Released August 11, 1976 Length 41:52 347 EST
(1976) Hope
(1977) Release date 11 August 1976 | Recorded 1973–76 Producer Terry Brown, Klaatu Artist Klaatu Label Capitol Records | |
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Genres Progressive rock, Psychedelic pop, Power pop Nominations Juno Award for Recording Package of the Year Similar Klaatu albums, Progressive rock albums | ||
Klaatu 3 47 est 1976 full album
3:47 EST is the first album by the Canadian progressive rock group Klaatu, released in August 1976. The album was renamed Klaatu when released in the United States 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 friend of Klaatu's members, the Canadian graphic artist, Ted Jones.
Contents
- Klaatu 3 47 est 1976 full album
- Origin of the title
- Musical style
- Track listing
- Personnel
- Production
- Songs
- References
For a variety of reasons, rumours spread in the wake of the album's release that Klaatu were, in fact, a secretly reunited Beatles. The album was moderately successful in the United States, largely as a result of the Beatles rumours.
A high-quality newly remastered version of the album was released on Klaatu's indie record label "Klaatunes" in 2011. To accompany this release, a music video was made for the remastered version of "Calling Occupants".
Origin of the title
In the 1951 science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still, the alien emissary Klaatu arrives in Washington, D.C. at 3:47 in the afternoon Eastern Standard Time. According to a 1981 issue of the group's newsletter, "one of the band's member[s] viewed a screening ... and was immediately impressed by the appropriateness of the character Klaatu's arrival time on earth as the title of the band Klaatu's debut record album".
Musical style
AllMusic's Mike DeGagne has retrospectively called the album "an entertaining debut album made up of light, harmonic pop songs which harbor a little bit of a progressive rock feel in a few spots". Dave Sleger of the website said "Klaatu frequently alternated between Beatlesque pop, the showy guitar rock and vocal theatrics of early Queen, and the electronic orchestral techniques pioneered by Walter Carlos, or worked all three into the structure of a four- or five-minute song".
Track listing
The album ends with a mouse squeak.
Personnel
The band members are not named on the original LP.
Production
Songs
1Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft7:14
2California Jam3:01
3Anus of Uranus3:16