Odessey & Oracle

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Odessey and the Oracle ranked no. 80". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 2 September 2011 . Retrieved 4 August 2021. Then, when you could get samples on synthesizers, etc., I could try out in a rough form what I was writing. Which is how I did the end of “Different Game,” the orchestral bit where it breaks down. I improvised that on a keyboard with some string samples, and then scored it. It was instinctive and just once through. I don’t know how I wrote it, I couldn’t do it again, it was at the moment, in that particular song. It was lovely to be able to score it.

Blunstone’s angelic, soulful voice remains remarkably intact, which is perfect for Argent, who laughs, “I refuse to write songs in any lower keys than I’ve done in the past.” Odessey and Oracle – The Zombies". rollingstone.com. Archived from the original on 11 September 2012 . Retrieved 10 February 2012.

Boehme, Mike (17 November 1994). "The Zombies"Odessey and Oracle" (1968)". LA Times . Retrieved 19 January 2022. Top 100–200 Favourite Albums Ever: The Stylus Magazine List". Stylus Magazine. 22 March 2004. Archived from the original on 28 December 2016 . Retrieved 10 February 2012. We did meet the Moodies, actually, and went to a couple of social things with them. Because we lived in St. Albans, which was only 18 miles from London, we didn’t stay in London, like a lot of the bands who’d come down from the north of England. So, we would just go home, not just not just stay in London and then go down to the Bag of Nails Club or Cromwellian or whatever. So, it’s extraordinary, we seem to meet more people now than we ever did when we were first on the road all those years ago.

We use a great string quartet on it. Jessica Cox and a group called Q strings. They play for lots of people actually, but amongst them, Jeff Lynne and ELO. We recorded the strings in my house as well. So that was a real joy. Johansen, Claes (1 September 2001). The Zombies: hung up on a dream: a biography 1962–1967. SAF Publishing Ltd. p.174. ISBN 9780946719341 . Retrieved 28 March 2012.Jones, Peter; Jopling, Norman (4 May 1968). "The Zombies: Odessey and Oracle" (PDF). Record Mirror. No.373. p.8 . Retrieved 8 April 2023. Umile, Dominic (15 January 2013). "Mods and Mellotrons: The Zombies at Abbey Road, PopMatters". PopMatters . Retrieved 17 May 2021. The original five-piece line-up reformed briefly in 1997 for the launch party of the Zombie Heaven boxset. They performed " She's Not There" and "Time of the Season" at London's Jazz Café. In 2001, Blunstone and Argent resurrected the Zombies as a recording and touring unit with ex-Argent and The Kinks bass guitarist Jim Rodford, his son Steve Rodford on drums and Keith Airey on guitar. The Blunstone-Argent lineup toured for several years, performing a number of songs from the album. There was one final reunion of the original five members in 2004 at a benefit gig for Paul Atkinson, and though Atkinson was very ill, he insisted on performing with them. Atkinson died later that year. In 2012, Rolling Stone placed Odessey at number 100 in its "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list. [31]