1978: Camel Breathless vs. Magma Attahk

MAGMA quite easily, I know it's not exactly everyone's fav MAGMA album but for me it blows Breathless out of the desert. Actually that MAGMA album is currently in my top 10 for 1978. Some real gems for that year.

Unfamiliar with Attahk, but there's only one track off of Breathless that I like (Echoes), so I doubt Camel will win the day with me once I get around to listening to both. 

Richard Sinclair is great, I love Caravan and Hatfield and the North, but this Camel album is not one of the best, imo, to feature him by quite a long way. He makes it enjoyable, though. I don't think I'd like that song I posted in this topic if it were instead of him, say, pretty much any death metal growler. Actually, that might be cool. Probably some good death metal meets disco out there, maybe.... Perhaps, perhaps not.

I love Attahk. It's one of my favourite Magma albums, and it still sounds fresh to my ears these days. Most people fawn all over MDK, but I like the jazziness of the first two and the fun of Attahk. I like every Magma studio album, even the much reviled Merci, and I love lots of their live albums.
It's not the easiest band for most to get into.... I think a lot of people start in the wrong place, and what place to start depends on what someone is into. For me it was "Iss Lansei Doia" off the second album, but then I liked brassy jazz and very quirky music. It filled with joy.

Mellotron Storm wrote: MAGMA quite easily, I know it's not exactly everyone's fav MAGMA album but for me it blows Breathless out of the desert. Actually that MAGMA album is currently in my top 10 for 1978. Some real gems for that year.

I like Camel more than Magma, but Breathless is probably their weakest album, so in this case, Magma would get my vote, for the album, not fort he band.

This is a tough one, I like them both. Also "support the underdog" applies to them both, as Magma is the underdog against Camel but Breathless is an underdog Camel album. I voted for Breathless because it made me smile (although "You Make Me Smile" is one of its lower songs), because of Richard Sinclair, because of Echoes, because of the guitar solo in Summer Lightning, and because I like it if bands deviate from their usual paths for a while. It may not be very consistent but it's full of ideas.

Easily Magma. 

Attahk!!!!!

Camel is my favourite band, I love all their albums, ant Breathless imho not the worst of them. Magama is a good band but not so strong in the melodies. imho