Best Song on Odessey and Oracle?

Maybe after he's gone
She'll come back... love me again ;_;

hung up on a dream.

It's obviously "I Want Her She Wants Me"

They're all wondrous, but a Rose for Emily is the one that gets me most.

feels so good you're coming home soon!

Time Of The Season really is the best, but I doubt anyone will vote for it. I didn't.

Time of the Season has a really awesome chord change at the end of the chorus. It's all standard E minor stuff in thr verse, then it starts leaning a little more on G major, then the last two chords of the chorus are Am7 and E, and you get that sweet G->G# movement in the melody on "loving."

But Rose for Emily has really good stuff throughout. Rod Argent sure know how to use those diminished sevenths. I wonder what key he'd say that song is in. It really goes all over, between G, D, A, and F (!).

Care of Cell 44 is great, but it's actually one of the most straightforward tunes, hamonically.

But man, This Will Be Our Year gets me every time.

It's between "Brief Candles" or "Hung Up on a Dream" for me.

I'm torn between about half of them at the moment - and I have a horrible suspicion that if I were to play the album in an attempt to resolve this then I would end up being torn between even more of them.

I Want Her She Wants Me narrowly shades Maybe After He's Gone narrowly shades all the rest.

IWHSWM is just so irrepressibly up and the harmonies are terrific. Also possibly Hugh Grundy's best drumming.

"Maybe After He's Gone" - it's just so miserable. (Second favourite: the much-maligned "Butcher's Tale")

"Our Year" is a perfect song.

Can't decide... BRAIN ANEURYSM!

THIS WILL BE OUR YEAR

its good enough for tiger woods. its good enough for me.

I love love love love love Beechwood Park.

i'd go for "changes", but i can't bring myself to vote in a st3ve goldb3rg endorsed poll

:*(

By the way, here's Of Montreal on the streets of Paris playing Care of Cell 44, although the guy singing 2 beats ahead the whole time got on my nerves.

Whoa, I just watched that, and I thought that one dude singing 2 beats ahead was my computer fucking up.

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fair enough. I voted c/o cell 44 btw

Time Of The Season robbed by anti-pop contrarians indie-guilterzzz.

yeah, the guy singing behind was annoying, but that clip is delightful!

bah I missed this
altho I would've voted for Friends of Mine

And This Will Be Our Year in a decisive victory! That's what I voted for in the end. It's also good to know that there are no Zombies-hating pod people in our midst.

Haha, also I guess the dude who liked Changes followed through on his abstinence threat.

Maybe I should've voted for Beechwood Park. That Maybe After He's Gone-Brief Candles stretch is the best. Half of Maybe's appeal is setting the mood for Beechwood Park. Cheerful Zombies songs (This Will Be Our Year, Friends of Mine) are great but not very convincing. Thankfully Butcher's Tale keeps those two apart.

My fav part of Maybe After He's Gone is that "All the days and all the nights" bridge. But you're right, it does set the mood for Beechwood. Flawless sequencing IMO.

Pit I didn't see this. "A Rose For Emily" would have gotten one more vote.

don't remember if i voted, but "hung up on a dream" is one of the most beautiful things i've heard. it has an unassuming structure that circles and builds and damn near breaks your heart by the time it gets to to the end.

in fact, the strength of most of the songs on this album is that their tenderness and understated poise prevents them from being corny or overly saccharine.

This poll is madness. Every song on the album is great, but Time of the Season easily towers over the rest.

^am inclined to agree; here's my ranking:

Time of the Season
Changes
Hung up on a Dream
Beechwood Park
I Want Her She Wants Me
Butcher's Tale (Western Front 1914)
A Rose for Emily
Brief Candles
Maybe After He's Gone
Care of Cell 44
Friends of Mine
This Will Be Our Year

don't get the love for "this will be our year". did y'all get married june '07 or something?

aoww move care of cell 44 up a spot or two.

the outcome of this poll is so perplexing i can't even casually disregard it.

don't remember if i voted on this one but cell 44 encapsulates everything great about this album pretty well imo, would probably be my pick

love the harmonies on this album so much btw, it's like a crash course in slipping non-diatonic chords into pop songs

Time of the season is so much better than the rest of this album. You might as well not vote for somebody to love on surrealistic pillow because wouldn't want to be predictqble by picking a truly great song over solid workmanlike album cuts.

whats your name whos your daddy is he rich like me <<pimp shit

feel like more sensitive soft rockers could use that kind of brio

whats your name whos your daddy is he rich like me <<pimp shit

Yep, and way ahead of the pack!

Is there an ILXor at Saatchi & Saatchi?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtXdw2CCcps

Result of this poll is the sort of horrid clumsy Americanism one might have expected. Obviously it's not a bad song but it's also the one I expected in that video

It might be about the 8th or 9th best song on the album, will give it that

Not really a favourite of mine either.

I Want Her She Wants Me is the correct best song

I'd have voted "Beechwood Park".

Still "Hung Up On a Dream", despite the silly lyric about men with flowers resting in their hair.

I might have voted for Friends of Mine. Very stark contrast between chipper surface/sad lyrical undertones there

Yeah, I just listened to the album recently after too much time away from it and was pleasantly reminded how great it is throughout, but 'Hung Up on a Dream' is still and always has been the one that makes me go whoa. Sure, it'sa bit overwrought and maudlin but it's also gooseflesh the whole way through. 'Walking in the Sun' has a similar effect (non-album track, I believe, it's in the Zombie Heaven box set).

yeah really lame winner... totally sounds out of place on this album imo... it’s all about that soupy end of the first side.. beechwood park, hung up on a steam... would’ve voted time of the season, honestly tho

steam on

I prefer the steamier tracks too.

I would have voted Brief Candles I think, but HUOAD a verrrrry close second

“time of the season” is certainly steamy

Strong contender for "the most overrated underrated album" afaic, it's good but give me a singles and b-sides collection over this any day.

This might be Brief Candles just b/c it's the one where Colin Blunstone starts singing the most times.

(xp) Disagree there, I've never really liked anything else they did.

Nothing against the winner but yeah, Hung Up On a Dream really does it for me, perfect song. Glad that it’s remained fairly off-the-radar, I could easily see it becoming a defining-the-60’s standard and getting beaten to death like White Rabbit.

I feel that I must be preaching to the choir here but in case there are members of the choir who haven't yet heard the word, the Left Banke's Walk Away Renée/Pretty Ballerina is an incredibly worthy companion to this album.

"Maybe After He's Gone" always strikes me as an obvious influence on Big Star.

I'm not sure I hear that... maybe in "India Song"?

Strong contender for "the most overrated underrated album" afaic, it's good but give me a singles and b-sides collection over this any day.

get thee a copy of Time of the Zombies 2xLP and ye need not settle

A few weeks ago my kid bought his first Internet vinyl, and it was a 68 US press Odyssey and Oracle. Or something. Anyhow he drag me upstairs within an hour and said listen listen. And this will be our year has a horn section and it feels quite strange.

xpost The aforementioned Zombie Heaven box set (which stunningly seems to still be in print, I got mine sometime in the late '90s) has, I believe, all of their recorded material. Worth it, imo.

Thx i am gonna hunt up and buy for the kid 👍