History Music / OdesseyAndOracle

* RougeAnglesOfSatin[=/=]TyopOnTheCover: The spelling mistake in the ''title'' of this album. The band did at the time try to claim it was an intentional [[IncrediblyLamePun play on the word “odes”]], but no: the guy who designed the cover just didn't know how to spell.[[note]]For the record, it should be “odyssey”.[[/note]]

* WarIsHell[=/=]UsefulNotes/WorldWarI: "Butcher's Tale (Western Front, 1914)", set during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI.

Sadly, by the time this album was released, The Zombies had already broken up, and upon release was virtually ignored commercially and critically. However, this album has become one of the great VindicatedByHistory stories. "Time of the Season" was released as a single in 1969, and it became a major hit as well as the band's SignatureSong, along with "She's Not There" from 1964. Gradually, the album itself gained a cult following, and critics eventually began to take notice. It is now known as one of the greatest albums of TheSixties - if not all time, and consistently pops up on Greatest Albums lists. Needless to say, ''Odessey and Oracle'' is generally seen as the band's best. The album was listed at #100 in ''Magazine/RollingStone''[='s=] [[Music/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time]] .

[[AC: Side One]]

# "Care of Cell 44"
# "A Rose for Emily"
# "Maybe After He's Gone"
# "Beechwood Park"
# "Brief Candles"
# "Hung Up on a Dream"

[[AC: Side Two]]

# "Changes"
# "I Want Her, She Wants Me"
# "This Will Be Our Year"
# "Butcher's Tale (Western Front 1914)"
# "Friends of Mine"
# "Time of the Season"

* InTheStyleOf: "Beechwood Park" (similar to Music/ProcolHarum's "A Whiter Shade of Pale"), and "Hung Up on a Dream" (similar to Music/TheBeatles' "A DayInTheLife" from ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'' ''and'' Music/TheBeachBoys' "Good Vibrations" from ''Music/SmileySmile''). In addition, "Time of the Season" is built on a bass riff similar to Ben E. King's "Stand by Me". "A Rose for Emily" is thematically similar to the Beatles' [[Music/{{Revolver}} "Eleanor Rigby"]].

* NostalgiaFilter: "Hung Up on a Dream" is nostalgic for the Summer of Love.
** Which had occurred mere months before.

* ShoutOut: "Time of the Season" was used in - among many others - ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "D'ohin' in the Wind", during the scene where Homer is sneaking out at night to make organic juice from peyote plants.
** "Time of the Season" has also become a StandardSnippet, a go-to song for a drug-related scene or a scene set in the late 1960s.

* InTheStyleOf: "Beechwood Park" (similar to Music/ProcolHarum's "A Whiter Shade of Pale"), and "Hung Up on a Dream" (similar to Music/TheBeatles' "A DayInTheLife" from ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'' ''and'' Music/TheBeachBoys' "Good Vibrations" from ''Music/SmileySmile''). In addition, "Time of the Season" is built on a bass riff similar to Ben E. King's "Stand by Me".

* MoodWhiplash: The ominous, doomy anti-war ballad "Butcher's Tale" stands out all the more because it comes directly after "This Will Be Our Year", one of the album's most optimistic songs, and before the fluffy PenultimateSong "Friends of Mine".

* MoodWhiplash: The ominous, doomy anti-war ballad "Butcher's Tale" stands out all the more because it comes directly after "This Will Be Our Year", one of the album's most optimistic songs.

* InTheStyleOf: "Beechwood Park" (similar to Music/ProcolHarum's "A Whiter Shade Of Pale"), and "Hung Up On A Dream" (similar to Music/TheBeatles' "A DayInTheLife" from ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'' ''and'' Music/TheBeachBoys' "Good Vibrations" from ''Music/SmileySmile''). In addition, "Time of the Season" is built on a bass riff similar to Ben E. King's "Stand by Me".

** "Time of the Season" has also become a StandardSnippet, a go-to song for a drug-related scene or a scene set in the late-60's.