Renaissance Albums from the Post-1970's Era |
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Psychedelic Paul
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^ I remember buying the Camera Camera album when it first came out, expecting another classic Renaissance album, but I was so disappointed, I took it back to the record store for a refund. It's time to give the album another listen now from a fresh perspective, nearly 40 years on.
This may well be the last Live performance of Ashes Are Burning at the Union Chapel, London, in 2015. |
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kenethlevine
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here is a more recent one
to help Annie out with the coda, Mark Lambert has been playing a sizzling lead guitar |
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Psychedelic Paul
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^ Thanks! I've never seen that performance before.
I'll have an Annie Haslam tribute thread coming up soon.
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Man With Hat
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The latter.
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Lewian
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Camera Camera is one of a kind. There's no other album like it. OK, it's a bit inconsistent, but it is sharp and original and has several highlights (Tyrant Tula probably the highest). And Annie shows more variety than anywhere else.
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Psychedelic Paul
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I never expected the Camera Camera album to pick up as many as four votes (and maybe more) in this poll, so I guess now's as good a time as any to post the videos from the album.
Side One 1. Camera Camera 2. Faeries (Living at the Bottom of the Garden) 3. Remember 3. 4. Bonjour Swansong (not included in the British 1981 release) 5. Tyrant-Tula |
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Psychedelic Paul
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Side Two
6. Okichi San 7. Jigsaw (the missing piece of the album) 8. Running Away from You 9. Ukraine Ways 8.
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kenethlevine
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That's rather incredible that Bonjour Swansong was omitted from the British LP given that it was clearly an attempt to reproduce the success of "Northern Lights", which was only a hit in the UK. It was also the farewell song for Betty Thatcher, so even more inexplicable in its absence
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Psychedelic Paul
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Bonjour Swansong is my favourite song from the album, even though I only heard it for the very first time yesterday. I'm sure it had the potential to be a minor hit if the song had ever been released as a single in the U.K. Of the other songs on the album, I also like Faeries Living at the Bottom of My Garden.
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Psychedelic Paul
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The winning album in the poll.... Grandine il Vento (Re-released as Symphony of Light)
1. Symphony of Light 2. Waterfall 3. Grandine il Vento 4. Porcelain 5. Cry to the World 6. Air of Drama 7. Blood Silver Like Moonlight 8. The Mystic and the Muse 9. Tonight 10. Immortal Beloved 11. Renaissance Man |
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Just a thought: Grandine, Procol Harum's Novum, Wakeman's Red Planet. It's like our dynosaurs have now pissed out the music industry and in their late age are back doing the music they like. If only Emerson and Lake were still here...
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Psychedelic Paul
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I've always liked Procol Harum, and I have a couple of 2-CD compilation albums by them, although I've never quite gotten around to listening to any of their studio albums, but based on your recommendation, I'm really looking forward to hearing Procol Harum's Novum album. I'm pretty sure there's a Procol Harum tribute thread on here somewhere, so I'll take a look at that too, if I can find it.
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Psychedelic Paul
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Wow! I just listened to Renaissance' Grandine il Vento (Symphony of Light) album for the first time today. What a superb album! It's a real return to creative form after their two rather disappointing 1980's albums. It's probably just as good as any of the classic Renaissance albums from the 1970's era, and it's easy to see now why the album won this poll by a comfortable margin.
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Tom Ozric
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The 80’s slbums were not a disappointment, just going with the times. At least for me, it’s (mostly) about Annie’s voice and Camp’s bass playing. They both deliver on Camera Camera and Time Line. And I do treasure their 70’s run all the way.
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The other Woman was actually the first Renaissance album I bought. I had heard Northern Lights on a compilation album in the early 90's (can't remember the name of the album, or which version of the song it was) and went out and bought the only Renaissanace album I could find with that song on it. I didn't know anything about the band at all. So, that reworking of Northern Lights was the only version I knew for some time. The rest of the album is fairly unremarkable. I only bothered to listen to it end to end after hearing one of the early albums, some years later, then realizing that this later manifestation of the band was not the 'real' Renaissance. |
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Psychedelic Paul
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^ This is Stephanie Adlington's lovely version of "Carpet of the Sun" from the Michael Dunford's Renaissance album, Ocean Gypsy (1997)
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Lewian
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I love Camera Camera to pieces but was seriously disappointed by Time Line. Not quite sure what went wrong there. You don't seem to see such a big gap between the two!?
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Blacksword
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There's no denying it, Stephanie Adlington did have a lovely voice. It was more 'trained' than Annie's voice, though. Annie Haslam wasn't as pitch perfect, and sounded more natural. |
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Annie is also connecting notes rather than just hitting them tonk-tonk-tonk staccato as Stephanie does here (as in fact lots of singers seem to do for some reason when they cover Renaissance songs). And when Annie does that with her beautiful tone, any slightly off note gets magnified. Also, and this is a quirk of Annie that I have never worked out but she sang Carpet far better live a couple of years down the line compared to the AAB recordings in 1973. And that has been the case right until GDV. I guess she records before she has had enough time to really soak in the song. Back to Stephanie, as I am listening again, the way she sings "See everything on its own/And you'll find you know the way" is particularly wooden. This is how the melody is supposed to sound. Annie's breath control is also terrific. She just sings through the "Owe everything to the day" stretch with a steady sustain on "day" while Stephanie catches a breath before that word.
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Psychedelic Paul
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^ I love the two Renaissance albums Stephanie Adlington recorded with Michael Dunford, but I'll always have a preference for Annie Haslam's inimitable original versions of any Renaissance song.
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