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

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 44
Butcher's Tale
This Will Be Our Year
Friends Of Mine
Time Of The Season
Changes
Beechwood Park
Maybe After He's Gone
I 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

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