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Album Review: Tomorrow

  • Artist: Tomorrow
  • Rating: StarStarStarStarHalf Star
  • Release Date: 1968
  • Total Time: 39:45
  • Type: Lyrics are included with the album
  • Genre: Rock

Review

Tomorrow's sole album was a solid effort, with quite a few first-rate tracks. "My White Bicycle" was one of the first songs to prominently feature backward guitar phasing, "Real Life Permanent Dream" has engaging English harmonies and sitar riffs, "Revolution" is an infectious hippie anthem, and "Now Your Time Has Come" features intricate riffing from Steve Howe. "Hallucinations," with its irresistible melody, gentle harmonies, and affectingly trippy lyrics, was perhaps their best track. The more self-conscious English whimsy -- populated by jolly little dwarfs, Auntie Mary's dress shop, colonels, and the like -- is less successful, although the band's craftsmanship is strong enough to avoid embarassment. [The 1986 reissue of this album features detailed liner notes and the worthy B-side "Claremont Lake," though unfortunately Keith West's sappy but influential "Excerpt from a Teenage Opera" was deleted.] ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track TitleComposersPerformersTime
My White Bicycle (Lyrics) Keith Hopkins, Ken Burgess Tomorrow (3:17)
Colonel Brown Keith Hopkins, Ken Burgess Tomorrow (2:51)
Claremont Lake Keith Hopkins Tomorrow (3:01)
Real Life Permanent Dream Keith Hopkins Tomorrow (3:15)
Shy Boy Keith Hopkins, Ken Burgess Tomorrow (2:26)
Revolution Steve Howe, Keith Hopkins, Ken Burgess Tomorrow (3:48)
The Incredible Journey of Timothy Chase Keith Hopkins Tomorrow (3:17)
Auntie Mary's Dress Shop Keith Hopkins, Ken Burgess Tomorrow (2:44)
Strawberry Fields Forever John Lennon, Paul McCartney Tomorrow (3:58)
Three Jolly Little Dwarfs Ken Burgess, Keith Hopkins Tomorrow (2:26)
Now Your Time Has Come Keith Hopkins, Ken Burgess Tomorrow (4:51)
Hallucinations Ken Burgess, Keith Hopkins Tomorrow (2:37)

Credits

Mark P. Wirtz (Producer), Roger Fennings (Liner Notes), John Wood (?), John Wood (Bass), Keith West (Vocals), Pete Brown (Engineer), Mark Wirtz (Keyboards), Steve Howe (Band), Peter Brown (Engineer), Steve Howe (Guitar), Ronnie Wood (Bass), Mark P. Wirtz (Musical Director), Keith West (Group Member), Steve Howe (Group Member), Keith West (Guitar), Dinnes Cruickshank (Liner Notes), Mark P. Wirtz (Keyboards), Roger Fennings (Sleeve Notes), Steve Lake (Liner Notes), Mark Wirtz (Producer), Ken Lawrence (Drums), Aynsley Dunbar (Drums), Twink (Drums), Mike Sedgewick (Illustrations), Keith West (Band), Mark P. Wirtz (Musical Direction), Mark Wirtz (Director), Twink (?), Mark P. Wirtz (Instrumentation), Geoff Emerick (Engineer), John Wood (Band)
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Tomorrow
Studio album by Tomorrow
Released February 1968
Genre Psychedelic rock
Length 38:31
Label Parlophone PMC/PCS 7042 (mono/stereo)
Producer Mark P. Wirtz
engineers: Geoff Emerick, Peter Bown
Professional reviews
Tomorrow chronology
Tomorrow (1968) 50 Minute Technicolor Dream
(1998)
Alternate covers
Reissue (Harvest Records)

Tomorrow is a 1968 album by the English psychedelic rock group Tomorrow. It was originally released by EMI Parlophone in the U.K. in a black and white sleeve. A slightly different version of the album was also released in the U.S. in 1968 as Sire Records SES 97012, one of the first releases on that label. Although it was not a success when first released it is now widely regarded as one of the best psychedelic rock albums ever made.

The lack of commercial success can be explained by the long delay between initial recording sessions in spring 1967 and final release in February 1968. By the time the album arrived in record stores the psychedelic trend had already started to die out. EMI provided a very small recording budget and would not allow prints of a colour album cover to be made, although some later re-issues were printed with a modified colour cover.

Contents

Track listing

Note: Keith West's songwriting credits are as Keith Hopkins (his real name).

Side one

  1. "My White Bicycle"* (Keith Hopkins, Ken Burgess) – 3:17
  2. "Colonel Brown"* (Hopkins, Burgess)– 2:51
  3. "Real Life Permanent Dream" (Hopkins) – 3:15
  4. "Shy Boy"* (Hopkins, Burgess) – 2:26
  5. "Revolution"* (Hopkins, Steve Howe) – 3:48

Side two

  1. "The Incredible Journey of Timothy Chase" (Hopkins) – 3:17
  2. "Auntie Mary's Dress Shop"* (Hopkins, Burgess) – 2:44
  3. "Strawberry Fields Forever" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 3:58
  4. "Three Jolly Little Dwarfs"* (Hopkins, Burgess) – 2:26
  5. "Now Your Time Has Come" (Hopkins) – 4:51
  6. "Hallucinations"* (Hopkins, Burgess) – 2:37

Personnel

1976 Harvest edition

In 1976, Harvest Records (another EMI label) re-issued the album as part of its Harvest Heritage series, with catalogue number SHSM-2010. This edition features a new colour cover which states in large letters on the front: "featuring Keith West and Steve Howe". It includes an extra track as the second-last on side one:

  • "Claramount Lake" (Hopkins, Burgess) – 3:02 (b-side of "My White Bicycle")

1999 CD reissue bonus tracks

In 1999, EMI released a CD (EMI 4988192) with additional tracks by Aquarian Age (band members Twink and Junior) and singer Keith West. "Why" is a cover of a song by The Byrds that originally appeared as the B-side to their single "Eight Miles High".

  1. "Claramount Lake" (Hopkins, Burgess) – 3:02 (b-side of "My White Bicycle")
  2. "Real Life Permanent Dream" – 2:24 (studio demo recording)
  3. "Why" (McGuinn/Crosby) – 3:59 (studio demo recording)
  4. "Revolution" – 3:50 (phased mono version, studio demo recording)
  5. "Now Your Time Has Come" – 3:05
  6. "10,000 Words In a Cardboard Box" (by Aquarian Age) – 3:27
  7. "Good Wizzard Meets Naughty Wizzard" (by Aquarian Age) – 4:42
  8. "Me" (by Aquarian Age) – 3:12
  9. "On a Saturday" (Keith West solo) – 3:13
  10. "The Kid Was a Killer" (Keith West solo) – 2:31
  11. "She" (Keith West solo) – 2:30
  12. "The Visit" (Keith West solo) – 4:05

Personnel

Keith West solo tracks:


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