Zombies – This Will Be Our Year

I love tradition so here we are again! Happy New Year 2024.

For the past few years, this has been my first post in the New Year. If you have followed me for a while you should know this one.

Next to Auld Lang Syne, this is my favorite New Year’s Song. A favorite of mine from one of my favorite bands. Everyone… I wish you a Happy New Year in 2024.

You didn’t have to read my blog but you did and I really appreciate it…I want to thank all of you for reading and commenting in 2023.

This song sounds like it should have been a hit but it was never pushed as a single at the time. It was the B side to Butcher’s Tale  (Western Front 1914) which is an experimental song and was a big surprise to the band that it was picked as the first single. Both are from the great album Odessey and Oracle in 1968. Several songs on this album could have been in the charts but Time of the Season was the only one that made it and it was a year after the album was released.

Bruce Eder of AllMusic gave the album five stars out of five, calling it “one of the flukiest (and best) albums of the 1960s, and one of the most enduring long-players to come out of the entire British psychedelic boom”.

On recording Odessey and Oracle…Rod Argent:

“We had the chance of going in and putting things down in the way we wanted people to hear them and we had a new studio, we walked in just after The Beatles had walked out [after recording Sgt. Pepper]. We were the next band in. They’d left some of their instruments behind … I used John Lennon’s Mellotron, that’s why it’s all over Odessey and Oracle. We used some of their technological advances … we were using seven tracks, and that meant we could overdub for the first time. And it meant that when I played the piano part I could then overdub a Mellotron part, and it meant we could have a fuller sound on some of the songs and it means that at the moment the tour we’re doing with Odessey and Oracle it means we’re actually reproducing every note on the original record by having extra player with us as well.”

This Will Be A Year

The warmth of your love
Is like the warmth of the sun
And this will be our year
Took a long time to come

Don’t let go of my hand 
Now darkness has gone
And this will be our year 
Took a long time to come

And I won’t forget 
The way you held me up when I was down
And I won’t forget the way you said, 
“Darling I love you”
You gave me faith to go on

Now we’re there and we’ve only just begun
This will be our year
Took a long time to come

The warmth of your smile
Smile for me, little one
And this will be our year
Took a long time to come

You don’t have to worry
All your worried days are gone
This will be our year
Took a long time to come

And I won’t forget 
The way you held me up when I was down
And I won’t forget the way you said, 
“Darling I love you”
You gave me faith to go on

Now we’re there and we’ve only just begun
And this will be our year
Took a long time to come

Yeah we only just begun
Yeah this will be our year
Took a long time to come

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Author: Badfinger (Max)

Power Pop fan, Baseball, Beatles, Alternative music, old movies, and tv show fan. Also anything to do with pop culture in the 60s and 70s... I'm also a songwriter, bass and guitar player. Not the slightest bit interested in politics at all.

26 thoughts on “Zombies – This Will Be Our Year”

  3. A bunch of best friends got together and formed the band, they had a few hits, they only had five songs reach Billboard’s Top 100, most people only remember three of their songs, they were surprisingly unsuccessful commercially and they should have done much better, as they had the potential, and they were highly original.

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  8. I had not heard that one. A Zombie story if I may: Back in the early 70s, I was at a club on the beach in Port Aransas. There was a band playing, calling themselves Argent. They sounded British, looked British and all that, so I assume it was Argent, or some of the old Zombies, as they said. The youngsters ( the surfing crowd) didn’t appreciate their music, they wanted Beach Boys and such, but I dug them. Have a great 24 Max, and looking froward to more great post.

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    2. Argent!?! on the beach. Sounds mighty swell. Love Argent right along with The Zombies. Good listening and The Beach Boys are OK, but really, British musicians playing British music beats them like a pair of kings beats a pair of 10’s.

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    1. They had some really good songs. they probably were the best pure musicians out of all the British invasion bands….they were partly jazz.

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