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RARE and SOUGHT AFTER
1968 CLASSIC BRITISH ROCK COLLECTIBLE
The ZOMBIES
ODESSEY AND ORACLE
USA - DATE RECORDS - TEWS 4013
PLAYS CLEAN see full details below
SOUGHT AFTER 100 ORIGINAL ISSUE
Original 1968 first pressing with colorful paisley-pop first issue cover design of the second and last ZOMBIES album filled with highly memorable pop-psych gems, backed by lush pepperism arrangements, all becoming quite the in collectible of recent years...Trying to get a 48 year old copy is not easy with all of the demand involved...
THEE 1968 release ODESSEY AND ORACLE was one of the best albums of the sixties, and one of the most enduring long-players to come out of the entire British psychedelic boom, mixing trippy melodies, ornate choruses, and lush Mellotron sounds with a solid hard rock base. But it was overlooked completely in England and barely got out in America with a big push by Al Kooper, who was then a Columbia Records producer and it was neglected in the U.S. until the single Time of the Season, culled from the album, topped the charts nearly two years after it was recorded, by which time the group was long disbanded. Ironically, at the time of its recording in the summer of 1967, permanency was not much on the minds of the bandmembers. Odessey and Oracle was intended as a final statement, a bold last hurrah, having worked hard for three years only to see the quality of their gigs decline as the hits stopped coming. The results are consistently pleasing, surprising, and challenging: Hung Up on a Dream and Changes are some of the most powerful psychedelic pop/rock ever heard out of England, with a solid rhythm section, a hot Mellotron sound, and chiming, hard guitar, as well as highly melodic piano. Changes also benefits from radiant singing. This Will Be Our Year makes use of trumpets one of the very few instances of real overdubbing in a manner reminiscent of Penny Lane and then there s Time of the Season, the most well-known song in their output and a white soul classic. Odysee Oracle is all consistently interesting and very good listening, and superior to most other psychedelic albums this side of the Beatles best and Pink Floyd s early work.
Rod Argent - vocals, keyboards
Colin Blunstone - lead vocals
Paul Atkinson - guitar, vocals
Hugh Grundy - drums
Chris White - bass, vocals
Care of Cell 44
A 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
CONDITION: The cover: Solid and colorful and only a bit of minor shelf wear beginning, hardly anything, looks strong VG has a minor company stamp on back cover photo 2 retains a strong visible appearance...Has NO delete marks, no seam splits, or other alarming problems not mentioned, and potentially for many minus the mint prospectors no upgrade necessary
The vinyl: all shiny clean, top copy, rated: VG to EX excellent few minor scuffs visual mainly clean and plays clean and smooth all the way - having clean DATE labels too with company red rubber stamp
A GREAT ADDITION TO ANYONE S COLLECTION
SEE: SELLERS OTher items for similar cool sounds for head people...
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GRADING SCALE: M, M-, EX, VG ,VG , VG, VG-
M Completely clean, no marks
M- Carefully used, looks clean, plays clean, shiny gloss, no marks
EX Faint scuff or superficial mark, near M-, high gloss, plays clean
VG Glossy with minimal scuffing or light mark playing very nice, clean
VG a bit more scuff or markls still plays well with very minimal surface at worse
VG more marks/scratches only minor, nothing deep, no loud clicks or pops
this grade is abused by many, VG here does not mean trashed
VG- surface noise present, will not have skips or jumps
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