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| | Caravan | | | Music Artist : | | Caravan | | Music Style : | | Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) | | Record Label : | | Polygram UK | | Release Date : | | 2002-02-11 | | Store Price : | | $10.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $10.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Place of My Own [Mono Version]
2. Ride [Mono Version]
3. Policeman [Mono Version]
4. Love Song With Flute [Mono Version]
5. Cecil Rons [Mono Version]
6. Magic Man [Mono Version]
7. Grandma's Lawn [Mono Version]
8. Where but for Caravan Would I? [Mono Version]
9. Place of My Own [Stereo]
10. Ride [Stereo]
11. Policeman [Stereo]
12. Love Song With Flute [Stereo]
13. Cecil Rons [Stereo]
14. Magic Man [Stereo]
15. Grandma's Lawn [Stereo]
16. Where but for Caravan Would I? [Stereo]
17. Hello Hello [Single Version][*]
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 ride the van, the caravan!
Submitted on: 2009-01-22 |
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What makes Caravan's debut so interesting is how the vocal melodies are simply gorgeous and likeable for ANYONE, not just fans of progressive rock. To me that makes Caravan one of the most likeable bands of all-time. The way they can be enjoyed by just about anyone. It's all because of that lead singers amazing voice.
I take that back- AMAZING voice! Amazing because more often than not it feels like he's breathing directly into your soul with his voice. It makes you wanna cry most of the time (or maybe just me- hey, I cry a lot. I even cried during Homeward Bound. Remember that great adventure movie?)
Also, the songs are written in a way that's not very challenging, allowing people who don't have a whole lot of patience in an ever-growing financially-struggling world to get into the music fairly easily.
The final track on the album is nearly 10 minutes of emotional brilliance. Something about the way these guys write jams is pretty spectacular as well. Just a very very good band. The debut is a very good one, but probably the next two Caravan albums released directly after this one are better. Not by much though! |
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 Mostly average, before they really figured it all out.
Submitted on: 2006-08-15 |
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| I searched all over for this cd after I had heard "Grey and Pink" and "If I could do it all again....", and I was in denial for a while about it being as good. Being released the same year as the first Soft Machine album, I was expecting "Caravan" to be an equally creatively explosive affair. However, after time I realized that this was a band that had not yet figured out what they were doing (much like the first two yes albums). I burned a copy before selling the original just for "Magic Man" and "Place of my own", for me the two shining spots on this disc. I'm not a sound engineer, so I don't get off on the stero and mono versions included on the album. Why listen to mono? Why? "In the land of Grey and Pink" and "If I could do it all over again, I'd do it all over you" are the only Caravan albums you need, in my opinion. Overall, my score is average at best. |
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A fine debut
Submitted on: 2006-01-15 |
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This was Caravan's first album, recorded and released in 1968, and to this reviewer's mind and ears, it was one of the first real progressive rock albums along with Soft Machine's debut, released that same year. You've really got to hand it to the Canterbury proggers--they balanced seriousness and facetiousness extraordinarily well in their music; just listen to any album by Gong, Soft Machine, Caravan, Hatfield and the North, Egg, etc., and you'll never again think of prog as "grim-faced philosopher" music. (In fact, most prog bands, with the possibly exception of King Crimson--due to R. Fripp's overbearing studiousness--have a dry, subtle sense of humour that the uninitiated will miss on the first trip, but most others will pick up on easily, and laugh out loud at the underlying goofiness.) After all, how else could you approach a song with a title like "Where But for Caravan Would I?" And of course, "Love Song With Flute" sounds like a starving artist's first painting (think "Lawn Chair With Fruit" and you're in the ballpark).
Yet for all that underlying levity, this is a seriously good album throughout. The sonic differences between the mono and stereo versions are obvious--mono is a bit flatter and two-dimensional, whereas stereo has actual depth--but this is a minor complaint...not even really a complaint, just an observation. The addition of the single version of "Hello, Hello" is nice, as this reissue was put together somewhat after the reissue of the band's sophomore release, If I Could Do it All Over Again I'd Do It All Over You (1970), on which "Hello, Hello" first appeared as an album track. The liner notes give a nice account from Pye Hastings of the band's beginnings and their struggles to find a label (Island's Chris Blackwell hated Pye's singing voice and declined to sign them on that basis), especially after the UK branch of Verve/Forecast folded within a year of its establishment; luckily, Decca, who were distributing Verve in England, picked them up and they were able to continue forward.
Favourite tracks on here include "A Place of My Own," "Cecil Rons" (with its gonzo chorus) and "Where But for Caravan Would I?" Pick this one up; I did, and haven't regretted it for a moment. Neither will you. |
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their folk debut on the spirit earth
Submitted on: 2005-12-29 |
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now caravan who come from the good old town of canterbury a place i visit quite often, and one time i didn't know but the organ player david sinclair was in the same shop i was buying this album ironic right, but i didn't realise he was there so i didn't get my copy sign damn i know...
right down to the review of this album
what can i say it's a trippy hippy folk rock classic
with 4 long haired hippies on the front "standin' on pillars"
and a camel in the background it really makes a scene
this album features one of my favorite songs ever "policeman"
with it's catchy melody and lyrics it's a classic it also features the single "hello hello"
plus "place of my own" "grandma's lawn"
this really really rocks if you're into folk trippy hippy rock
and if you are you'll probaly have it anyway |
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 Top of the list of Caravan albums
Submitted on: 2005-01-03 |
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There was a burgeoning musical scene in Canterbury in the psychedelic era of the later sixties, much of which stemmed from a band called the Wilde Flowers. Groups to emerge from this original nucleus included Gong, Soft Machine, Kevin Ayers and the Whole World, Hatfield and the North and of course Caravan, now based in nearby Whitstable, who evolved out of the remaining members of Wilde Flowers during 1967 when they decided not to be a soul band anymore. They were signed to Verve Records in 1968 with a line-up comprising singer and principal writer Pye Hastings, the brothers Richard and David Sinclair and Richard Coughlan.
Their first album, Caravan, was released in October 1968, with the first two tracks, A Place Of My Own and Ride, extracted as a single the following January. It was in some ways a groundbreaking album that captured the whimsical and exploratory moods of the times with a sound that built on the changing styles of the contemporary underground and took them further.
Pye's brother Jimmy played on the dreamily evocative Love Song With Flute, never having heard the song and recording the flute solo on the first take. The following song, the stage favourite Cecil Rons (a disguised Cecil Rhodes?) is in contrast a rowdy powerful piece with a yelled chorus. Guitar and bass are swapped over on two songs so that Richard Sinclair can take over on lead vocal for his songs Grandma's Lawn and Policeman. The closing track was a complex nine-minute piece inspired in part by a melody written in Wilde Flowers days by then member Brian Hopper. Where But For Caravan Would I? was the precursor of the direction Caravan would take on future albums, alongside their other strengths.
On this edition both mono and stereo mixes of the album are included, and as a bonus track, the single version of 1970's Hello Hello, recorded for Decca as Verve/MGM had folded by this time, rounds off the CD |
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