Yea my brother came home on leave in 68 and he turned me on to these guy's, along with a few other bands but I remember these guys for sure, and I've got the LP also. Back when music was good. But today I listen to J-Rock & J-Metal it's about the only thing I've found that I like today.
I heard this on the radio today. I’m 71 and this still makes me think of the Vietnam War. It was a protest song. Prayers for all those that served and survived and for those that didn’t.
Hey man, from Canada 🇨🇦, I'm also 71, I still have the 45 record, just wish I had a fuckin' "time machine" to transport me back to the 70's, I hate the world that I'm in now.
"And my soul has been psychedelicized" Yeah. I'm 73yrs old and i grew up in the times when psychedelic music started the 60's Era. I loved it. I still do. The Chamber's Brothers are great. Time is one of their best! 🎶🎵👍💯
@@stanleyjohnson2291 I couldn't agree with you more. This song takes me back to those times when psychedelic music was played a lot and this song really does thrust you into that soulful mood.
'Cause you have timeless good taste, Rick. I feel sorry for people who think only the "flavor of the month music" that they're pushing now can be good & anything else is stale old "boomer junk." People are brainwashed, I guess you noticed.
@@pyannaguy4361 I'm almost 73 and know exactly how you feel. That's because there are only two kinds of music regardless of genre: good music and bad music. Here we are still enjoying a track that is over 50 years old. Most of the absolute shit you hear these days will be tossed into the dustbin of history in less than a year, thankfully never to be heard again.
My man it will stay with you for ever and ever, It knows you love it and enjoy it , be happy and glad we have thing we enjoy. I know you will and do. Have nothing but a good one. God Bless You.
1969, im 19 and in vietnam.. listened to this a lot.. great song, good memories.. also alices resteraunt, i know every word.. friends never came home, i did, home wasnt there.. the music and the memories, the friends that i never saw again, i never forgot..
We are the same age. Don’t forget MacArthur Park. Once you understand the song, you know you’ve arrived, lmbo. music.apple.com/us/album/macarthur-park/1444189552?i=1444189696
The line 'I have no home.' Said twice, but differently. The first time, with the tone of surprise, second with the tone of realization. It's subtle but heavy. I like that and love this song.
Wow! Just a scared 20 year old CW2 UH-1 (Huey) pilot in 68 with the 101st Airborne. Served until 70. PHM (2), BSM (with V device(2) , Air Medal (6). I would do it all over again!!! Yes, that was the highlight of my life. This song puts it in perspective!! God Bless All Listening!!!
Blessing to you for your courage and duty. A close friend of died several years ago. 101AB infantry, He was 19 in Hue TeT offensive. It took years of trauma therapy, He was open about what experienced with me. the therapy provided in a special residential PDST clinic operated by VA in Connecticut. was a therapy assisted Volunteer at Syracuse NY VA Hospital. I salute him again for his will to survive and serve others here at home, who were still scared by VN and other wars.
The other day I came home and my boy was listening to some of my old albums. He kept listening to this song over and over. Watching him appreciate this incredible music made my heart swell. Thank you Chambers brothers for this timeless classic!
i was 78 when this song first came out , now im 273 and and im wondering if my time has come today . hellll nooooo sonny ..ill check back in another 100 years or so and fill yallz in !!!!
Closing act at the Pleasanton pop fest, I think 69. your right it was an experience. a sea of people holding lit lighters. Won’t forget that. Of course I was tripping.
I wanted to roast a turkey last Christmas. The recipe called for fresh thyme and I searched all over town looking for some. Every store seemed to be out. Finally tried Whole Foods. One worker told me they were out too, and had been for a week or more, but to check with Steve who was just putting out a shipment of herbs that came in that morning. I ask Steve if he's got any fresh thyme in the box, and he searches around and hands me a container. I smile and say, "Thyme has come today!" I figure he's a Millennial and will never get the reference, but he smiles and says, "Thyme!" and goes back to work. I can see his head bobbing to the rhythm. It kind of made my day.
71 now and still remember this like it’s yesterday. Peace to my brothers and sisters who served in Nam, those who didn’t return and those who returned scarred for life. Love.❤
I'm 72 yrs old. Remember cruising around 1 night with my girlfriend. Just got stoned and this came on the radio. Had to pull over, and just listen. WOW went out the next day, bought the album. 🎸✌️🎸✌️🎸✌️🎸✌️ Peace to the whole world.
I'm 61 and it's occurred to me that this world might be an infinitely better place if more of us had our souls "psychedelicized" on a regular basis. At least once a week...
@@Susan-wz7mb I’m getting old. I have to be careful, lest I turn myself into an even bigger goof than I am already. My poor wife has suffered enough LOL
Indeed. Glad to say i bought this one back in '71 or so. I play it slightly beyond LOUD. That, too, is essential. . . . And now, in 2020. . . the Time HAS come. Will we be burned up by the Sun? There are things, to Realize. This was Prophecy.
This music reflects the evil in my soul today/// I had seriously planned to take my life tonite This piece is sublimating that and helping me get a LOT of Anger out!
Song explained the 60s. Drugs, music, a year in RVN 69-70, alcohol, all helped psycheldelize me for life 80 Years old can only use drugs and alcohol in moderation. BUT the music is forever. One of the best songs ever
Thanks for your service, and I sympathize. It must have been Hell on Earth. Lost a brother-in-law several years ago, a victim of Agent Orange as he was constantly sprayed, while building the airstrips for the mobile field ops.
If you were there, no explanation is necessary, If you weren't there no explanation will suffice. Edit; 9/19/20 - Thank you all. I'm humbled by the responses. Please understand, I'm not trying to sound like an elitist. But there was so much going on back then it just seems impossible to describe the turmoil to someone that has no point of reference to what it was like to actually live in that time. So many wonderful things mixed in with so many terrible things, So much joy, so much sadness, all soundtracked by the best music ever. The music is the link. Try to understand. Try to pass it on. Peace. Love. Rock on.
Mike, Your description of the times we loved, and hated--how it could be incredibly good, and incredibly bad was perfectly said. I'm writing this to let you know that it touched me, brought back some of the memories, and to say I appreciated it immensely. Take care, Mike, you're one in a million. Tom
the late '60s was a one time never to be repeated happening and we are blessed for having survived it...many good people did not....it was one time because it was brand new, we were experiencing something that no other culture had experienced, and because it was so new we thought an evolutionary/revolutionary change in society was in the offing...sadly, it was an illusion....what's happening today has nothing in common with the summer of love....today we are experiencing the winter of hate and anger, and I fear where it is headed....it's also missing a soundtrack.....
TIME! This came from a time when no matter what was going on in this country, black and white musicians played together and loved each other in bands! Will forever miss those days.
Yes went to school with the brothers , we enjoyed each other as class mates and friends. I still have them as friends. I live next door to black family we get alone good , as we don't see color. we live in a well to do neighbor hood.
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Who's here because of the TV show; Will Trent "?? This song was playing in the background of the show this week I remember hearing this song on the radio as a kid and it STILL ROCKS God bless ❤
EXACTLY!!! I loved the show before, and now I love it even more!! Glad to know that I am not the only one who is old enough to have enjoyed this music.
I'm an old hippie gal and I loved playing this song on my father's state of the art stereo system at the time, 1968-9. He hated it at first, didn't understand it but learned to love it as much as I. He passed 10 years ago. Blessed man he was and blessed our family by his hard work.
i heard this song back in 1984 when I was 20 yrs old at about 3 am when I was doing a paper route in norcross ga off radio station z-93 wzgc and I was a changed boy. then went and found it on a cassette called chambers brothers greatest hits, and must have wore out the cassette tape for 6 mos, I could not have told you the other songs on the tape but I already knew that time has come today was on there and not the short version. blasted the piss out of this song driving down the road. be bopping until I could be bop no more.
@@TonyPowMC Every generation has the right and responsibility to choose the soundtrack to their lives as seen and heard through the lens of their own existence.
Son of a Vietnam vet, grew up listening to great music of my dad's generation as he always had it playing. Miss him dearly, and these songs reconnect me to the time we had.
Music (like literature) is a time machine...much like the smell of home-baked bread, slow cooked stew, etc. Certain things evoke memories...savor these things as always and, by ALL means, pass them on to younger folks as most know nothing of what they're missing out on.
I'm sorry you lost him. But he lives on in your memories. My daughters love the music from my era, they grew up listening to this and a boat load of hard rock, soft rock and country. It's a thing.
Imagine living back in 1967. On the radio, you have happy fluffy flower stuff like The Monkees, Aretha Franklin, The Supremes, The Beatles....and then, THIS song comes on. How many minds were blown, wide open, irrevocably changed? How many people's jaws hit the floor, in utter awe of the power of this song? Fifty some odd years later, when music has evolved to an age where things like black metal, grindcore, and harsh noise/industrial music exist, this song STILL blows minds wide open.
Well I wouldn't exactly call "A Day In The Life" or "Tomorrow Never Knows", happy fluffy flower stuff, but if you want to go earlier Beatles I'm mostly in on where you were trying to go with that. Starting with Rubber Soul there was a big transition.
Mine was one of those minds blown during that era. I lived through the dismay of the Beatles breaking up. I wondered about the sanity of the people who were upset about Dylan going 'Electric'. I insisted FM radios should be standard on all cars NOT because the fidelity was better, but newer broadcasters were embracing newer artists. The Disc Jockeys on the FM Dial seemed to be less constrained by the payola scandal of the 50's and early 60's. Young people today, driven by "Influencers" might find a connective resonnace with the way we cut our teeth back in the day.
I am 75 years old & first heard this 'psychedelic bonanza of a tune', in 1966, pouring out of a home in a side street of my 'quiet' neighbourhood (in Cohen Avenue, Glenwood, Durban SA), while walking home one afternoon. I was immediately rooted to the spot & stood outside the house captured, until the tune had ended. Little did I know that 2 guys inside that house had just bought that Chambers Brothers album, smoke a joint & decided to listen to the ultimate track on the album, full volume. As the tune ended, one of them happened to glance out of the window to see me still rooted to the spot. I guess he recognised a 'fellow traveller' & came onto the front balcony to chat. Noticing that U had snapped out of my 'state of capture' he burst into laughter & invited me inside. Needless to say, a replay was required, which cemented a friendship which lasted until my folks & I moved into a different suburb. An experience which I am reminded of, everytime I listen to this track. One of the first 'Freak out bands & tracks of that era'. Hooray for the Chambers Brothers & psychedelic music which was to follow. 😂🎉❤
"1966 original version - Columbia 43816 - the original recording, 2:37 in length, which is completely different from the widely known 1968 "hit version"."
Every once and a while I come back here and crank up the volume like I did 50+ years ago and risk what little hearing I have left. I can't help myself.
One of the first "Psychedelic" bands, and they were Black. Once again, paving the way. Freaking great song, especially with a Doobie and a glass of wine, and Headphones.
Same! Heard it in the background of the film; Girl, Interrupted and HAD to find it! I just turned 30 2 weeks ago, and I got the same feeling! Some people just know good music :)
65 March 9th. Not the best at classic vinyl back then. Love it now. I’m glad I never grew up. The Lord is Good. So have to give the old hymns a ❤too. And thanks for no 1990s. To the present. Nothing. Sounds good. Thanks Lord. ❤
at 72... I remember this song - always put me at ease & smile on my face... was first time in love... first time with drugs... so young... so foolish... SO HAPPY!
Was a senior in h.s. When this came out. Always loved the line.....”and my soul’s been psychedelicized”. I know my soul was....many, many times. Even to this day. Nothing wrong with having your soul psychedelicized every once in a while.
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) Time [x11] Oh 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 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) Time [x4] Yeah
Astounding shit, isn't it??? Transports me right back to 1972 like a shot in the head...living in sin in San Diego doing drugs, going to college, searching out for the world, pining for change that was actually happening at that very moment all over the country...the antithesis of this moment just before the election of 2020 and its referendum on life, liberty and America as we still know it can one day become. DAMN. Thank you for the lyrics what a fucking ride!!!
My 1st concert was The Moody Blues in Houston. I was 16 years old. My last concert I attended was The Moody Blues at The Concord Pavilion on my 49th birthday. I absolutely love them as they always have the symphony (if one is available) accompany them. Back in the 60’s there were so many free concerts out there. Such a fun time for a teenager to play! The Loving Spoonful’s song, “Summer In The City” just came to mind… Hot time summer in the city, Back of my neck gettin' dirty and gritty…
@@michelleshores6862I don't know how old you are and I'm not asking. I'm just feeling sorry for you because you had never heard it until approximately 5 months ago.
Originally from Carthage Mississippi, The Chambers Brothers ( George,Joe, Lester & Willie) along with Brian Keenan on drums left their indelible mark for Time in memorial. “ Time Has Come Today” will live on forever. ☮️
Knowing some things about war and America, it pisses me off that young men were literally sacrificed in that war. That's the war mongers laughing at our losses.
53 years in, and I never get tired of hearing this song. Pure genius. And to all who served and sacrificed, we owe you a debt of gratitude that you never got and that we cannot possibly repay. Thanks.
Sacrificing...not really. Serving,.. absolutely. The question is whom were they serving? Following orders to kill innocent people is never courageous, never right and should not ever be rewarded. The great unveiling of truth and OURstory... HIStory is being exposed for the lie it wAs and is! It’s about time!!!
❤ I Y'am what ...,what I Y'am...a 72 young feller.... played this song in a band myself....of course I was so much older then I'm younger than thAt now
I was born in 1980. My parents were and still are hippies. This song is part of my personal soundtrack. Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong decade, man.
@Nycki Reynolds........I’m almost 30 years older than you and am just happy that you’re diggin’ this music. I was a senior in high school when this came out and played the shit out of this record. My parents thought I was possessed. Happy Memorial Weekend to you, sweetie. Keep on rockin!!! ✌️
Bro! I was born in '68, my daughter in 2000. Dont sweat it! I've seen all the cool bands, as has my daughter. Dont worry bro! You have your whole life ahead of you! I was fortunate to burn out on Heavy Metal in the late 80s, but in the 90s I was stationed at Ft. Lewis Washington when Grunge exploded! You never know whats gonna happen!
Ah, they will some day, we just need to keep those currently in charge from blowing the world all to Hell first! Keep the Faith, have patience, breathe. The rest will come to you and yours. "Don't get above your Raisin"
I think one big difference between earlier and later generations in terms of music is that there were fewer distractions for older musicians and that helped them hone their skills and think. It was pretty boring entertainment wise. Those born later had t video games, cable tv, internet and social media making it more difficult to focus on one thing.
Great album to sit and get high too. I think everyone should listen and see how it makes them feel. Get your friends from that decade, turn the song on, and I’m sure you’ll see a smile.
That's right!!! Perfect for these days... I 'd rather think about the Great hippy days on this song. I had a lot of friends and family go off to VietNan. Some came back and some didn't and others friends freaked out!! Good song✌👍
Heard a bit of this great song on "Will Trent" tonight and was instantly taken back to when I first heard this and loved it immediately! 75 now, where have 55 years gone?
Neil Armstrong and friends landed on the moon two days before my 18th birthday. I registered for the draft two weeks later just as the Woodstock Music Festival got underway. Tickets were $10. I didn't go. I lived and still do, in Portland, OR.What a time!
A late high school tune that came back strong while I was in college … then the chambers bros. Came to a free evening campus event and attracted a huge crowd bringing back memories of a great tune and subject
@@softride12-I also lived in Portland about the same time (worked at KGW and KOIN) … similar experience to what you described and missed Woodstock (and the draft lottery gave ne 361)…so I missed being drafted and instead listened to Chambers Bros., instead…
@David Wang it speaks to everyone..maybe not in the same way...its about time, humanity, love, hate, respect and getting along with one another.in the end its all that really matters
Hippie here, too, Bob & we warned 'em & were right about it all: the environment, the Rat Race, endless war...you name it. Revisionist history tries to paint us as airheads w/flowers in our hair & then sellouts, but look where THEY'VE led us!
The R&R HOF is a joke! There's SO MANY artists that they haven't recognized yet have put some undeserving bands in...sad to see politics in their house...
After all this time, this song still kicks ass across the universe. Black psychedelic masterpiece, not to mention rare musical form even in the period.
@@Reggie-The-Dog Exactly! The main players are black and are up front. The white drummer is in the background. However, the drumming is INCREDIBLE in this song, especially through the headphones!!! They ALL work SO WELL together!!! ❤️
Mainstream music today is a cultural wasteland. That's why you have to dig deep and uncover unknown or underground bands. There is a lot of incredible art being produced, but it's not always going to be on the radio.
@brad davidson understand your parents and their friends where saying the same thing about your own generation, we’ve all got our own shit going on, we’re all products of our own generations. Great music is everywhere, new and old. It’s only human that people stop following popular culture at some point. Creativity isn’t bound to one singular decade. Anyways, let me just shut up and enjoy this amazing track haha, enjoy your day
I was born in 1975. I can still remember my mother dancing to this in the 80’s and 90’s. She used to teach me all her moves 🥰 She passed 11/30/22 and she’s still the one of the coolest chicks I’ve ever known!
I have always loved this song and all the Chambers Brothers music but especially Time has come today. I want to say this is the best psychedelic rock song of those times.
I was 16 in 1969. weaned on the Beatles, the Stones, Cream, humble Pie, ect. and of course Jimi. I first heard The Chambers Brothers on WNEW FM, in N.Y. "Time" had hit the air waves and that was all she wrote. The Brothers opened the door to R&B for me and greatly influenced my playing. I bought all their albums and playing then until the grooves wore out. not many bands can effect a guitarist like that but the Chambers Brothers could and did, I can not thank them enough for the pleasure and enjoyment they gave me and the rest of the world through the years . Now at age 67 I still jam with them. They were fantastic musicians who's talent never grows old
i'm 35, i listened to all those bands growing up. i like hearing stories from people that grew up in the 60's and seventies. i'm at that age where now i'm now technically old and my era is becoming kind of "classic" if you will. it's a weird feeling.
@@MG-chaotic I got you beat, I'm 71 ...I was an OH (original hippie) from Ann Arbor, Michigan, and the late '60s early '70s was the Golden Age of Rock...it's been downhill ever since.....
I am 72 now and living in Oregon. When this song came out I was living on haight and ashbury in San Francisco. I also lived there when Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison pasted away. Those were the good old days when things were innocent compared to today.
10 year old kid listening to this in the dark on his transistor radio under the pillow. What a freakin' brilliant recording... and yep diff'rent times. We were indeed tuned in.
"Transistor radio"...I remember when just about every kid had at least one..y dad hated fixing them in his shop...they weren't worth the time and labor...usually to repair a broken circuit board...
I'm 70 and when I describe hearing this for the first-time youngsters find it hard to believe a spirit such as this transpired. Fascinating and also sad. The birth and beginnings of what would eventually plague America began then. I had this album on cassette and played it to being worn out. The music reflected these fast-changing times.
@@audreymuzingo933 The seeds of every torment we face today were sown in the 60's. Choose one and trace its origin. The political left matured in their delusions to toxic proportions we are battling currently. But what was the remedy preventing society from eventually being degraded? I remember people saying how dangerous even popular culture would become, and that was mid-sixties. The only way to stop it would have been considered violence to suppress evolving perversion and lawlessness. That said, the decade of my childhood contained a kaleidoscope of art, music, (the beginnings of heavy metal) and the introduction of many things we are aware of today. This was the birthplace. It was also perhaps the most violent era, with Mao in China killing many millions in his delusionary bid to "leap forward". The Vietnam war was raging without restraint again killing countless souls. Abbey Hoffman and his ilk tormented society with radical violent demonstrations and far-left miscreants planning mayhem. So, you see this has matured to where we are. The left has learned a lot in sixty years, even stealing elections and subjecting the American populace to toxic goals. Lack of knowledge concerning history will be the undoing of us all.
@@Giavani-t4k Okay thanks, I figured you would say a bunch of that angry right-winger stuff, ha. What you see as a plague, I see as joyful progress. I'm SO glad to be a mother of a young woman now, versus the past when both of us would be expected to be married and do nothing but "devote" ourselves to husbands and children no matter how awful either of them might be (even get LEGALLY beaten and raped by husbands). I love how racially integrated America is now, just like the Chambers Brothers were. I love just about everything that changed after (and largely due to) the revolutionary 1960's. What's weird to me is that you seem so at-odds with it, like you appreciate the music but don't seem to understand what it was about, or how it was a HUGE part of why all the changes (change you hate) occurred.
I'm 77 now and was so lucky to see real rock bands. Stones, Beatles, Cream, Deep Purple, Led Zepp, Who, Credence, Canned Heat, Beach Boys, Animals, Floyd, and many more...and it didn't cost a years pay ! Days like that will never come again.
Or, "unlike US," James. Remember, Time is our prison. Look for the Key; Nothing is worth more than YOUR ESCAPE from Time. And also note, The Chambers Bro's have a spiritual side. . .
When my brother came home from Nam - Marine Corps SEMPER FI- he brought a reel to reel player home with him and all these FABULOUS tapes- and thank God gave it all to me. The Chambers Brothers was the first one I listened to and I LOVED IT! Everyone of their songs is fabulous!! Another one was The Mama's and the Poppas, wow, California Dreaming, Words of Love- man it all so freaking excellent!
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I am a 74 year old woman and I bought this "album" when it came out AND I still have it..loved it then..love it now..
My older sister brought this home one day after school back in 1972. I still love it too.
very impressive
It was, truly, the best of 'Times.' I'm about to turn 60 and I count myself so very fortunate to have come from when I did.
Yea my brother came home on leave in 68 and he turned me on to these guy's, along with a few other bands but I remember these guys for sure, and I've got the LP also. Back when music was good. But today I listen to J-Rock & J-Metal it's about the only thing I've found that I like today.
2023
I heard this on the radio today. I’m 71 and this still makes me think of the Vietnam War. It was a protest song. Prayers for all those that served and survived and for those that didn’t.
Hey man, from Canada 🇨🇦, I'm also 71, I still have the 45 record, just wish I had a fuckin' "time machine" to transport me back to the 70's, I hate the world that I'm in now.
Thank you
War Pigs was much more a protest song.
Amen.
@@AtropalArbaal-dk8jv ok hanoi Jane.
"And my soul has been psychedelicized" Yeah. I'm 73yrs old and i grew up in the times when psychedelic music started the 60's Era. I loved it. I still do. The Chamber's Brothers are great. Time is one of their best! 🎶🎵👍💯
Right behind ya at 71....this song was as creative and expansive as anything The Beatles did. But it truly thrust you into a soulful mood.
@@stanleyjohnson2291 I couldn't agree with you more. This song takes me back to those times when psychedelic music was played a lot and this song really does thrust you into that soulful mood.
Me too Linda!!
@@jeffreywillis9932 HA! HA! Ha! Ha! Forever psychedelicized!
Lol, the baby here, 67, but this was my 2:00 am introduction to mon mainstream music. Elvis, Perry Como, and Frank Sinatra were on the charts then
I’m 69 with cancer but I’m still here. Time has certainly come today ❤
I'm 49 and fighting it too. Hang in there and good luck. Fuck Cancer. 👍
Time has come today for us all...peace
Hello youngster. I am 76 with cancer and am still here. Time has come today!
@ thank you my friend. Happy holidays to you and your family
We did alright
I was 12 years old when this came out I am now 68. Time! Has come today!
Same here brother 😢
My soul was psychedeliczied when I was 12, and I am also 68!
I listened this band when i was "fifteen years young" ("Buddy Guy words") in 1970 and i'm 68 years young too. Greetings rrdcac. ✌️
68 here. Just cant find good acid anymore. Orange sunshine, 1972, Chambers, Floyd, Doors, wish I was there, again.
Lol 🤭
I'm 76 and yes my soul was psychedelicized.
Greetings from the BIG SKY of Montana. I saw through the window pane, too.
Someone owes them a lot of money. Not too mention respect.
I’m 70 and wow would love to go back to what I was doing when I heard this
me too, but I'm at work! 🤪
Me too! Damn good times right there
me 2
I know what you mean.
Could not agree more! Greatest song of all time!!!!
I just turned 70. Why does this still sound so damn good?
'Cause you have timeless good taste, Rick. I feel sorry for people who think only the "flavor of the month music" that they're pushing now can be good & anything else is stale old "boomer junk." People are brainwashed, I guess you noticed.
@@pyannaguy4361 I'm almost 73 and know exactly how you feel. That's because there are only two kinds of music regardless of genre: good music and bad music. Here we are still enjoying a track that is over 50 years old. Most of the absolute shit you hear these days will be tossed into the dustbin of history in less than a year, thankfully never to be heard again.
My man it will stay with you for ever and ever, It knows you love it and enjoy it , be happy and glad we have thing we enjoy. I know you will and do. Have nothing but a good one. God Bless You.
Masterpiece!
We just rock on. Keep the faith ☮️✌️
1969, im 19 and in vietnam.. listened to this a lot.. great song, good memories.. also alices resteraunt, i know every word.. friends never came home, i did, home wasnt there.. the music and the memories, the friends that i never saw again, i never forgot..
We are the same age. Don’t forget MacArthur Park. Once you understand the song, you know you’ve arrived, lmbo. music.apple.com/us/album/macarthur-park/1444189552?i=1444189696
Thank you for your service to our country!
No one can ever repay those who went in harms way. They are never forgotten by persons who love freedom. God bless them all.
11Bravo,same memories!
Thank you for your service. It can't be said enough.
I'd just like to say to all you ole salty Nam vets....THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SERVICE AND SACRIFICE....GOD BLESS YOU ALL...🇺🇲🤙💯
My former U S Marine that fought in Nam now cannot walk without falling down. He thanks you from his wheelchair at 78.
Semper Fi
FINALLY...A SONG 🎵 WITH MORE COWBELL !!!!
Amen. God bless our Vets 🇺🇲❤️💙🇺🇲 Much Respect to them. My Dad is a Korean Vet
thank Greg
The line 'I have no home.' Said twice, but differently. The first time, with the tone of surprise, second with the tone of realization. It's subtle but heavy. I like that and love this song.
You nailed. I knew what I was hearing but I didn't have the words. All these years. Thank you!
They predicted the future. So many homeless today.
Always loved that too! & it somehow felt like he was saying it just to you personally ...
Wow! Just a scared 20 year old CW2 UH-1 (Huey) pilot in 68 with the 101st Airborne. Served until 70. PHM (2), BSM (with V device(2) , Air Medal (6). I would do it all over again!!! Yes, that was the highlight of my life. This song puts it in perspective!! God Bless All Listening!!!
Thank you for your service. I had a brother in law who served in Vietnam but passed away 14 yrs ago. He loved this song.
Bless you War Eagle
THANK YOU UNRECOGNIZED REAL HEROES!!@
I was door on a uh
Blessing to you for your courage and duty. A close friend of died several years ago. 101AB infantry, He was 19 in Hue TeT offensive. It took years of trauma therapy, He was open about what experienced with me. the therapy provided in a special residential PDST clinic operated by VA in Connecticut. was a therapy assisted Volunteer at Syracuse NY VA Hospital. I salute him again for his will to survive and serve others here at home, who were still scared by VN and other wars.
my bro died sunday morn in his sleep good bro always liked this song thank you all god bless
RIP ✌️
❤✌wishing peace for you and your family
I'm so sorry.
Sorry for your loss
RIP sir
The other day I came home and my boy was listening to some of my old albums. He kept listening to this song over and over. Watching him appreciate this incredible music made my heart swell. Thank you Chambers brothers for this timeless classic!
That brings tears. Your legacy is sealed.
Did he smoke a doob first?😂
@@georgemorin8409 He's only 4 years old, so no, no doob. Haha!
i was 78 when this song first came out , now im 273 and and im wondering if my time has come today . hellll nooooo sonny ..ill check back in another 100 years or so and fill yallz in !!!!
This song is just not a song, this song is an experience.
Closing act at the Pleasanton pop fest, I think 69. your right it was an experience. a sea of people holding lit lighters. Won’t forget that. Of course I was tripping.
You’re right about that and no drugs are needed!
Nailed it!
Well said my friend
Some people listen to music and some of us just know how to experience it and that's when you're listening with your soul
this song is like a lsd trip, at the beginning all fun then it gets all crazy and chaotic like the peak, and at the end it gets fun again
One of the songs you just had to be tripping to enjoy it to the hilt
😎👍🏼🙏🏼
Did you learn anything tho? Not really a party drug. More “in the kiva’ kind of experience.😊
If you listen to this in the 60's, and again today, then you have had Time on your side.
🌸🙏🏾
great reply
I've also had God on my side for sure. My story is not that different from everyone in the '60s..but it's outrageous in parts.
very true..But we didn't waste our time on junk either
👍❤️
My 72 year old sister just died. This was her song. O my time.
I wanted to roast a turkey last Christmas. The recipe called for fresh thyme and I searched all over town looking for some. Every store seemed to be out. Finally tried Whole Foods. One worker told me they were out too, and had been for a week or more, but to check with Steve who was just putting out a shipment of herbs that came in that morning. I ask Steve if he's got any fresh thyme in the box, and he searches around and hands me a container. I smile and say, "Thyme has come today!" I figure he's a Millennial and will never get the reference, but he smiles and says, "Thyme!" and goes back to work. I can see his head bobbing to the rhythm. It kind of made my day.
Made a good moment for me to Bradley.
😊❤
Cool!...from a 76yr young!
I was the chef for 43 years that made my whole week
Yes!!!!! Like Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme……….. Did I REALLY just SAY THAT?
71 now and still remember this like it’s yesterday. Peace to my brothers and sisters who served in Nam, those who didn’t return and those who returned scarred for life. Love.❤
100% I just lost a friend to agent orange 😢God's Blessings on you all ❤
@@lisaheyob951 Thank you for everything you and your friend did for this country. Make sure the VA does you right.
@@JamesDolen-n2xVA can't do anything without Congress. Seeing what happened with Congress and 9/11 1st responders, some who were veterans, 🤬🤬
@@lisaheyob951 My uncle died to agent orange lisa. And his son is handicapped because of it. Peace
same age this song always takes me back to that TIME
I'm 72 yrs old. Remember cruising around 1 night with my girlfriend. Just got stoned and this came on the radio. Had to pull over, and just listen. WOW went out the next day, bought the album. 🎸✌️🎸✌️🎸✌️🎸✌️ Peace to the whole world.
Did you get any that night 😂😂😂
Memories of my youth as well ✌️ 😊
Same with maggot brain. I'm only 37 but I dig it so much. God speed brother
GODS speed to you too brother @@chriswandersleben1244
@@JohnToomey-x6s At least a handy ?
I'm 61 and it's occurred to me that this world might be an infinitely better place if more of us had our souls "psychedelicized" on a regular basis. At least once a week...
And Boogie, boogie, boogie 😅
Wow. Once a week!!!
@@Susan-wz7mb I’m getting old. I have to be careful, lest I turn myself into an even bigger goof than I am already. My poor wife has suffered enough LOL
I got psychedelicized every weekend with The Doors in 1991 when I was 21. Edinboro University baby!
My brain won’t let that happen now..damn
I am Vietnam Vet 74. Old the greatest song ever !!!!
Welcome Home Joe along with my Brother and my best friend Butch welcome home Sir.
69 Vietnam vet
@@temeculajoe Welcome home sir, my brother made it home from Nam too
Of all Wars, Bro, we DID have the very best music. There can be NO comparison.
A Reply from you is inspiring
Take Care, my Friend
Great day to wake up to this great olè song
One of the essential rock songs of all time.
One of the Greatest songs of all time.....
Indeed. Glad to say i bought this one back in '71 or so. I play it slightly beyond LOUD. That, too, is essential. . . . And now, in 2020. . . the Time HAS come. Will we be burned up by the Sun? There are things, to Realize. This was Prophecy.
Of all TIME, you say? Pun intended.
@@macmacreynolds8712 alot of guys went back to Vietnam because of this song. And that ain't no 💩
This music reflects the evil in my soul today/// I had seriously planned to take my life tonite
This piece is sublimating that and helping me get a LOT of Anger out!
Blending rock, soul, and psychedelica, this song may represent the 60’s better than any other.
RIGHT you are Judy!
I was a little kid when this song came out. Great!
That's exactly right. I can see you have good sense of the old great stuff.
thats right I was right there in Frisco Bay Area 18 years old getting ready to be Drafted?
Totally agree..living Ca dreams 😎
My Dad was in Vietnam when this song came out. I was about eight. It is still stellar after more than half a century.
Heavy!
Salute to Your Father..
I first heard this in DaNang S. Vietnam 1969
Welcome home. ☮️
Song explained the 60s. Drugs, music, a year in RVN 69-70, alcohol, all helped psycheldelize me for life
80 Years old can only use drugs and alcohol in moderation. BUT the music is forever. One of the best songs ever
Back then YOU had to use something to help to go through life know they call it ANOTHER name
Thanks for your service, and I sympathize. It must have been Hell on Earth. Lost a brother-in-law several years ago, a victim of Agent Orange as he was constantly sprayed, while building the airstrips for the mobile field ops.
Hey boss, thank you for your service! And another thing, WELCOME HOME!
75 Y.O. 67 Corpsman here, would use drugs if I knew how to get them , lol.
Yes, our souls were psychedelisized and it was great.
If you were there, no explanation is necessary,
If you weren't there no explanation will suffice.
Edit; 9/19/20 - Thank you all. I'm humbled by the responses.
Please understand, I'm not trying to sound like an elitist. But there was so much going on back then it just seems impossible to describe the turmoil to someone that has no point of reference to what it was like to actually live in that time. So many wonderful things mixed in with so many terrible things, So much joy, so much sadness, all soundtracked by the best music ever. The music is the link. Try to understand. Try to pass it on.
Peace.
Love.
Rock on.
It's happening again.................................................
Good post. You said it all, succinctly and briefly. Wish more youtube commenters would follow your lead....lol.
Mike,
Your description of the times we loved, and hated--how it could be incredibly good, and incredibly bad was perfectly said. I'm writing this to let you know that it touched me, brought back some of the memories, and to say I appreciated it immensely. Take care, Mike, you're one in a million.
Tom
the late '60s was a one time never to be repeated happening and we are blessed for having survived it...many good people did not....it was one time because it was brand new, we were experiencing something that no other culture had experienced, and because it was so new we thought an evolutionary/revolutionary change in society was in the offing...sadly, it was an illusion....what's happening today has nothing in common with the summer of love....today we are experiencing the winter of hate and anger, and I fear where it is headed....it's also missing a soundtrack.....
Truthfully stated.
TIME! This came from a time when no matter what was going on in this country, black and white musicians played together and loved each other in bands! Will forever miss those days.
I hear ya!
Yes went to school with the brothers , we enjoyed each other as class mates and friends. I still have them as friends. I live next door to black family we get alone good , as we don't see color. we live in a well to do neighbor hood.
Those were the best of times
@@thomaskatona5078 they represented what was happening in the country at that time in our lives then . They were a great band.
Gangstagrass
An extraordinary, iconic composition and timeless message. Peak psychedelic music, I've loved this song for over 50 years.
Music to get high by we called it!
65 here.
Great song!
Captures feel of 1969!
me too/
Yep
U have good taste
Nothing to be sorry, enjoy
Those were the days .
I can't believe how old this is now. I can't believe how old I am now.
A lot of us in the same boat
dude, i'm 40ish. this is old as hell. It's also great.
Fuckin A, right!
Lov it bro!
#Brothers OUR #Time Has Come Today !!
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We know who in the @GOP HAS GOT TO GO!
The #Time Has Come Today .. #Texas BE NOT #Blueface
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Prophetic, so prophetic. Every era, every decade had a song or two with a profound message. This is one.
Rwiten
Indeed
Who's here because of the TV show; Will Trent "?? This song was playing in the background of the show this week
I remember hearing this song on the radio as a kid and it STILL ROCKS
God bless ❤
Yep, glad Will Trent used it!
EXACTLY!!! I loved the show before, and now I love it even more!! Glad to know that I am not the only one who is old enough to have enjoyed this music.
Just saw it and wanted to listen to the whole song
But the women's armpit hair. Show lost a little something this episode.
I'm an old hippie gal and I loved playing this song on my father's state of the art stereo system at the time, 1968-9. He hated it at first, didn't understand it but learned to love it as much as I. He passed 10 years ago. Blessed man he was and blessed our family by his hard work.
Far Out Peace
@@johnthonig8832 Outta sight!
@@g-girl9867 Groovy ✌️
@@g-girl9867 born in 55
Still a hippy
@@johnthonig8832 Far out, man!
One of the greatest rock songs of all-time. Period.
Yes it is. Forever.
We should have a classic 🎸 rock zoom party - or a Google email Meet 📹 video party during quarantine 😁
Love it....my go to song at the bar
i heard this song back in 1984 when I was 20 yrs old at about 3 am when I was doing a paper route in norcross ga off radio station z-93 wzgc and I was a changed boy. then went and found it on a cassette called chambers brothers greatest hits, and must have wore out the cassette tape for 6 mos, I could not have told you the other songs on the tape but I already knew that time has come today was on there and not the short version. blasted the piss out of this song driving down the road. be bopping until I could be bop no more.
Tripped to this incredible song more than once.
(Come to think of it, greatest cowbell song as well.)
I'm 72 and it has always sounded good. This is from the days when music WAS music.
Amen I’m 77 and happy that I had music like this not the crap that’s out now
I’m 77 and happy I had music like this to listen to not the crap that’s out now
@@TonyPowMC Every generation has the right and responsibility to choose the soundtrack to their lives as seen and heard through the lens of their own existence.
I am 73. This song brings back memories.
Son of a Vietnam vet, grew up listening to great music of my dad's generation as he always had it playing. Miss him dearly, and these songs reconnect me to the time we had.
Music (like literature) is a time machine...much like the smell of home-baked bread, slow cooked stew, etc. Certain things evoke memories...savor these things as always and, by ALL means, pass them on to younger folks as most know nothing of what they're missing out on.
I'm sorry you lost him. But he lives on in your memories.
My daughters love the music from my era, they grew up listening to this and a boat load of hard rock, soft rock and country. It's a thing.
Welcome your pop home for me.
So cool John!
Respect to your father. My dad also was Vietnam vet and I grew up listening to the music. To me as along as the music plays they live forever
Imagine living back in 1967. On the radio, you have happy fluffy flower stuff like The Monkees, Aretha Franklin, The Supremes, The Beatles....and then, THIS song comes on. How many minds were blown, wide open, irrevocably changed? How many people's jaws hit the floor, in utter awe of the power of this song? Fifty some odd years later, when music has evolved to an age where things like black metal, grindcore, and harsh noise/industrial music exist, this song STILL blows minds wide open.
1000%
Just like Ball of Confusion Temps
Indeed.
Well I wouldn't exactly call "A Day In The Life" or "Tomorrow Never Knows", happy fluffy flower stuff, but if you want to go earlier Beatles I'm mostly in on where you were trying to go with that. Starting with Rubber Soul there was a big transition.
And Inna gadda davida or White Room or Vanilla Fudge or...omg...the list is endless. I loved that era so hard.
Mine was one of those minds blown during that era. I lived through the dismay of the Beatles breaking up. I wondered about the sanity of the people who were upset about Dylan going 'Electric'. I insisted FM radios should be standard on all cars NOT because the fidelity was better, but newer broadcasters were embracing newer artists. The Disc Jockeys on the FM Dial seemed to be less constrained by the payola scandal of the 50's and early 60's. Young people today, driven by "Influencers" might find a connective resonnace with the way we cut our teeth back in the day.
I’m 110 years old, I fought in ww2 and Nam. This was the music of my middle age crisis!
one hundred and elevn years ago when I was just 9 years old I meet guy that told me something ,I just don't remeber what it was.
@ Aye, I can relate to that.
70 y/o and still diggin this classic!
I AM 71 STILL HAVIN FUN,THE MUSIC I GO BACK TO KEEPS ME OK .
I am 75 years old & first heard this 'psychedelic bonanza of a tune', in 1966, pouring out of a home in a side street of my 'quiet' neighbourhood (in Cohen Avenue, Glenwood, Durban SA), while walking home one afternoon. I was immediately rooted to the spot & stood outside the house captured, until the tune had ended. Little did I know that 2 guys inside that house had just bought that Chambers Brothers album, smoke a joint & decided to listen to the ultimate track on the album, full volume. As the tune ended, one of them happened to glance out of the window to see me still rooted to the spot. I guess he recognised a 'fellow traveller' & came onto the front balcony to chat. Noticing that U had snapped out of my 'state of capture' he burst into laughter & invited me inside. Needless to say, a replay was required, which cemented a friendship which lasted until my folks & I moved into a different suburb. An experience which I am reminded of, everytime I listen to this track. One of the first 'Freak out bands & tracks of that era'. Hooray for the Chambers Brothers & psychedelic music which was to follow. 😂🎉❤
"1966 original version - Columbia 43816 - the original recording, 2:37 in length, which is completely different from the widely known 1968 "hit version"."
I am your friend. Do not be afraid! No, really....people like us only still exist on YT!!! Am I right?
Every once and a while I come back here and crank up the volume like I did 50+ years ago and risk what little hearing I have left. I can't help myself.
Turn it up to 11!
What?!
Good earbuds really help, bigtime!
Ohh youre not the only one,lol
I'm 67, still play out. I'll fire up the Ampeg and play along.
First time I heard this song it reached out from my stereo speaker and grabbed me by the throat. I'm 66 and it still hasn't let go.
Same! I was about 3 and I remember it clearly!
One of the first "Psychedelic" bands, and they were Black. Once again, paving the way. Freaking great song, especially with a Doobie and a glass of wine, and Headphones.
Same! Heard it in the background of the film; Girl, Interrupted and HAD to find it! I just turned 30 2 weeks ago, and I got the same feeling! Some people just know good music :)
65 March 9th. Not the best at classic vinyl back then. Love it now. I’m glad I never grew up. The Lord is Good. So have to give the old hymns a ❤too. And thanks for no 1990s. To the present. Nothing. Sounds good. Thanks Lord. ❤
I know bra, I'm 65 and still trippin to the psychodelisized beat...farm out man!!!
at 72... I remember this song - always put me at ease & smile on my face... was first time in love... first time with drugs... so young... so foolish... SO HAPPY!
Tripping
Was a senior in h.s. When this came out. Always loved the line.....”and my soul’s been psychedelicized”. I know my soul was....many, many times. Even to this day. Nothing wrong with having your soul psychedelicized every once in a while.
FAR OUT MAN.............CAN DEFINATELY DIG .
classic ass line man!
T I m e !!! Love it bobster 2022 cuckoo
lucky., how much ws acid back then>?
@@lopeza.8046 $2.00 / $3.00
"There are things to realize." Amen, Brothers.
which is the hardest part .
@@jameskennedy721 How do we undeceive ourselves?
@@gratefultube the avalanche of inane ads doesnt help . patient de-brainwashing of your own mind . then tell other people .
Yes, that is the hardest part
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)
Time [x11]
Oh
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 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)
Time [x4]
Yeah
thanks
Astounding shit, isn't it??? Transports me right back to 1972 like a shot in the head...living in sin in San Diego doing drugs, going to college, searching out for the world, pining for change that was actually happening at that very moment all over the country...the antithesis of this moment just before the election of 2020 and its referendum on life, liberty and America as we still know it can one day become. DAMN. Thank you for the lyrics what a fucking ride!!!
No way out we're lost in space
No way out lost in space 😂
No real communications available been blocked caged frustrated to tears
ridiculously good song
I may be old,but I got to see the best bands ever.
My 1st concert was The Moody Blues in Houston. I was 16 years old. My last concert I attended was The Moody Blues at The Concord Pavilion on my 49th birthday. I absolutely love them as they always have the symphony (if one is available) accompany them. Back in the 60’s there were so many free concerts out there. Such a fun time for a teenager to play! The Loving Spoonful’s song, “Summer In The City” just came to mind… Hot time summer in the city, Back of my neck gettin' dirty and gritty…
@@johnthonig8832 Nice to meet you.
@@nancyjordan1577 Ditto- PEACE.
Yep...Stones, CCR, Beatles. ZZTOP, Tops, Temps......does not get BETTER!
I hear that
Born in 59 still listening in 2021 I praise and salute all veterans especially Vietnam veterans
1959 was a good year.
Thank you...much appreciated, I assure you.
Thank you.
I’m one of them…..thanks
They don’t Make Music Like That anymore
Yes, "they" do.
This is 2024 and I just found this for the first time!
My soul has been "psychedelicized"
@@michelleshores6862I don't know how old you are and I'm not asking. I'm just feeling sorry for you because you had never heard it until approximately 5 months ago.
True True 😊
1 of my favorites of that time!
😂😂😂 Was only 7 but very current!
Originally from Carthage Mississippi, The Chambers Brothers ( George,Joe, Lester & Willie) along with Brian Keenan on drums left their indelible mark for Time in memorial. “ Time Has Come Today” will live on forever. ☮️
We had a going away party for two brothers on there way to Nam. They loved that song. They both died there..song means alot. I'll always remember them
Such a shame. There was no good reason to go into that war. So many people died, and for what? I'm so sorry. 😞
Thankyou.. the war never went away. When I heard this song it was 1969 all over again. Funny how the mind works
Sorry for your loss
we left a part of us all there in the Republic of Vietnam. Time passed very slow there. I flew in the air mostly, a doorgunner.... 'there it is'
Knowing some things about war and America, it pisses me off that young men were literally sacrificed in that war. That's the war mongers laughing at our losses.
53 years in, and I never get tired of hearing this song. Pure genius. And to all who served and sacrificed, we owe you a debt of gratitude that you never got and that we cannot possibly repay. Thanks.
You don't owe us anything. We just did our job. We chose our path
@@x101st we owe you our respect and thanks.
Sacrificing...not really. Serving,.. absolutely. The question is whom were they serving? Following orders to kill innocent people is never courageous, never right and should not ever be rewarded. The great unveiling of truth and OURstory... HIStory is being exposed for the lie it wAs and is! It’s about time!!!
You're welcome...
I’m a veteran and I thank you for respecting us!!!
❤ I Y'am what ...,what I Y'am...a 72 young feller.... played this song in a band myself....of course I was so much older then I'm younger than thAt now
"I've been Crushed by Tumbling Time and My Soul Has Been Psycodelizised"!.....years later I FEEL IT!
Like he is falling down a rabbit hole - but a good one .
I hear you.
"...tumblin' tide."
Just listening to the song I thought the band was YTE, but when I went to the record store and saw the cover of the album did I see they were Black.
...I have no home...
One of the greatest songs of all time... time... time...
Good one Laree!!
rubbish bish bish
One of the greatest songs ever written, IMO.
DITTO!!!
Rest in peace, George Chambers.
brian keenan the drummer died back in 1985 as well.
I was born in 1980. My parents were and still are hippies. This song is part of my personal soundtrack. Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong decade, man.
i am 1956 , Lot of Greetings
Maybe you chose to return, but I can’t imagine why, lol.
you were born that's all that matters! your life is all that matters! Live it! and be blessed! a Viet Nam Vet!!
@Nycki Reynolds........I’m almost 30 years older than you and am just happy that you’re diggin’ this music. I was a senior in high school when this came out and played the shit out of this record. My parents thought I was possessed. Happy Memorial Weekend to you, sweetie. Keep on rockin!!! ✌️
Bro! I was born in '68, my daughter in 2000. Dont sweat it! I've seen all the cool bands, as has my daughter. Dont worry bro! You have your whole life ahead of you! I was fortunate to burn out on Heavy Metal in the late 80s, but in the 90s I was stationed at Ft. Lewis Washington when Grunge exploded! You never know whats gonna happen!
Dude I'm 18 and I can feel this song the new generation of music will never be able to achieve such artistic greatness
Ah, they will some day, we just need to keep those currently in charge from blowing the world all to Hell first! Keep the Faith, have patience, breathe. The rest will come to you and yours. "Don't get above your Raisin"
As a 71-year-old rocker, I have faith that the majority of young people will keep on rocking for generations to come. Keep up the fight.
That's because no one plays instruments anymore.
I think one big difference between earlier and later generations in terms of music is that there were fewer distractions for older musicians and that helped them hone their skills and think. It was pretty boring entertainment wise. Those born later had t video games, cable tv, internet and social media making it more difficult to focus on one thing.
@@raddmann336 What kind of distractions are we talking about?
I'm 73.and wish the 60's music could return.
It's still here. You're listening to it. Thank You Tube and channels like this one.
So do I!!!
Make it happen!!
Great album to sit and get high too. I think everyone should listen and see how it makes them feel. Get your friends from that decade, turn the song on, and I’m sure you’ll see a smile.
Best cowbell ever...just saying for a friend✌️
Before BLUE OYSTER CULT
@@debrawilliams7983 lmao!!
Best cowbell ever was on Mississippi Queen :-)
Phil Myers the Bruce dickernson
just enough cowbell
50+ years later and STILL great
I think that this will still be played so long as there IS time. It was inspired, and a "one of a kind" type of Song; unique.
That's right!!! Perfect for these days... I 'd rather think about the Great hippy days on this song. I had a lot of friends and family go off to VietNan. Some came back and some didn't and others friends freaked out!! Good song✌👍
A true n real classic...words for 2020 for sure
Still relevant. Human nature does not change.
Right on!!
Heard a bit of this great song on "Will Trent" tonight and was instantly taken back to when I first heard this and loved it immediately! 75 now, where have 55 years gone?
Exactly, where have they gone. I saw the Will Trent show...
Me too. Love that little pup. Anyhow, I drive with this on my CD player everywhere I go~
I was 18 in 1969 and Loved this song! Always will! This moves the body and the soul! Peace y'all.
I was 18 to in 1969 and a hippie in myrtle beach S.C. Time...........Time...........
Neil Armstrong and friends landed on the moon two days before my 18th birthday. I registered for the draft two weeks later just as the Woodstock Music Festival got underway. Tickets were $10. I didn't go. I lived and still do, in Portland, OR.What a time!
Yesss
A late high school tune that came back strong while I was in college … then the chambers bros. Came to a free evening campus event and attracted a huge crowd bringing back memories of a great tune and subject
@@softride12-I also lived in Portland about the same time (worked at KGW and KOIN) … similar experience to what you described and missed Woodstock (and the draft lottery gave ne 361)…so I missed being drafted and instead listened to Chambers Bros., instead…
This was one of the songs that defined the 1960s!
Yes and still relevant today.
Its taken me 30 odd years to find this gem.
This and GIMME SHELTER by the Rolling Stones, for ME, anyway!
@David Wang it speaks to everyone..maybe not in the same way...its about time, humanity, love, hate, respect and getting along with one another.in the end its all that really matters
and black panthers, peoples park living on the street
Yes we hippies still enjoy this song it is the top of my list. 80 years old and listen to this a lot . This album is in my collection.
Hey, I have an original 45.
I wasn't a hippie, but I still enjoyed the song.
I was a stalwart conservative even in the 60s....never a hippie....but I love and loved this song. One of the best of all time.
Hippie here, too, Bob & we warned 'em & were right about it all: the environment, the Rat Race, endless war...you name it. Revisionist history tries to paint us as airheads w/flowers in our hair & then sellouts, but look where THEY'VE led us!
That's what Im talking about.! Keep those albums my brother. And 45's if you have them. Peace ☮️
Can't believe these guys aren't in the rock and roll Hall of fame yet they deserve it.
I totally agree
The R&R HOF is a joke! There's SO MANY artists that they haven't recognized yet have put some undeserving bands in...sad to see politics in their house...
After all this time, this song still kicks ass across the universe. Black psychedelic masterpiece, not to mention rare musical form even in the period.
Psychalelised!
Music doesn't care about race. If it's good then it's good.
@@Reggie-The-Dog This a number 1 song. It's still a number 1 song.
@@Reggie-The-Dog Exactly! The main players are black and are up front. The white drummer is in the background. However, the drumming is INCREDIBLE in this song, especially through the headphones!!! They ALL work SO WELL together!!! ❤️
Ahhh the good old days when men were men, women were women and great music was the order of the day.
It's really sad to think how far music has sunk ever since the days when they had music like this.
Misery Music is so popular today
Mandy you are so right on! Like they used to say!
Mainstream music today is a cultural wasteland. That's why you have to dig deep and uncover unknown or underground bands. There is a lot of incredible art being produced, but it's not always going to be on the radio.
Abso efing lutely. Well said my friend!!
@brad davidson understand your parents and their friends where saying the same thing about your own generation, we’ve all got our own shit going on, we’re all products of our own generations. Great music is everywhere, new and old. It’s only human that people stop following popular culture at some point. Creativity isn’t bound to one singular decade. Anyways, let me just shut up and enjoy this amazing track haha, enjoy your day
Even the Chambers Brothers know. We all can be brothers and Sisters if we choose to be.
Saw the Chambers Brothers do this in 68 and I was blown away
I was born in 1975. I can still remember my mother dancing to this in the 80’s and 90’s. She used to teach me all her moves 🥰 She passed 11/30/22 and she’s still the one of the coolest chicks I’ve ever known!
I loved my mom. but she hated rock-n-roll!! She even went to the same high school as Jimi Hendrix!!!
@@vickisawyer7405 Sorry for your loss. She sounds like a great sister.
@@jameshutchison8155 i didn't post anything about my sister.
I have always loved this song and all the Chambers Brothers music but especially Time has come today. I want to say this is the best psychedelic rock song of those times.
It was all part of the counterculture. One of my favorite songs in highschool
Im 76 now reminds me of when l went off to war in a place called vietnam,,l made it back but some my friends did not God bless them
Welcome home.
I was 16 in 1969. weaned on the Beatles, the Stones, Cream, humble Pie, ect. and of course Jimi. I first heard The Chambers Brothers on WNEW FM, in N.Y. "Time" had hit the air waves and that was all she wrote. The Brothers opened the door to R&B for me and greatly influenced my playing. I bought all their albums and playing then until the grooves wore out. not many bands can effect a guitarist like that but the Chambers Brothers could and did, I can not thank them enough for the pleasure and enjoyment they gave me and the rest of the world through the years . Now at age 67 I still jam with them. They were fantastic musicians who's talent never grows old
i'm 35, i listened to all those bands growing up. i like hearing stories from people that grew up in the 60's and seventies. i'm at that age where now i'm now technically old and my era is becoming kind of
"classic" if you will. it's a weird feeling.
Im 64 and remember listening to this song on AM radio 🙂
@@MG-chaotic I got you beat, I'm 71 ...I was an OH (original hippie) from Ann Arbor, Michigan, and the late '60s early '70s was the Golden Age of Rock...it's been downhill ever since.....
Fellow Travellor, 67 years young here!! We had the best bands and "recreationals"
I am 72 now and living in Oregon. When this song came out I was living on haight and ashbury in San Francisco. I also lived there when Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison pasted away. Those were the good old days when things were innocent compared to today.
We are out here it been here from the beginning.love is the key to it all.❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉😊
Us old hipppies never die, we just go on another trip
I'm right behind you, man
Good clean shit too...
Enjoy~~~
Abelardo Berroteran old hippies never die , they just smell that way.
@@alonzocalvillo6702 Yes just like de WEED ...
@@alonzocalvillo6702 , I don't know your age, but maybe your mamma, or dad, or gramma or grampa does, but I and most old people bath
USMC 1966-69 / RVN 1968-69 /DAV 1969-Present. Love this song!
My brother, now deceased, bought the Album. I loved it, and I was 11.
I'm 64 and I really love this song! ✌
10 year old kid listening to this in the dark on his transistor radio under the pillow. What a freakin' brilliant recording... and yep diff'rent times. We were indeed tuned in.
So true,69 yrs old and living in the past
we did tune in,,turn on and turned our consciousness away from the establishment 🙃🙃🙃🙃
1969. I am 13 👀wide opened
@@paulespinosa5195 fucking Kennedy and Johnson were tyrants and embarrasing, yep 1969
"Transistor radio"...I remember when just about every kid had at least one..y dad hated fixing them in his shop...they weren't worth the time and labor...usually to repair a broken circuit board...
I'm 70 and when I describe hearing this for the first-time youngsters find it hard to believe a spirit such as this transpired. Fascinating and also sad. The birth and beginnings of what would eventually plague America began then.
I had this album on cassette and played it to being worn out. The music reflected these fast-changing times.
What plagued America beginning then?
@@audreymuzingo933 The seeds of every torment we face today were sown in the 60's. Choose one and trace its origin. The political left matured in their delusions to toxic proportions we are battling currently.
But what was the remedy preventing society from eventually being degraded? I remember people saying how dangerous even popular culture would become, and that was mid-sixties. The only way to stop it would have been considered violence to suppress evolving perversion and lawlessness.
That said, the decade of my childhood contained a kaleidoscope of art, music, (the beginnings of heavy metal) and the introduction of many things we are aware of today. This was the birthplace. It was also perhaps the most violent era, with Mao in China killing many millions in his delusionary bid to "leap forward".
The Vietnam war was raging without restraint again killing countless souls. Abbey Hoffman and his ilk tormented society with radical violent demonstrations and far-left miscreants planning mayhem.
So, you see this has matured to where we are. The left has learned a lot in sixty years, even stealing elections and subjecting the American populace to toxic goals. Lack of knowledge concerning history will be the undoing of us all.
@@Giavani-t4k Okay thanks, I figured you would say a bunch of that angry right-winger stuff, ha. What you see as a plague, I see as joyful progress. I'm SO glad to be a mother of a young woman now, versus the past when both of us would be expected to be married and do nothing but "devote" ourselves to husbands and children no matter how awful either of them might be (even get LEGALLY beaten and raped by husbands). I love how racially integrated America is now, just like the Chambers Brothers were. I love just about everything that changed after (and largely due to) the revolutionary 1960's. What's weird to me is that you seem so at-odds with it, like you appreciate the music but don't seem to understand what it was about, or how it was a HUGE part of why all the changes (change you hate) occurred.
I Hope This Song Never Dies!!! ✌️🖖🙏🇺🇲🦅🌹🤣 Madness!!!
Funny how many are posting their age as 70+, I thought I was still 20 until you reminded me.
Thanks a lot........
One of the greatest songs ever recorded
this song goes to 11
Yeah.. agree..what a jam
The shortened version for radio is just as sweet.
Kenneth Papineau breakfast with the Beatles Sunday mornings
Absolutely!
I'm 77 now and was so lucky to see real rock bands. Stones, Beatles, Cream, Deep Purple, Led Zepp, Who, Credence, Canned Heat, Beach Boys, Animals, Floyd, and many more...and it didn't cost a years pay ! Days like that will never come again.
this is not a song. Its a trip!
Then, "trip on"; Or as Fleetwood Mac would say; "Then, play on!"
You said it brother, it's a trip
More like an experience from a journey or a memory that takes you back to a reality dream.
Right
1000 watts ain't enough!!!!
Im 14 and all these rock songs and Vietnam war songs rock for me man
This song never gets old, unlike me!
Or, "unlike US," James. Remember, Time is our prison. Look for the Key; Nothing is worth more than YOUR ESCAPE from Time. And also note, The Chambers Bro's have a spiritual side. . .
Isn't that SAD?? I love this song!! and I am up there too... Oh well Bitchen song!!!😊
Amen Bro!
If you're digging this like me, your soul is still young. That's what counts man!
No such thing as old!!!
I am 65 and this will never get OLD. The Time has Come. God bless us all.
My son was born in 91, and still loves his old man's music
64 years old and I do remember this song! Groovy!
I love The Chambers Brothers,they belong in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum.Tony
When my brother came home from Nam - Marine Corps SEMPER FI- he brought a reel to reel player home with him and all these FABULOUS tapes- and thank God gave it all to me. The Chambers Brothers was the first one I listened to and I LOVED IT! Everyone of their songs is fabulous!! Another one was The Mama's and the Poppas, wow, California Dreaming, Words of Love- man it all so freaking excellent!
ur brother God bless him
God Bless your Bro and all the brothers in service at that time. U.S.Army.
GREAT TO STONE OUT TO .
Your brother gave you the "gift" of music appreciation...enjoy and, by all means, PLEASE pass it on to those less educated on such things,