Does anyone like Caravan?
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Topic: Does anyone like Caravan?
Posted By: FatherChristmas
Subject: Does anyone like Caravan?
Date Posted: July 02 2020 at 05:03
| Caravan are a Canterbury Scene band from the 70s. They are most famous for their critically acclaimed album "In the Land of Grey and Pink". I searched for them everywhere and I couldn't find them, but I thought I shouldn't put them in the "suggest new bands" forum because they are quite an old band, and might already have been suggested. Does anyone like them? |
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: July 02 2020 at 05:21
Yes, I do. I have all of Caravan's albums up to and including the cheekily named Spoonerism album, "Cunning Stunts". 
I felt sure Caravan were already included in ProgArchives in the Canterbury Scene section.
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: July 02 2020 at 05:23
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http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=613" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=613
strangely you did not find Caravan on PA. Explore the site, you'll learn about a ton of bands.
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: July 02 2020 at 06:17
In the index under "C".  Yes, I'm a fan of theirs.
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FatherChristmas wrote:Posted By: FatherChristmas
Date Posted: July 02 2020 at 07:19
| Oh... I just suggested them on the suggest new bands forum. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: July 02 2020 at 07:22
I just posted a link on the Suggest New Bands Forum that'll take you straight to Caravan's PA page.
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Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: July 02 2020 at 07:25
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I like them but I've never been able to love them. ------------- The Prog Corner |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: July 02 2020 at 07:27
| Spectacular band. Pure magic. |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: July 02 2020 at 07:30
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: July 02 2020 at 07:51
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Great 'whimsical' Canterbury progressive rock band.....first 5 albums are all very good especially If I Could.., Grey and Pink, and Waterloo. Don't forget to ck out the Canterbury page here. http://www.progarchives.com/subgenre.asp?style=12" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/subgenre.asp?style=12 Favorite album Caravan... http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=121643" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=121643 :)
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: July 02 2020 at 10:43
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I'd sooner be asking "Who doesn't like Caravan?" :) Caravan was the first Canterbury Scene/ Sound band that I got into, with In the Land of Grey and Pink ("Nine Feet Underground is so marvelous). It's a gateway for many into the worlds of Canterbury Scene music. It's actually not a Canterbury Secne/Sound band that I have returned much to over the past 14 or so years as I just found many others that I would return to more. I do have an awful lot of Canterbury Scene/ Sound albums, and I find it it to be one of the most consistently excellent categories in PA (that and Zeuhl are the most consistently good for me, but I listen more to a plethora of Canterbury acts these days). If you haven't yet explored our Canterbury category (genre) at PA, which I'm guessing you haven't, methinks you might have many great discoveries ahead of you.When I discovered PA, that is one of the first categories that I fell in love with (I already knew Caravan, but not much else). I think Gong was the first I got into after Caravan. Oh, by the way, welcome to the site. I hope you have fun here and discover lots of great music along the way. |
Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: July 02 2020 at 11:15
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Sadly, I have never got this particular group of bands. It leaves me somewhat cold. ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: July 02 2020 at 11:47
| ^ And I never got into Neo-Prog. To each his or her own tastes. |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: July 02 2020 at 11:55
| I'm not overly familiar with them but I like what I have heard. |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: July 02 2020 at 12:03
Not having Caravan on this site would sort of be like not having Nektar, Soft Machine, Renaissance, Magma, Gong, Focus, VDGG, Camel and Gentle Giant. 
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Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: July 02 2020 at 12:09
I've never even heard of them. What do they sound like? 
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: July 02 2020 at 12:15
are you for real? you're not kidding? anything they released from 1968-1977 is worth checking out. |
Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: July 02 2020 at 12:17
I was being cheeky.
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: July 02 2020 at 12:20
| I've never heard of Yes, just No, and possibly Maybe. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: July 02 2020 at 12:21
oh well, you never know.
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Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: July 02 2020 at 12:23
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Posted By: FatherChristmas
Date Posted: July 02 2020 at 12:34
| Logan - you haven't actually never heard of Yes? |
Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: July 02 2020 at 12:39
I think he was being serious.
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: July 02 2020 at 12:59
In The Land of Grey and Pink was where my interest in Caravan began.
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: July 02 2020 at 13:04
I had to think a bit with the double negative. I'd like to say Yes if I knew what it meant, but my dictionary only goes up to X. It's not true that I actually haven't never heard of Yes. When I was just born I hadn't never heard of Yes, and it took some time before I can ever remember hearing of Yes. My parents were all, "No, don't play with Daddy's sharpest knives", "No, put that flame thrower down," and "No, that babysitter will not educate you in the ways of love." Methinks I wouldn't mention a band name (or word) I've never heard of before, or would I? ;) "So what'll we call our band?" "Ahhh..." "What?" "No." "No what?" "Huh?" "No, no nos, ahhhs, whats or huhs." "No?" "Yes." "I agree." "Yes?" "Yes!" And thus Prog history was made. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: July 02 2020 at 13:08
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I think the bandname "Yes" is an improvement over "Mabel Greer's Toyshop".
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: July 02 2020 at 13:08
| ^ |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: July 02 2020 at 13:09
Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: July 02 2020 at 13:10
Great post!
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: July 02 2020 at 13:58
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^ You're far too kind, but thank you.
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Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: July 02 2020 at 14:18
In the Canterbury style I prefer; National Health, Khan, Gong, Soft Machine, Pip Pyle, Phil Miller, Hatfield and the North, Sanguine Hum, etc. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: July 02 2020 at 14:35
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^^ I agree with you on Khan. Space Shanty is my favourite Canterbury Scene album of all time, even though I didn't know Khan were a Canterbury Scene band until I joined ProgArchives.
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Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: July 03 2020 at 10:55
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Hi, Weird ... someone asking that of folks that have at least 15 CARAVAN albums! AND 2 DVD's! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: July 03 2020 at 11:27
Early Caravan = magic  ------------- http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/" rel="nofollow - Metal Music Archives https://rateyourmusic.com/~UMUR" rel="nofollow - UMUR on RYM |
Posted By: The Anders
Date Posted: July 03 2020 at 13:41
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I've heard "In the Land of Grey and Pink"once, but it didn't do much for me. Perhaps I'll need to hear it multiple times, or else it is simply just in a style I don't find interesting. |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: July 03 2020 at 14:04
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Not all bands on PA need to move you or even get you interested in what they are trying to do. I have a couple albums and could not tell you the last time my turntable has seen them.....I classify these bands as the Music Forum Bands. Those that you get "forum pressured" into listening to or buying, and nothing happens. I was weak with 2 Caravan albums....I have not spent anymore money on their albums. -------------   
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Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: July 05 2020 at 08:53
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Hi, Removed ... accidentally posted in the wrong forum!!! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: July 05 2020 at 09:09
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This is about Caravan, not Nektar dude.
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: July 05 2020 at 09:37
I think Moshkito may have meant to post it on my Nektar thread.
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: July 05 2020 at 09:40
It's Pedro dude....  ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: July 06 2020 at 05:43
Hi, Micky ... my brother has something for you that is good for your cold!!!! (to quote Caravan!) ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: July 06 2020 at 06:47
| I started to listen & love Caravan in 2010`s. Really would have loved them already in the eighties, when I started to listen prog, if somebody had then borrowed me their albums. Their three first are my faves, but they havenīt made totally bad album. Definitely my fav Canterbury band. |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: July 06 2020 at 19:04
Hi, Started in 1972 ... however, by that time I already had a lot of things that were not yet "known" as Canterbury, but had the feeling and idea that became their trademark, and Caravan did not define it, however, they ended up being their most famous band. And I do not think that Pye will allow SM to get that distinction! (He'll have a beer over that one! He wouldn't care and knows that his band did just fine!)
------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: July 06 2020 at 22:03
| I haven't been able to really like any of their albums except the absolute masterpiece that is "In the Land of Grey and Pink". But maybe I haven't given the other albums enough chance |
Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: July 07 2020 at 07:25
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Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: July 07 2020 at 11:59
And can anyone explain the lyrics of the title track (second best track).... specifically when they get to the land "and pick our fill of punk weed and smoke it till we bleed, that's all we need". Hmmmmm |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: July 07 2020 at 12:06
Try the "Cunning Stunts" album - not to be confused with a Metallica video of the same name, or an adult website of a similar name.
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Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: July 07 2020 at 23:30
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