Renaissance Albums from the Post-1970's Era

 

Side One

 

1. Camera Camera

 

 

2. Faeries (Living at the Bottom of the Garden)

 

 

3. Remember

 

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4. Bonjour Swansong (not included in the British 1981 release)

 

 

5. Tyrant-Tula

 

 

 

to help Annie out with the coda, Mark Lambert has been playing a sizzling lead guitar

I think Grandine is a slam dunk for you.  Several songs are in the classic Renaissance tradition while a few, the title cut in particular, offer something new yet familiar.  I still don't place it on the level of the 1970s classics but it's probably as good as we will get

Re Camera Camera, it helps to approach it without expecting a rehash of the 1970s glories, though 2 of the tracks are truly every bit as good.  I think the album deserved better than the thrashing it got in the press, though in Ottawa where I lived at the time it was fully embraced by the local FM station and I converted several classmates at college to the group, culminating in a packed concert at a local club.  It was 1982 and people weren't clamoring for prog rock, even those who liked it a few years earlier.  We appreciated that the band was still making good music in the new environment, but we did appreciate the Ashes are Burning encore!  Of course, some of my mates were converted because of Annie 

Shame they didn't have a hit like Yes did around that time or they may have been able to stick around.

I'm the same. The first two are terrible. I don't know what people find in Camera Camera. Timeline is even worse.

The rest are listenable though not wonderful compared to their 70's stuff. 

 

 

I'm not a fan of the 1980's Camera Camera or Time-Line though. I'd much rather listen to the 1990's version of Renaissance with Michael Dunford and Stephanie Adlington.