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| | Waterloo Lily | | | Music Artist : | | Caravan | | Music Style : | | Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) | | Record Label : | | Polygram UK | | Release Date : | | 2001-03-05 | | Store Price : | | $14.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $14.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Waterloo Lily
2. Nothing at All/It's Coming Soon/Nothing at All (Reprise)
3. Songs and Signs
4. Aristocracy
5. Love in Your Eye/To Catch Me a ...
6. World Is Yours
7. Pye's June Thing [#][*]
8. Ferdinand [#][*]
9. Looking Left, Looking Right /Pye's Loop
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 caravan is now officially the best band ever
Submitted on: 2008-07-17 |
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Caravan was always known for their great, catchy vocal melodies, and I believe the ones found on Waterloo Lily to be their very best.
I love singing along to these tunes. I also love just sitting back and feeling good as I absorb the wonderful and melodic instrumental jams. These jams seem to flow carefully and beautifully into other instrumental parts. This sure is one likeable band. Because of that, I'm surprised more people out there aren't familiar with them. It's hard to believe Caravan hasn't become one of those "forgotten favorites". They seriously deserve it. They deserved to be more well-known in America while they were popular in the early 70's too.
And WOW!!! I think I finally found the best instrumental jam I've honestly ever heard! "Nothing at All" is 10 minutes of pure perfection! Alright, so those noisy sax moments can probably be tossed away, but besides that, the rest of the track is absolutely fantastic. It reminds me of a cross between Jethro Tull and a popular Jeff Beck song from his Blow By Blow album. Wow, and I thought Gong's "Boring" was a brilliant jam (granted it IS a brilliant song!) but Caravan's take on the instrumental jamming... they really hit the right sequence of notes with "Nothing At All".
Honest, caring lyrics, pretty vocal melodies, and heavenly instrumental jams. That's what you can expect from this album, and the Caravan albums that came before and after this one. I'm not exaggerating either. It's just a beautiful thing. What a great band. Pick up Waterloo Lily today. |
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Caravan takes a jazzier turn for the better...
Submitted on: 2007-09-13 |
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As good as IN THE LAND OF GREY AND PINK was, it was clear that Richard Sinclair was hoping to lead Caravan into a slightly jazzier direction. David Sinclair's departure allowed Richard to do just that. David Sinclair's replacement, Steve Miller from Delivery (and brother of guitarist Phil) gave Caravan just the right amount of a jazz infusion without stripping Caravan of their unique sound. Less synths/mellotron this time around, and more piano, acoustic and electric. WATERLOO LILY proved to be jazzier, harder-hitting, better-produced and more professional-sounding than their previous albums (listen to Richard Sinclair's bass & Richard Coughlan's drums - wow!). Lol Coxhill guests on sax and Phil Miller guests on guitar. HIGHLY recommended to fans of Hatfield & the North and National Health.
Sinclair and Miller left after this one leaving Caravan to Pye Hastings increasingly commercial excursions, FOR GIRLS WHO GROW PLUMP IN THE NIGHT being the exception. FOR GIRLS... ended up being the last great Caravan album.
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 Exciting, non threatening, progressive rock
Submitted on: 2006-04-25 |
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3 1/2 Stars
A fantastic introduction into some of the more easy-access audible virtues lying dormant in most non-progressive listener's mind's awaits in this humble concoction of potent songwriting mixed with technical prowess. The music, while feeling at times a bit dated (awfully hard to have escaped that curse for most prog bands in that nonetheless glorious musical era), balances itself out rather nicely as an accessible album on many levels. The material ranges from rockers to love songs, influenced over jazzy, jam based guidance, which never lets the sometimes overly catchy melodies get bogged down in repetition. This excellent balance between accessibility and technicality should have afforded this band more popularity. |
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Lily of Rock
Submitted on: 2005-11-14 |
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| Many aren't too happy with Steve Miller filling in but his bass indeed pounds and reverberates in every track plus it gets funky the English way. This cd never wears me down and I keep on discoverong new sounds. |
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Waterloo Lily
Submitted on: 2005-09-12 |
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| For the lovers of Caravan's music. This CD is an excellent production that brought me back in time. If you collect them, do not miss this one. |
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