Friday Featured Track
The song that has been in my head the most this week:
- “Time Has Come Today,” the Chambers Brothers, from the 1968 album “The Time Has Come.”
“My soul has been psychedelicized.” One of the best song lyrics. Ever.
This funky 11-minute opus from the interracial soul group the Chambers Brothers spent five consecutive weeks at No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 and has been covered by numerous groups.
It is a mesmerizing swirl of guitars, reverb and miscellaneous noise. The effect of the ticking clock was created using a cowbell, meaning that while “Saturday Night Live” made the use of cowbell in Blue Oyster Cult’s “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” famous, this is actually the best song incorporating cowbell in the history of rock ‘n’ roll.
I’m not sure whether the YouTube video embedded here is an official one or not. It’s certainly weird enough to go with this song, even if it clocks in at nine minutes instead of 11. It mostly concerns a stuffed panda toy as he dances and watches some incredibly dark television, along with a few random and foreboding shots of interstate traffic.
But the important part is that it gives a chance to listen to the song, so that your soul, too, can be psychedelicized.
-BAM
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This song rocks. Parts of it get used in movies and promos a lot, but you rarely hear the whole thing because it’s just too long.