The Zombies - The Singles Collection: A's & B's 1964-1969

man what a great band. leave me be maybe

i can't think of two singles that i've heard so much that still have such impact as tell her no and she's not there.

except for maybe time of the season

Care of Cell 44 ftw

yeah, their "big 3" are Tell/She's/Time, and they all still slay, don't care how many times i hear them on the radio

"Care of Cell 44"--didn't even know it was a single.

"imagine the swan" - an epic closer

impulse vote for beechwood park, but all the odyssey & oracle singles are pretty untouchable, as are she's not there and tell her no obviously

and leave me be, shit

at first glance this seems impossible

Going Out Of My Head - their version, of course.

Was even better when they played it in Glasgow last year.

The Way I Feel Inside is so simple and pure, it's so good. That one and "Tell Her No".

I know I will regret my vote, no matter which one it is

Yeah, this is one of the more impossible polls, but I'm going to vote either "Whenever You're Ready" or "She's Coming Home" - I love both of those, and feel that they're sorta 'sleepers' here.

Everything here is amazing, but "She's Not There" is the second-greatest single of all time.

I always liked that "Tell Her No" is a way of getting every man in the world (who speaks English) to rebuke the advances of his gal. Like, maybe Baldr's mom coulda gotten through to that mistletoe sprig if she had a song as good as "Tell Her No" on the pop charts.

Am I the only one who thinks "Time of the Season" is super extra super sexy?

No.

Beechwood park, but really this is impossible.

"Friends of Mine" is proto-twee

^^^this.

also, it would have fit quite nicely on something else by the kinks.

Theirs is one of three (non-GBV) box sets I own. Pretty much everything in it is unimpeachable, and I agree that voting in this poll is nigh impossible. I might have to go with 'The Way I Feel Inside', though, if only because of its status as a fantastic and underexposed non-album track.

I guess "I Want You Back Again" wasn't a single. :(

Okay, it most definitely was a single, but "U.S. only" and it charted at #95.. I'm finding this an unfair exclusion since it was totally my first immediate choice..

Whenever You're Ready

The verses to "I Must Move" totally rule. Would love to play drums on a cover of that one.

Tis a funny coincidence, I won an ebay auction for the CD of "Begin Here" and the mono/stereo 2CD Odessey about a week ago, so now can make up a CDr with the A and B Sides for myself.

Also, I was discussing "A rose for Emily" with Alice as it's one of her favourite tracks, and 10 mins later there was a feature on them on the One show.

Heard the Posies' cover of "Leave Me Be" on my iPod while I was driving to work the other day and was like, "Fuck, this is a good song." Hard not to vote for that, but Care Of Cell 44 is just so amazing.

Went with Cell 44, but it really could have been any of them. What a great band.

I Love You is amazing, but so are so many other of these singles.

Did "She's Not There" invent prog? Or jazz-rock? Or both?

Prog, probably. They were publicised as being "swots" at the time, in those days where that seemed like a selling point and not something you'd keep quiet actually...

'I'll Call You Mine'

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Tell Her No is how I go

Friends of Mine, I guess...? what a band

recall some 90s interview where it was noted that all the couples mentioned in Friends of Mine had since broken up :(

everyone should be allowed 3 votes for this poll

"whenever you're ready" for the 'you're not teaching me a new thing' vox. "going out of my head" 2nd
"she's not there" 3rd

love this band so much. amazing musicians.

"Time of the Season" is one of the sexiest things I've ever heard.

Did "She's Not There" invent prog?

I don't hear it.

More people should vote in this. And more specifically, more people should try and steer away from voting for She's Not There, Time Of the Season and Care Of Cell 44 since there is so much goodness amongst at least half of these choices deserving better than a 9-way time for last place with 1 vote each.

*9-way tie*

GOIN' OUT OF MY HEAD

OVER YOU

I feel like Time of the Season invented the 70s. It always sounded so strange and different than everything else on oldies radio when i was a kid.

There's so much going on in Care of Cell 44, what an album opener.

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surprising

even though it was mentioned a lot in this thread, thought one of the big 3 would take it.

Who did the best "Goin' Out Of My Head"??? I never realized there were so many covers!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goin%27_Out_of_My_Head

huh. always just assumed "sometimes" was a single. it should've been