Version - Tom Scott - Today

2006-08-08 by Kevvy K

Tom ScottA year after Surrealistic Pillow, Tom Scott and the California Dreamers recorded a version of Today for their debut album on Impule, that took the flowers-in-your-hair aesthetic of the original but gave it a classier, jazzier direction with the delectable sax-fest on the second half of the song. It’s very of its time and a real gem.

This was also sampled on Pete Rock’s “T.R.O.Y.” which is the most requested song at hip-hop flavoured funerals.

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  1. The Double K says (on Aug 8, 2006 @ 04:10 PM):

    Where on Earth do you get a statistic for "most requested song at hip-hop flavoured funerals"?!?

  2. kevvy-k says (on Aug 8, 2006 @ 04:57 PM):

    In all honesty, I have no idea, but it lodged in my brain

  3. thebridgeisover says (on Aug 16, 2006 @ 11:29 PM):

    Always wanted this track. First time Ive ever seen it posted. Fuck it, they can play it at my hip hop funeral.

    Paz y amor,
    -thebridgeisover

  4. AK says (on Aug 18, 2006 @ 08:07 PM):

    I just want to know how much diggin in dusty record bins Pete Rock had to do before he found this album. And for the record, T.R.O.Y. is one of hiphop's classics, and hearing the first few seconds of the track always brings me back to '92/'93, and all sorts of memories I associate with that time period.

  5. dannydymes says (on Dec 4, 2007 @ 06:14 PM):

    I've never heard a tune so nastalgic. Everytime I hear it, via Pete Rock's legendary cut, or samples of Tom's original sound, I catch a brain freeze, while my mind simultaneously captures still moments in my life when I was happy or being carried through some difficult period. Were the horns or the "groovy" background vocals intentionally hypnotic? Not even Tom Scott or Pete Rock knows…

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