Sopwith Camel - The Sopwith Camel (Expanded Edition) (2012)
Artist: Sopwith Camel
Title: The Sopwith Camel (Expanded Edition)
Year Of Release: 1967/2012
Label: Buddah/Legacy
Genre: Psychedelic Rock
Quality: 320 kbps | FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 00:28:02
Total Size: 64 mb | 157 mb
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Tracklist:Title: The Sopwith Camel (Expanded Edition)
Year Of Release: 1967/2012
Label: Buddah/Legacy
Genre: Psychedelic Rock
Quality: 320 kbps | FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 00:28:02
Total Size: 64 mb | 157 mb
WebSite: Album Preview
01. Sopwith Camel - Hello, Hello
02. Sopwith Camel - Frantic Desolation
03. Sopwith Camel - Saga of the Low Down Let Down
04. Sopwith Camel - Little Orphan Annie
05. Sopwith Camel - You Always Tell Me Baby
06. Sopwith Camel - Maybe In a Dream
07. Sopwith Camel - Cellophane Woman
08. Sopwith Camel - The Things That I Could Do with You
09. Sopwith Camel - Walk In the Park
10. Sopwith Camel - The Great Morpheum
11. Sopwith Camel - Postcard from Jamaica
12. Sopwith Camel - Treadin'
From the fertile San Francisco ballroom scene, the Sopwith Camel emerged in 1966 with a refreshingly melodic spin on the overamplified electric kool-aid coming from their psychedelic peers the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and Quicksilver Messenger Service. The band's name was almost snatched by Bay Area concert impresario Chet Helms, who was looking for a catchy moniker to promote the new blues-based group being fronted by Janis Joplin and eventually settled on Big Brother & the Holding Company. Unfortunately, the band has suffered the double indignation of either being cast in the same lot as its trippy hippie counterparts or as sunshine pop lightweights neither of which is wholly accurate. Their one hit the title track, "Hello, Hello" did reach the Top Ten. However, its style was more akin to the retro-schmaltz served up by the New Vaudeville Band or Harpers Bizarre than any of the other tracks on the long-player. Sporting two- and three-minute pop songs, the Sopwith Camel had more in common with bands such as the Charlatans or Notes From the Underground than the Dead or the Airplane. They could rock out, as the acid blues "Cellophane Woman" and the guitar solo in "Frantic Desolation" prove. However, a majority of their material is a variation of the same well-crafted pop songs that their Kama Sutra labelmates the Lovin' Spoonful were churning out. Both "You Always Tell Me Baby" and "Maybe in a Dream" contain some interesting chord changes and vocal harmonies that invite comparison to Curt Boettcher's Sagittarius project. The band has reformed several times since the late '60s.