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    Posted: August 20 2023 at 05:18
Renaissance - Widdecombe Fair

A rare song from the transitional line-up, but who's the mystery lady on vocals? Ermm
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10. 3 stars 1971: Renaissance - Illusion - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mBsgKAeM7YKTisSIh0sp09HnVoDaGWt78

Not one of one of my favourite Renaissance albums in all honesty, but Jane Relf's hauntingly-beautiful Face of Yesterday has always been one of my favourite Renaissance songs. Heart
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10. Camera, Camera - Faeries (Living at the Bottom of the Garden)

I might add that it's not really a song I consider to particularly great or even good. But that goes for the rest of Camera, Camera as well. Annie's voice is too shouty and "girlie" on most of this album for me to genuinely enjoy any of it. And the production generally sucks as well. Cheap sounding synths, thin and treble heavy. But the ABBA-like chorus here is drop dead gorgeous. It deserved a better song and sound surroundig it. I also like that it's a song about fairies.

I actually like a lot that she tried out some nonstandard things with her voice on that album. It is fresh and full of ideas, although admittedly not all of them work well. The sound is not optimal but I like the playing a lot, guitars, keyboards, bass, some of it also nonstandard for Renaissance and full of ideas.
I appreciate the attempt, but I can't say I consider the end result a success. A shame as I can hear that they had a greater album in them. Glad you like it but Camera, Camera ends up a "close, but no cigar" for me.
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09. 4 stars 1969: Renaissance - Renaissance - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nVNgH8bM6nt9-sohxxFOqvP4FMOzZvAbQ




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08. 4 stars 1979: Renaissance - Azure d'Or - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nEYEFeCF0FKzAov9wq3XwAV7sUfChdGbo
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10. Camera, Camera - Faeries (Living at the Bottom of the Garden)

I might add that it's not really a song I consider to particularly great or even good. But that goes for the rest of Camera, Camera as well. Annie's voice is too shouty and "girlie" on most of this album for me to genuinely enjoy any of it. And the production generally sucks as well. Cheap sounding synths, thin and treble heavy. But the ABBA-like chorus here is drop dead gorgeous. It deserved a better song and sound surroundig it. I also like that it's a song about fairies.

I actually like a lot that she tried out some nonstandard things with her voice on that album. It is fresh and full of ideas, although admittedly not all of them work well. The sound is not optimal but I like the playing a lot, guitars, keyboards, bass, some of it also nonstandard for Renaissance and full of ideas.
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07. 5 stars 2014: Renaissance - Symphony of Light - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_luDpArUd5yXPax6W3TZWxWy2BDOL-faJM
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10. Camera, Camera - Faeries (Living at the Bottom of the Garden)

I might add that it's not really a song I consider to particularly great or even good. But that goes for the rest of Camera, Camera as well. Annie's voice is too shouty and "girlie" on most of this album for me to genuinely enjoy any of it. And the production generally sucks as well. Cheap sounding synths, thin and treble heavy. But the ABBA-like chorus here is drop dead gorgeous. It deserved a better song and sound surroundig it. I also like that it's a song about fairies.

I see what you mean. Annie sounds nothing like the singer we know and love, but the chorus is magical - just like Faeries (Living at the Bottom of the Garden). My personal favourite from the Camera Camera album is Bonjour Swansong, which seems a fitting song title, bearing in mind this is the album where Renaissance went in a New Wave direction and waved goodbye to their Symphonic Prog roots - at least until the 2001 Tuscany album anyway. Confused
 


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Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

10. Camera, Camera - Faeries (Living at the Bottom of the Garden)

I might add that it's not really a song I consider to particularly great or even good. But that goes for the rest of Camera, Camera as well. Annie's voice is too shouty and "girlie" on most of this album for me to genuinely enjoy any of it. And the production generally sucks as well. Cheap sounding synths, thin and treble heavy. But the ABBA-like chorus here is drop dead gorgeous. It deserved a better song and sound surroundig it. I also like that it's a song about fairies.
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06. 5 stars 1977: Renaissance - Novella - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lDmNtmO30E4Hv0Z87Q_zad5EyglMAMrLs
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Illusion - Love Goes on
Prologue - Spare some Love
Ashes are Burning - Can You Understand, On the Frontier, or at the Harbour
Turn of the Cards - Black Flame or Mother Russia
Scheherazade - Trip to the Fair
Live at Carnegie Hall - Ashes are Burning (though for Annie's performance in the final part nothing beats the version on Live in Chicago 1983)
Novella - Midas Man
Song for all Seasons - Opening Out, Day of the Dreamer, Kindness at the End, Northern Lights, or Song for all Seasons
Camera Camera - Okichi San
Symphony of Light - Mystic and the MUse or Grandine Il Vento
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05. 5 stars 1975: Renaissance - Scheherazade and Other Stories - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nIwTNEhpVOv1gteY4V1ebEqSGu_9MfeVw
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04. 5 stars 1972: Renaissance - Prologue - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nsKGwkJQV8nk_f5Xi353Il9e1A-tspJHg

I already mentioned Mother Russia, so it's only fair to give the capital of the Ukraine a mention too.
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1. Scheherazade and Other Stories - Song of Scheherazade
2. Turn of the Cards - Mother Russia
3. Ashes Are Burning - Ashes Are Burning
4. A Song for All Seasons - A Song for All Seasons
5. Prologue - Kiev
6. Novella - The Sisters
7. Illusion - Past Orbits of Dust
8. Renaissance - Kings and Queens

I haven't listened to enough of their remaining albums to come up with a 9 and 10.
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1. Turn of the Cards - Mother Russia
2. Ashes Are Burning - Can You Understand?
3. Novella - Touching Once (Is So Hard To Keep)
4. Prologue - Prologue
5. Renaissance - Wanderer
6. Scheherazade and other Stories - The Vultures Fly High
7. A Song For All Seasons - The Day Of The Dreamer
8. Illusion - Past Orbits Of Dust
9. Azure D'Or - The Winter Tree
10. Camera, Camera - Faeries (Living at the Bottom of the Garden)
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

can I do a 9X9 list? Evil Smile

I don't see why not. You can do a 9 X 9 list then Let It Grow from there.  Thumbs Up



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can I do a 9X9 list? Evil Smile
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^ That's an excellent line-up! My favourite Renaissance songs are Forever Changing and I could just as easily have chosen your list of favourites instead. Thumbs Up
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Album / Rating / Best Song

1. Ashes Are Burning ***** the title song

2. Turn of the Cards ***** Things I Don't Understand

3. Live at Carnegie Hall ***** Song of Scheherazade

4. Renaissance ***** Island

5. Prologue **** Bound For Infinity

6. Novella **** The Captive Heart

7. A Song For All Seasons *** the title song

8. Illusion *** Golden Thread

9. Azure d'Or ** Forever Changing

10. Camera Camera ** Ukraine Ways

After relistening the albums It's amazing how the debut album (by band's first incarnation) from 1969 still kicks ass.

I have left out Scheherazade album because you get the best songs on Live at Carnegie Hall (plus some goodies from their best albums). It's also nice to hear the live feel.
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03. 5 stars 1974: Renaissance - Turn of the Cards - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lbUiF3mgChPZsCVm33AO0_o3Rpc1qH6fs
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