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    Posted: April 24 2018 at 08:41
^ I feel very similar to Tom here.....I listen to Camel and Renaissance the most but I do play the other bands also.......especially Greenslade: an often overlooked quirky keyboard based group. I like their sense of playfulness especially Dave Lawson.
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I spend most time spinning Camel and Renaissance, with Greenslade close. Tough to pick, maybe Camel.

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Originally posted by Meltdowner Meltdowner wrote:

^ I only heard it a couple of times since and I'm pretty sure they're not as good as the other four. Since Camel is ahead I'll give my vote to Renaissance.

Well it could have be as simple as `I haven't listened to it yet'! I'm forever coming across albums years later that I've either never listened to, or forgotten I even owned!
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^ I only heard it a couple of times since and I'm pretty sure they're not as good as the other four. Since Camel is ahead I'll give my vote to Renaissance.
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Originally posted by Meltdowner Meltdowner wrote:

^^ Nice to see you too Thumbs Up

Never heard Greenslade so no vote.

Ha, I was about to say `Hey, wait a minute, I'm sure I sent you that spare copy I had of a Greenslade CD about a year ago!', and then I saw that your post was from 2015!
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For the love og god I still can't understand the different subgenres, but I love Camel and Focus and Renaissance.
And I think the other two bands have a totally different approach.

In fact I think only Camel and Focus are alike (and Jane, Pink Floyd, Caravan, Kraan, but apparently they all are different subgenres aswell).

Anyway I voted for Camel, because of the wonderful flute-work.
I always thought it to a pity there wasn't more piano in the music of Camel. La Princesse Perdue is so beautiful.
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Renaissance, then Camel
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I like all of these but Triumvirat is my choice.
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1. Camel
2. Renaissance 
3. Greenslade
4. Triumvirat

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Focus has three albums that I dig.

Of the rest, the only thing I ever spin is Camel's Gods of Light, which I still find quite enjoyable - you hear a harder-rocking and spacier side to them on that one, and it has very little of their weakest elements (the embarrassingly pedestrian vocals and cringe-worthy lyrics).
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I love all these bands, but I'm going to throw T'rat a bone because Spartacus and Old Loves Die Hard are spectacular. 
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Renaissance.
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Camel, with Renaissance a clear second
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Camel all the way.

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Good luck with that then Smile Probably not Tongue

I guess I'll have to give them a listen eventually.

It would be my first choice but I really enjoyed Triumvirat yesterday, so I'm confused Wacko
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Originally posted by Meltdowner Meltdowner wrote:

^^ Nice to see you too Thumbs Up

Never heard Greenslade so no vote.


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Greenslade is  somewhat akin toCamel.. solid 3rd division prog just with more imagination and a helluva lot more talent LOL Not anything I'd rush out to get.. but a good one to fill out a good solid prog collection.

Renaissance here...  by several hundred light years man.
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Never heard Greenslade so no vote.
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Originally posted by kenethlevine kenethlevine wrote:

Originally posted by octopus-4 octopus-4 wrote:

The single factor is poor and I think that also Pressure Point (the live) is quite bad. Anyway Every band had poor outputs in the 80s. Magma have Merci, Renaissance have Camera Camera, ELP have Love Beach...but Camel resurrected quickly with Stationary Traveller that even if dated in terms of sound, is a great album. The others took more and some didn't resurrect at all. 

I actually love Pressure Points.  For years it was the only way to hear the title cut the way it was meant to be heard.  It also covers a lot of career highpoints, with great versions of "Wait", "Sasquatch", "Rhayader", etc, not to mention "West Berlin" and "Fingertips".  Stationary Traveller is an awesome album with not a bum note
What I don't like on Pressure point is first of all the fretless bass solo on the title track. It was probably, as you say, how it was originally intended but to me it sounds "forced". Fretless bass was fashionable in the 80s. I don't like the vocals on fingertips. The studio version is really better. Of course the excerpt from Snow Goose is great, also because is the last appearance of Peter Bardens with Camel, but it doesn't add anything to the studio version or even to A Live Record. I should have written in my review years ago, that this is absolutely not the right album to approach Camel for the first time. Even if it contains some of their highpoints, imagine the impression that it could give to somebody who has never listened to Camel before. 
The best track on it is for me "Drafted" with Latimer playing the part reserved to Mel Collins' sax on the studio version on his guitar.
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Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Any other band than Camel.


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