There have been a few attempts to create a companion album to the Zombies'
Odessey & Oracle, including the official
Into The Afterlife, but they don't get spun much on th' Isle O' Foam™, mainly for the K4 reasons: (lack of) Kohesiveness, Koncision, and Kwality Kontrol. I've been tinkering with - wupes,
*curating* - this collection for what seems like years. I finally drove myself to complete it by coming up with a title, which is damn clever
*shit-eating grin*, and this here cover design
[above - Ed.], which I'm confident you'll agree is the most beautiful sleeve design, like, ever. But enough of your praise.
Is the album a lost classic, as good as
Odessey & Oracle? Of course it ain't, ya doofus. Very few albums are. But in common with similar IoF© sorcery summoning up UK pop-psych albums from a non-existent past
[Nirvana, Hollies, Small Faces, Donovan- Ed.], it's an album you'll be proud to play when unexpected guests drop by! And why not set out a few gay paper plates of Twiglets™
[left - Ed.] for th' freeloadin' bums bargin' into your house wit' you in yer BVDs? These toothsome n' tasty snack-sticks make for mouthwatering munching at any informal social gathering, be it barbecue or bris, brunch or bare-knuckle fist fight! Yes, what could be more appetising than these sticky, over-salty, mud-colored, knobbly little by-products of the pig food industry? Who the freaking fuck sees a tin of Twiglets© at their local store and says
"mmm! Twiglets®!
Take my money!" What a world we live in. I can't make head nor tail of it. Uh ... what were we talking about?
This post sponsored by the Crab Claw Cabin™, Pismo Beach CA. "Crunchy Crab Claws In The Raw! Gimme More!"®
Snax. The Ritz crackers you get here are but a pale shadow of their former glory; they ain't as salty, as puffed-up and crisp, and you can't satisfyingly split them into a pair of matching discs with your thumbnail. Also, Siam is home to the weirdest seafood horror snacks you'll see outside a Wuhan wet market.
ReplyDelete'Siam is home to the weirdest seafood horror snacks you'll see outside a Wuhan wet market.' Amen to that!
DeleteHi Freddie - Check out soniclovenoise blog for his post oddessey LP. He added Colin's voice to a few songs.
DeleteThanks for this - please remember to sign your anonymous comments with a nick!
DeleteAs his blog isn't searchable, here's the link:
https://albumsthatneverwere.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-zombies-rip.html
He had different parameters. I like Rod Argent's singing, I wanted "She's Not There" there, and I don't consider the instrumental B-side "Conversation Off Floral Street" an album choice. But as always, his remixing is master-class stuff!
In the unlikely event you don't have Odessey n' Oracle, here it is (no bonus tracks - they'll appear on Omen n' Illiad):
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I likes the peanuts with garlic flakes , and the pork crackling (Kep muu??) go well with an ice-cold Chang!!!
ReplyDeleteIn clinical tests, ice-cold Chang™ beer has been proven not only to atrophy frontal lobe brain cells but permanently damage taste receptors in the tongue.
DeleteA-Ha!! So,dat's why I kin eat all da' sooper-spicy food in da' Sarf of Siam!!
DeleteAny beer with ice and Moo Dad Deaw (หมูแดดเดียว) tastes fantastic!
DeleteBeer and Twiglets, even better.
DeleteBeing vegetarian, I don't do Moo Dad Deaw. That said, Thao Kae Noi hot & spicy crispy seaweed from Thailand goes nice with a frosty brew.
DeleteGenesis were fond of Twiglets, see rare Belgium tv performance, of single B side, Twiglet Alehouse from 1972.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH7PmtaVR74
Since I don't venture out much I settle for the Schwartz Brothers Bakery Organic Everything Bagel Chips they stock at CostCo.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful cover btw -- it's deserving of all the hype that's been trending on TicToc recently. Where can I pick up a copy for the mantel?
It's also gone viral on Insta!
DeleteI like a Twiglet, although I'd rip your face off for a can of Cheese Footballs...
ReplyDeleteCheese footballs ... literally impossible to stop eating. People have exploded, with a smile on their faces.
DeleteThe below link, leads to the stairway to 'Zombie Heaven'
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This is a fantastic set, absolutely essential. Say "thank you" nicely to Babs, now!
DeleteHere's the synchronistically anorthographic Omen & Illiad, which sounds like a swell album to me:
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Thanks for the future memories of long pasts I missed out on until now. Babs' file is, as usual, intimidatingly large and monolith-opaque.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of which, seeing the classic LP titled 'Odd' on Workupload reminded me of my dear old mum's charming habit of mangling titles - 'Goodfellas' became 'The Good Fellows', 'Dances With Wolves' became 'Dancing With The Wolves' and when I asked her to record Kubrick's '2001' on VHS for me the resulting tape bore a skew-wiff handwritten label "Odd 2000".
This post has had a surprisingly high number of page views - have any of youse bums played the album yet?
ReplyDeleteI've just had a listen Farq, and like it, Colin Blunstones voice is wonderful. I discovered O&O when a hippy guy (friend of the family, 10 years my senior) invited me to pop round and borrow some LP's. Even though I'd never heard the Zombies, O&O was one that I borrowed and taped, I just liked the cover.
DeleteThanks, I wish more people would give feedback on stuff they download. I know I sometimes take days/weeks to get round to listening sometimes, so any feedback would be a page or two back and 'lost'.
/years
DeleteMrDave sets on the porch most days, sippin' shine from a Mason jar, watchin' the swamp gators watchin' him.
DeleteLike Bambi mentioned it's not always easy to find time to listen, but I did play it while doing some work and am sorry to admit only noticed that suddenly there was no more music... Just to absorbed in whatever I was doing, so I must give it another spin...
DeleteI'm more interested in talking about the Zombies than this specific collection. O&O is not so much underrated as forgotten - when it's remembered, it's given the credit it's due, as one of perhaps the very greatest sixties pop albums, a beautiful piece of work. But it got lost on release, especially in the US. As recording started in '67, perhaps the cover looked just a little old-fashioned by the time it was released in April '68 - and the psychedelic artwork didn't really represent the baroque harmony arrangements and traditional song structures of the music. Putting this collection together has made me appreciate O&O again.
DeleteNot exactly the view from my veranda which overlooks the lovely green field that used to be the 6th hole of a golf course before it went bankrupt 20 years ago but just a short bike ride into the state forest that my neighborhood abuts. This would be a fine hard stool for "not meditating" if it weren't for the bugs, gators, snakes and bears: https://imgur.com/a/NMe0JIE
DeleteThat's a backwoods sacrificial altar.
DeleteAny chance of reupping the Nirvana? I missed that one the first time around.
ReplyDeleteAnd you are ...?
DeleteI am Ken, a regular reader of your blog with my first cup of coffee in the morning who still lives in a world where the Zombies, Small Faces, and the like still rule. You did such a great job on the Small Faces and Hollies I wanted to check out your Nirvana mix.
ReplyDeleteI'll re-up with pleasure, Ken, and thanks for giving yourself a name.
DeleteWait wait wait. Let me climb out of the bushes into the light. I too would like to hear the re upped Nirvana when it re-ups. I am or I should say
ReplyDelete"we're the heck-aw-we?" Does anyone listen to The Flock and Prefab Sprout as well? Very thankful to you all for the old and (for me)new musical groups and the great comments and depth of and and an an an........sorry they are telling me to go back to the bushes
If you are very diligent you will find the Nirvana album - Kurt Cobain's finest hour - in the comments to the "Box Set" post.
DeleteThank you kind sir
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