Three albums run - Camel vs Genesis
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Topic: Three albums run - Camel vs Genesis
Posted By: Cristi
Subject: Three albums run - Camel vs Genesis
Date Posted: February 05 2021 at 02:35
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Both bands released three albums between 1976 and 1978. We have Camel - Moonmadness - Rain Dances - Breathless Genesis - A Trick of the Tail - Wind & Wuthering - And Then There Were Three. So which one is it for you?
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: February 05 2021 at 02:44
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Genesis by a vast margin. Different league altogether. IMO. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: February 05 2021 at 02:47
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Easily Camel. ------------- 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: VianaProghead
Date Posted: February 05 2021 at 02:59
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Genesis by a short margin.
------------- "PROG IS MY FERRARI". Jem Godfrey (Frost*) |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: February 05 2021 at 03:02
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Moonmadness > Trick of The Tail BUT the string of Genesis albums is stronger overall. Camel ended after Moonmadness to my ears. ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: February 05 2021 at 03:10
To my ears too. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Frenetic Zetetic wrote:Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: February 05 2021 at 03:13
Where’s the ‘both’ option?  A couple of years back I would’ve voted Genesis without a doubt in my mind. These days though it’s different. Sure I vastly prefer Trick over Moonmadness but the subsequent Camel albums have both matured for the better. Given my mood or the time of day I could vote for any of these two bands. ...which is a cop-out I know...so eenie-meenie-miny-moe it is. Camel! ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: February 05 2021 at 03:22
no easy way out!
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Posted By: uduwudu
Date Posted: February 05 2021 at 03:37
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Genesis. Of course A Live Record versus Seconds Out would need a 'both' option. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: February 05 2021 at 03:41
please make a poll, but leave the "both" option.
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Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: February 05 2021 at 04:57
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Have to go with Genesis for this poll. ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: February 05 2021 at 05:08
It'd be sheer Lunar Sea for me not to vote for Camel. 
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Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: February 05 2021 at 06:12
Both! Tied! No vote!  ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: February 05 2021 at 06:18
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Genesis by a ridiculously wide margin. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Spacegod87
Date Posted: February 05 2021 at 06:46
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Genesis. I was never the biggest Camel fan though, save for a few stellar tunes here and there.
------------- Levitating downwards, atomic feedback scream. |
Posted By: Heart of the Matter
Date Posted: February 05 2021 at 06:58
The word "tie" keeps coming to my mind, though...
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Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: February 05 2021 at 07:11
| Camel, just because of And Then There Were Three, otherwise it would be a tie. |
Posted By: twosteves
Date Posted: February 05 2021 at 07:28
Yup--same.
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Posted By: Argo2112
Date Posted: February 05 2021 at 07:29
| Genesis |
Posted By: Ronstein
Date Posted: February 05 2021 at 07:44
| Camel, 3/3 as opposed to Genesis 2/3 because of the extremely average 'And Then There Were Three' |
Posted By: dougmcauliffe
Date Posted: February 05 2021 at 08:14
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Genesis if probably better objectively, but I love those Camel records and just have to vote for them. Moonmadness: Favorite album of all time Breathless: Go-to feel good album, impossible to listen to this and be in a bad mood Rain Dances: A really interesting and fun record with a ton of replay value and variety ------------- The sun has left the sky... ...Now you can close your eyes |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: February 05 2021 at 08:27
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Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: February 05 2021 at 09:07
| Tough one. I love Moonmadness, it's probably one of my favorite albums of all time, but Genesis' albums are better. |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: February 05 2021 at 09:21
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Camel with no doubts. ------------- Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half. My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com |
Posted By: digdug
Date Posted: February 05 2021 at 10:05
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Camel for me ------------- Prog On! |
Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Date Posted: February 05 2021 at 10:13
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Genesis but please name the albums. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: February 05 2021 at 10:15
I did, but I see you haven't read my original post.
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Posted By: Forgotten Son
Date Posted: February 05 2021 at 10:39
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Moonmadness > A Trick of the Tail Rain Dances < Wind and Wuthering Breathless > And Then There Were Three Camel takes it for me. -------------  
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Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: February 05 2021 at 11:13
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Interesting poll.....on the strength of WaW - more specifically, on the strength of Hackett's contributions of WandW, I chose Genesis. Close though - Camel really did "progress" as a band during these years with Moonmadness being a personal favorite.......but Hackett, man, Hackett.
------------- I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there..... |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: February 05 2021 at 11:51
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Moonmadness and Wind & Wuthering are two of my favorite albums. Rain Dances and ATOTT are both excellent. Breathless and ATTWT are both quite enjoyable, but I have to say I like Breathless better - it has an upbeat style and I like the sound of the album as a whole. Giving the vote to Camel. ------------- 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: Progosopher
Date Posted: February 05 2021 at 11:53
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Good poll, by the way. Very evenly matched. Tough choice. A 'Both' option softens the process, thus making the choice more difficult, but Prog is not for sissies. ------------- 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: geekfreak
Date Posted: February 05 2021 at 11:59
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Genesis even though it has imho the start of the poppy not prog!!!! Album ATTWT! ------------- 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… < |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: February 05 2021 at 13:00
| Camel very easily; Trick is the only album that is as good as Rain Dances or Breathless (and it's still nowhere near as good as Moonmadness) |
Posted By: Gentle and Giant
Date Posted: February 05 2021 at 13:28
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Camel of course. ------------- Oh, for the wings of any bird, other than a battery hen |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: February 05 2021 at 14:02
| Maybe not fair for me to vote since I'm not that familiar with those Camel albums but I have at least heard them. I voted for Genesis anyway. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: February 05 2021 at 14:15
how are you NOT familiar with 70s Camel?! unless of course you don't like them...
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Posted By: Earl of Mar
Date Posted: February 05 2021 at 15:06
| Went for Genesis.TOTT and WAW are classics. However the two later Camel albums Raindances and Breathless are far better albums than their scores on here denote. They are not overtly prog but are fun and I prefer them these days to ATTWT. |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: February 05 2021 at 15:15
That is a good point. Those 2 Camel albums are perhaps, or should be, entering a period of re-appraisal amongst fans and non fans alike. To my ears, the passing of decades has been very kind to them. At the time I lamented the change in style and the move away from the "classic" Camel sound as defined by the previous three albums. Now I realize how bold and accomplished they were. OK I will never like them as much as those earlier albums but I think they deserve a lot of love, or at least respect
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Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: February 05 2021 at 19:54
| I wouldn't vote, since I don't know 2 of the Camel albums, but I guess it would be Genesis. I would have found the more predictable choices more interesting, with Nursery Crime, Foxtrot, and Selling England vs Mirage, The Snow Goose, and Moonmadness... or well, I would like to think it would have been more interesting, though I guess it would actually have been an even wider landslide for Genesis... I myself might have ended up voting for Camel in that case. |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: February 06 2021 at 01:45
that's not a bad idea for a poll, maybe you should create it. |
Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Date Posted: February 06 2021 at 01:52
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: February 06 2021 at 08:40
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Camel.....because Moonmadness is my favorite of the 6 lp's named. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: suitkees
Date Posted: February 06 2021 at 08:52
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Camel, because of ATTW3... ------------- The razamataz is a pain in the bum |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: February 06 2021 at 14:52
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Camel by quite a way, because ATTWT is way below the others and Moonmadness is the best by some way. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: tdfloyd
Date Posted: February 06 2021 at 22:45
| The years when Tony Banks ran Genesis wins for me |
Posted By: iluvmarillion
Date Posted: February 06 2021 at 22:50
| It's almost even because ATTWT isn't a good album. The strength of ATOTT and W&W gets Genesis over the line. |