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39 of 41 people found the following review helpful
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This compilation would serve as a good introduction for anyone not familiar with the music of Camel, though whether the selection of tracks is a better representation of the early work of this great band than the 1993 release "Echoes" is open to argument. For me "Lunar Sea" noses in front by virtue of the accompanying booklet, which provides a slightly grittier version of Camel history. (The "Echoes" booklet was written by Susan Hoover, an integral part of the Camel set-up and perhaps unsurprisingly some of the more tragic events from the band's past were glossed over in favour of a more affectionate narrative). "Lunar Sea" also scores brownie points for paying homage to the greatest strength of Andy Latimer and co. by including a few live tracks, not least of these being the never before released version of "Lady Fantasy" from the 1975 Royal Albert Hall Snowgoose concert, complete with orchestral accompaniment. This alone will sell it to the die hard fans!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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covering almost their entire career - well Decca era at least - this set includes their most progressive music, as well as a few rather misguided attempts at hit singles. Camel were always an album band, as this clearly shows. Extended instrumentals such as Ice demonstrate Andy Lattimer's concept vision and virtuosity, while the extracts from Snow Goose show what Pete Bardens took out of the band when he left. Cloak and Dagger Man shows Camel's skill at making a shorter but nonetheless engagingly progressive track. They've even included music from the near-miss albums Rain Dances and Breathless, Camel's low point in the late 70s when ever changing band lineups and the interference of music company directives in creativity had them falling out of favour with a previously well established audience. Unlike many of their contemporary bands who just gave up and quit when the prog rock scene fell apart under punk and new wave, Camel are still putting out occasional extremely professional albums like Nod and a Wink and Dust and Dreams, not featured here.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Camel have always been one of my favourite groups and particularly their earlier recordings Mirage, Moonmadness and Breatless. Andrew Latimer guitar work and Pete Bardens organ combined really well particularly on Lady Fantasy Freefall and A song within a song. Pete was awesome on Spirit of the water. After Pete left I took a while to warm to the new band, tracks like Ice soon got me back in the fold.
This is a really good introduction, also check out "Coming of age" mellow with Andy's great guitar playing. I recently acquired Rajaz a 1999 release and it finds Andrew , Colin Bass (Bass) Tom Scherpenzeel (Keyboards) Dave Stewart (Drums) and Barry Phillip (Cello) in fine form.
This is a really good introduction, also check out "Coming of age" mellow with Andy's great guitar playing. I recently acquired Rajaz a 1999 release and it finds Andrew , Colin Bass (Bass) Tom Scherpenzeel (Keyboards) Dave Stewart (Drums) and Barry Phillip (Cello) in fine form.
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worth buying for the guitar alone!
Andrew Latimer is a very expressive guitarist, and the highlights of this CD (in my opinion)are those instrumentals which are dominated by the soaring sound of his Les Paul, such... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Jeremy S
Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection
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Published 7 months ago by Lord Anon
It Would Be Lunar Sea Not To Buy This!
An absolutely wonderful introduction to Camel, who produced some extraordinary music from 1973 - 1985, and indeed on until the early years of this century, before guitarist and... Read more
Published 8 months ago by J. HOLMES
Kind of weak
There's some decent stuff on this compilation, but the songs that were picked to represent the "Rain Dances" CD were probably the weakest songs on the disc. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Zac
A great collection in 2 CDs
I was so pleased when I found this collection, and at the price I just had to have it! I have several Camel albums on vinyl, but I wanted a definitive representation of the Camel... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Tomm Brooker
Lunar Sea is a superb introduction to Camel's Decca releases
I bought Lunar Sea after i had bought Mirage, and i since getting Lunar Sea, i am about to purchase my 5th camel album (after getting Snow Goose and Moonmadness). Read more
Published on 24 Aug 2002 by Paul Ferguson
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