Camel - Mirage
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Topic: Camel - Mirage
Posted By: proggosmento
Subject: Camel - Mirage
Date Posted: May 06 2025 at 18:12
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a question What is this album about? There is a way that make it easier to me to understand the lyrics? |
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Posted By: bardberic
Date Posted: May 06 2025 at 22:39
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Use Genius.com for lyrics. Here you go  https://genius.com/albums/Camel/Mirage" rel="nofollow - https://genius.com/albums/Camel/Mirage
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: May 07 2025 at 01:41
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proggosmento wrote:Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: May 07 2025 at 03:56
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'Elevator Prog' but I like it.
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: May 07 2025 at 04:38
I don't know what elevators you've been in, but if Camel's Mirage is played there, cool... 🤦♂️ |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: May 07 2025 at 09:40
Hi, Can't say I have ever heard CAMEL on elevators ... Dave Brubeck sure, but CAMEL? It's a great album for me, and I bought it as an import, because of the cover! Have loved the band since, in its many reiterations, but very nice stuff ... ------------- 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: Brass Jester
Date Posted: May 07 2025 at 17:20
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Camel for me are one of the best prog bands to come out of the 1970's. They made super melodic music, they were superb players (Barden's keys were on a match to any band at the time) and I ( as a pro drummer for 30 yrs) rate Andy Ward as one of the finest prog drummers for his chops, style, fills etc. Just listen to what he did on the first albums. You can't fault any of it. Andy Latimer is a guitarist/ singer, maybe his vocals aren't the best, but his guitar work is superb. They went through a few bass players, Doug Ward and Richard Sinclair are solid. Just listen to "Slow Yourself Down" off the first album and tell me that is not mind-blowing. |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: May 07 2025 at 18:10
| That album smokes. Just look at the cover. ;) |
Posted By: Jaketejas
Date Posted: May 07 2025 at 22:10
| Slow Yourself Down has a vibe a bit like The Doors |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: May 07 2025 at 23:05
I couldn't tell you what music I've heard in elevators*, but it sure wasn't Camel or Dave Brubeck. I would have loved hearing any of the two in that context so much, it would have made my day. *while writing I was reminded of a hotel that played these sugar coated classical guitar versions of already awful songs such as Tears in Heaven and Fields of Gold. Christ it was annoying. |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: May 08 2025 at 11:13
Hi, Several pieces by Dave Brubeck are in various places. For example, my old dentist had loose stuff from some stream that had what we could call "easy listening" or "light jazz" and you got many of Brubeck's pieces, done differently, specially with a small orchestra. Camel I have not heard in that respect, but Snow Goose will be there soon enough ... put your money on it! ------------- 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: Big Sky
Date Posted: May 08 2025 at 14:41
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Snow Goose is my favorite Camel album. Mirage and Moonmadness are great too and comprise a great run of albums from the band. If elevator music (Muzak) had music such as Camel or Dave Brubeck playing, instead of the stairs, I would have taken the elevator more often and hung out in department stores. |
Posted By: Brass Jester
Date Posted: May 08 2025 at 18:05
| LOL. Many many years ago, when Halesowen Shopping Precinct was first built, they used to have piped music. I was amazed one day to hear some stuff by Bo Hansson off "Magician's Hat" ('The Sun, 90 or Parallel' IIRC.) |
Posted By: ThyroidGlands
Date Posted: May 08 2025 at 18:56
That ------------- You don't know nothin' You don't know nothin' about You don't know nothin' You don't know nothin' at all |
Posted By: Disconnect
Date Posted: May 10 2025 at 05:04
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Moonmadness is my favorite Camel album...but Mirage is a very close second. I make no apologies for my love of Camel and Andy Latimer. ------------- "My own response to King Crimson is one of quiet terror." - Robert Fripp |
Posted By: TheLionOfPrague
Date Posted: May 10 2025 at 17:37
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Killer album. Lady Fantasy is one of the top 20 prog songs ever. ------------- I shook my head and smiled a whisper knowing all about the place |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: May 10 2025 at 20:19
I agree. It might be my favorite Camel song too. For some reason I always thought of it as a sort of poor man's starship trooper but I'm not sure how fair that is and I do think it stands on it's own. I would actually be curious as to what your other 19 are (you can send me a pm if you want). |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: May 17 2025 at 21:15
I guess if Camel's Mirage was playing in an elevator I got in, I would go up and I would go down. The same if Close to the Edge was being played. |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: May 17 2025 at 22:01
Hi, It's getting close to it, trust me ... with so much stuff selling to commercial interests and many musicians selling their stuff ... it won't be long and Roxy Music will be there, Pink Floyd, Genesis and many others ... the money is too good to be silly enough not to take it, but it really tells you that in these times and century, the chances of a real artist coming along? Minimal to say the least ... because there is too much around it we don't realize or even have any ideas of. It's a matter of time, and JT will be there, Yes will be there, and Metallica will be there ... what else is new? And it's not easy to realize that many of those folks did not really go for the art of it all ... but the money they could get was a problem since they wanted to make sure they kept a life style that showed them as "stars", instead of being like you and I. ... and here comes the song ... and you and I ... !!! ------------- 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 |