Later Camel Studios
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Topic: Later Camel Studios
Posted By: Jared
Subject: Later Camel Studios
Date Posted: June 28 2023 at 13:56
Please include your thoughts and reasons, I'd be most interested to read what you have to say... 
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Posted By: Progosopher
Date 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. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: Manuel
Date 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. |
Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: June 28 2023 at 17:09
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Rajaz because of the song Lost and Found, which I really like. |
Posted By: Lewian
Date 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. |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: June 28 2023 at 20:37
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Rajaz is an easy favorite, as well as Nod (really dig Fox Hill). ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date 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. ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: June 29 2023 at 01:40
| A Nod And A Wink |
Posted By: Jared
Date 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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Posted By: VianaProghead
Date Posted: June 29 2023 at 02:58
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Difficult choice because I love all. But, maybe A Nod And A Wink.
------------- "PROG IS MY FERRARI". Jem Godfrey (Frost*) |
Posted By: Starjet
Date 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. |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: June 29 2023 at 03:26
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A Nod and a Wink ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: b_olariu
Date Posted: June 29 2023 at 04:54
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Rajaz, maybe the best Camel album outside their classics, my vote |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: June 30 2023 at 11:06
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All of them are the best. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: June 30 2023 at 15:04
| All are VG , voted for Rajaz |
Posted By: Octopus II
Date 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 By: tdfloyd
Date 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 By: Trickster F.
Date 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. ------------- sig |
Posted By: Teunis
Date Posted: July 03 2023 at 12:14
| Rajaz for sure! |
Posted By: Jared
Date 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. ------------- 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 |
Posted By: Dark Ness
Date Posted: July 03 2023 at 15:48
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Love them all (a lot), actually. Voted Rajaz only because of Lost and Found & Straight to My Heart - pure Camel bliss (better yet seeing Andy enjoying himself delivering those guitar licks live)
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Posted By: jamesbaldwin
Date Posted: July 05 2023 at 07:37
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......None. ------------- Amos Goldberg (professor of Genocide Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem): Yes, it's genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion. |
Posted By: dougmcauliffe
Date Posted: July 05 2023 at 08:25
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Rajaz is genuinely one of their best records. The title track is a terrific piece of music, a definitive moment in their discography. But Three Wishes, Lost and Found, Sahara and Lawrence are also complete showstoppers, great songs. Nod and a Wink (hence the PFP) is another favorite, but all three of these have quality stuff within them. The version of Dust and Dreams off the live album Never Let Go is definitive, so much better than the studio recording. Harbour of Tears is a really pretty record, I love Trad Irish Folk so I think delving into those sounds and styles in the context of Camels discography is a really bold and interesting move. But yeah, gotta be Rajaz for me. ------------- The sun has left the sky... ...Now you can close your eyes |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: July 05 2023 at 10:37
| Listened to Dust and Dreams today and rather like it. Latimer's guitar tone is so like Gilmour, but I'm not complaining! |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: July 05 2023 at 13:50
Yes, that album is very 'Floydy' at times, isn't it? ------------- 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 |
richardh wrote:Posted By: O666
Date Posted: July 07 2023 at 07:27
| RAJAZ . |