Tomorrow - Revolution

[sheppoz]

Well, it WAS in mono ........

[sheppoz]

Glad this upload is in mono - can't stand that 'mock stereo' stuff they did no matter how original it may've seemed at the time. Love the 'cello, though! For some reason, they swapped intros between this and the heavily phased version. Great song. Love both versions.

[tehrockerdude]

happyness is hard to find

we just want peace to blow our mind

[jsilence418]

johnnybsteel, don't be so obtuse oh yeah, and stupid!

[johnnybsteelriff]

This song beats the piss out of The Beatles and Stones clumsy efforts at the same time....great stuff

[prdleko]

Good arguments and damn, you're still going strong as I check email from Europe. Kudos for you!

I understand the vid being made (for Tomorrow's song). But as a film producer, and who is to say I know what I'm talking about? It's relative, I see atomic bomb footage and fetuses with overlapping 'good' songs every day by 17 year olds. That bugs me a bit. Hijacking a good song with "shocking video' is all too easy.

It's '1984' and it's scary. Good images, good song? Who cares what's being said

[prdleko]

I'm a film producer and was blown out by this song when living in Europe. (I'd never heard it until three years ago.)

Sorry for the heavy-handedness and not directed to you personally. I just think anyone could make a vid for this and it would 'look' good given the music. I'm standing down from this silliness and good intentions meant. (I'm being an anal film guy and there is no right opinion) great song! Thanks...

[prdleko]

You just dusted my argument and touche. Totally in agreement about the hot chick needed...

[prdleko]

Part II. If the intention is to show what the 'establishment' has given us in the 20th Century, a valid point. That said, where are the clips of the 'revolution' and famine in the Soviet Union in the 20's and 30's? Where's the Khmer Rouge clips?

My point is throwing together every cliche in the book and then sexing it up with a movie/romance clip is disingenuous. Why not do concentration camps and police dogs against civil rights demonstrators? Sometimes simple is better and more powerful.

[prdleko]

Yes. This song (at least to me) is about the prevailing spirit of the 60's of 'changing things'. That may be either naive or commendable wherever you fall politically.

My problem with this video is that throwing in war clips from WWI and WWII and making a case for WWIII (The Cold War, not a bad argument actually) is overall misguided, way too easy and ultimately lazy. After that, hot chicks and clips of 'revolutionaries'?

WWI and II were establishment wars as was the Cold War.

[prdleko]

Great song....Too bad about this vid. A completely naive and uneducated case....read some books guys. Cool to edit a vid, but serious objective, knowledge important when doing so (and yes, you can still be anti-establishment) . You made a video by a 15 year old....

[meraclees]

Osoi to krazete eiste malakes

Einai komatara

[aquariussouldier]

Sounds like German porn on acid at the start, then turns into the Byrds. Not especially profound or memorable :-S But am only half way through.... Jethro Tull.... nice inspirations... I Imagine theyd put on a trippy show... I like the Revolution line... UFO club maybe supporting the Floyd... Russian party end. Wow, never disciphered a whole song as Im writing before. lol. All in all, a thorough 7/10. Party on Wayen, party on Garth

Love n Light

[udor1962]

too many drugs ? ;-)

[udor1962]

you was no born to the great time of tomorrow - is this you prob ? this sound was inspiration for Pink Floyd & many others prog bands later ... this is the unlovely fact in the rock music history !

[xz4q18]

The reference to 'It's not Animal, Vegetable or Mineral' is due to the fact that they performed this at a session in the BBC studios where a radio quiz programme called that was recorded.

[mrbag60]

random quotes regarding revolution

When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people; the giant triplets of racism, militarism, and economic exploitation are incapable of being conquered. A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies...

-- Martin Luther King, Jr

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable -- John F. Kennedy

[darrenfinizio]

i think the video u put to a fav song of mine was done really well...echoes some things alot of intellectual friends say to me.......and , how ironic, im always eating asian food.

[bendobrin]

great video...but this doesn't sound like the version on my album...actually it sounds better..wonder if we played it now in the usa if we would get arrested..nice job.

[Wilthomer66]

I believe this is an alternate mix of the Lp track with more phasing.

[1daveputt]

great. It was of the psycadelic age, most of us wern't on drugs & still thought the music awsome, along with My white bicycle, (Nazareth covered that in 1974)

[kontarkorz]

but why didn't this group have so much success like syd barrett's pink floyd or the seargent pepper's of the beatles ??(maybe because the group did last less time,and then its various members,like STEVE HOWE,split into other projects??)

[homonculus9]

It's funny you should mention the Beatles and Floyd, because Tomorrow was recording this album at Abbey Road at the same time as Sgt. Peppers and Piper yet did not get released 'til Jan 1968. They missed their window by 6 months. The band had split up by the time it was released and the album was considered out of date and therefore sank like a stone in the charts. The disc is still a Psych classic though!

[gibson3524]

Yeah, I agree with homonculus9: things went so fast in the mid 60's that something that was 6 months old was considered ancient. It was SO important to keep up with the latest trends, fashions & hypes that a lot of good music got lost by the wayside. And record companies were SO slack, they were still living in the 1950s. It's incredible what keeps cropping up after 40 years or more. Pity this band didn't realize their full potential, they were amazing.

[treezrok]

This absolutely kicks ass! Thank you for the post.

[udor1962]

love peace - you love war with bush ?

have you see us-napalm of poor vietnam people ?

have you see destroyed afghan village of soviet soldiers ?

WE NEED PEACE ALL OVER THE WORLD - BUT NO WITH BUSH OR PUTIN !!!

[RobEye79]

love this tune. Steve Howe rules.

[udor1962]

this was my idea - more not - peace welcome ...

[misterwho]

Qué buena canción!. La primera vez que lo escuché me rompió la cabeza.

Hay una muy buena versión en vivo de éste tema por ellos, en las sesiones de Top Gear en la BBC.

[hereticdt]

Great Song 5/5

[PeculiarChameleon]

I love this song.

[PAULLONDEN]

It's all about music anyway...

What have these naive "revolution"songs

brought us ? Nothing changed,in fact....

things got worse.I'm lookin after nr.1.

[udor1962]

Music is naive in many colours - music is no politic and musicians are no politic specialists

most ;) music is dream but why no dreams against idiotic reality ?

[PAULLONDEN]

You are indeed so right there,if only for that ,music saved my life.

Btw...."politic specialists"....Lennon almost

claimed to be one.

That Tomorrow album's great though.My brother

bought the "Bicycle" single in '67(I still got it)

[RobEye79]

awesome

[udor1962]

& also the inspiration of Jim Morrison ;)

[courtofclaims]

good revolution needs a good song

--che guevarra