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Poll Question: pick one and discuss why
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4 [3.25%]
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Originally posted by plodder plodder wrote:

Well, You'd think Moonmadness wouldn't you? I voted for Rain Dances.

Yes, after looking at your avatar. Although Rain Dances is an excellent choice!
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Well, You'd think Moonmadness wouldn't you? I voted for Rain Dances. But I think Dust and Dreams was very close to snatching it.

Rain Dances is as close to perfect you can get on an LP. It has everything, the whole range of the Camel sound.

And I love the Album cover too.
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i voted for Mirage - just for nimrodel because it's my all-time favourite camel-song. the dreamy intro drives me crazy.
if the thread wasn't calles best camel STUDIO albums, i would definitly have gone with A Live Record or better side 3 and 4 of A Live Record because of the wonderful rendition of the Snow Goose - it just blows away the dull studio-version - really; i have never liked the studio-version but the live-version is one of the greatest pieces of music i've ever heard.
back to the thread - Moonmadness is great too - it would be my second favourite STUDIO album.
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NUDE!

Though I don't rate Camel as the Highest League Band as Jethro Tull, VDGG, Pink Floyd, Yes, King Crimson or Genesis...
I Prophesy Disaster...
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"Mirage" it is
break the circle

reset my head

wake the sleepwalker

and i'll wake the dead
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Where's Radioactive Toy? I thought he said that he'd take Moonmadness with him to a desert island. Or was that sarcasm?

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I managed to get a recording of it off the TV Cert, it was on one of those Mike Mansfield (was that his name) nightime shows on ITV.

It was released on DVD recently.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00012SYGY/qid%3D11 10315629/026-6317191-4741256

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Originally posted by Easy Livin Easy Livin wrote:

I went for "Stationary traveller".

It's not one of their better know albums, but there's a fluency to it which I find captivating. The closing track, "Long goodbyes" is one of their very best.

I once saw a video for "Pressure Points" - which was my introduction proper to post-Bardens Camel. Stationary Traveller is a superb album, and the video interpretation of "Long Goodbyes" put into the wierd wartime conflict situation of the video concept is deeply moving.

Anyone know if you can buy it anywhere?
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Moonmadness for me, though everything up to Raindances is excellent.
'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'

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I went for "Stationary traveller".

It's not one of their better know albums, but there's a fluency to it which I find captivating. The closing track, "Long goodbyes" is one of their very best.



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snow goose
[HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!>
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Ah, my first love. I rank their first five albums quite equally, but Mirage
gets my vote for "Nimrodel" and "Lady Fantasy", Camel's two best songs.
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i chose the snow goose

but i was thinking about recently, i own every album from mirage to stationary traveller and even though some of those later albums arent as good as mirage - raindances, i still think they are great (especially nude, which i think ranks right up there with mirage- raindances)

this is probably the only band that i own a large part of their catalogue and like every album, also from what i have heard and read of their other albums, i plan on liking their entire catalogue, now if it were quantity over quality, camel would be my favorite band

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I think the first 4 are equally important and enjoyable...so I"m going to try voting multiple times, 1 time for each of the 4. But, forced, it's gotta be 'The Snow Goose'.
...it is real...it is Rael...
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OK I will , if I can find it  
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Lark´s Vomitwrote:

Did Camel release an album called Bollocks ?? 

Maybe,if you find it send a copy to Sigod calm him down

 

 

 
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Did Camel release an album called Bollocks ?? 
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sigod wrote:

Bollocks K9!


I take it you have the second rate CD version only...

 

 



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I stand up for the birds, The Snow Goose 
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Bollocks K9!
I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision.
- Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill
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