Time Has Come Again Chambers Brothers

A1		All Strung Out Over You Written-Past – R. Clark*
A2		People Go Ready Written-By – Curtis Mayfield
A3		I Can't Stand It Written-Past – Lester Chambers
A4		Romeo And Juliet Written-Past – Lester Chambers
A5		In The Midnight Hour Written-Past – Steve Cropper, Wilson Pickett
A6		And then Tired Written-By – Andre Goodwin, The Chambers Brothers
B1		Uptown Bundled By – Gary Sherman* Written-By – Betty Mabry
B2		Please Don't Exit Me Written-By – George Chambers (3)
B3		What The World Needs At present Is Honey Arranged By – Gary Sherman* Written-Past – Burt Bacharach And Hal David*
B4		Time Has Come Today Written-By – Joseph Chambers, Willie Chambers

Commencement pressing with reddish label and white text "360 Sound". Two Eyed Columbia label.
This version has the Columbia Santa Maria 'S' markings scribed in the runouts.

Mastered By/Metal Work Customatrix.

• Pressing Establish ID (Scribed in runouts) : South
• Matrix / Runout (Side A label) : XSM 118795
• Matrix / Runout (Side B label) : XSM 118796
• Matrix / Runout (Side A stamped, variant 1) : XSM118795-1C o
• Matrix / Runout (Side B stamped, variant 1) : XSM118796-1C o
• Matrix / Runout (Side A stamped, variant 2) : o XSM118795-1J A 1S
• Matrix / Runout (Side B stamped, variant 2) : o XSM118796-1E
• Matrix / Runout (Side A stamped, variant 3) : XSM118795-1C o
• Matrix / Runout (Side B stamped, variant 3) : XSM118796-1C 1-ii 12A o
• Matrix / Runout (Side A stamped, variant 4) : XSM118795-1C o
• Matrix / Runout (Side B stamped, variant 4) : XSM118796-1C C o
• Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, variant 5) : o XSM118795-1H
• Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, variant v) : o XSM118796-1C

Edited 3 months agone

I lived information technology...Had this Columbia LP on my Garrad turntable and watched as it flopped down on the tabular array and starting spinning...My apartment was ablaze in blackness-low-cal and the strobe was a strobin'...it was without a doubt ane of the top outings of that miraculous year, 1967...The Chambers Bros. funk was infectious and world shattering...Nosotros all know virtually THE cut on the album..."Fourth dimension Has Come", penned by Joe and Willie Chambers, seems to never end as information technology takes you up, down, and up again for the thundering finish...Sadly the chaps didn't score any bread for this audio jewel equally their recording rights were passed on to others who profit on this Classic for ever and e'er...Merely we accept it...have information technology blasting right now on my TT...The threescore'southward...I'll accept it over again ONLY if you throw in this Chamber Bros. gift of musical heaven on wax...

Soulful & invigorating music that speaks to the adventurous nature of the moment - psychedelic soul or soulful psychedelia? Powerful & impressive LP.

One of the greatest albums of this fourth dimension. Extremely underrated group and anthology. Nada quite fills the skull and soul like the 11 minute version of Time has come Today.

Few bands during 1967, during the Summer of Dearest and the fledgling FM progressive radio, where more suited and positioned to hypnotically psychedela-cized the nation, and nigh single handedly place psychedelic music squarely on the map with their to this day blisteringly emancipated vision of the social and musical scene, captured in a single profound moment … well, actually eleven minutes and six seconds to be exact. Rising from a gospel and folk background, even singing with Dylan on his unreleased 1965 sessions, the ring was poised to run into the earth through the optics and ears of the folk and gospel scene, notwithstanding with the backing of David Rubinson [late of Moby Grape], the Chambers brothers would sanctify the world with a exciting funky blues laden rails that ushered in one of the crowning achievements in psychedelic music, one that to this solar day is nearly unequaled.

Unlike other psych bands who simply fleshed out their music with trippy sounds and furnishings, the Chambers Brothers actually intuitively incorporated these sounds to not simply create an effect, but touch on the totality of the song, using considered unpretentious lines and measured structures, featuring two atomic number 82 guitars, one clean and the other fuzzed out, musical effects that were almost visual with stellar achievements with reverb, time sequencing, and echoes that felt as if the song was physically drawing the listener in, down, effectually, nevertheless ever centered and in the moment, all presented with a sense of urgency, yet non forgetting that music was supposed to be a lot of fun.

But the fun does non brainstorm and stop with the rails "Fourth dimension Has Come Today," the rest of the album besides has it'due south far share of psychedela-cized tunes, but it besides contains some brilliant R&B that's laced with rock n' roll, the blues and funk … songs that have been overlooked for far besides long.

The fun facts: Consider the lines from the song,

Time has come today, young hearts go their manner …
-Meaning that kids were gratis to dearest whom they choose, that they were free to make their own decisions, and conduct their own lives.
They can't put it off another day …
-Pregnant that now was the time to take a stand, as this was a politically agile song about society and the war in Viet Nam.
I don't care what others say, they say we don't heed anyway …
-Pregnant that it was fourth dimension to footstep off of the corporate tread, accept chances, think outside of the box, and what'southward it matter if the establishment didn't like what the kids were thinking and doing, their elders never listened to them, so why should they think that their kids were listening.
The room has inverse today, I take no place to stay …
-The room can exist thought of every bit many things, perhaps virtually aptly as "the listen," because in one case a persona had tried a chip of the lysergic, their room / listen, has profoundly changed.
I'thou thinking virtually the subway, my beloved has diddled away …
-Consider the subway to exist a mod version of the underground railroad, spiriting young men to Canada to avoid the draft, with everything they've ever known or loved to be forever left backside.
My tears have come and gone, oh Lord I gotta run
I got no dwelling, no I have no dwelling …
-At that place was then much loss in the 60'south, the war, assassinations, cities in flames, and protest marches turning tearing, that kids felt that they had no dwelling house, no country, goose egg they'd exist taught to recognize when push came to shove.
Now the time has come, no place to run …
-Where could anyone really run or hibernate, ameliorate to pale a stand.
Might become burned upwardly past the sunday, but I'll take my fun …
-This line has several references, one is to the space race and the fear that space arts and crafts could fatigued into the sun [as could we all], meaning life is uncertain. The sunday was also a reference to Viet Nam and the unrelenting sunday. The sun is as well an implication suggestion of having fun, while tripping on the Owsley acid Orange Sunshine.
I've been loved and put aside, I've been crushed
past the tumbling tide, and my soul's been psychedela-cized …
-Take this as meaning that kids felt that they were loved, withal put on a shelf, never to be sincerely touched, with the "tide" suggesting that then many get crushed by a moving ridge of people doing the exact same thing. The notion that they've tried everything, just that true peace comes from within.
At present the time has come, there are things to realize …
-Probably the near profound line, meaning that simply because kids realize that it's time to brand a change, that the time is now, that they should be acutely aware not to simply bring together some other community, that they must realize or understand the things that implicitly matter, and exercise those things in spite of their elders or their contemporaries.

Review by Jenell Kesler

Did anyone else get a pressing with the B side label being Blank? cs 9522 stereo version.

Floor rattling. Stunning album, front end-to-back.

From the beginning song to the last, this is a surprising, gorgeous piece of work. Whether one comes to it for the unabashed, ambitious psychedelia of the title track, or for traditional soul ballads like 'Romeo and Juliet,' a listener tin't really become away unsatisfied. There is a soulfulness to these vocals that is hard to beat and an innovation of sound that I notice hard to compare. One thing is sure: no record collection should be without one.

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Source: https://www.discogs.com/release/645128-The-Chambers-Brothers-The-Time-Has-Come

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