Dave Segal on HEALTH : HEALTH, Past Lives, Pictureplane, Pregnant (Vera) All of this peripheral stuff would be irrelevant if HEALTH sounded anemic. But the L.A. quartet—Benjamin Jared Miller (drums), Jake Duzsik (vocals, guitar, Zoothorn), John Famiglietti (bass, Zoothorn, percussion), Jupiter Keyes (guitar, percussion, Zoothorn, synth)—blitz you with scathing shafts of oddly beautiful...
Levi Stubbs Tears by Billy Bragg is a song that brings back 1985, drinking cider in the park, a crafty fag at school and a girl with eyes like saucers. Pay no more than £1.99 and the sentiment of the song has nothing to do with those memories. The Zombies were a late find for me. The Who, Small Faces, Stones, Kinks, yeah, yeah, yeah, been listening to them for 20 odd years but Odessey and Oracle...
Photo courtesy of TigerSpring In the Danish band Choir of Young Believers, there are many singers. Half of the near-dozen members on This Is for the White in Your Eyes (Tigerspring), the group’s European debut album, contribute backing vocals. But there is only one Voice: founding songwriter Jannis Noya Makrigiannis, who manages to sound utterly alone [...]
Just got home from the thrilling opportunity to check out “Porgy and Bess” at San Francisco Opera — my first trip to the venerable War Memorial Opera House. (It ain’t the Fillmore, but it’s nice!) The Gershwin classic runs through June 27, but as I type this all upcoming performances are listed as sold out. [...]
It's Rod Argent's birthday today, so I thought I'd put up this sweeping piece of psychedelia. The Zombies' 1968 masterpiece Odessy and Oracle is one of the greatest albums ever recorded, and although it's a hard choice, this is my favorite track on't. This is one of the classic albums of the sixties I think everyone needs, honestly.
The Zombies, The Yardbirds and The Spencer Davis GroupAnnounce Summer 2009 North American Tour The Zombies Some of the finest artists from the British Invasion return to the States for the "Rock Royalty Tour 2009." Topping the bill are The Zombies, featuring original members Colin Blunstone and Rod Argent. The Zombies are celebrating the release of the Odessey and Oracle 40th Anniversary...
This week's playlist, which I've titled Misty Rosary, doesn't have an organising theme like the other ones I've done recently, it's just seventeen songs I really like right now. I hope you will too... Misty Roses by The Zombies is a live performance from the Odessey And Oracle 40th Anniversary CD/DVD, ...
From Wikipedia: "I Love You" is a song by The Zombies written by Chris White. The cover version by People!, released in 1968 (b/w "Somebody Tell Me My Name" Capitol Records 2078) was a #14 hit in the USA and...
[caption id="attachment_543" align="alignnone" width="279" caption="From Rock Of Ages by Grant Morrison and Howard Porter"][/caption] The Zombies' album Odessey And Oracle is one of the few 'classic albums' that happens to really be the best album of the band's career. While many Beach Boys albums are at least as good as Pet ...
EVERY second concert these days seems to be celebrating some anniversary of some album released by some codgers hoping to top up the pension fund while the live music industry is still bucking the credit crunch. But this concert rendition of the cultADVERTISEMENTclassic Odessey & Oracle by the four surviving Zombies (and friends) was indisputably labelled with love.By the time the album was first...
I have just heard The Zombies 40th Anniversary Live 2008 concert of Odessey and Oracle and quite frankly, I had given up on music delivering the joy this has. "Care of Cell 44" is my new most very favourite tune. What happiness and fun in Colin Blunstone's voice. I need to own this! "Care of Cell 44" has become my most very favouritests tune. EVAH! Gawd bless ye Colin and Rod and...
If we must have mainstream pop about mature romance, then we should ask that it always be sung by Colin Blunstone. The Zombies' frontman's pipes are a miracle of softness and tensile strength. And that is where the comparisons with toilet paper should end. Better, we should admire its clarity, sweetness and its capacity for spreading itself on baroque strings like butter. The best songs here are decent,...
WHEN the Zombies were huge and also small – No 1 in America but nothing like in Britain – they were granted the keys to a US city, the name of which has been forgotten by both
The resurgence of all things progressive in rock, from the re-emergence of Van der Graaf Generator to the stadium-filling antics of Radiohead and Muse, has cast a new light on overlooked catalogues from bands such as The Alan Parsons Project (recently revamped and expanded in de rigueur, de luxe fashion).
Colin Blunstone, a man with a voice as quintessesntially English as Nick Drake, Kevin Ayers and Eazy-E, has a new record coming out by the name of ‘The Ghost Of You And Me’ (9th March) and, obviously, he's taking it...
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