Awesome Song of The Week! "Care of Cell 44" by The Zombies

Who can guess what it's time for?

No, not that. Or that. Fine, I'll just tell you.

AWESOME SONG OF THE WEEK!!!

For this week's awesome song I have prepared a wonderful psychedelic pop classic for you.




I absolutely love songs that sound really happy but actually have really depressing lyrics. This is one of them. While the bouncy pop melody will make anyone happy, once they listen to the lyrics they'll realize that this song is about someone who's lover is in jail. Sorry if I ruined your happiness.

But you should still be happy, because this song is still awesome. The melody is so catchy, the bassline is so mellow, the drums are so crisp, and the semi-chorus ("Feeeeeeels sooooooo goooooood you're coming hooooooooooome sooooooooooon") is about as epic as 5 seconds of music can possibly be.

You might be thinking it's a little hypocritical of me to be posting a 60s psychedelic song this week after shitting all over classic rock last week, but the Zombies were never part of the canon. They made a fucking great album called Odessey and Oracle (the misspelling isn't intentional, the album cover designer just spelled it wrong by accident and it stuck) which was ignored by pretty much everyone, but had one hit single called "Time of the Season" which you've heard in every movie about hippies. However, the band put so much effort into making this album and had so many disputes over it that when the album went nowhere, they called it quits. It's a shame that this album went nowhere and the band broke up, because Odessey and Oracle is even better than some Beatles albums. And come on, how fucking awesome is that album cover? Really fucking awesome.

So there's your awesome song of the week. Hope you're feeling awesome now.