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Great condition for a used CD. First album I've purchased by Caravan and bought based upon reading previous reports. What I've listened to ties in with those, wish I'd found Caravan earlier.
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A classic CD by Caravan in the Canterbury style. Really great songs written in 1971. One of their best albums.
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Excellent music from an excellent band.
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An excellent Canterbury rock album
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Fantastic highly recommended, if you don't know caravan, like me, give them a go I'm glad i did
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Very clean nice copy
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Having recently purchased "Caravan", I was recommended to try this album next. I wasn't disappointed. It is perfect music to relax to and its chilled out feel evokes the Kent countryside that it came from. "Golf Girl" is the best known track, catchy, melodic and whimsical. "Winter Wine" is typical of the "Canterbury Sound" of the late '60's/early '70's - atmospheric with tales of medieval folklore - while the keyboard sound is a Caravan trademark. "Love To Love You (And Tonight Pigs Will Fly" has the feel of a nursery rhyme, the flute adding a medieval quality. The title track is whimsical with a tongue-in-cheek humour, while the medley that follows is a chilled groove-out!! The bonus tracks document the songs as works in progress but "Aristocracy" is a real lost gem with a jazzy/funky feel. It is hard to fault this album but if I have to list one dislike it is that the last track is a little overlong and a repeat of what has gone before. That said, I would recommend this album to psych and prog fans and to anyone who likes feelgood music.Read full review
As a huge fan of the band Camel for some 30 years now (with the first album I purchased being in 1981) I’d on many occasion been advised to listen to the music of Caravan. I ignored this until January of 2009 when “Prog Week” took place on BBC4 and my “ears” were opened to two tracks “Golf Girl” and “The Dog, The Dog He's At It Again”. With so many albums to choose from some research was required. eBay and ProgArchives.com (where at the time it scored a very impressive 4.31) led me to this album as the first one I would purchase. My god! Released when I was only 7 years of age I’m amazed how this has escaped me for some 30 plus years. It is an album of par excellence! The aforementioned “Golf Girl” with it’s somewhat ridiculous but enjoyable lyrics sits nicely alongside 4 other equally brilliant tracks and with 5 more on the re-mastered version from 2001 this is an album which rightly deserves every accolade that I have subsequently read. Is it Prog? Is it Jazz? Who cares! This is an album of stunning tracks with beautiful music, whimsical lyrics and a real “feel-good” factor. The title track “In The Land Of Grey And Pink” is the stand out piece for me. Haven’t a clue what’s it’s all about and it includes some wonderfully weird guitar that makes a sound like that you might make with your fingers and lips to a baby. “Punkweed” indeed! My daughter is 9 and she loves it too. A truly superb album, worthy of any music collection - prog or otherwise!Read full review
A wonderful journey into a particuarly English form of psychedlia. This music is charming in the extreme. I've heard many people extolling the virtues of this band and Hawkwind and Gong in the same breath. Certainly all those groups share a certain spirit but I think that 'In The Land of Grey and Pink' is perhaps more rooted in it's time than the music of those other bands. This isn't neccessarily a bad thing at all by the way. The music on this CD is truely wonderful. If you really want to take a trip back into the uncynical world of the late 60s/early 70s, then I think that you would be struggling to find a more pleasant Captain than this Cd to guide you there.
This really is a great album, liked it for years since I was a kid! I love the lyrics in The Land of Grey and Pink and Golf Girl!!!