Lunar Sea
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Topic: Lunar Sea
Posted By: Big Ears
Subject: Lunar Sea
Date Posted: September 08 2007 at 06:17
| Is Lunar Sea by Camel, on the Moon Madness album, the best progressive rock instrumental track? I'm trying to think of one that is better, to no avail. There are some great instrumental passages, but I'm thinking of instrumental tracks from start-to-finish. |
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Posted By: proggy
Date Posted: September 08 2007 at 09:20
| La Villa Strangiato - Rush Obscured By Clouds - Pink Floyd Manfred Mann - Nightengales and Bombers - Just Stunning ELP - Tank |
Posted By: sircosick
Date Posted: September 08 2007 at 09:39
I'm even gonna tell you about that same album: Moonmadness. IMO Airborn is slightly better than Lunar Sea.  And anyway, both are far from the podium of best instrumental prog tracks  ------------- The best you can is good enough... |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: September 08 2007 at 10:15
| "Lunar Sea" is undoubtedly great, but I would hesitate to classify it as the best-ever prog instrumental. There are many that I love, though one of my personal all-time favourites is "Death Warmed Up", from High Tide's debut album "Sea Shanties". |
Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: September 08 2007 at 10:32
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I saw the title of the topic, and before I opened it, I tought the opening post will contain the sentence "...is the best prog instrumental ever!" ...and nothing else. And, bingo! It's not far from that. Lunar Sea is really extraordinary prog-instrumental, it's one of my personal top 10 prog instrumentals, but I don't think it's the best(it's hard to say which one is). Lunar Sea contains many great passages, but I will like to point something else out: the synth solo. It's one of the most beautiful ever SOUND-WISE (melody is great too)...I never heard such a gorgeous synth timbre...in a ELP's From The Beginning perhaps!? ------------- |
Posted By: kingdhansak
Date Posted: September 08 2007 at 11:52
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I do like it, not my favourite. Cant focus my brain into deciding what is the best ever instrumental to compare it to though.
I would say that Supertwister is slightly better!
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Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: September 08 2007 at 12:02
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Not just the best instrumental, it's the best track ever.
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Posted By: kniprekcor
Date Posted: September 08 2007 at 12:10
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I totally think of Lunar Sea as the best Progressive rock Instrumental a perfect composition of music Camel is a great band when it comes to instrumentals it enough to mention (The Snow Goose) to anybody to appreciate thier instrumental-writing talent |
Posted By: chessman
Date Posted: September 08 2007 at 13:24
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It's a good track, of course it is, but there are many instrumentals I personally prefer. Far too many to mention here, but I could start with all the Genesis instrumentals, such as - Unquiet Slumbers For The Sleepers, In That Quiet Earth, Wot Gorilla, Los Endos, various tracks off The Lamb, After The Ordeal.
Then there is The Flower Kings with tracks such as - Circus Brimstone, Rumblefishtwist, Pioneers Of Aviation, Retropolis, Dom Of The Universe, Theme For A Hero, Blade Of Cain, etc.
Rush? La Villa Strangiato, Where's My Thing, Leave That Thing Alone, YYZ...
Steve Hackett? The Steppes, Hammer In The Sand, Jacuzzi...
And many more. Imo of course!
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Posted By: Trickster F.
Date Posted: September 08 2007 at 13:28
Sweet! I thought I was the only one who loved this track!  ------------- sig |
Ghost Rider wrote:Posted By: Pawned Heart
Date Posted: September 08 2007 at 13:43
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Well, pretty much all of my favorite instrumentals are Camel. Lunar Sea, Rhayader/Rhayader Goes to Town, Three Wishes, Ice, Earthrise, Supertwister, Airborn, La Princesse Perdue, Hopeless Anger, Sasquatch, Echoes.... and live versions of all of these! (O.K.... some aren't instrumental but still...) My problem with most (non-Camel) instrumental tracks is that they're generally showcasing one instrument (usually keys). Camel has always had Latimer's awesome guitar playing up front, plus has had a whole bunch of incredible keyboardists (Pete Bardens, Dave Sinclair, Ton Scherpenzeel, Jan Schelhaas, Kit Watkins) to even him out. ------------- What I see I know is real, what I touch I know I feel If I don't care for what you say, it won't mean much to me today http://www.proga |
Posted By: Trickster F.
Date Posted: September 08 2007 at 13:47
I agree 100%.
I think Camel would benefit if they were a strictly instrumental band, even though I have nothing against their songs with vocals. ------------- sig |
Posted By: R o V e R
Date Posted: September 08 2007 at 13:49
Check out bonus track on "Barclay James Harwest"- XII Nova Lepidoptera  you'll be happy |
Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: September 08 2007 at 13:56
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It's certainly memorable; I don't even like Camel and I can recall that piece. My favourite instrumentals are more akin to Univers Zero's "La Faulx" or King Crimson's "Fracture". Not much can hold a candle to those two. =) ------------- FREEDOM OF SPEECH GO TO HELL |
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: September 08 2007 at 14:01
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I happen to really like Anekdoten's Karelia. Gorgeous.
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Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: September 08 2007 at 14:14
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I actually like Aristillus the most from Moonmadness, its my favorite Camel instrumental piece, it always puts a smile on my face. Those keys sound so good!!! But when it comes to best instrumental tracks I would say Jördrok and Lark´s pt I are the best! ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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