favourite camel song/album

[NJK]

what's your favourite CAMEL album or song

i'm going to a concert on the 26 october

they will be playing in a town called Groningen in the Netherlands

My favourites are

album : moonmadness

song : summer lightning

[Cylob]

Who are Camel? What kind of music is it?

[NJK]

hi cylob perhaps you know tangerine dream?

if not it's a kind of synth music also with lyrics and often great guitar solo's

try finding a song of them on kazaa(i know it's not legal but what the ..... just for a song)
or contact me on my e-mail adress spaceplayradio@hotmail.com and we can see if there's a possibility to send you one or two songs

[Cylob]

Gives me some idea. I use p2p all the time for those legal songs.:) If you live in a humdrum town and don't want a credit card there's little choice.

Anyway, "moonmadness" is a decent enough title for an album. I'm driven by impulse - if the title's good, the content should be.

[DJ Egg]

My fave Camel album is their self-titled first one, "Camel" (1973)

Fave track off this is: "Never Let Go"
tho' there's not a bad track on the album (check out: Six Ate & Arubaluba)

Other albums worth checking:
The Snow Goose -1975 (Rhayader/Rhayader Goes to Town = fave tracks)
Mirage - 1974 (Supertwister, Earthrise)
Moonmadness -1976 (Song within a Song, Lunar Sea)
Raindances - 1977 (this was the last Camel album I was in to, really.)

Chameleon compil 1981 is a good starting point, but definitely get the first album!

The personnel changed a lot over the years, and although Andy Latimer (guitars, etc) is still there, I kinda went off them after the other dudes left in the early 80's. Didn't know they were still going. If they've reformed with the original line-up, then that will be some gig!


@Cylob
How to describe Camel? Hmm . . . no other band to compare with really.
Kinda top notch prog folky rock (drums, bass, guitars, keyboards, flutes, etc).
Heavy in places, very laidback in others, lol :D

[NJK]

looks to me like you're a real fan of camel dj egg

add to your list some other albums woth checking

raindance
breathless
a live record
dust and dreams

and i will let you know how the concert was.
by the way all i know is that besides andy ton scherpenzeel is on stage as guest he played with them on albums like moonmadness and rajaaz.
ton has his own band called kayak

[DJ Egg]

In addition to the albums I mentioned above, I've also got the following . . . but aren't really into them in the same way as their earlier works, if at all.

Breathless 1978
I Can See Your House From Here 1979
Nude 1981
Stationary Traveller 1983
Pressure Points 1984


Along with "Chameleon", other compils well worth getting are:
The Live Record 1978
The Collection 1985


"Dust and Dreams" must've come out more recently, yes? (90's?)
Never heard of it! So, you reckon it's worth getting?

[NJK]

take a look at www.camelproductions.com it's a very good website about the band and as to your question i don't have an idea on the year they released dust and dreams- i stumbled accros a song of them once - called drafted - after hearing it i started kazaa to gather as much as possible and found out that they make the kind of music i like

[Cylob]

By miracle of modern science I'm now the owner of Snow Goose. My rubber arm's been twisted. First thoughts:

70's prog rock (obviously). Good quality instrumentation, futuristic atmosphere (in a Blake's 7 or Logan's Run way). Reminds me immediately of Magnum, who appeared later in the 70's.

I had no idea this band existed. I know one thing, I need a larger HD, and quickly.