Old55


Caravan

Actually nope on this one ... their very early first album was pop music that was not really that great, though it did have one long cut in it (Where but for Caravan Would I) ... but is nice to listen to as a document to the band growing up and how the Millers, the Hastings, the Sinclairs and everyone else grew up in Canterbury to play and sleep together like no one else! So to speak ... since almost all of these musicians are what made Canterbury what it became.
 
The next album has "For Richard" which is a massively wonderful piece that had an even better version orchestrated in the album with the "New Symphonia" -- a version that a lot of "progressive" idiots do not like and do not consider "progressive" when it shows how well defined musically this band is, and how its music is more defined by "composition" and classical music, than it is rock music! On one of the compilation albums they are without Pye, and they do a version of this by the flute alone ... which is also magnificent.
 
Excellent band ... and I still think that "For Those Who Grow Bapu in the Night" is one of the best albums ever!

Moshkiae

Old55


Caravan

Actually nope on this one ... their very early first album was pop music that was not really that great, though it did have one long cut in it (Where but for Caravan Would I) ... but is nice to listen to as a document to the band growing up and how the Millers, the Hastings, the Sinclairs and everyone else grew up in Canterbury to play and sleep together like no one else! So to speak ... since almost all of these musicians are what made Canterbury what it became.
 
The next album has "For Richard" which is a massively wonderful piece that had an even better version orchestrated in the album with the "New Symphonia" -- a version that a lot of "progressive" idiots do not like and do not consider "progressive" when it shows how well defined musically this band is, and how its music is more defined by "composition" and classical music, than it is rock music! On one of the compilation albums they are Pye, and they do a version of this by the flute alone ... which is also magnificent.
 
Excellent band ... and I still think that "For Those Who Grow Bapu in the Night" is one of the best albums ever!  

Isn't it "For Girls Who Grow Plump In The Night"?  That one and "All Over You, Too" are my favorites.  

Moshkiae

Old55

Isn't it "For Girls Who Grow Plump In The Night"?  That one and "All Over You, Too" are my favorites.  

Had to twit the title or Bapu wouldn't appreciate the Caravan humor at all ... I was thinking about making sure he listens to that one song in "Better By Far" about the over sized toe ... which makes Lola sound like ... just a pop song! And it's funny ... " ... i want more ... "
 
Remember my brother told me it was good for my cold ... !!!
 
I like the "Plump", "Cunning Stunts" (careful with writing that and not mixing the words up!), "Blind Dog" ... tremendously and they are the 3 albums that get played the most  and I have not kept up with the later stuff as much as I should/could because in the 90's I had a hard time financially, and only now are things getting better enough to spend 5 bux on an used copy from Amazon!
 
I did get the DVD of them at the Nearfeat, I think, and it was magnificent and I have to tell you I had a bunch of tears in my eyes at the end ... it's like all my friends ... alive ... well  ... and playing ... and still doing it right , and well!

I'll check out some them.  I have a DVD, but I can't remember where it was recorded.  On All Over You, Too they rerecorded some of the earlier songs with a new guitar player.  The guitar is emphasized a little bit, too.  The recordings are quite as intimate, but they liven things up and rock some, too.