【乐评】Camel《Camel》
【乐评】Camel《Camel》
This is my fifth review of a Camel's album. The others are their second, third and fourth studio albums 'Mirage', 'The Snow Goose' and 'Moonmadness' which were released in 1974, 1975 and 1976 respectively, and their debut live album 'A Live Record' released in 1978. In 1972 the band signed with MCA Records and the result of it was this musical work 'Camel', their eponymous debut studio album which was released in 1973.
这是我对Camel专辑的第五次评论。其他的是对他们的第二、第三和第四张专辑的评论，分别是《Mirage》、《The Snow Goose》和《Moonmadness》，各自发行于1974、1975和1976年，还有一个是他们的首张现场专辑《A Live Record》发行于1978年。乐队在1972年与MCA 唱片公司签约，然后的诞生了他们的音乐作品《Camel》，这是他们的同名首专，发行于1973年。
'Camel' has seven tracks. The first track 'Slow Yourself Down' written by Andrew Latimer and Andy Ward is a great song to open the album and represents, to my taste, the third best song on the album. This song features great organ work by Peter Bardens and is very well accompanied with a relaxed vocal work. A great rhythm section was also created by Doug Fergusson and Ward. The second track 'Mystic Queen' written by Bardens represents, for me, the second best track on the album. The song is absolutely sublime and is one of the two highest points of the album. It represents another great song with a good organ work by Bardens, perfectly accompanied with a tasteful Latimer's guitar solo. It has also a great performance on the drums by Ward. The third track 'Six Ate' written by Latimer is, in my humble opinion, the weakest point of the album. But, don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that it's a bad song. What I'm saying is that the song can be, sometimes, a little bit repetitive and represents the lower point on the album. The fourth track 'Separation' written also by Latimer is the shortest song on the album. It's a very good song with some slow parts and with a very powerful and superb ending. This is another great song. The fifth track 'Never Let Go' is another Latimer's song and that eventually gave its name to a live album of the band. It's also one of the lengthiest tracks on the album. It's my favourite song on the album and one of my favourite songs from the group. It's a wonderful piece of music with the only appearance of Bardens on vocals. He gave an amazing keyboard solo very well accompanied by a marvellous Latimer's flute work, too. The sixth track 'Curiosity' written by Bardens is a song with a strong bass line featured by Ferguson. This is a typical Camel's track with a good writing composition. It's also another very good song, in the same line of the rest of the musical material found in here. The seventh track 'Arubaluba' also written by Bardens is the closing song on the album. It's an instrumental track that represents the lengthiest song on the album. This is one of the best songs on the album, and in my point of view, it's in the fourth place. It's a very strong track with great guitar performances, an interesting organ work and a good complementary job made by Fergusson and Ward.
《Camel》有七首歌。第一首歌'Slow Yourself Down'是由Andrew Latimer和Andy Ward创作的，是专辑不凡的开场曲，符合我的口味，是专辑第三好的歌曲。歌中有Peter Bardens杰出的管风琴演奏，以及很舒适的人声伴随。不错的打击节奏部分也是由Doug Fergusson 和 Ward创作的。第二首歌'Mystic Queen'由Bardens创作，在我看来是专辑第二好的歌曲。这首歌是绝对的顶点，也是专辑中的两个高峰之一。它代表着Bardens的另一个伟大的风琴作品，完美地伴随着Latimer的雅致的吉他独奏。当然也有Ward出色的打鼓演绎。第三首歌'Six Ate'是Latimer写的，在我看来是专辑中最大的弱点。但不要误会我，我不是说这是首差劲的歌，我只是说这首歌有点重复，代表着专辑中较弱的点。第四首歌'Separation'也是Latimer写的，是专辑中最短的歌。它非常出色，有着缓慢的部分和非常有力与华丽的结尾。这是专辑中的另一个杰作。第五首歌'Never Let Go'是另一首Latimer的歌，并且最后作为乐队一场现场演出的名字。它也是专辑里最长的歌之一。这是我在此专中最爱的歌，也是我最爱的Camel的歌之一。这是绝妙的作品，Bardens作为演唱者。他的令人惊异的键盘演奏很好的配合着Latimer不可思议的长笛演奏。第六首歌'Curiosity'是Bardens写的，有着Ferguson强劲的低音线。这是典型Camel式的编曲。这也是首不错的歌，其他歌曲中的音乐素材可以在其他中找到。第七首歌是'Arubaluba'，也是Bardens写的，作为专辑的结束。这是纯器乐作品，专辑中最长的歌。也是专辑中的最佳作之一，在我看来，是第四位的作品。有着出色的吉他演奏，有趣的风琴演奏和Fergusson与Ward在低音处的互补。
My CD version has also two bonus tracks. As I usually say, I don't review bonus tracks mainly because of two reasons. First, bonus tracks don't make part of the original album and so, they shouldn't influence the album's review. Second, unfortunately in the most of the cases, the bonus tracks don't have good quality and are added without much criterion. Luckily, this isn't the case. Despite the first bonus track 'Never Let Go' not bring anything new to the album, because is simply a shorter single version of the original track, with the second bonus track we can't say the same. 'Homage To The God Of Light' is a 19 minutes live version of an original track written by Bardens, which was originally recorded on his solo studio album 'The Answer' released in 1970. This is really a great piece of music performed live superiorly. The track is full of free musical improvisations by all the band's members with extended psychedelic improvisation sounds and where all the musicians show their musical competence. This track was recorded live at the famous and mythical Marquee Club at 29th October 1974, and was previously unreleased. Unfortunately, it's shocking to think that this live version of 'Homage To The God Of Light' was hidden for so many years. I'm perfectly convinced that if this track has been released on the original album, it might be considered a truly masterpiece.
我的CD中还有两首附赠曲目。像我经常说的，我不点评附赠歌曲主要有两个理由。第一，附赠歌曲不是原始专辑的一部分，所以它们不应该影响到对于专辑的评价。第二，不幸的是，在大多数情况下，附赠歌曲没有很高的质量，似乎没什么标准就可以加入。然而幸运的是，这两首不在此列。尽管第一首附赠歌曲'Never Let Go'没有带来任何新东西，因为它是录音室版本的一个较短的版本。但对于第二首附赠歌曲我们不能这样说。'Homage To The God Of Light'是Bardens作品的一个19分钟的现场版本，最初是录制在他自己的专辑内。歌曲充满了所有乐队成员的自由的即兴演奏，伴随扩大了的迷幻的即兴声音和所有音乐家们展现出的他们的音乐能力。歌曲录制于知名的、神话般的Marquee Club，是1974年10月29日的现场演出，以前并未发行过。不幸而令人震惊的是，'Homage To The God Of Light'的现场版本雪藏了多年。我完全深信，如果此曲是在专辑中的话，它会被认为是一张真正的杰作。
Conclusion: 'Camel' is a great debut album from the band. In my humble opinion, it has two tracks that deserve to be rated with 5 stars 'Mystic Queen' and 'Never Let Go', four tracks that deserve 4 stars 'Slow Yourself Down', 'Separation', 'Curiosity' and 'Arubaluba' and one track that deserve only 3 stars 'Six Ate'. So, the final average of this album is between 4 and 4,5 stars. So, I decided to rate it with 4 stars. Sincerely, I think that it missed very few to it to can achieve the status of a masterpiece, which fortunately would happen, with their three following studio albums. This is really a great starting point if you want to listen to Camel as a newbie. This is an album very catchy and easy to get into, especially for the beginners. It's an amazing musical work, especially as a first album of any band. Don't get be repelled by the fact that it isn't very known and popular, compared with some of their other studio albums. This is a great album, probably the most simple, pure and naive of all their studio albums. Sincerely, I deeply recommend it.
结论：《Camel》是乐队伟大的处女专辑。在我看来，它拥有两首歌足以打五星：'Mystic Queen' 和 'Never Let Go'，四星的是：'Slow Yourself Down', 'Separation', 'Curiosity' 和 'Arubaluba'。三星的是'Six Ate'。所以，最后专辑的评价分是4到4.5星。所以，我决定打四星。我由衷认为，它错过了很少数作品能达到的杰作的地位，不过在他们的后三张录音室专辑中，它们幸运地达到了。如果你作为一个新人想要聆听Camel的作品，这会是一个伟大的起点。专辑朗朗上口，很容易让人投入进去，特别是对于新人而言。这是令人吃惊的音乐作品，对任何乐队的处女专来说都是如此。不要因为它相比乐队的其他专辑来说不那么广为人知和流行而排斥它。这是张伟大的专辑，也许是他们的专辑中最为简单的、单纯的、天真的。我由衷地推荐它。
This is my fifth review of a Camel's album. The others are their second, third and fourth studio albums 'Mirage', 'The Snow Goose' and 'Moonmadness' which were released in 1974, 1975 and 1976 respectively, and their debut live album 'A Live Record' released in 1978. In 1972 the band signed with MCA Records and the result of it was this musical work 'Camel', their eponymous debut studio album which was released in 1973.
这是我对Camel专辑的第五次评论。其他的是对他们的第二、第三和第四张专辑的评论，分别是《Mirage》、《The Snow Goose》和《Moonmadness》，各自发行于1974、1975和1976年，还有一个是他们的首张现场专辑《A Live Record》发行于1978年。乐队在1972年与MCA 唱片公司签约，然后的诞生了他们的音乐作品《Camel》，这是他们的同名首专，发行于1973年。
'Camel' has seven tracks. The first track 'Slow Yourself Down' written by Andrew Latimer and Andy Ward is a great song to open the album and represents, to my taste, the third best song on the album. This song features great organ work by Peter Bardens and is very well accompanied with a relaxed vocal work. A great rhythm section was also created by Doug Fergusson and Ward. The second track 'Mystic Queen' written by Bardens represents, for me, the second best track on the album. The song is absolutely sublime and is one of the two highest points of the album. It represents another great song with a good organ work by Bardens, perfectly accompanied with a tasteful Latimer's guitar solo. It has also a great performance on the drums by Ward. The third track 'Six Ate' written by Latimer is, in my humble opinion, the weakest point of the album. But, don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that it's a bad song. What I'm saying is that the song can be, sometimes, a little bit repetitive and represents the lower point on the album. The fourth track 'Separation' written also by Latimer is the shortest song on the album. It's a very good song with some slow parts and with a very powerful and superb ending. This is another great song. The fifth track 'Never Let Go' is another Latimer's song and that eventually gave its name to a live album of the band. It's also one of the lengthiest tracks on the album. It's my favourite song on the album and one of my favourite songs from the group. It's a wonderful piece of music with the only appearance of Bardens on vocals. He gave an amazing keyboard solo very well accompanied by a marvellous Latimer's flute work, too. The sixth track 'Curiosity' written by Bardens is a song with a strong bass line featured by Ferguson. This is a typical Camel's track with a good writing composition. It's also another very good song, in the same line of the rest of the musical material found in here. The seventh track 'Arubaluba' also written by Bardens is the closing song on the album. It's an instrumental track that represents the lengthiest song on the album. This is one of the best songs on the album, and in my point of view, it's in the fourth place. It's a very strong track with great guitar performances, an interesting organ work and a good complementary job made by Fergusson and Ward.
《Camel》有七首歌。第一首歌'Slow Yourself Down'是由Andrew Latimer和Andy Ward创作的，是专辑不凡的开场曲，符合我的口味，是专辑第三好的歌曲。歌中有Peter Bardens杰出的管风琴演奏，以及很舒适的人声伴随。不错的打击节奏部分也是由Doug Fergusson 和 Ward创作的。第二首歌'Mystic Queen'由Bardens创作，在我看来是专辑第二好的歌曲。这首歌是绝对的顶点，也是专辑中的两个高峰之一。它代表着Bardens的另一个伟大的风琴作品，完美地伴随着Latimer的雅致的吉他独奏。当然也有Ward出色的打鼓演绎。第三首歌'Six Ate'是Latimer写的，在我看来是专辑中最大的弱点。但不要误会我，我不是说这是首差劲的歌，我只是说这首歌有点重复，代表着专辑中较弱的点。第四首歌'Separation'也是Latimer写的，是专辑中最短的歌。它非常出色，有着缓慢的部分和非常有力与华丽的结尾。这是专辑中的另一个杰作。第五首歌'Never Let Go'是另一首Latimer的歌，并且最后作为乐队一场现场演出的名字。它也是专辑里最长的歌之一。这是我在此专中最爱的歌，也是我最爱的Camel的歌之一。这是绝妙的作品，Bardens作为演唱者。他的令人惊异的键盘演奏很好的配合着Latimer不可思议的长笛演奏。第六首歌'Curiosity'是Bardens写的，有着Ferguson强劲的低音线。这是典型Camel式的编曲。这也是首不错的歌，其他歌曲中的音乐素材可以在其他中找到。第七首歌是'Arubaluba'，也是Bardens写的，作为专辑的结束。这是纯器乐作品，专辑中最长的歌。也是专辑中的最佳作之一，在我看来，是第四位的作品。有着出色的吉他演奏，有趣的风琴演奏和Fergusson与Ward在低音处的互补。
My CD version has also two bonus tracks. As I usually say, I don't review bonus tracks mainly because of two reasons. First, bonus tracks don't make part of the original album and so, they shouldn't influence the album's review. Second, unfortunately in the most of the cases, the bonus tracks don't have good quality and are added without much criterion. Luckily, this isn't the case. Despite the first bonus track 'Never Let Go' not bring anything new to the album, because is simply a shorter single version of the original track, with the second bonus track we can't say the same. 'Homage To The God Of Light' is a 19 minutes live version of an original track written by Bardens, which was originally recorded on his solo studio album 'The Answer' released in 1970. This is really a great piece of music performed live superiorly. The track is full of free musical improvisations by all the band's members with extended psychedelic improvisation sounds and where all the musicians show their musical competence. This track was recorded live at the famous and mythical Marquee Club at 29th October 1974, and was previously unreleased. Unfortunately, it's shocking to think that this live version of 'Homage To The God Of Light' was hidden for so many years. I'm perfectly convinced that if this track has been released on the original album, it might be considered a truly masterpiece.
我的CD中还有两首附赠曲目。像我经常说的，我不点评附赠歌曲主要有两个理由。第一，附赠歌曲不是原始专辑的一部分，所以它们不应该影响到对于专辑的评价。第二，不幸的是，在大多数情况下，附赠歌曲没有很高的质量，似乎没什么标准就可以加入。然而幸运的是，这两首不在此列。尽管第一首附赠歌曲'Never Let Go'没有带来任何新东西，因为它是录音室版本的一个较短的版本。但对于第二首附赠歌曲我们不能这样说。'Homage To The God Of Light'是Bardens作品的一个19分钟的现场版本，最初是录制在他自己的专辑内。歌曲充满了所有乐队成员的自由的即兴演奏，伴随扩大了的迷幻的即兴声音和所有音乐家们展现出的他们的音乐能力。歌曲录制于知名的、神话般的Marquee Club，是1974年10月29日的现场演出，以前并未发行过。不幸而令人震惊的是，'Homage To The God Of Light'的现场版本雪藏了多年。我完全深信，如果此曲是在专辑中的话，它会被认为是一张真正的杰作。
Conclusion: 'Camel' is a great debut album from the band. In my humble opinion, it has two tracks that deserve to be rated with 5 stars 'Mystic Queen' and 'Never Let Go', four tracks that deserve 4 stars 'Slow Yourself Down', 'Separation', 'Curiosity' and 'Arubaluba' and one track that deserve only 3 stars 'Six Ate'. So, the final average of this album is between 4 and 4,5 stars. So, I decided to rate it with 4 stars. Sincerely, I think that it missed very few to it to can achieve the status of a masterpiece, which fortunately would happen, with their three following studio albums. This is really a great starting point if you want to listen to Camel as a newbie. This is an album very catchy and easy to get into, especially for the beginners. It's an amazing musical work, especially as a first album of any band. Don't get be repelled by the fact that it isn't very known and popular, compared with some of their other studio albums. This is a great album, probably the most simple, pure and naive of all their studio albums. Sincerely, I deeply recommend it.
结论：《Camel》是乐队伟大的处女专辑。在我看来，它拥有两首歌足以打五星：'Mystic Queen' 和 'Never Let Go'，四星的是：'Slow Yourself Down', 'Separation', 'Curiosity' 和 'Arubaluba'。三星的是'Six Ate'。所以，最后专辑的评价分是4到4.5星。所以，我决定打四星。我由衷认为，它错过了很少数作品能达到的杰作的地位，不过在他们的后三张录音室专辑中，它们幸运地达到了。如果你作为一个新人想要聆听Camel的作品，这会是一个伟大的起点。专辑朗朗上口，很容易让人投入进去，特别是对于新人而言。这是令人吃惊的音乐作品，对任何乐队的处女专来说都是如此。不要因为它相比乐队的其他专辑来说不那么广为人知和流行而排斥它。这是张伟大的专辑，也许是他们的专辑中最为简单的、单纯的、天真的。我由衷地推荐它。
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