Man, I want these shoes.
Let's continue our quest to be just like the network morning news shows with another imaginary Friday summer concert.
This week, the third best British Invasion band (which is not a bad ranking considering the quality of the other two bands), The Zombies.
They wrote a bunch of great songs and covered plenty of American R&B, but never quite got the attention they deserved in America because the Beatles and the Rolling Stones were just that good. The Zombies' 1968 psychedelic masterpiece "Odessey and Oracle" ("Odyssey" was apparently misspelled by the album cover designers) is one of my all-time favorites and includes their only No. 1 song, "Time of the Season." The group broke up before the album was released. Thirty-five years later, Rolling Stone placed it at No. 80 on their list of the 500 greatest albums. You must hear "Beechwood Park" and "Care of Cell 44," the best song ever written about an imprisoned girlfriend.
As great as "Odessey and Oracle" is, their early singles "Tell Her No" and "She's Not There" as well as stuff like "The Way I Feel Inside" shouldn't be ignored.
Let's continue our quest to be just like the network morning news shows with another imaginary Friday summer concert.
This week, the third best British Invasion band (which is not a bad ranking considering the quality of the other two bands), The Zombies.
They wrote a bunch of great songs and covered plenty of American R&B, but never quite got the attention they deserved in America because the Beatles and the Rolling Stones were just that good. The Zombies' 1968 psychedelic masterpiece "Odessey and Oracle" ("Odyssey" was apparently misspelled by the album cover designers) is one of my all-time favorites and includes their only No. 1 song, "Time of the Season." The group broke up before the album was released. Thirty-five years later, Rolling Stone placed it at No. 80 on their list of the 500 greatest albums. You must hear "Beechwood Park" and "Care of Cell 44," the best song ever written about an imprisoned girlfriend.
As great as "Odessey and Oracle" is, their early singles "Tell Her No" and "She's Not There" as well as stuff like "The Way I Feel Inside" shouldn't be ignored.
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