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    Posted: July 02 2020 at 07:50
I thought this might be an interesting topic as Caravan doesn't seem to be a widely discussed band on PA, also because I am not very familiar with them - I only have one album that I bought recently, In the Land of Grey and Pink, so it would be very good if people could give me an idea of what they did that's good and what they did that's bad (if they did anything bad).

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote dr wu23 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 02 2020 at 07:58
Ck out their page here then listen to them on you tube or elsewhere....as I said on the other thread the first 5 albums are all very good if you like the Canterbury sound., but there is some good music on the later ones also.
I would recommend Hatfield and the North and Khan(Space Shanty) to start on other Canterbury bands...but there are many good ones.

Oh...have to get back on the 5 songs but I'm betting the Canterbury fans  will be posting soon....


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Psychedelic Paul Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 02 2020 at 08:38
I'll add up the collective points for the Top 5 Caravan songs as we go, using my usual points system:-
 
1st song (6 points)
2nd song (4 points)
3rd song (3 points)
4th song (2 points)
5th song (1 point)
 
I'm still undecided on my Caravan Top 5, but I'll have a list of songs coming up soon, with "For Richard" most likely at the top of my list. Smile
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote FatherChristmas Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 02 2020 at 09:15
Thanks - I saw your poll on Caravan's best albums. I had no idea they did so many!
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Psychedelic Paul Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 02 2020 at 09:19
Originally posted by FatherChristmas FatherChristmas wrote:

Thanks - I saw your poll on Caravan's best albums. I had no idea they did so many!
 
I've also posted all five of Caravan's currently available YouTube albums on there too - including their latest album "Paradise Filter" (2013) - if you want to check them out. Smile
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"Place of My Own"
"Where but for Caravan Would I Be"
"Can't Be Long Now / Françoise / For Richard / Warlock"
"Winter Wine"
"Nine Feet Underground"
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Psychedelic Paul Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 20 2024 at 06:07
^ Amazingly, you're the first person to vote in this poll, nearly four years after it was first posted by Father Christmas, who's long since disappeared to tend to his reindeer. Smile
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Winter Wine is my favorite. I haven't listened to their other albums, aside from if i could do it all over again i'd do it all over you.


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Nine Feet Underground
The Love In Your Eye
Can't Be Long Now  / Françoise / For Richard / Warlock
Winter Wine
Auberge Du Sanguer

I have always had a soft spot for 'Golf Girl' as well. Smile
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote Psychedelic Paul Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 20 2024 at 08:02
Originally posted by Octopus II Octopus II wrote:


I have always had a soft spot for 'Golf Girl' as well. Smile
Me too. There are no under par songs on the classic Land of Pink and Grey album, although I still have a fairway to go to listen to all of Caravan's albums again. Smile
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Boojieboy Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 25 2024 at 15:06
I'd just go with five songs from their first album. The second album is good too. Not as much of a fan of the rest.


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Memory Lain, Hugh/Headloss
Can't Be Long Now suite
Nine Feet
Winter Wine
Frozen Rose

I struggle with their first album; Lily and Plump are sporadically decent, where If I Could & Pink are ALMOST flawless

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Saperlipopette! Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 26 2024 at 00:35
Originally posted by Boojieboy Boojieboy wrote:

I'd just go with five songs from their first album. The second album is good too. Not as much of a fan of the rest.
Strangest take I've ever seen (in regards to Caravan). Just how does one like If I Could do it All Over... but NOT In the Land of Grey and Pink?
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-wait, there's eight songs on their first album and five on their third (ItLoGaP). You should definitely give the early albums you weren't aware of a try (and For Girls Who Grow Plump... a second chance after doing so) 


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote Sean Trane Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 26 2024 at 04:48
Top 5 seems way too little, IMHO
Why not apply your usual top 7 formula?

1- Nine Feet Underground
2- Winter Wine
3- A Day In The Life of Maurice Haylett (B-side of Who Do single)
4- Where but For A Caravan Would I
5- The Love In Your Eye

6- L'Auberge du Sanglier
7- For Richard
8- Place of My Own
9- Cecil Rons (a way too-short marvelous track - out of this world)
10- Cthlu

11- In The Land of G&P
12- Memory Lain, Hugh / Headloss
13- As I Feel I Die
14- Nothing At All
15- Show Of Our Lives & Dabsong Conshirtoe



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Edited by Sean Trane - April 26 2024 at 04:56
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Psychedelic Paul Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 26 2024 at 05:29
^ I would've much preferred a Top 7 too, but it's not my poll, and Father Christmas has left us with a Top 5 instead, so we're stuck with it. I haven't even decided on my own Caravan Top 5 yet, even though this poll was posted nearly four years ago. Confused

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Sean Trane Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 26 2024 at 07:50
Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

^ I would've much preferred a Top 7 too, but it's not my poll, and Father Christmas has left us with a Top 5 instead, so we're stuck with it. I haven't even decided on my own Caravan Top 5 yet, even though this poll was posted nearly four years ago. Confused

Sorry, force of habit EmbarrassedLOL

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Edited by Sean Trane - April 26 2024 at 07:52
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote mellotronwave Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 26 2024 at 08:43
Oh ! the choice is not so obvious , cos' they recorded a lot of splendid stuff I liked and still like !

A top 5 only is a real challenge !

Let's go !

L'auberge du sanglier
Memory Lain Hugh, Headloss
For Richard
In the land of pink and grey
Nine Feet underground

and a lot more


The only Lp (of their regular discography) I don't like is Waterloo Lily

Edited by mellotronwave - April 26 2024 at 08:44
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote dr prog Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 01 2024 at 21:04
Frozen Rose
In the land of the grey and pink
The show of our lives
No backstage pass
Watcha gonna tell me
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Saperlipopette! Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 02 2024 at 00:28
Something like this perhaps:

1 Winter Wine
2 Nine Feet Underground
3 As I Feel I Die
4 I Don't Know Its Name (Alias The Word)
5 L'Auberge Du Sanglier - A Hunting We Shall Go
6 Hello Hello
7 For Richard
8 In the Land of the Grey and the Pink
9 Cecil Rons
10 C'Thlu Thlu
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