Zombies – This Will Be Our Year

I love tradition so here we are again! Happy New Year 2025. 

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. Again for 2025 my first post!

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.

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

  2. That is a good song to start the year off with Max. Your posts are always a highlight for me, even though I may miss the odd one! I especially appreciate your anecdotes and the way you make connections in your posts.All the best for 2025!

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    1. Thank you Randy and I don’t think you ever miss one! This is my last of repeats until Halloween but out of all the seasonal songs…I like this one the best.

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  5. There’s no denying the Zombies could write good, catchy pop melodies. Nice song. Our theme was “Babe” by Styx, but there was an effort by some to stuff the ballot box for “Free Bird”. Voter fraud!

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    1. Now Free Bird would have been different! I never thought of that one as a prom song! I do like The Zombies a lot…and this one.
      The Foo Fighters did a good job on this one also when they covered it.

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      1. I’ve never really listened to the Foo Fighters much. Yeah, “Free Bird” was pretty retro at the time. I graduated in 1980, and that came out in what, ’73?

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  6. I remember that I was actually curious about that group once & I checked ’em out & they actually had more than a few hits. The Zombies were a successful pop group that could play & were pretty good in our parents day.

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    1. Yes they were…I listened to this album in the 80s and loved it. I’ve said this before…yes I’m a huge Beatles fan but there are many times I take this over Sgt Pepper…it’s that good of album.

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  8. Happy new year to you & the family! I don’t think I knew this song before you wrote about it a year or two back, but it is quite good. My go-to Jan.1 song is the obvious ‘New Year’s Day’ by U2

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    1. Oh yea…I like that song as well! This one just stuck with me so I kept it as a repeat…I can think of worse than the Zombies starting my year out lol!

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  12. This is a very nice ’60s’ feel sort of song. Good grief, Charlie Max, is it really 2025???? It seems only a few years ago we were worrying about Y2K, now quarter of a century has zipped under the radar.

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    1. I know…I remember as a much younger IT guy…geting ready for the end of the world in 2000. I still think the 90s were just a little while back.

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      3. SO close… ‘The Days Of Our Lives.’ For a little kid watching this mindless claptrap at the knee of his mother this half hour show felt like endless days indeed. No action, just talk and the occasional smooching between ruggedly handsome doctors (but never handsy- this was afternoon TV after all) and doe-eyed nurses or perfectly made-up beautiful patients. ‘My gosh, Martha, can’t you see that there’s something happening here, theres something slowly building up between us, I can see it in your eyes, something perfect, something beautiful- look Nurse, it’s the most rampant case of runaway pink eye this Ophthalmologist has ever seen.’ Boring as hell for a kid waiting to see the Three Stooges, or similar mayhem.

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      4. AH! See I wasn’t going to cheat! I remember that when I would be home in the summer or stay home from school sick…I just couldn’t remember which one!
        Sometimes the soap operas would get weird…if an actor was killed off (because of money probably) but a year later (and humbled needing a job) his evil twin brother would make an apperance.
        I actually started to watch one in the summer one year…The Young and the Restless. LOL runaway pink eye!
        Yes for the most part really boring…unless it was Dark Shadows…right? That was before I could remember.

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      5. I don’t think we had dark shadows at the time- NZTV was very unprogressive in programming- ‘Peyton Place’ had all of the -well, nowadays they’d be called cat lady’s or worse- writing letters of complaint to the censors on their lavender scented stationery.

        Yep, someone who was wanting a raise from the producers was all ready to marry Doctor Wade Hunkingdonne’s sister and suddenly they had to make a trip to Guatemala on a one-way ticket! Weird stuff, the writers must have gone crazy!

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      6. I don’t see how the writers got by with that stuff…housewives…oh I will get critized for this…but most women I’ve met don’t like unreal stuff happening…well unless it’s about Doctor Wade Hunkingdonne…lol.
        That is why I couldn’t believe Dark Shadows hit at all.

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      7. Yes, there’s a kind of grey zone in the old afternoon TV that was a combination of fantasy and day-dreaming, a kind of ‘let’s leave the everyday mind in Neutral for a while.’ But in a ‘real’ after 7 PM drama the producers couldn’t pull a fast one and get away with it.

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      8. Yea…you are right on that about primetime. I wasn’t sure if I was getting my point across but somehow you dug it out of the rubble of words I gave you.
        The one primetime soap that did that (cross the line)…was Dallas…the “it was all a dream” season…did not go over well.

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      9. Oh, ‘the Dream’ is and was such a cop-out. AND they still drag it out when they need to wrap up a cancelled show.

        PS- I’ll be back to zero comments for a few days yet, so no offence meant if I ‘like’ and that’s it. I have a quiet bubble of opportunity this morning.

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      10. I completely understand obbverse! Enjoy him while you have him there! We are not going anywhere. BTW…are you going to see A Complete Unknown? I would really reccomend it…I saw it Saturday. Randy saw it today and liked it as well.

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  13. While perhaps not as spectacular as “Time of the Season”, “This Will Be Our Year” is a beautiful song. If anything, it shows The Zombies weren’t a one-trick pony. I like to go back and revisit the entire “Odessey and Oracle” album. Happy New Year!

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    1. My all time favorite song by them is “Care of Cell 44″…that one is a masterpiece by them.
      That album stands up there with Sgt Pepper to me…it’s that good.

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    1. Glyn…I would put that way up on the list. If you like some really great pop songs…this is the album. I think “Care of Cell 44” is one of the best performed and structured pop songs ever. One of those songs they do in sections.
      I call it…Paul McCartney Meets Brian Wilson and they have a child…that song is it.

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