The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle [Germany Bonus Tracks]

Title: Odessey and Oracle [Germany Bonus Tracks] Artist: The Zombies Release Date: 1968 Re-Released On: 4/2/2001 Label: Repertoire Records UPC: 4009910494028 Genre: Rock Styles: Psychedelic, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Baroque Pop, Psychedelic Pop, British Psychedelia, AM Pop Moods: Autumnal, Bittersweet, Elegant, Melancholy, Atmospheric, Austere, Delicate, Dreamy, Gentle, Literate, Lush, Poignant, Restrained, Sophisticated, Wistful, Amiable/Good-Natured, Theatrical, Intimate, Laid-Back/Mellow, Sweet, Wry, Cynical/Sarcastic, Refined/Mannered, Reflective, Innocent, Sentimental, Summery Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 2 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. Care of Cell 44
2. A Rose for Emily
3. Maybe After He's Gone
4. Beechwood Park
5. Brief Candles
6. Hung up on a Dream
7. Changes
8. I Want Her She Wants Me
9. This Will Be Our Year
10. Butcher's Tale [Western Front 1914]
11. Friends of Mine
12. Time of the Season
13. I'll Call You Mine [Mono Version][*]
14. She Loves the Way They Love Her [*]
15. Imagine the Swan [*]
16. Smokey Day [*]
17. If It Don't Work Out [*]
18. I Know She Will [*]
19. Don't Cry for Me [*]
20. Walking in the Sun [*]
21. Conversation off Floral Street [*]
22. I Want You Back Again [Mono Version][*]
23. Gotta Get a Hold of Myself [Mono Version][*]
24. Goin' Out of My Head [Mono Version][*]
25. She Does Everything for Me [Mono Version][*]
26. Nothing's Changed [Mono Version][*]
27. I Could Spend the Day [*]
28. Girl Help Me [*]

Year Type Label Catalog # 2001 CD Repertoire Records 4940

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Odessey and Oracle has done amazingly well for an album that not too many people noticed on its original release in 1968 -- there have been at least three CD reissues of it since 1988, and this is number four. The 12 original tracks have been expanded to 28, the same number as the disc containing this album on the Zombie Heaven box and the free-standing 30th anniversary edition from Big Beat, but they don't entirely overlap; the complete original album is here, along with a half-dozen accompanying late 1968 outtakes that originally surfaced on Epic Records' Time of the Zombies compilation in 1973, but it also reaches back as far as 1965, to songs such as "Goin' Out of My Head," and several early tracks that only surfaced in the 1980s. The sound is state-of-the-art, and does present the original LP about as well as it ever is likely to be heard (at least, until the DVD-audio version of this album appears); the range of sounds encompassed in the collection is very wide, covering psychedelia and pop/r&b, and it does flow together. For a truly coherent look at their late period, the Big Beat single disc or box may be preferable, though it is difficult to criticize any of the music on this disc on its own terms. The notes present a decent account of the making of the original album, though nowhere near as detailed as the annotation on the Big Beat release. ~ Bruce Eder, All Music Guide

Name Credits Colin Blunstone Vocals Hugh Grundy Drums John Tracy Liner Notes Paul Atkinson Vocals, Guitar Rod Argent Vocals, Keyboards