "the roses in her garden fade aWAAYYYYYUH!" sort of scene-chewing affectations. Totally worthwhile reunion tour. And yeah, this record is great, "Caroline Goodbye" is amazing.

― Tourtiere (Owen Pallett), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 16:01 (seventeen years ago)

It's good but not great. I'm glad I own it, but I don't play it as much as any of the zombies stuff.

Yep

― Sacco, Vanzetti, Passantino... (Tom D.), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 16:20 (seventeen years ago)

I have an out-of-print comp called I Don't Believe In Miracles that is loaded w/ One Year material and fairly perfect.

― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 16:44 (seventeen years ago)

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