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Track Listings
| 1. Place of My Own (mono) |
| 2. Ride (mono) |
| 3. Policeman (mono) |
| 4. Love Song With Flute (mono) |
| 5. Cecil Rons (mono) |
| 6. Magic Man (mono) |
| 7. Grandma's Lawn (mono) |
| 8. Where But For Caravan Would I? (mono) |
| 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) (bonus track) |
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Bonus track: Hello Hello (Single-Version)
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30 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Top of the list of Caravan albums,
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This review is from: Caravan (Audio CD)
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. 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
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
First trip,
By D. J. H. Thorn "davethorn13" (Hull, UK) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Caravan (Audio CD)
With its echoing organ backgrounds, Caravan's debut album is easily dated to the late 1960s. With only one long track, it has a different slant to everything the band subsequently did, though the gentle, English-accented
vocals are easily identifible. 'A Place Of My Own' is a straightforward, instantly memorable song and 'Ride' with its funny, trotting rhythm is both memorable and more indicative of the band's ingenuity. 'Love Song With Flute' is another beauty, but, while there are no bad tracks on the album, there are moments of blandness. 'Policeman' and 'Magic Man' are not quite as impressive and the first three minutes of their epic 'Where But For Caravan Would I?' are unremarkable. Nevertheless, this is a very good album, worth investigating after 'If I Could Do It All Over, etc' and 'In The Land Of Grey And Pink'. (They didn't like short titles, did they?)
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Outstanding debut,
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This review is from: Caravan (Audio CD)
With their 1968 debut album, Caravan set their own high benchmark for musicianship and creative endeavour, if not for subsequent commercial success. These are wonderful Hammond organ dominated songs sets, with the distinctive voice of Pye Hastings to the fore, superbly supported by Richard Sinclair's wonderfully 'English' vocals. Dave Sinclair's organ dominates the overall sound, but his cousin's tasteful bass, Hastings' precise rhythm guitar and Richard Coughlan's excellent drumming in occasionally challenging time signatures create a wonderful wall of sound with plenty of light and shade. Jimmy Hasting's outstanding flute playing graces "Love song". "Place of my own", "Ride", "Magic Man", and "Cecil Rons" are very evocative of Canterbury's own interpretation of psychedaelia. The album is fitting concluded with the extended piece "Where but for caravan would I?" which pointed the way to extended pieces such as "For Richard" and "Nine feet under" on subsequent albums. Whether you listen in mono or stereo, it is simply a brilliant album.
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