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This is a truly great album. For many years, my answer to the question,
"If you were going to a desert island and could take only one album with
you, which would it be?" was this one (now it would be a hard choice
between this and Stationary Traveller ).
As with the first two albums, the emphasis is on the instruments, with more exploration into synthesizers. There is more wonderfully beatiful flute work and more of Andy's killer guitar. As far as I know, "Another Night" is the only Camel song to achieve any kind of commercial radio success, at least in the U.S. It certainly sounds more commercial than their other work to that time, with more vocals, some straight-ahead guitar, and fewer synths. I'm not saying this is bad; the song remains probably my single favorite Camel piece. The picture on the left is the original lp cover (for a larger jpeg of it, click here (65K)). The one on the right is the CD cover (for a larger jpeg, click here (72K)). The original lp-album was a "fold-out" type, and the picture on the right is one half of what you'd find inside. The small CD-size really doesn't do it justice, but at least they included the other half on the back of the CD. Why they (which, I'm pretty sure, means some record company exec, and not anyone from Camel) didn't use the original picture for the CD as well is beyond me. |
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