zombies - rose for emily

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This is a long shot, but does anybody know where I'd be able to find (on the internet) sheet music, or a transcription of the melody, for the Zombies song Rose For Emily? I think I could do it myself, but I don't really feel like it.

― Daniel DiMAGGIO (Daniel DiMAGGIO), Thursday, 1 April 2004 04:34 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.musicnotes.com/searchresults.asp?bookmark=0&sortby=&cookie=&Query=%28%28%40DocAuthor+%22The+Zombies%22%29+or+%28%40Person+%22The+Zombies%22%29%29&querystring=%3Cb%3Eartist%3A%3C%2Fb%3E+%22The+Zombies%22%2C+%3Cbr%3E%3Cb%3Eall+products%3C%2Fb%3E&only=E&whatsearch=&PT=The+Zombies&phrase=1

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 1 April 2004 04:39 (twenty-one years ago)

you won't find free sheet music anywhere. if you were after tabs on the other hand..

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 1 April 2004 04:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I was able to print out the first page for free on that site, which should be enough. Thanks.

― Daniel DiMAGGIO (Daniel DiMAGGIO), Thursday, 1 April 2004 05:02 (twenty-one years ago)

anyone else think the version with the cello is superior?

― MerkinMuffley (MerkinMuffley), Thursday, 1 April 2004 05:16 (twenty-one years ago)

not to speak ill of the dead, but it still kind of infuriates me that Ian Macdonald slated them in Uncut, and said they were deservedly obscure. I have the zombies music book linked to above and although their songs sound deceptively simple, they were almost as musically complex and unusual as the Beach boys. Then you see Macdonald attempting musicological praise for Nick Drake, who had nothing except a few funny tunings and a fast picking style. Sigh.

― pulpo, Thursday, 1 April 2004 07:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't get Ian McDonald's opinion on the Zombies either. He apparently had some problems? When I listen to the Beatles' "Day in the Life" and then think back on the effusive praise McDonald heaped on that song in his "Revolution in the Head," and then listen to the Zombies, it becomes even stranger to me. How is "A Day in the Life" somehow all that superior as a song or as a recording to the stuff on "Odessey and Oracle"? To me "Day in the Life" just sounds thin compared to any number of Zombies tunes. Am I missing something here?

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Thursday, 1 April 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

No, you're absolutely right!

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 1 April 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, word god. I agree fully.

― Daniel DiMAGGIO (Daniel DiMAGGIO), Friday, 2 April 2004 12:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks, Dr. and Daniel DiMaggio. I went to see Argent/Blunstone here in Nashville about 2 months ago and since then I've immersed myself in the Zombies. I actually have a really nice LP reissue of "Sgt. Pepper's" (I figured this is one LP it's nice to have as an LP, you know?) and I listened to the damned thing for the first time since I bought it maybe four years ago...I guess I like "Fixing a Hole" OK and I do like "Day in the Life." But it sure lacks density compared to "Odessey" and I don't see how the Beatles were somehow more "melodic" or "adventurous" or even "creepy" than the Zombies...at the time they were the whole of rock and all that but now the Beatles seem like an inferior version of things other less praised people did better...the Byrds, Love, "Who Sell Out," Moby Grape, Zombies, "Safe as Milk"--all seem to me to be better Artistes/Great Works of Classic Rock than the Beatles...

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Friday, 2 April 2004 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Zombies >>> Beatles
Kinks >>> Beatles

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 2 April 2004 21:16 (twenty-one years ago)

roger OTM!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 2 April 2004 21:31 (twenty-one years ago)

zombies guitarist paul atkinson, who had been sick for years, was reported dead today:

http://www.undercover.com.au/news/2004/apr04/20040403_zombies.html

he had a long career in A&R after the zombies split. he signed abba to their uk deal.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Saturday, 3 April 2004 03:42 (twenty-one years ago)

paul atkinson <<< Beatles

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Saturday, 3 April 2004 05:36 (twenty-one years ago)

nearly all the stuff ian macdonald wrote for uncut is really depressingly fogey-ish - "lesley gore ain't all she's cracked up to be," "if you can't appreciate the genius of this 4-cd hendrix compilation you're an idiot," et al.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 3 April 2004 11:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Lesley Gore? Who ever said she was cracked up to be anything?
Sad about Paul Atkinson.

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Saturday, 3 April 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

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