Tommorow
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Topic: Tommorow
Posted By: The Wizard
Subject: Tommorow
Date Posted: March 09 2006 at 20:36
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Psychedelic band with Steve Howe in his early days. In the same scene as Pink Floyd and The Soft Machine. Anyone like them? Need advice, I don't know If I should buy the album. -------------  
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Posted By: Trotsky
Date Posted: March 09 2006 at 22:05
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I'm a big fan of Tomorrow's only record (I bought an expanded CD with bonus tracks that include non-album singles and some extra tracks) ... IMO if you're a big psych fan ... this is an essential purchase ... this is what I said in my review
If these were the Psycharchives, Tomorrow's sole album could have retired happily on the basis of the whopping 5 stars I would have accorded it. For I believe this Steve Howe-inspired nugget to be one of the finest examples of late 60s British psychedelic rock. Unfortunately, I cannot in good conscience recommend it wholeheartedly to all you proggers out there, so I guess a minor history lesson is in order. ------------- "Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.” "No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present." |
...Posted By: micky
Date Posted: March 09 2006 at 22:26
I have never been able to find (or get around to ordering hahahha) Tomorrow's album but everything I've heard about it, is spot on with your assessment. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Trotsky wrote:Posted By: bluetailfly
Date Posted: March 09 2006 at 22:48
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Tomorow's album is an essential part of any prog and psychedelic rock collection, up there with PF "Piper at the Gates of Dawn," Pretty Things "SF Sorrow" The Who "Tommy" and a few others. But you can't lose. Buy it! ------------- "The red polygon's only desire / is to get to the blue triangle." |
Posted By: earlyprog
Date Posted: March 10 2006 at 04:27
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Tomorrow's album is an interesting look into the 1967 psychedelic scene of the UFO club in London where they played alongside Pink Floyd and Soft Machine. It contains the same silly psychedelic pop songs as we know it from Syd Barrett (and Soft Machine's "Volume One") and don't expect any space rock or proggier passages (as on "The Piper..." and "Vol. One"). However, Steve Howe's guitar is really outstanding and perhaps the only reason (but a good reason) for obtaining the CD. |
Posted By: MattiR
Date Posted: March 10 2006 at 04:36
I was listening to Tomorrow last year. I thought it was a good band. But it wasn't. Nothing special. A lot of dull, not interesting music.  |
Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: March 10 2006 at 06:29
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^^^^ Do they have the name Matti in Poland, or are you a Finnish person? About TOMORROW, also I found the album very unenjoyable & dull. But I can't say I'm so fond of |
Posted By: MattiR
Date Posted: March 10 2006 at 07:01
There is a name 'Mateusz' in Poland, not 'Matti'. But 'Matti' is "english version" of 'Mateusz'. ...but 'Mateusz' is not my authentic name  |
Posted By: ANDREW
Date Posted: March 10 2006 at 08:26
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performed by: side A: cd bonus: Tomorrow: Keith West (vocals); Steve Howe (guitar); Junior [John Wood] (bass); Twink [John Adler] (drums). Aquarian Age: Junior [John Wood] (bass); Twink [John Adler] (drums). Additional personnel: Mark Wirtz (keyboards); Ron Wood (bass); Aynsley Dunbar (drums). Producers: Mark Wirtz, Keith West. Compilation producer: Tim Chacksfield. Includes original liner notes by Roger Fenning and reissue liner notes by Steve Lake. Tomorrow is remembered today mostly as the band guitarist Steve Howe played in before joining Yes. In fact, they were one of the finest British psychedelic groups of the late '60s. On their lone original release, Tomorrow purveys a blend of '60s psych-pop positioned somewhere between Barrett-era Floyd and the Beatles circa REVOLVER. They had melodic smarts aplenty, as evidenced by their hit "My White Bicycle," which sounds like a distant cousin of the Moody Blues' "Ride My See-Saw." From the characterizations of quirky English characters such as "Colonel Brown" to the use of backwards tapes, Eastern modalities, and baroque keyboard touches, TOMORROW hits all the right buttons of vintage psychedelia. I think you should buy it; it's a gem of psychedelia. |
Posted By: bluetailfly
Date Posted: March 10 2006 at 12:04
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I could not disagree more vehemently. This CD is a fantastic experience that grows on you with each repeated listening. Granted, some of the added "bonus tracks" are not worthwhile (and frankly shouldn't be on this release), but the core tracks from the lp are wildly psychedelic and inspired and melodic and energetic. All members, not just Steve Howe, contribute to this awesome sparkling gem of an lp. I pity those whose music sensibility cannot appreciate Tomorrow. ------------- "The red polygon's only desire / is to get to the blue triangle." |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: March 10 2006 at 13:00
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Glad there was a clarification and correction to the thread title spelling of Tomorrow. For instance, Toomorrow was an Aussie girl/boy band in a movie/OST, featuring a young Olivia Newton-John (aka oblivion neutron bomb) and John Farrar (who later formed a faux-CSN band with Shadows in limbo, Hank Marvin and Bruce Welch, unsurprisingly called Marvin Welch & Farrar)
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Posted By: bluetailfly
Date Posted: March 10 2006 at 13:09
God, she is so cute! ------------- "The red polygon's only desire / is to get to the blue triangle." |
Posted By: lunaticviolist
Date Posted: March 10 2006 at 13:32
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I still have to get this one. I've only heard My White Bicycle.
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Posted By: The Wizard
Date Posted: March 12 2006 at 11:25
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I'm still confused to whether I should get it or not. -------------
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: March 12 2006 at 12:27
it's Steve Howe for God's sake hahahhah... get it
By accounts that album made him an underground legend, and what was
what caught Anderson and Squire's collective eyes. Hell I'm
talking myself into getting it  ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Witchwoodhermit
Date Posted: March 15 2006 at 00:11
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Go on LIMEWIRE, my copy is up for grabs. ------------- Here I'm shadowed by a dragon fig tree's fan ringed by ants and musing over man. |
Posted By: ANDREW
Date Posted: March 15 2006 at 07:11
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I recommend you to buy it, it's one of the masterpieces of the psychedelic era!!! |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: March 15 2006 at 07:26
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If you want a better indication of Howe's development pre-Yes I suggest to check out Steve Howe's Mothballs (RPM Records): on which you'll find my favourite Tomorrow tracks, plus some examples of tunes by Bodast in which Howe was developing riffs heard of The Yes Album
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Posted By: TGElder
Date Posted: March 16 2006 at 07:22
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II picked up their album last year, and was initially disappointed by
how heavy it was for something touted as 'psychedelic'. Think 'Helter
Skelter – the album'. Nonetheless, the songs often have several really
good hooks and while it's not prog, there's enough going on to make
things interesting. A lot of it is quite eastern sounding. I regularly listen to all of the songs on the main album, with the exception of White Bicycle and Revolution. As for the bonus tracks, the alternative versions of Real Life Permanent Dream and Now Your Time Has Come are very raw and might even be better than the album versions . Claramount Lane is really catchy, and sounds like they didn't want to take it off the album. Finally, the slightly-psychotic 10'000 Words in a Cardboard Box was my 'song of the year' last year. So, yeah - I'd definitely recommending buying it. It's not one of my favourite albums, but it's one I'm really glad I own. If you've heard Kevin Ayer's Joy of a Toy, that gives me a similar vibe. |