3:47 EST

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3:47 EST
Studio album by Klaatu
Released	August 11, 1976
Recorded	1973-1976
Genre	Progressive Rock
Length	41:52
Klaatu chronology
3:47 EST (1976) Hope (1977)

3:47 EST is the first album by the Canadian group Klaatu released in August 1976. The album was renamed Klaatu when released in America by Capitol Records. 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 instruments such as electric sitars. The Juno-nominated album cover was painted by a longtime friend of the band, the talented graphic artist Ted Jones.

For a variety of reasons, rumours 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 "Sub-Rosa Subway" - are dead ringers for the Fab Four. The album was surprisingly successful in the United States; at least partly a result of the Beatles rumours ^[1].

[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.

[edit] References

1. ^ Dave Marsh and John Swenson, Rolling Stone Record Guide, Random House 1979