CAMEL Studio Albums Poll 1973-1979

I like The Snow Goose way more than any of the other Camel I've heard. It's really special. It's kind of a collaboration with composer/orchestrator David Bedford btw, who also did cool stuff with Kevin Ayers and a couple crazy prog albums of his own.

I wish I could say that I preferred The Snow Goose over Mirage, Moonmadness or even the first LP, but I don't.

are these guys the evolution of sopwith camel or are those 2 separate rock concerns?

Totally different.

LOL

are they related to sopwith camel or are they totally different things?

― the relatively famous Cambridge psychologist Sug-Ban Cohen (M@tt He1ges0n), Saturday, June 20, 2009 8:45 AM (seven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Totally different! This clip gives a good idea of what they sounded like:

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https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51gVZI-JvBL.jpg

... my cousin used to have this album but I don't remember anything about it.

it's really good!

i've been looking for songs like 'starlight ride' on breathless - corny prog ballads that come off as sincere rather than theatrical/showy

A little disappointed by Mirage. Half of it really good and other half didn't grab me.

Was one of the other guys brothers with Latimer? In some pictures they look identical.

Matt #2 - saying they are the ugliest prog band? Harsh but also not true, one of the guys was pretty good looking.

Yeah sorry about that, the award actually goes to The Enid.

When I saw The Enid several years ago, there was a couple of young members that Godfrey was complimenting for their looks.

This is similar to the lineup I saw (I think the opera vocalist is missing)
https://www.last.fm/music/The+Enid/+images/76028985de7e4840bbd4cd9e800e9df1

Now it's just three young guys!
https://www.theenid.co.uk/bio

mirage got robbed. "freefall" is their best opening jam

anyone happen to have mp3s of Mirage and the first album they can shoot me today? at work and annoyed to find these aren't on any streaming services yet.

Listening to Breathless and looking at my CD player in surprise (anyone else ever do this?) at how much parts of it sound like 90s british rock.

Title track is so good

Such a great album. "Song Within A Song" is as good as prog gets

Re Breathless: I'm not opposed to the idea of yacht-prog per se (I even enjoyed the Richard Wright solo album), but something about the laid-back sound of this record was just flaccid to me.
Also, having liked Richard Sinclair's songs and singing on Caravan records, I was disappointed by his contributions to this. He was still a more solid singer than Latimer, though.

i like 'starlight ride' as far as sappy prog ballads go. nice sound

Finding the first half of the album stronger so far. Final track is really nice though.

Just realized I mixed up Breathless with Moonmadness in my head when I posted re: "Song Within a Song." Breathless is great too, super underrated with a smooth, uplifting vibe throughout. Yacht-prog is spot-on. "Echoes" still brings the heat though

Just played Breathless for the first time yesterday, I dig really like "Echoes", which is definitely yacht-prog but even that didn't prepare me for the disco-prog of "Summer Lightning". Which still won me over with the killer guitar solo.

Title track is still my favorite, proto-shoegazey

Maybe I need to give that one a closer listen, I was about ready to hit eject until "Echoes" kicked in.

Someone could write a thesis on whether Camel's "Down on the Farm" influenced Spinal Tap's "Sex Farm", as both are tributes to the erotic possibilities inherent in agricultural labour.

I mostly thought of Blur's "In The Country" but Camel's song is more about farm work than anything

4 really good tracks and the rest okay.

Whole lotta Camel here -

https://superdeluxeedition.com/news/camel-air-born-the-mca-decca-years-1973-1984/

no standalone Mirage reissue? that one still goes for a decent price and every time my local shop gets it in it apparently sells within a day

Don't mind a bit of Camel but I'm not entirely sure I need 32 discs of them

What's crazy is that it isn't much more expensive than Dylan's 4-disc Budokan thing. Box set pricing is really weird right now.