song: Time Has Come Today
artist: The Chambers Brothers
album: The Time Has Come
released: 1967length: 4:52
Time has come today
Young hearts can go their way
Can't put it off another day
I don't care what others say
They say we don't listen anyway
Time has come today
(Hey)
Oh
The rules have changed today (Hey)
I have no place to stay (Hey)
I'm thinking about the subway (Hey)
My love has flown away (Hey)
My tears have come and gone (Hey)
Oh my Lord, I have to roam (Hey)
I have no home (Hey)
I have no home (Hey)
Now the time has come (Time)
There's no place to run (Time)
I might get burned up by the sun (Time)
But I had my fun (Time)
I've been loved and put aside (Time)
I've been crushed by the tumbling tide (Time)
And my soul has been psychedelicized (Time)
Now the time has come (Time)
There are things to realize (Time)
Time has come today (Time)
Time has come today (Time)
Young hearts can go their way
Can't put it off another day
I don't care what others say
They say we don't listen anyway
Time has come today
(Hey)
Oh
The rules have changed today (Hey)
I have no place to stay (Hey)
I'm thinking about the subway (Hey)
My love has flown away (Hey)
My tears have come and gone (Hey)
Oh my Lord, I have to roam (Hey)
I have no home (Hey)
I have no home (Hey)
Now the time has come (Time)
There's no place to run (Time)
I might get burned up by the sun (Time)
But I had my fun (Time)
I've been loved and put aside (Time)
I've been crushed by the tumbling tide (Time)
And my soul has been psychedelicized (Time)
Now the time has come (Time)
There are things to realize (Time)
Time has come today (Time)
Time has come today (Time)
The Chambers Brothers
The Chambers Brothers are an American psychedelic soul band, best known for their eleven-minute 1967 psychedelic soul hit "Time Has Come Today". The group were part of the wave of new music that integrated American blues and gospel traditions with modern psychedelic and rock elements. Their music has been kept alive through frequent use in film soundtracks. There were four brothers, though other musicians were also in the group.
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The Main Mix
1. We had some huge metal cone speakers set up for psychological warfare operations at Phu Bai, Viet Nam. They were monsters, about 1,200 lbs apiece, 8 feet on a side (they were square, you see), driven by a set of amplifiers which used huge metal triode amplifier tubes. All in all about 50,000 watts RMS at 80 ohms (yes, RMS watts). One day, after this came out, a cassette player was hitched to the input mixer. The gain was cranked up, and the 100 Kilowatt dedicated generator running 3-phase 440 volts cranked up. The sound was audible out to about 50 miles, and considering the Inverse Square Law of Audio, it was ear-drum destruction at close ranges. Didn't last too long, the water cooling pump failed and somewhere around $10,000 worth of amplifier equipment became a crispy critter. Well, a few years back, the VA finally issued me new hearing aids, so it wasn't all that bad.
1.5 This track was used by the same PsyOps folks in Panama blasting at the Noriega HQ. We wore hearing protectors then.
2. The Chambers Brothers never received a single penny in royalties from this song — they were fucked out of it by their "managers" by means of inflated "advances".
"My soul has been psychedelicized"
For that reason alone, I've changed my rating from 7 to 8.
Just came in the house and heard the end of it faintly playing in the kitchen. Hope it goes into rotation again. Hope it was the long album version.
Every once in a while I revisit the long version. Sadly, it still screams "NO" to me. Loudly.
I wish I found it as good now as I did then, but...
However, the short version seems very appropriate for the present moment, so it'll probably pop up fairly often (by RP standards...) for a while.
kingart wrote:
NOT.
Surprised it was aired at all? Surely you jest.
This a bona fide 24 karat '60s classic. However...
Bill, PLEASE play the long version. This surgically neutered Top 40 blasphemy needs to go. Play the long cut less often, just replace this one with that.
Djoy wrote:
tovarisch wrote:
- I always hear this song in context of its time, its revolutionary nature and now more than ever in the context of how these guys got worked over by the industry.
- That "Yeah..uh" at the end is epic
All of that takes me to *8* for this one
Emwolb wrote:
Emwolb wrote:
DaveInVA wrote:
I prefer the long version...
kingart wrote:
oldfart48 wrote:
pk53 wrote:
Don't know if there's an 18 minute version (maybe on some bootleg tape or underground radio station in the 60s)...but the 11 minute version is certainly desirable over this sanitized version...
d-don wrote:
1wolfy wrote:
I need the Long version ... there are things to realize
"William, you whippersnapper slacker: I want the long version!"
Frankly, Grandmama is appalled at this radio-butchered version.
It was the 60s. It's psychedelia. Play the 11:06 version so you can revel in its sprawling, overwhelming munificence...and have a catnap if needs must.
What he said. A classic then, still is.
I Co. 3/26 USMC
Thanks !
Long version
Every once in a while I revisit the long version. Sadly, it still screams "NO" to me. Loudly.
I wish I found it as good now as I did then, but...
However, the short version seems very appropriate for the present moment, so it'll probably pop up fairly often (by RP standards...) for a while.
I really like the long version.
Winding down the old lake road,
How I miss those days.