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Jared 
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Please include your thoughts and reasons, I'd be most interested to read what you have to say...
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Posted: June 28 2023 at 15:06 |
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I like the way Dust and Dreams tells the story of The Grapes of Wrath. I have read the novel and seen the old film version several times. The desert crossing is done very well and captures the loneliness and monotony of the Mojave desert. I have travelled that same road many times. It is an otherworldly landscape. The music is consistently good throughout. No, it doesn't reach the depths of the novel, but then nothing could do that.
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The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"
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Manuel
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Posted: June 28 2023 at 16:57 |
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Frankly, I love them all. It's hard to pick a favorite. All have different moods and are well orchestrated and instrumented. I cannot vote for one over the others.
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Posted: June 28 2023 at 17:09 |
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Rajaz because of the song Lost and Found, which I really like.
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Posted: June 28 2023 at 17:41 |
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Directly when I heard it for the first time I liked Harbour of Tears most, but strangely over time the other three became better and better and Harbour of Tears didn't really. These days I love A Nod And A Wink most, but it took a lot of time to get to this point. I still remember some initial disappointment. A very slow burner.
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Posted: June 28 2023 at 20:37 |
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Rajaz is an easy favorite, as well as Nod (really dig Fox Hill).
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Welcome to the middle of the film.
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Posted: June 29 2023 at 01:39 |
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By coincidence I relistened to Rajaz yesterday afternoon. I think it's the best Camel release after Moonmadness. |
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Posted: June 29 2023 at 01:40 |
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A Nod And A Wink
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Jared
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Posted: June 29 2023 at 02:13 |
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Thanks everyone for their thoughts...
Seriously, I'm in Manuel's situation; I feel there is far too narrow a gap in quality for me to choose. A month ago, I'd decided it might be A Nod, but I've been playing Rajaz again over the past few days...
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VianaProghead
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Posted: June 29 2023 at 02:58 |
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Difficult choice because I love all. But, maybe A Nod And A Wink.
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Posted: June 29 2023 at 03:12 |
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Tricky choice, but A Nod And A Wink gets my vote.
It has a particular poignancy in being the latest (I won't say "last") Camel album; especially when you hear the music and lyrics of For Today, bearing in mind what Andrew Latimer was going through with his illness. For me there are no fillers in the album. Even with Fox Hill with its quirky, and some might say silly, lyrics and storyline, but amazing virtuoso playing, I get a strong impression of a band taking pleasure in their art in the face of suffering. |
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Posted: June 29 2023 at 03:26 |
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A Nod and a Wink
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Posted: June 29 2023 at 04:54 |
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Rajaz, maybe the best Camel album outside their classics, my vote
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Posted: June 30 2023 at 11:06 |
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All of them are the best.
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Posted: June 30 2023 at 15:04 |
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All are VG , voted for Rajaz
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Posted: July 01 2023 at 03:04 |
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Very hard to choose, but I voted for 'Harbour Of Tears'.
I really love all of their albums. I can't believe it's over 20 years since A Nod And A Wink came out. Maybe Camel will release just one more album?
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Posted: July 03 2023 at 00:29 |
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Gotta go with A Nod and a Wink. What a great sounding album too.
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Posted: July 03 2023 at 09:29 |
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Has to be one of the latter two. I definitely gave A Nod And A Wink considerably more attention.
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Posted: July 03 2023 at 12:14 |
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Rajaz for sure!
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Jared
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Posted: July 03 2023 at 12:55 |
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Thanks everyone for your interest and taking the time to pick an option... Camel are a band I've been listening a great deal to over the past 18 months.
Well, the general consensus seems to be that Camel's studios enjoyed a late flowering in terms of quality and although I think I'd agree with the outcome, I think all 4 are really lovely pieces of work. Dust And Dreams may only have garnered 2 votes (it's possibly not quite as rounded as the latter two) but I listened to it again this evening and it is a very tender and emotive musical rendering of Steinbeck's work.
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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