About Camel

I love Camel!

i love camel  [im a fanboy  ]

camel is an amazing band .few

Camel are the best band ever, IMO and The Snow Goose is the best album ever (ask me next week and I might say Moonmadness!). I've never met anyone who doesn't like it.

Only Mostly Autumn, Genesis, IQ, Horslips and Runrig get anywhere near as much play on my CD player.


Edited by Hercules - December 03 2008 at 14:50

Camel's work is very good to excellent

You will love them KingCrimson, if you love good melodic and beautiful guitar sound.

I might not be the best person to ask because they've been one of my favourite bands and I loved all the albums they did. Anyway, their best are the first four, with a little preference for Moonmadness. The original lineup is I think the best. After Ian Ferguson was replaced by Richard Sinclair, they became more Jazzy and sometimes Genesis like. The period between Breathless and Single Factor (this last their worst album for sure), is when Mr Latimer lost Peter Bardens first, then Andy Ward remaining the only band's "owner", something similar to what Waters tried to do with Pink Floyd. Stationary Traveller in 1984, was a surprise, even if there's too much Fairlight as was usual in the 80s. This now makes it sound dated. After a lawsuit with his major, Latimer produced some good things like Harbour of tears and the old-style prog Rajaz, that's in my opinion, impressively one of the best things ever published under the Camel brand.

I discovered Camel in a backwards kind of way. Whilst at University, someone I knew had a lot of bootleg cassettes, and he lent a few to me. One was by Camel, and I really liked it (it subsequently turns out that this became a semi-official album 'On The Road 1981' I think).

I investigated further, and due to the era, 1984, I purchased Stationary Traveller, and as a follow up, Pressure Points Live. Got Nude, as tracks from this appeared on the cassette version of On The Road.

Then there followed a backwards search through the catalogue, to discover wonders like Snow Goose, Mirage, Moonmadness etc...saving the best for last. But I still have a soft spot for Stationary Traveller, which doesn't generally seem to be a favourite amongst Camel fans.

Great band, definitely one of may favourites, and my most played band on LastFM.com.


Edited by Takeshi Kovacs - December 23 2008 at 05:27

Jaja Macca wrote: Hi, friends.   Despite the resume on Prog Archives, I would like to know your opinion about this wonderful Prog Band.   When and your feelings when you heard them at the first time. Your favorite albuns and music. Favorites members. Worst albums etc.   I think that there will be a lot of good and inteligent answers here.   Thanks.

you think so....

my opinion... '2nd division' prog, though not bad.  Comitted the GRAVE sin of being eliminating ELP in a contest here, so damned to hell for all eternity in the eyes of some hahhaa

f**king Camel

that said...  big thumbs up for Latimer on the geetar... great player.  A big thumbs down for his vocals... even bigger thumbs down for the group not utilizing fully a great vocalist in Richard Sinclair when they got one, like on Raindances

favorite album... Snow Goose.. least.. the aforementioned Raindances


Edited by micky - December 23 2008 at 10:37

They did Mirage, which is an awesome album. The Snow Goose and Camel are both alright, though not really anything special.
They then did Moonmadness, which is

In my view, Ward is the standout player, though Bardens and Latimer both have their moments every now and then. Not very fond of Doug Ferguson's bass.

i like rajaz the best and a bonus is that my woman likes it too so when she suggests listening to yanni i just throw on some camel instead, i don`t do yanni