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posted by on March 12 at 11:32 AM
The Zombies (LIVING HISTORY) We should be willing to suffer through whatever solo-career flab Rod Argent and Colin Blunstone (basically, the Zombies) put us through just to hear them play a few scraps of Odessey and Oracle—it’s hard to explain how goddamned good that record is. It was released in 1968. Its opening song is a letter to a girlfriend in prison. It has organs and flutes and electrifying harmonies. It sounds like a rose smells—nostalgic and complicated, sweet but not cloying. Their earth-moving days are 30 years behind them, but I can’t help wanting to see bodies that house the genius. (The Triple Door, 216 Union St, 838-4333. 7:30 pm, $30 adv/$32 DOS, all ages.) BRENDAN KILEY
Further evidence that a large part of whatever the hell was going on in the sixties was psychosomatic. The Zombies were great but "God Gave Rock and Roll To You" and especially "Hold Your Head Up" is mind-blowingly bad drivel.
$32!
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