{"id":3984,"date":"2015-11-10T09:04:38","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T14:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/?p=3984"},"modified":"2015-11-19T14:08:18","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T19:08:18","slug":"the-zombies-still-got-that-hunger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/the-zombies-still-got-that-hunger\/","title":{"rendered":"The Zombies <br>Still Got That Hunger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/the_zombies-still_got_that_hunger.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3985\" src=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/the_zombies-still_got_that_hunger.jpg\" alt=\"The Zombies, Still Got That Hunger\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/the_zombies-still_got_that_hunger.jpg 250w, https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/the_zombies-still_got_that_hunger-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/the_zombies-still_got_that_hunger-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>Still Got That Hunger<\/i> (The End Records), the sixth studio release from The Zombies, marks the first time in nearly 50 years that the British invaders have cracked <i>Billboard\u2019s<\/i> Top 100. The last time they reached the charts it was for \u201cTime of the Season,\u201d a radio staple with one of classic rock\u2019s most recognizable stanzas. That was March 1969, a year after the song was introduced to the U.S. by way of The Zombies\u2019 sophomore album, <i>Odessey and Oracle<\/i>, a near-perfect amalgam of lush, psychedelic \u201960s Brit-pop that rightfully has been placed alongside the likes of <i>Pet Sounds<\/i>, <i>Sgt. Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club Band<\/i>, and maybe one or two others as the decade\u2019s paragon rock records.<\/p>\n<p>While the four surviving members who made <i>Odessey and Oracle<\/i>\u2014singer Colin Blunstone, keyboardist Rod Argent, bassist Chris White, and drummer Hugh Grundy\u2014toured the States this past fall playing that album in its entirety, Blunstone and Argent made <i>Still Got That Hunger<\/i> with the band that has been backing them in recent years: guitarist\/vocalist Tom Toomey, bassist Jim Rodford, and drummer Steve Rodford. Though financed in the most contemporary of means (a crowdfunding effort on PledgeMusic), the most striking thing about the LP is how much it sounds like it\u2019s from another era. However, it\u2019s not the flower-haired, swirling epoch of pot, protest, and Peter Max illustrations that spawned the band\u2019s enduring 1968 masterpiece, but rather the lighter sounds of \u201970s radio rock. Album opener \u201cMoving On\u201d strikes a cadence reminiscent of The Eagles\u2019 \u201cOne of These Nights,\u201d while \u201cAnd We Were Young Again\u201d evokes Steely Dan\u2019s lilting, layered choruses. Two of the songs are remakes; \u201cI Want You Back Again\u201d is a more bombastic re-imagining of the band\u2019s jazzy 1965 tune, while the standout \u201cNow I Know I\u2019ll Never Get Over You\u201d first appeared in a folkier form on Blunstone\u2019s 2009 solo release, <i>The Ghost of You and Me<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Themes of gratitude and love and perseverance prevail. \u00a0The soulful doo-wop piano track \u201cEdge of the Rainbow\u201d is a paean to the triumph of hope through adversity, while\u00a0 \u201cNew York\u201d is an ode to American rock and soul progenitors and the city itself. \u201cAnd I came to love you New York,\u201d Blunstone sings. \u201cYour energy your honesty every time. City of a million dreams, you gave one up to me.\u201d With its $2,500 a month studios, there\u2019s something anachronistic about celebrating the artistic possibility of New York in 2015 and perhaps even in the idea of a record devoid of irony and embitterment. But from a band with a legacy as respected as The Zombies, it\u2019s a refreshing, even reassuring, tone. To still have that hunger after 50 years, and fans eager to financially support your craft, is cause for celebration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><i>Still Got That Hunger<\/i>, the sixth studio release from The Zombies, marks the first time in nearly 50 years that the British invaders have cracked <i>Billboard\u2019s<\/i> Top 100<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[34,1482,1481],"class_list":["post-3984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","tag-album-review","tag-the-end-records","tag-the-zombies"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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