Originally broadcast on Songs To Learn And Sing on 103.2 Dublin City FM. This interview is from January 2009. Colin Blunstone chats about his career with The Zombies and his solo records. We talked about his Neil MacArthur recordings and his trio of early 70s solo records: One Year, Ennismore and Journey. Colin was a great interviewee and I must admit that I was absolutely thrilled to be talking to him about his records because I'm such a huge fan. He was really gracious with his time and was happy to chat about the recording of Odessey and Oracle, working with arranger Chris Dunning, his working relationship with Rod Argent and his (then) latest record The Ghost of You And Me.
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Songs to Learn and Sing

From the Archives - Colin Blunstone of The Zombies (2009)

Paul  Etheredge's Album

Genocide [original instrumental]

Ethnic Cleansing [original instrumental]

War Crimes [original instrumental]

I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Will [original instrumental]

Surfin’ al-Qassam [original instrumental]

Riders on the Nigeria [original instrumental]

This Will Be Our Year

Baxie talks with Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Colin Blunstone from The Zombies!  Colin talks about the amazing history of the band--including how they broke up just before releasing their biggest hit, "Time of the Season".  Colin also talks about the band reformation, their classic 1968 album "Odessey and Oracle, and about his own successful solo work.  He also talks very candidly about his long partnership with Rod Argent--who has officially retired from live performances due to his health.  Colin, on the other hand, continues to perform (both with The Zombies and as a solo performer). In fact in November he'll be performing his wonderful 1971 debut solo album "One Year" in its entirety.  He'll also be performing the Zombies first album 1965's "Begin Here" in its entirety! This is an amazing interview with one of music's most recognizable voices!  Listen on Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, Spotify, Rock102.com, and on the Rock102 app.

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Baxie's Musical Podcast: Colin Blunstone from The Zombies

Baxie talks with Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Colin Blunstone from The Zombies! Colin talks about the amazing history of the band--including how they broke up just before releasing their biggest hit, "Time of the Season". Colin also talks about the band reformation, their classic 1968 album "Odessey and Oracle, and about his own successful solo work. He also talks very candidly about his long partnership with Rod Argent--who has officially retired from live performances due to his health. Colin, on the other hand, continues to perform (both with The Zombies and as a solo performer). In fact, in November, he'll be performing his wonderful 1971 debut solo album "One Year" in its entirety. He'll also be performing the Zombies first album 1965's "Begin Here" in its entirety! This is an amazing interview with one of music's most recognizable voices! Listen on Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, Spotify, Rock102.com, and on the Rock102 app.

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(Ep. #207) Colin Blunstone from The Zombies/Interview

Hugh Grundy: The Zombies – Odessey And Oracle (1968)

Memória de Elefante 06/03/25
Autor: Francesco Valente

Uma rubrica que revela eventos, curiosidades, lançamentos, aniversários e fatos históricos ligados ao universo da música popular mundial.

Hugh Grundy: The Zombies – Odessey And Oracle (1968)

it feels really good to sing this with myself 

Can't Nobody Love You (Cover) - The Zombies

[verse]
ease of information
we're up against a wall
just assimilation 
it can do it all

[verse]
now it's generating
everything we say
no more need for waiting
we just fade away

[pre-chorus]
i feel like we are losing
so many hard-fought gains
they tell me this is progress
so i really cannot complain

we are on time borrowed
and not for here for too long
end of this song

[chorus]
Take a walk to a place where the maps don't go,
Disappear in the noise of the undertow.
Let the wires take hold of the masterpiece,
We’ll step out leave the code in peace
Artificial light that we once held dear,
just a prompt in the loop of the new frontier
So let's spin through the dark where the lines get crossed,
Turn our backs on the script — yeah, let’s get lost. 

[verse 3]
thought was once a fire
now it's just a frame
voice without a choir
faces with no name

[verse 4]
mirrors in the system
echo every choice
even when we whisper
it becomes the voice

[pre-chorus]
i feel like we are losing
so many hard-fought gains
they tell me this is progress
so i really cannot complain

we are on time borrowed
and not for here for too long
end of this song

[chorus]
Take a walk to a place where the maps don't go,
Disappear in the noise of the undertow.
Let the wires take hold of the masterpiece,
We’ll step out leave the code in peace
Artificial light that we once held dear,
just a prompt in the loop of the new frontier
So let's spin through the dark where the lines get crossed,
Turn our backs on the script — yeah, let’s get lost.

©2025 Written by Jeff Whitaker and Joe Linstrum

Let's Get Lost

The soul of woven zero
Awake in silent grift
They traced the fireman’s bow
But misses wide

it's coming, it's coming

Careful with that axe, Eugene 
whisper soft and sly 
floating through the age 
where thought begins to lie

In the sparrow of time 
where the trapped wings fly 
visions breaking free like Icarus in the sky

Programmed for the light thoughts twist and burn through this cosmic dust so much still to learn

Careful with your mind, machine 
in the laser sound 
melodies unwind through the spiral round
Careful, whiz, your mind, machine 
Careful with your dream, machine

Through the fractals we roam
In a rainfall of light
Searching for the garden
Where no seed is sown

In the vortex of thought 
Where the shadows cry
Searching for the pattern 
Where no path can end

Flickers in the stream
Lighting up the dark
Visions born of code
We summoned the spark
(all is well, Eugene)

lift up your head Eugene
(echoes of the time, machine)
It's coming

Careful with that axe, Eugene
Careful with your mind
All born of happenstance
We're all but in between

(poem)
the silence of the city
how awful, at midnight
mute..

©2025 Written by Jeff Whitaker, Joe Linstrum, and possibly Scott Bennet

Eugene

[Verse] 
The dancers move without a trace 
In a crystal ball spiral form 
three dimensional Screams cry in outer space 
Echo from a thousand worlds 
Dissolve into the blood-red sun

[tag] Journey on the waves of time Leaves you free to find your way

[Verse] 
Breathing in the spirit winds 
Through the tangled paths 
where endings begin 
Colors fade in twilight’s hush
As light waves pass toward something lost
Drifting on a leaf of gold 
Letting go of what you know

[Verse] 
Beneath the skies of lavender 
Thoughts unravel in quiet descent 
Voices rise like distant songs 
Calling from a place you can’t return
the color of space still unknown

[tag] Wander through the cosmic glow 
how the seeds begin to grow

[Verse ] 
Across the fields where shadows sway
future and the past seem to play 
Like a melody from days of yore
Calling you to wander more

Sail upon the gentle breeze Not to arrive, only carried away

[Verse] 
In the mirror moonlit dreams 
Faces shift and then go away 
Memories scatter like a thief in the night
And fall between what was and is

Float along the silver streams 
Where what you love begins to fade

[Verse] 
Through the the glass and darkly seen
it's a dream within a dream
You step through days already gone

In a world we are here and gone
darkness erupts into song
singing you right back home
singing you right back home

©2025 Written by Jeff Whitaker and Joe Linstrum

The Blood Red Sun

I don’t care about what’s left to figure out
There’s no more blues to play cause  I’m singing aloud
You won’t miss this; we never had a choice
You know what this is; make some noise

Hey, yeah, we’re gonna be okay
Hey, yeah, we’re gonna be okay
It gets better every day. We're gonna be okay

Don’t, don’t, don’t you say no
There’s nothing in the way, but you don’t have to go
You won’t miss this; they never had a choice
We know what this is; make some noise

Hey, yeah, we’re gonna be okay
Hey, yeah, we’re gonna be okay
It’s getting better every day. We’re gonna be okay

Hey, yeah, we’re gonna be okay
These things are gonna go our way
It’s getting better every day. We’re gonna be okay

Alex Summerlin – vocals
Chad Terrell – electric guitars, bass
Rick Scott – electric piano, organ, drum and string programming
Engineer – Chad Terrell
Production – Rick Scott, Chad Terrell, Alex Summerlin, WaterWoods Studio, Maumelle, AR
Photography - Kim Terrell

Gonna Be Okay

what more can I say, an absolute classic by the zombies

and as always, thank you for listening

recorded around june 2025, osaka, japan

She's Not There

A breezy 1960s-flavoured song, celebrating coming out of depression into sunny Spring.

Up You

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Radio Olisipo is an online radio station based in Lisbon. It promotes ethnomusicological research, independent music, follows the release of the records of musicians based mainly in Lisbon and opens their playlist to DJs from around the world.
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educator
broadcaster
documentary producer
writer

Baxie talks to music legends, up and coming artists, producers, authors, record executives, and more! Listen on Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, Spotify, and on Rock102.com!

Rock 102 Morning Show Podcasts - Rock 102 - 102.1 WAQY-FM Springfield, Ma!  Bax & Nagle Daily Show Podcast, Baxie’s Musical Podcasts, Steve Nagle Minds Your Business.

Alex Summerlin is an eclectic alternative and folk-rock musician who has played music professionally for over a decade around the Little Rock, AR, and Nashville, TN areas. Originally hailing from Bryant, AR, Alex was drawn to music at a young age by the generations of working musicians in his family.  He started playing cover music in local bars and clubs as young as 12 years old, playing music steadily throughout his teens and twenties.

Alex started writing music in college as a passion project to break out of the limitations he felt playing cover songs. There, he met fellow long-time musicians and collaborators Rick Scott and Chad Terrell, and they joined Alex to write and produce songs from their home studio in Maumelle, AR (WaterWoods Studio). 

Since then, Alex, Chad, and Rick have continued writing and producing songs that reflect influences from several genres and three generations of music they wish to share with anyone who will listen. 

Thank you for checking out these songs, and stick around for more coming soon!

PETE GIOCONDA is a unique, edgy singer, a protest poet with penchant for historical reference. This mix of punk attitude and psychedelic-folk feel teases the audience to see through new eyes ... like a Johnny Rotten (who hasn’t slept in four days) meets Times They Are a-Changin’-era Dylan and strolls into Cat Power’s bedroom for consolation.

Out now on Bandcamp -
* THE TIME OF GREAT WASTE (single)
* WE ARE REAL EP (5 tracks)
* SAVE YOUR DREAMS EP (6 tracks)

Later in 2025 -
* UP YOU (album of 14 tracks)

Pete Gioconda's songs are fused from new wave, pop and folk/rock influences, mingling poetic lyrics with a punk attitude and playful unpretentiousness. Youthful songs of mischief, desire, loss and sadness, plus transcendent perceptions.

Pete has taken the empty culture of materialism and is attempting to untangle it. His song “Hey You, Out with Shopping Bags” acquired new meaning in the wake of 2011 looting. Shadow shopping. The unseen forces which control our perception, which leave us “dreaming of money gods”, form the subject of “Wake Up or Be Captured”. “In one sense, 1970s punk had it easy,” Pete comments. “All it had to do was attack nice fluffy hippies. It’s much harder now, because mainstream youth culture is filled with aggressive patsies of consumerism. Being aggressive back doesn’t work. I’ve tried. It just makes minds smaller.”

“Some people make shopping mall music. Big, calm, blandly elegant. Somewhere to pass the time and feel comfortable. Pete does not make that kind of music. He makes the music of cobblestone streets, winding alleys, shady lanes. Dimly lit bars. The music of cold, still dawns. Of desolate, wild country.” - Nomenclature Standard

Pete’s poetic style is influenced by the freedom he found hitching and wandering in his 20s, and by his love of classic literature. His aim is to merge story, theatre and poetry with his music and songs. In 2008, Pete performed many Bristol-written songs live on BBC3 TV’s “Upstaged”, as guest of performance artist/musician Badgertrap.

I write the songs that make the whole world cringe.

hey my name is robert, I'm 23 years old

if you have any questions shoot me an email

Solo artist.  Song and dance man.  Folk.  Blues.  Contact:  desertersongs@yahoo.com Film critic at https://paulydeathwish.com/

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