3:47 EST

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3:47 EST
Studio album by Klaatu
Released	August 11, 1976
Recorded	1975-1976
Genre	Progressive Rock
Length	41:52
Label	Daffodil Records (Canada) Capitol Records (US)
Producer(s)	Terry Brown
Klaatu chronology
	3:47 EST (1976)	Hope (1977)

3:47 EST is the first album released by the Canadian group Klaatu, in August 1976. When released by Capitol Records in America, it was renamed Klaatu. It is regarded as one of the band's greatest albums (along with Hope), using the same kind of Beatlesque psychedelic rock (in the style of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Magical Mystery Tour), with a few new additions; most notably vocal distortion, more backwards instruments, and some obscure musical items such as electric sitars. The cover was painted by a longtime friend of the band, the talented graphic artist Ted Jones. It was nominated for a Juno Award because of this.

For a variety of reasons rumors spread in the wake of the album's release that Klaatu were, in fact, a secretly reunited Beatles[1]. Although many of the album's songs bear no resemblance whatsoever to anything in the Beatles catalogue ("California Jam" and "True Life Hero," for instance), several other numbers - particularly "Sun-Rosa Subway" - are dead ringers for the Fab Four. The album was surprisingly successful in the United States; no doubt at least partly a result of the Beatles rumors^{[citation needed]}.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft"
2. "California Jam"
3. "Anus of Uranus"
4. "Sub-Rosa Subway"
5. "True Life Hero"
6. "Doctor Marvello"
7. "Sir Bodsworth Rugglesby III"
8. "Little Neutrino"

(The album ends with a mouse squeak.)

All selections composed by Klaatu.