I listened to snow goose yesterday it was better than I remembered it being its what I call nice prog but not out of this world great prog  ...wish you were here is great prog but not complex enough to make me want to sleep with it  

Wish You Were Here

richardh wrote: Moogtron III wrote: As for the poll: Shine On You Crazy Diamond > all of Snow Goose > rest of WYWH Really hard, wouldn't know for which one to vote.   Welcome To The Machine > the entire output of Camel

The concert version of Snow Goose is a fluent and superior version of a fine studio album.

Wish You Were Here is and has been for a long time for me, utterly spellbinding.

Can't see how it's a copy of Dark Side; they're very different as every PF album is from one another. The same bunch who cranked out Saucer recorded The Wall. There's a world of difference between those and WYWH and TDSTM are two parts of that vast Floydian world.

Recommend fwiw WYWH - I have the SACD which hi res version really is superior to the CD btw. I suppose the box set versions are also stunning, alas I do not know. Recommend the Live Record Snow Goose over the studio one which is a fine album as well.

Dellinger wrote: uduwudu wrote: The concert version of Snow Goose is a fluent and superior version of a fine studio album. Wish You Were Here is and has been for a long time for me, utterly spellbinding. Can't see how it's a copy of Dark Side; they're very different as every PF album is from one another. The same bunch who cranked out Saucer recorded The Wall. There's a world of difference between those and WYWH and TDSTM are two parts of that vast Floydian world. Recommend fwiw WYWH - I have the SACD which hi res version really is superior to the CD btw. I suppose the box set versions are also stunning, alas I do not know. Recommend the Live Record Snow Goose over the studio one which is a fine album as well. I don't know if by the live version of Snow Goose you mean the one on A Live Record, but that's the one I have, actually (it was the one available when I was getting Camel albums), and somehow I don't feel like I need to get the original studio one. Am I right about that?

I would never not recommend the studio version of Snow Goose. However there are a couple of things.

Referring to the 2 CD set (which does make it worth getting) there is a bonus track at the end of the Snow Goose which ruins the piece; just when you think it's done something pops up and gives a false ending (or is it two?) to the piece. There is apparently an SACD of Snow Goose (i.e. hi res but rare and v.f. expensive. I think the CD version will do.

The Live Record performance is exemplary. They'd been playing it for a while and the result is what I would call the "go to" version; it's perfect. The God Of Light official bootleg version (27 mins) is a lot more raw. A v. interesting alternative.

There's a classical piece btw - not the Camel suite; an earlier piece but it made an interesting comparison of two musical ideas of the same book (1 with permission, 1 without).

Wish You Were Here - silk
Snow Goose - polyester

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

The snow goose, Wish you were here is overrated.

Wish You Were Here

Dellinger wrote: MadTrapper wrote: The snow goose, Wish you were here is overrated. So, you say Wish you were Here is overrated, and I say it's the best album by Pink Floyd and one of the best albums to have ever been created. Who's to say who is right and who is wrong?