{"id":7655,"date":"2025-12-26T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/deep-cut-friday-this-will-be-our-year-by-the-zombies\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T14:30:00","slug":"deep-cut-friday-this-will-be-our-year-by-the-zombies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/deep-cut-friday-this-will-be-our-year-by-the-zombies\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep Cut Friday: \u2018This Will Be Our Year\u2019 by the Zombies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-1450400834-e1766759760253.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" alt=\"The Zombies in 1964. (Credit: Stone\/Daily Mirror\/Mirrorpix via Getty Images)\"><figcaption>The Zombies in 1964. (Credit: Stone\/Daily Mirror\/Mirrorpix via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Stereophonic sound was all the rage in the second half of the \u201960s, but nobody really knew if it would be the future of the music industry or a brief fad. Even the Beatles, who worked for three weeks on the mono mixes for 1967\u2019s <em>Sgt. Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club Band<\/em>, only spent three days on the stereo mixes for the album at Abbey Road. Soon after, the Zombies entered the same studio for their second album, <em>Odessey &amp; Oracle<\/em>. When they delivered the album to CBS Records mixed in mono, however, they learned that the label expected a stereo mix as well.<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/12\/perry-bamonte-the-cure-obit\/\">Longtime Cure Guitarist Perry Bamonte Dies<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/12\/5-albums-i-cant-live-without-rome-ramirez\/\">5 Albums I Can\u2019t Live Without:\u00a0Rome Ramirez<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/12\/dam-trio-revive-bowies-berlin-trilogy-in-berlin\/\">Old Career in an Old Town<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n <lite-youtube videoid=\"GaBsJoVz0Xw\" style=\"bottom: 0; height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; max-width:100%;\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The Zombies had to pay out of pocket for a rushed stereo mix of <em>Odessey &amp; Oracle<\/em>, having already spent CBS\u2019s recording budget. \u201cThis Will Be Our Year,\u201d penned by bassist Chris White and sung by frontman Colin Blunstone, presented the biggest challenge, as the song\u2019s trumpet part had been overdubbed directly to the mono mix, so a version of the album was released with the horns missing. That debacle was just one in a series of setbacks for the Zombies since their initial wave of chart success in 1964, and the dispirited band broke up by the time <em>Odessey &amp; Oracle<\/em> was released in 1968. The album was eventually reappraised as an avant-pop masterpiece, and the closing track \u201cTime of the Season\u201d belatedly became a hit in 1969.<\/p>\n<p>In September, the Zombies\u2019 label Beechwood Parks Records issued <a href=\"https:\/\/thezombiesmusic.shop\/collections\/odessey-and-oracle\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Odessey &amp; Oracle Mono Remastered<\/em><\/a>, sourced from the original 1967 tapes as the band had always intended, and \u201cThis Will Be Our Year\u201d sounds better than ever, with horns intact. The song was never issued as a single, appearing on the B-side of a far less accessible track, the protest song \u201cButcher\u2019s Tale (Western Front 1914).\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<lite-youtube videoid=\"eDpbMKbIKvE\" style=\"bottom: 0; height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; max-width:100%;\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In the decades since <em>Odessey &amp; Oracle<\/em>\u2019s release, \u201cThis Will Be Our Year\u201d has become a fan favorite. It\u2019s appeared in TV series like <em>Mad Men<\/em> and <em>Schitt\u2019s Creek<\/em>, and has been covered by everyone from the Foo Fighters to Susanna Hoffs. The Zombies eventually reunited and recorded more albums, performing \u201cThis Will Be Our Year\u201d at the band\u2019s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in 2019.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-three-more-essential-zombies-deep-cuts\"><strong>Three more essential Zombies deep cuts:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-sometimes\"><strong>\u201cSometimes\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>After the massive success of their 1964 debut single \u201cShe\u2019s Not There,\u201d the Zombies released a self-titled four song EP. The highlight \u201cSometimes,\u201d penned by keyboardist Rod Argent, opens like a ballad with dreamy a cappella harmonies before turning into a charged-up rocker.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-way-i-feel-inside\"><strong>\u201cThe Way I Feel Inside\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>There\u2019s probably no director more adept at using British Invasion album tracks memorably in their films than Wes Anderson. His 2004 feature <em>The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou<\/em> brought renewed attention to \u201cThe Way I Feel Inside,\u201d the contemplative 88-second track from the Zombies\u2019 1965 debut <em>Begin Here<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-i-love-you\"><strong>\u201cI Love You\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The Zombies\u2019 two \u201960s albums were released three years apart, at a time when many of their contemporaries were cranking out multiple albums each year. The band remained prolific, releasing around 16 songs as A-sides or B-sides in that period, but Decca Records dropped the band as they began to miss the pop charts. One of those unsuccessful singles, 1965\u2019s \u201cWhenever You\u2019re Ready,\u201d had a striking B-side, \u201cI Love You,\u201d that became a hit in America for the California band People! and in Japan for the Carnabeats.<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Zombies in 1964. 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