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Enchant X
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Posted: February 17 2015 at 18:28 |
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
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Dellinger
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Posted: February 17 2015 at 22:26 |
Snowgoose is really good and special... but Wish you Were Here is perhaps my favourite album of all.
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Komandant Shamal
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Posted: February 18 2015 at 02:25 |
Wish You Were Here
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Posted: February 18 2015 at 02:58 |
Love both. The Snow Goose is somewhere near the bottom of my top 10 and Wish You Were Here somewhere close to the top.
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Moogtron III
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Posted: February 18 2015 at 03:27 |
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.
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Welcome To The Machine > the entire output of Camel |
Ahh, but there you are wrong, sir, so very wrong
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Roj
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Posted: February 18 2015 at 09:52 |
Snowgoose is my favourite Camel album, but WYWH is an all time top 10 album and easily gets the vote.
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uduwudu
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Posted: February 22 2015 at 04:01 |
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.
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Dellinger
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Posted: February 22 2015 at 13:51 |
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?
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uduwudu
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Posted: February 22 2015 at 15:07 |
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.
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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).
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proggman
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Posted: February 23 2015 at 21:37 |
Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here.
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When he rides, my fears subside. For darkness turns once more to light. Through the skies, his white horse flies. To find a land beyond the night.
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Green Shield Stamp
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Posted: February 25 2015 at 15:24 |
Wish You Were Here - silk Snow Goose - polyester
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Haiku Writing a poem With seventeen syllables Is very diffic....
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Dayvenkirq
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Posted: February 25 2015 at 15:28 |
WYWH. Although ... The Show Goose has some OK tunes, after more than a dozen listens it still leaves me rather cold.
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The Bearded Bard
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Posted: February 26 2015 at 10:07 |
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
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Posted: February 27 2015 at 08:56 |
Hmmm...went with WYWH because of Harper singing Have A Cigar....I'm a Roy Harper fan. Frankly neither album are my favorites by those 2 bands.
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One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin
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MadTrapper
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Posted: February 27 2015 at 10:39 |
The snow goose, Wish you were here is overrated.
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Dellinger
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Posted: February 27 2015 at 21:01 |
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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?
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Posted: February 28 2015 at 09:54 |
Wish You Were Here
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Posted: February 28 2015 at 10:22 |
Wish You Were Here
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This night wounds time.
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MadTrapper
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Posted: February 28 2015 at 14:07 |
Dellinger wrote:
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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? |
It's an opinion.
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Dellinger
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Posted: February 28 2015 at 21:32 |
Exactly, but when I read overrated, it seems you are saying that you are right at saying Wish you Were Here is a great album and everyone else is wrong at liking it so much, so I mostly avoid using that word. However, this is a discussion that's been had here many times. Not really that important, though, but it always brings this impression to me when reading the overrated opinion, even though I actually know that most of the times people mean it as a personal opinion and not an arrogant attitude.
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