This Will Be Our Year is too good. the whole album is great. fwiw i love "Beechwood Park" as a mood poem and song (killer middle eight).
I have hippie friends who despise this song because of "who's your daddy? Is he rich like me?" That weird bit of braggadocio makes me fonder of it somehow
always took this to be mocking of material wealth in favor of spiritual wealth. thus the line goes "Is he rich?" "Is he rich like me?" still bragging but it's a new consciousness rather money/possessions.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 3 September 2017 16:12 (six years ago) link
'Hung Up On A Dream' is the best track on the LP, followed by 'Brief Candles' ...
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Sunday, 3 September 2017 17:56 (six years ago) link
I just love those chord changes.
Love hardcore dilettante's write-up despite disagreeing with a lot of it! 'I Want Her...' is the only less-than-great song here and yeah both 'Brief Candles' and 'Beechwood Park' are near the top for me.
― Gavin, Leeds, Sunday, 3 September 2017 18:39 (six years ago) link
Thanks, folks! I don't know if I agree with everything I wrote, even. And re-reading it, I sound way harsher on the bottom half of songs than I really feel. My inner critic goes ape when unleashed. In truth, I love this record front to back and never skip a song. I think today I'd switch "brief candles" and "I want her".
― bumbling my way toward the light or wahtever (hardcore dilettante), Monday, 4 September 2017 04:03 (six years ago) link
Care of Cell 44Hung up on a DreamI Want Her She Wants MeBrief CandlesChangesThis Will Be Our YearA Rose for EmilyTime of the SeasonFriends of MineMaybe After He's GoneBeechwood ParkButcher's Tale
― timellison, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 05:31 (six years ago) link
'Maybe After He's Gone' rules so much. This album should have been huge - in terms of songwriting it absolutely annihilates Sgt. Pepper's...
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Tuesday, 5 September 2017 06:06 (six years ago) link
http://albumsthatneverwere.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/the-zombies-rip.html
Did you guys see this "follow-up album" creation?
Worth a look...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 09:21 (six years ago) link
Disappointed that so many people here are putting Butcher's Tale as their least favourite. That song rules.
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Wednesday, 6 September 2017 01:06 (six years ago) link
― josh az (2011nostalgia)
I can help with that. It's always been one of my favourites.
Care of Cell 44Butcher's TaleFriends of MineA Rose for EmilyBeechwood ParkMaybe After He's GoneThis Will Be Our YearTime of the SeasonBrief CandlesHung up on a DreamI Want Her She Wants MeChanges
― kitchen person, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 03:13 (six years ago) link
ugh this is like ranking childrenbeloved cats
hung up on a dreamcare of cell 44friends of minebrief candlesthis will be our yearbeechwood parka rose for emilytime of the seasoni want her she wants mebutcher's talemaybe after he's gonechanges
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 6 September 2017 04:49 (six years ago) link
I like all of the songs individually - but find the album as a whole too much to take.
― Luna Schlosser, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 12:30 (six years ago) link
...Though will be seeing them play the album in London later this month.
― Luna Schlosser, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 12:59 (six years ago) link
the version I originally heard had Imagine The Swan on the end, and that version makes sense to me
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Wednesday, 6 September 2017 13:09 (six years ago) link
Had a real blast seeing the Zombies playing this album this evening at the Palladium in London. I find it impossible to rank the songs, but Hung Up on a Dream was the clear highlight for me.
― Luna Schlosser, Friday, 29 September 2017 22:30 (six years ago) link
Really nice vibe as a gig; a very faithful recreation of the O&O album, lots of emotional late middle-aged men bonding and agreeing how wonderful it was, and late middle-aged couples holding each other and gently dancing together.
― Luna Schlosser, Friday, 29 September 2017 22:49 (six years ago) link
how have I only just discovered this? esp with tt claiming it might be her favourite album. a VERY GOOD SHOUT tbah
Brief Candles Hung Up On A Dream A Rose For Emily Care Of Cell 44Butcher's Tale This Will Be Our Year Friends Of Mine Time Of The Season Changes Beechwood Park Maybe After He's GoneI Want Her She Wants Me
12 is merely good. 9-11 are really good. 5-8 are amazing. 3-4 are extraordinary. 1 and 2 are pure psychedelia
― imago, Wednesday, 3 January 2018 15:25 (six years ago) link
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
― niels, Monday, 23 July 2018 09:23 (five years ago) link
Already boggling at my low ranking of Maybe After He's Gone just there. It's that kind of album
― imago, Monday, 23 July 2018 12:08 (five years ago) link
what instrument plays that high tone in the chorus of brief candles? is it mellotron?
― na (NA), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 22:38 (four years ago) link
sounds like a hammond to me
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 6 August 2019 22:40 (four years ago) link
it doesn't really sound like mellotron to me except that it doesn't have any attack like other mellotron soundsxpost
― na (NA), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 22:41 (four years ago) link
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.
― Euripedes' Trousers (Tom D.), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 22:54 (four years ago) link
Oh hold on though, on listening to the song, the high pitched tone, that could be a guitar!
― Euripedes' Trousers (Tom D.), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 22:58 (four years ago) link
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.
― timellison, Wednesday, 7 August 2019 00:47 (four years ago) link
Played as a lead guitar part here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at1rYffo8dw
― timellison, Wednesday, 7 August 2019 00:51 (four years ago) link
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
― na (NA), Wednesday, 7 August 2019 14:29 (four years ago) link