Caravan - For Girls Who Grow Plump in he Night

[Trane]

^Blind Dog... was a bit more like Caravan, if that makes any sense! The humour was not present on Cunning Stunts. On CS, the only songs I rate are 'The Show Of Our Lives' (a magnificent, really moving piece of work IMHO) and 'Dabsong'....'Lover' is nice enough.

RE; Geoffrey Richardson. I like his work on this album. He contributes some memorable parts, and gave the album a different flavour to anything they'd done before.

I'd say that it was more present than ever, if only on the title and the artwork: check out the customer (who kinds of looks like Pye nowadays, BTW) being pantless in the sideview mirror.. and the play on word like Dabsong Con-Shirt-oe

[JJ88]

I'd say that it was more present than ever, if only on the title and the artwork

Well there you go.

The music and lyrics are quite 'dry' for Caravan, for the most part.

[soundsweird]

Lots of good tracks, including my favorite Caravan song, "The Dog...", which has great lyrics, a great melody, great harmonies, and one of my favorite synth solos of all time.

[mx20]

Lots of good tracks, including my favorite Caravan song, "The Dog...", which has great lyrics, a great melody, great harmonies, and one of my favorite synth solos of all time.

Anyone else ever noticed a degradation in sound quality towards the end of "The Dog..."? It's as if they wore the tape out overdubbing the backing vocals or maybe lost the master tape & worked with a rough mixdown instead. Peculiar. Or maybe it's just me?

[soundsweird]

Hmm, I always thought it was just a case of muddiness from having so many tracks playing at once. Could be...

[Pr33t]

Glad to see all the love here for Sunset Wading - that one really snuck up on me, but I absolutely love it now. Some of the best integration of nature recordings as well, which are quite subtle but a great choice. A real journey of a record.

For some reason I've never gotten around to Fairfield, but it seems I should. Can anyone confirm if that is from the same concert as the live LP from 1980? I'd go for the vinyl first, and it seems to have a few more tracks.

[calyx]

For some reason I've never gotten around to Fairfield, but it seems I should. Can anyone confirm if that is from the same concert as the live LP from 1980? I'd go for the vinyl first, and it seems to have a few more tracks.

Yes, same concert. "Chance Of A Lifetime" which had been excised from the original release has been restored in its rightful place. The 1980 double-LP was, for some reason, a French-only release.

[Scrotum Scissor]

Glad to see all the love here for Sunset Wading - that one really snuck up on me, but I absolutely love it now. [...] A real journey of a record.

Precisely - that's what it is. A kind of mindset narrative sans much lyrics, but eventually leading to a song and some words about wading. One of the greatest endings I know on a "prog" record. And the choice to not have that voice overexposed is a trick of brilliance, I think, as it makes the appearance all the more effective when the voice DOES come forth.