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The CD contains their 1968 Parlophone album + 11 bonus tracks.

The music is typical British 1960's psychedelic style; somewhere between Pink Floyd, Traffic or Pretty Things. Most of the songs catchy and melodic, featuring great guitar parts by Stewe Howe.

Their career as a band was more or less spoiled by the success of singer Keith West as a solo artist with his "Teenage Opera" project.

The original album contains their "minor" hit single "My White Bicycle" which is probably the one track that most people will remember.

There are other highlights as well. "Real Life Permanent Dream" is a great song featuring cithar. Most of the original album is actually pretty strong.

Among the bonus tracks "Claramount Lake" , the Byrds cover "Why" and the album outtake "Now Your Time Has Come" stand out! This song is a bit of mystery, having the same title as one of the original album tracks. This song is obviously much stronger, so some kind of mistake may have been made when the album was finished.

The last 7 bonus tracks are not Tomorrow. 3 are by drummer Twink and bassist john Adler's band "The Aquarian Age" . 4 are Keith West solo recordings; among which "On a Saturday" is quite a good song.

classic psychedelia
Best known for the classic bit of psychedelia "My White Bicycle" which has over the years been covered by Nazareth among others, Tomorrow, led by vocalist Keith West and guitarist Steve Howe, actually have much better to offer on this their only album. Two tracks in particular, "Hallucinations" and "Claramount Lake" offer wonderful melodies to complement Howe's understated guitar work. In addition the cover of "Strawberry Fields Forever" is one of a rare breed, Beatles covers which do not make the listener wonder "Why did they bother?" It is a bit troubling that "My White Bicycle" and "Revolution" the two singles released off the album are both in mock stereo which can be quite annoying when listening through headphones, although through speakers the sound is quite tolerable. The European EMI release of "Tomorrow" includes four previously unreleased tracks from the album sessions, as well as three by the Aquarian Age (bassist John Wood and drummer Twink) and four Keith West solo tracks with Howe on guitar, Ron Wood on bass, and Aynsley Dunbar on drums. The EMI release is definitely worth seeking out due to the additional tracks and its total running time of 76 minutes. In addition, the EMI disc contains the real "Now Your Time Has Come." Seems the band had planned to release it as a single and withhold it from the album, as was British custom in the 60s, but when "My White Bicycle" and "Revolution" failed to chart, the single was never released. In the meantime, the record company had printed up the lp labels with "Now Your Time Has Come" listed among the tracks so the band hurriedly recorded a totally unrelated song and released it under the title "Now Your Time Has Come." The real song remained unreleased until EMI put it out in 1999. Ain't rock and roll grand.

Suggestions of creativity
Tomorrow was a better-than-average sixties psychedelic band who had some inkling of how to use the recording studio to make interesting records. "My White Bicycle" remains a classic, with its dazzling use of backwards guitar and drum sounds. "Revolution" (not the same as the Beatles song of the same name) is also a fun one, with its many surprising tape edits (a la "Good Vibrations" on speed!). Speaking of the Beatles, Tomorrow's rocked-up version of "Strawberry Fields Forever" is actually quite listenable, and not the travesty one might expect. Their overall sound of luscious fender guitar slurps, crazy stereo panning, and whimsical lyrics with front-and-center vocals make this a good period piece. What the album lacks are memorable melodies; if there were some, this would be a great album indeed.