Anyone Want To Recommend Me Some Camel?

I've been seeing this band's name thrown around when the subject of 70's prog-rock comes up. I'm still in virgin territiory when it comes to this genre of music, but I'm really digging what I'm hearing on YouTube. Nice music to mellow-out to.

So where's a good place to start with Camel? I'm thinking Mirage, but is there any album in particular that I should start with? A compilation album perhaps? Or is there any that I should outright avoid like the plague?

Mirage, I Can See Your House From Here, Moonmadness, Snow Goose and the S/T are all good picks to start off with.

I think you might enjoy Moonmadness alot as you're a Floyd fan as well.

I posted this on HOM as well. I'd go in this order to get a handle on their earlier career:

1. Mirage
2. Moonmadness
3. The Snow Goose (all instrumental)
4. Camel (s/t)

The deluxe edition remasters have a plethora of bonus live tracks, REALLY fucking good ones. They were an awesome live band.

If you like those, then jump into the later stuff. I haven't yet explored anything after Rain Dances (though I do like that one)

DeathCult wrote:

Mirage, I Can See Your House From Here, Moonmadness, Snow Goose and the S/T are all good picks to start off with.

I think you might enjoy Moonmadness alot as you're a Floyd fan as well.

I concur, all kick ass albums there.

Did you ever pick up any Camel?

I would start with Moonmadness and then do Shawn D's list.

Breathless has a couple of REALLY GREAT tunes and then some good ones.

I almost grabbed an LP copy of the s/t album the other day, but they wanted a little too much for it considering the condition it was in.

They also had an original import press of The Snow Goose but that was way outside my price range.

Shawn D. wrote:

Did you ever pick up any Camel?

I have not. The more songs I listened to on YouTube, the less interested I grew. I started to zone out, so I pretty much gave up on them for now. Maybe I'll go back at some point, but not now.

They are a mellow band, nothing remotely "heavy" about them, so they are better for relaxing and contemplating than rocking out.