It's hard to choose between "The Singles Collection" and the one disc "Absolutely the Best." TSC may be more than than a casual listener wants of this group. If you need all the forgettable B-sides here, you're a candidate for the "Zombies Heaven" box that has everything they ever did. On ATB you get three of the very best Zombies songs that are NOT on TSC: I Want You Back Again, If It Don't Work Out and Nothing's Changed. (That is, the best songs before their great "Odessey & Oracle" album - get the 30th Anniversary Edition!)

The Zombies were a thoughtful group of musicians in the 60s, who upped the scale of great pop music. Though they only made a few albums and a string of singles, they have a memorable collection with the tops of their era.

If you want the collection of the best of the best, I recommend this Singles Collection. If you want everything, I recommend The Anthology. The Odyssey and the Oracle is their art piece though you can get those songs on both these collections.

"She's Not There" and "Time of the Season" were their big hits.

Also, "Tell Her No" did well. These showed their vocal and musical complexity. Other songs that have great musicality are "She's Coming Home", "I Love You", "Remember You" (featured in the Otto Preminger film "Bunny Lake is Missing"), "She Does Everything for Me", "Friends of Mine" and "I'll Call You Mine".

I also recommend "Summertime", but you will find it on Anthology.

Colin Blunstone's vocals and Rod Argent's keyboard playing are the signature factors that make their music stand out. Argent, along with guitarist Chris White wrote most of their own songs.

The Zombies, which was a poor selection of a name for them and their music, were pop at a very high level - good musicians with thinker lyrics. They weren't really Mersey Beat, but certainly British Invasion.

For further interest, several years after they broke up, Argent came out with a band with his name and they produced the Zombiesque song - "Hold Your Head Up".

A very enjoyable Zombies collection. Almost a complete overview of their whole career in one disc. This contains all their singles of The Zombies work from 1964 to 1969. The Zombies broke up after the release of the "Odessey & Oracle" album. The group was out of the spotlight for three years until 1969 when a radio disc jockey found a single by The Zombies called "Time of the Season." The "Imagine the Swan" single is the beginning to the band "Argent." So to sum this up better, this is a great collection for a low cost. Buy it and enjoy the mystical jazz, R&B, and pop by one of the best bands ever!

I bought this CD not knowing exactly what to expect - my best Zombies knowledge came from what I heard on the radio stations - only their biggest hits. This however, is a great compilation - there are no boring lulls or dull moments, i.e. no need to fast-forward to a good track, unless of course, you have a favorite! Also, I think the choice to present the songs in mono was a great one - I feel like I'm experiencing the recordings the way they were meant to be heard. Aside from their bigger hits, some of the choicest songs are "Woman", "Care of Cell 44", and "She's Coming Home" This record is actually persuading me to dish out for the box set... it's looking more and more promising. To have been alive when this British Invasion band, the most underrated of them all, was around!

To say that The Zombies were not among the most prominent of those identified with The British Invasion would be understating the fact. In 1964/65 they had just four North American hit singles for the Parrot label: She's Not There (# 2 Billboard Pop Hot 100 in December b/w You Make Me Feel So Good); Tell Her No (# 6 in February 1965 b/w Leave Me Be); She's Coming Home (# 58 in May 1965 b/w I Must Move), and I Want You Back Again (# 95 in July 1965 b/w Remember When I Loved Her).

When nothing else worked by 1967 they had decided to disband but, before doing so, spent some considerable time putting together the album Odyssey And Oracle for CBS (# 95 in April 1968) which included the track Time Of The Season. With "I'll Call You Mine" on the flipside it was released as a single at the same time without success. Someone must have had faith in the song, however, because it was re-released in February 1969 by the Date label, this time b/w Friends Of Mine, and it rose to # 3 in March.

Because of that unexpected success, and with original members Rod Argent [keyboardist and the author of all their hits), vocalist Colin Blunstone, guitarist Paul Atkinson, bassist Chris White, and drummer Hugh Grundy scattered to the four corners (Rod had already formed the group Argent), a number of bogus groups began calling themselves The Zombies leading to legal actions.

Strangely, they had even less success in their native U.K. where just 2 of their over 20 singles released by Decca made the charts - She's Not There (# 12) and Tell Her No (# 42). Even so their music was appreciated by the likes of Santana who would take She's Not There to # 22 in 1977, and Juice Newton who would have a # 27 with Tell Her No in 1983.

This compilation, despite being billed as "the Singles" collection, leaves off I Want You Back Again and its flipside and for that reason I had to deduct one star. Everything else of significance is here, though, and the sound quality is excellent.