Favorite Track on In The Land of Grey and Pink
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Topic: Favorite Track on In The Land of Grey and Pink
Posted By: SuperMetro
Subject: Favorite Track on In The Land of Grey and Pink
Date Posted: September 29 2021 at 09:21
| I was wondering what everyone's favorite track n this album by Caravan is. My favorite side A track is Winter Wine. My favorite track right now is Nine Feet Underground. |
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Posted By: VianaProghead
Date Posted: September 29 2021 at 09:35
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Nine Feet Underground, for sure.
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Posted By: Sacro_Porgo
Date Posted: September 29 2021 at 10:40
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Hm, this is difficult. As easy as it would be to vote for Nine Feet Underground, I see four great reasons not to vote for Nine Feet Underground! 1. Golf Girl - an absolutely charming introduction to the album, with that absolutely smiley trombone! It really does feel like a lost Beatles song from Magical Mystery Tour. 2. Winter Wine - Just a lovely extended number, with great melodies and beautiful atmospherics. 3. Love To Love You - where in the book of prog does it say you must hate pop? I love this song! It's perfectly bouncy pop of the catchiest kind, and with a prog band's instrumental prowess! 4. In The Land Of Grey And Pink - like Winter Wine, another great proggier short piece, with lots of great melody everywhere. I think... I think it's the title track for me. Though I desperately hope someone goes out of their way to vote for Love To Love You. ------------- Porg for short. My love of music doesn't end with prog! Feel free to discuss all sorts of music with me. Odds are I'll give it a chance if I haven't already! :) |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: September 29 2021 at 10:52
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In the Land of Grey and Pink for its eloquent Sinclair keyboards. ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: September 29 2021 at 11:47
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In The Land of Grey and Pink is my favorite from this album. Golf Girl and Winter Wine are also great songs. ------------- ---------- 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: SuperMetro
Date Posted: September 29 2021 at 11:48
Well there is some stuff from the 80s that I think is either tedious or plain bad. Examples include "Don't You Forget About Me" by Simple Minds which I find boring and "Come On Eileen" by Dexys Midnight Runners, which has my least favorite synth riff. Then there is Michael Jackson, who makes me happy to hear him at times, and also some of the Talking Heads stuff is pretty good on the radio as well.
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Sacro_Porgo wrote:Posted By: Sacro_Porgo
Date Posted: September 29 2021 at 12:06
Don't You Forget About Me is pretty boring, I'll agree. I love Come On Eileen Though, such a fun song to try to sing along to (I just can't quite imitate the guy's voice, somewhere between a whine and a warble at all times). MJ is golden. Talking Heads' hits are also fab. But pop is more than what happened in the 80s! ------------- Porg for short. My love of music doesn't end with prog! Feel free to discuss all sorts of music with me. Odds are I'll give it a chance if I haven't already! :) |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: September 29 2021 at 13:53
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9 feets ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Duddick
Date Posted: September 29 2021 at 14:02
| I’m pretty sure Dexy’s Midnight Runners have never included a synth on any of their songs. I saw them in 82 in London on the Too Rye Aye tour (the lp from which Come on Eileen - whose riff was played on violin - originates) and there were certainly no synths on stage - in fact it was against the band’s ethos |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: September 29 2021 at 15:48
| Winter Wine is pure hippy magic...I love 9 feet underground but connecting the dots on such a long piece is a lot of work, and I also love the title cut. The two poppy tracks are both very good. ie it's a 5 star album |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: September 29 2021 at 15:53
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9' Underground, with Winter Wine as a good second.
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Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: September 29 2021 at 17:35
| It’s such a good album, it’s hard to pick one over the other. They all work together quite well, to make such a great listening experience. |
Posted By: jamesbaldwin
Date Posted: September 29 2021 at 18:56
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Posted By: SuperMetro
Date Posted: September 29 2021 at 20:18
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"Love to Love You" got no love. Love to Love You Caravan. Love to Love You Land of Grey and Pink Album. Love to Love You Sinclair cousins, Hastings bros, and Coughlan. Love to Love You for Joining Camel Richard. Hate to Hate seeing that this lineup does not last after the end of this album. This track has not gotten any votes yet. Poor little guy. Maybe it would win if we paired it up against every track from "The Album" by Caravan. What kind of name is that?
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Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: September 30 2021 at 02:02
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Closing track! ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: Lieutenant_Lan
Date Posted: September 30 2021 at 08:44
| Seems to be an unpopular opinion, but love to love you and golf girl are my favorite tracks on the album. The title track is another one of my favorites from the album. I gave my vote to Love to Love you since it didn't have any votes. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: September 30 2021 at 08:51
I was going to say that, the whole point of this incarnation of Dexys was it was a kind of country "yokel" band (for want of a better word) which was all fiddles and banjos. Completely synth- less.
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: September 30 2021 at 08:52
I like Love to Love You as well, might give it another vote as it's obvious Nine Feet will win.
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Posted By: SuperMetro
Date Posted: September 30 2021 at 09:05
It sort of sucks that a bands biggest hit is usually something lame. Caravan never had any hits, not even "The Album"? had any hits. An example is that Asia is a prog supergroup yet their biggest hit is something lame such as "Heat of the Moment". Also, tell me this is not the laziest looking album ever. 
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Posted By: SuperMetro
Date Posted: September 30 2021 at 09:06
This is "Thee Album"  I never heard the Caravan album "The Album" and I never will! I heard "In The Land of Grey and Pink" and it was fantastic. Winter Wine is fantastic and Golf Girl is a fun song to hear. The big highlight is that suite man. "The Album" seems to have nothing while "Thee Album" has ev'rything .
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 30 2021 at 09:11
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I would elevate "Nine Feet Underground" more than nine feet overground the others.* That said, I like the whole album and love the title track and "Winter Wine". * Rather surprised that no one else posted words to this effect, but I don't shy away from cheesy phrasing. ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
Posted By: SuperMetro
Date Posted: September 30 2021 at 09:14
| Dave's basement is Nine Feet Underground in his house, while he wrote his masterpiece for Caravan. |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: September 30 2021 at 12:11
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I could have voted for any of the tracks on side one, but went for the title track. Side one is better than side two. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: September 30 2021 at 13:22
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9 feet......but the whole LP is wonderful..one of my all time favorites. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: SuperMetro
Date Posted: September 30 2021 at 16:05
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I cant believe Golf Girl is losing. She is selling cups of tea. If she asks you if you want one asked you with a grin. For thruppence you need to buy one full right to that brim. Well of course you need to have one, in fact you should order three. |
Posted By: tigerfeet
Date Posted: September 30 2021 at 20:11
| Golf Girl was my favorite song when i first listened to the album but then i got over the novelty a bit and changed to Nine Feet Underground and Winter Wine. I will still listen to Golf Girl once in a while and still love it. |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: October 01 2021 at 07:33
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Hi, Is there a track called "The Whole Album"? ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Earl of Mar
Date Posted: October 02 2021 at 08:46
| I cant really choose as the album is a masterpiece. If my arm is pulled I'd go for winter wine but everything is great. |
Posted By: Machinemessiah
Date Posted: October 08 2021 at 08:57
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Track 5. (Got it borrowed on CD I think from a friend's friend somewhere in late 90's... or was it Waterloo Lilly and then my younger brother got this one? Hmmm...) Anyway, an honoured mention for "Winter Wine".. it popped on streaming a while ago after hearing 'Foxlight' by Wobbler and realised it had totally passed me by!
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Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: October 08 2021 at 09:39
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Hi, Bummer ... no option for the whole album. It would not be CARAVAN without all the different material! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: geekfreak
Date Posted: September 25 2022 at 00:05
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Nine Feet Underground ------------- Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake." Music Is Live Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. Keep Calm And Listen To The Music… < |