Songs for Oblivion Fishermen [Import]

Product Description:
1998 compilation on the Hux label featuring exclusive andpreviously unreleased recordings from their BBC Radio Onesessions, 1970-1974. 73 minutes long, the collectioncontains 12 tracks, including 'If I Could Do It All OverAgain, I'd Do It All Over You' and 'As I Feel I Die'.

Tracks:

Hello Hello
If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You
As I Feel I Die
Love Song Without Flute
Love To Love You
In The Land Of Grey And Pink
Memory Lain Hugh
A Hunting We Shall Go/Backwards
Love In Your Eye
Mirror For The Day
For Richard
Virgin On The Ridiculous

Product Description

1. Hello Hello
2. If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You
3. As I Feel I Die
4. Love Song Without Flute
5. Love To Love You
6. In The Land Of Grey And Pink
7. Memory Lain Hugh
8. A Hunting We Shall Go giBackwards
9. Love In Your Eye
10. Mirror For The day
11. For Richard
12. Virgin On The Ridiculous

Format: CD

Customer Reviews:

Caravan's best live album.......2002-01-19

This is an excellent album with a horrible title. It is live, in the studio, radio broadcasts. So, while these tracks are done live, there is no audience noise. As mentioned by others, a number of the songs start and end abruptly, where the radio host's comments were edited out.

It comes from radio broadcasts between 1970 and 1974. The first six tracks are very early material from the first three albums. They are short, energetic and a lot of fun. The remaining tracks from the 1973-4 period. They are longer, stretched out versions. They are still played with a lot of energy. Many of the tracks have more of a jazzy feel than the studio versions. In some cases, the viola becomes very dominant. And there are great guitar solos and nice interplay between the viola and guitar.

When I first saw this ablum, I thought, "oh no, not another version of For Richard. Every single Caravan live album has For Richard on it. But this turns out to be probably the best version of For Richard on record.

I think that this is Caravan's best live album. It is strong throughout, without a weak track (except maybe Virgin on the Ridiculous). What really makes it special is the early live recordings that aren't available anywhere else.

Reeling In The BBC Years.......2000-06-04

This album contains twelve songs recorded for BBC radio between 1970 and 1974. The sleeve notes inform us that some of the earliest recordings by the band have been erased, but those that survive are spread over just two CDs. Given that the second volume (the companion album, "Ether Way") starts with sessions recorded in 1975, the tracks here are presumably all that now exist from Caravan's first four years at the BBC. The first three tracks, from 1970, have been edited to remove all traces of the DJ who originally introduced them, and shorn of their intros don't so much start as `sneeze' into life, but the songs and the musicianship are faultless. Next up are three tracks from March `71, and like the previous three, have been trimmed to exclude any verbal preamble; however, the sheer class of the band's performance outweighs any minor criticism. The remaining six cuts are taken from sessions for John Peel in August `73 and February `74, and like all the tracks here are, for me, far superior to their studio counterparts. The songs have more passion, particularly "Memory Lain, Hugh" and "A-Hunting We Will Go/Backwards", both of which feature Geoff Richardson's expressive viola and Pye Hastings' uncharacteristically biting lead guitar. Highly recommended!

Average customer rating:

A delightful "best of" live album of early '70s radio broadcasts
May be Caravan's best live album

Songs for Oblivion Fishermen
Caravan
Manufacturer: Big Eye Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005AVPF
Release Date: 2001-04-17

Tracks:

Hello, Hello
If I Could Do It All over Again, I'd Do It All over You
As I Feel I Die
Love Song Without Flute
Love to Love You (And Tonight Pigs Will Fly)
In the Land of Grey and Pink
Memory Lain Hugh
Hunting We Shall Go/Backwards
Love in Your Eye
Mirror for the Day
For Richard
Virgin on the Ridiculous

Customer Reviews:

A delightful "best of" live album of early '70s radio broadcasts.......2006-03-18

Taken from live in the studio radio broadcasts from the early '70s (1970 - 1974), Songs For Oblivion Fisherman is an excellent live document of a fantastic band that well shows the bands pop and instrumental strengths. For those who don't know Caravan's music is an amalgam of psychedelic and whimsical pop tunes (sounding something like the Zombies meet the Beatles), hard progressive riffing and very strong jazz-rock improvisations. Those improvisations are usually led by the keyboards although there are some very tasty guitar and violin parts as well. The drumming is superb as is the bass playing, being spot on both in the improvs and composed parts. These guys are excellent players whose melodic influence can still be heard today in contemporary bands such as Porcupine Tree. Overall "Songs for Oblivion Fishermen" is an excellent live document from one of the originals of the so-called Canterbury bands that included Soft Machine, Egg, Gong, Kevin Ayers, and Henry Cow among others. If you're a fan or a relative newbie to Caravan, I think you'll like this CD.

May be Caravan's best live album.......2004-07-01

Tracks:

Hello Hello
If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You
As I Feel I Die
Love Song Without Flute
Love To Love You
In The Land Of Grey And Pink
Memory Lain Hugh
A Hunting We Shall Go/Backwards
Love In Your Eye
Mirror For The Day
For Richard
Virgin On The Ridiculous

Album Description

1998 compilation on the Hux label featuring exclusive andpreviously unreleased recordings from their BBC Radio Onesessions, 1970-1974. 73 minutes long, the collectioncontains 12 tracks, including 'If I Could Do It All OverAgain, I'd Do It All Over You' and 'As I Feel I Die'.

Customer Reviews:

Caravan - 'Songs For The Oblivion Fisherman' (Hux).......2004-10-05

The title of this release should have simply been 'BBC Sessions' to avoid any confusion.I mean,an old fan of the group COULD mistake this for a 'new' band studio release.Either way,'Songs For...' should satisfy any Caravan follower,as it has a total of twelve tracks that are either in the studio,a radio broadcast or performed live(seemingly without an audience).All tunes come from the 1970-74 era.To me,Caravan has always seemed to have been,if you would call it that,sophisticated progressive.Tunes that I thought stood out are "If I Could Do It","In The Land Of Grey And Pink" and their fifteen minute signature epic "For Richard"(possibly Caravan's best song ever).If you want to explore the band's history a bit,you might want to consider checking out their older material first,lp's like their self-titled debut,'Cunning Stunts' and 'Girls Who Grow Plump...'.Should appeal to fans of Gentle Giant,Soft Machine,The Strawbs and Camel.

May be Caravan's best live CD.......2004-07-01

This is an excellent album with a horrible title. I don't know why, but Amazon has 5 different offertings of this same title.

It is live, in the studio, radio broadcasts. So, while these tracks are done live, there is no audience noise. As mentioned by others, a number of the songs start and end abruptly, where the radio host's comments were edited out.

Reeling In The BBC Years.......2000-05-29

This album contains twelve songs recorded for BBC radio between 1970 and 1974. The sleeve notes inform us that some of the earliest recordings by the band have been erased, but those that survive are spread over just two CDs. Given that the second volume (the companion album, "Ether Way") starts with sessions recorded for the corporation in 1975, the tracks here are presumably all that now exist from Caravan's first four years at the BBC. The first three tracks, from 1970, have been edited to remove all traces of the DJ who originally introduced them, and shorn of their intros don't so much start as `sneeze' into life, but the songs and the musicianship are faultless. Next up are three tracks from March `71 and, like the previous three, have been trimmed to exclude any verbal preamble; however, the sheer class of the band's performance outweighs any minor criticism. The remaining six cuts are taken from sessions for John Peel in August `73 and February `74, and like all the tracks here are, for me, far superior to their studio counterparts. The songs have far more passion, particularly "Memory Lain, Hugh" and "A-Hunting We Will Go/Backwards", both of which feature Geoff Richardson's expressive viola and Pye Hastings' uncharacteristically biting lead guitar. Highly recommended for acolytes and neophytes alike!

Average customer rating:

May be Caravan's best live CD
May be Caravan's best live CD
Very good, but inferior to the studio recordings.
A Shining Timepiece

Songs for Oblivion Fishermen
Caravan
Manufacturer: Griffin Music/Wheezy
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Jazz | Styles | Music

General | Rock | Styles | Music

Progressive Rock | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music

Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) | Classic Rock | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00000G0VP
Release Date: 1999-05-11

Tracks:

Hello Hello
If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You
As I Feel I Die
Love Song Without Flute
Love To Love You
In The Land Of Grey And Pink
Memory Lain Hugh
A Hunting We Shall Go/Backwards
Love In Your Eye
Mirror For The Day
For Richard
Virgin On The Ridiculous

Customer Reviews:

May be Caravan's best live CD.......2004-07-01

This is an excellent album with a horrible title. For some reason, Amazon has 5 different offerings of this same title.

May be Caravan's best live CD.......2004-07-01

Very good, but inferior to the studio recordings........2002-01-15

This disc captures two very different lineups of Caravan. The first half of the disc features the "classic" lineup of Coughlan, Hastings, Sinclair & Sinclair, and the second half features the GIRLS WHO GROW PLUMP IN THE NIGHT lineup, which replaces Richard Sinclair with John G. Perry and adds viola player Geoffrey Richardson. Not bad at all for "live in the studio" stuff, but to really experience these guys start with IN THE LAND OF GREY AND PINK and follow it with IF I COULD DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN, and WATERLOO LILY, which is their best (and jazziest, yeah!) album.

Evidently, all of the found BBC material has now been officially released. Pity, because I have a wonderful BBC recording of the WATERLOO LILY lineup performing songs from that album which outshines everything on this disc. Maybe one day the BBC will dig up the source tape.

A Shining Timepiece.......2001-08-26

I was never a big fan of the term 'Canterbury', mostly because the Canterbury bands sounded little alike. Just what clearly audible common denominator makes National Health and Camel both 'Canterbury'? Nothing I can hear, and I like both bands. Of all the pioneer practitioners of this elusive sound, however, my favorite was Caravan, plying a unique concoction made up of more-or-less equal parts progressive rock, English music-hall and doper whimsy. Gentle and graceful melodies and solos alternate with organ-drenched bombast, all of it written and played with intelligence, playfulness and excellent musicianship. SONGS are collected BBC sessions from 70-74, the band's peak years, and though the lineup wobbles a little (Richard Sinclair is in, then he's out) it hardly matters. Twelve slabs of prime Caravan are on hand, most from mono broadcasts which adds a wonderful retro charm to an already strong collection. Standout tracks are the extended analog delights of 'Memory Lain Hugh', 'Love In Your Eye' and 'For Richard', but a special mention has to made for a song I loved since I first heard it, 'In the Land of Grey and Pink', a perfect example of early-70s mellow English pop-rock at its best, and a recommended antidote for much of the hateful/puerile swill that gets crammed down our throats and called 'rock music' these days. The first of a two-CD series, and a worthy addition to anyone's cd library.