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Caravan

The Decca/Deram Years (An Anthology) 1970-1975 (9CD)

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2025 stock  Nine CD set. This impressive release collates their Decca/Deram years complete with bonus tracks and rare live recordings in a striking box released to coincide with Decca's 90th Anniversary. The English city of Canterbury is home to two highly respected universities, one of the oldest public schools in Britain and, thanks to it's cathedral and being the seat of the Church of England, is at the very heart of English history. It was therefore something of a surprise when a group of musicians associated with progressive and avant-garde music came to define the sound of the city in the late 1960s. Caravan were formed in Canterbury 1968 by Pye Hastings (guitar/ vocals), Dave Sinclair (keyboards), Richard Sinclair (bass/vocals) and Richard Coughlan (drums). Following the release of an impressive self-titled debut on Verve, in 1970 the band signed to Decca's Deram label where they would record some of the most progressive and elegant music across the decade. Albums such as In The Land Of Grey And Pink, If I Could Do It All Over Again and For Girls Who Grow Plump In The Night cemented Caravan's reputation as kings of the Canterbury Sound. 
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File under: Progressive
Cat. number: 772 281-2, 00602577228124
Year: 2019

Format

A 9 CD box set featuring Caravan's magical Decca/Deram label output.

The set collects the remastered 2001 reissues of the band’s six classic Decca/Deram albums (including bonus material), as well as Live At The Fairfield Halls, 1974 and The Show Of Our Lives: Live At The BBC 1970-1975.

8 digisleeves with original album artwork are packaged in a rigid slipcase with an accompanying 52 page booklet detailing the history of the definitive ‘Canterbury Sound’ band.

Track titles as printed on individual Digisleeves. Track 8-8 is printed as "Feelin' Reelin' Squealin'" and track 8-9 printed as "A Huntin' We Shall Go" on back of slipcase.

CD 3 cat# "00602577230646" printed in its individual Digisleeve inside is probably a misprint as it is identical to the cat# of CD 2. Acc. to the analogue # shown in its matrix/runout it probably should be "00602577230660".

For CD 3 both on back of the slipcase as well as in its Digisleeves 10 tracks are listed (track 9: "Looking Left, Looking Right" and track 10: "Pye's Loop") while there are actually only 9 tracks on the disc.

Track durations are not printed on the release.

Release notes

A 9 CD box set featuring Caravan's magical Decca/Deram label output. The set collects the remastered 2001 reissues of the band’s six classic Decca/Deram albums (including bonus material), as well as Live At The Fairfield Halls, 1974 and The Show Of Our Lives: Live At The BBC 1970-1975. 8 digisleeves with original album artwork are packaged in a rigid slipcase with an accompanying 52 page booklet detailing the history of the definitive ‘Canterbury Sound’ band. Track titles as printed on…

Tracklist
If I Could Do It All Over Again, I’d Do It All Over You
1-1If I Could Do It All Over Again, I’d Do It All Over You3:07
1-2And I Wish I Were Stoned / Don’t Worry8:21
1-3As I Feel I Die5:06
1-4With An Ear To The Ground You Can Make It / Martinian / Only Cox / Reprise9:54
1-5Hello Hello3:46
1-6Asforteri1:21
1-7Can’t Be Long Now / Françoise / For Richard / Warlock14:21
1-8Limits1:36
Bonus Tracks
1-9A Day In The Life Of Maurice Haylett5:07
1-10Why? (And I Wish I Were Stoned) (Demo Version)4:22
1-11Clipping The 8th (Hello Hello) (Demo Version)3:13
1-12As I Feel I Die (Demo Version)4:40
In The Land Of Grey And Pink
2-1Golf Girl5:00
2-2Winter Wine7:37
2-3Love To Love You (And Tonight Pigs Will Fly)3:04
2-4In The Land Of Grey And Pink5:00
Nine Feet Underground
2-5aNigel Blows A Tune
2-5bLove’s A Friend
2-5cMake It 76
2-5dDance Of The Seven Paper Hankies
2-5eHold Grandad By The Nose
2-5fHonest I Did!
2-5gDisassociation
2-5h100% Proof
Bonus Tracks
2-6I Don’t Know It’s Name (Alias The Word)6:10
2-7Aristocracy3:43
2-8It’s Likely To Have A Name Next Week (“Winter Wine” Instrumental)7:49
2-9Group Girl (First Version Of “Golf Girl”)5:03
2-10Disassociation / 100% Proof (New Mix)8:36
Waterloo Lily
3-1Waterloo Lily6:47
3-2Nothing At All / It's Coming Soon / Nothing At All (Reprise)10:23
3-3Songs & Signs3:40
3-4Aristocracy3:03
3-5The Love In Your Eye / To Catch Me A Brother / Subsultus / Debouchement / Tilbury Kecks12:32
3-6The World Is Yours3:40
Bonus Tracks
3-7Pye's June Thing2:58
3-8Ferdinand2:57
3-9Looking Left, Looking Right / Pye's Loop7:02
For Girls Who Grow Plump In The Night
4-1Memory Lain, Hugh / Headloss9:15
4-2Hoedown3:19
4-3Surprise, Surprise4:06
4-4C'thlu Thlu6:12
4-5The Dog, The Dog, He's At It Again5:56
4-6Be All Right / Chance Of A Lifetime6:34
4-7L'Auberge Du Sanglier / A Hunting We Shall Go / Pengola / Backwards / A Hunting We Shall Go (Reprise)10:04
Bonus Tracks
4-8Memory Lain, Hugh / Headloss (US Mix)9:18
4-9No! ("Be Alright") / Waffle ("Chance Of A Lifetime")5:10
4-10He Who Smelt It Dealt It ("Memory Lain, Hugh")4:42
4-11Surprise, Surprise3:15
4-12Derek's Long Thing11:02
Caravan & The New Symphonia
The Complete Concert
5-1Introduction / Memory Lain, Hugh / Headloss10:59
5-2The Dog, The Dog, He's At It Again6:36
5-3Hoedown3:54
5-4Introduction6:50
5-5The Love In Your Eye12:50
5-6Mirror For The Day4:29
5-7Virgin On The Ridiculous7:58
5-8For Richard14:18
5-9 A Hunting We Shall Go10:25
Cunning Stunts
6-1The Show Of Our Lives5:47
6-2Stuck In A Hole3:10
6-3Lover5:06
6-4No Backstage Pass4:35
6-5Welcome The Day4:01
The Dabsong Conshirtoe
6-6aThe Mad Dabsong
6-6bBen Karratt Rides Again
6-6cPro's And Con's
6-6dWraiks And Ladders
6-6eSneaking Out The Bare Quare
6-6fAll Sorts Of Unmentionable Things
6-7Fear And Loathing In Tollington Park Rag1:11
Bonus Tracks
6-8Stuck In A Hole (Single Version)3:11
6-9Keeping Back My Love5:14
Live At The Fairfield Halls, 1974
7-1Memory Lain, Hugh / Headloss9:27
7-2Virgin On The Ridiculous7:14
7-3Be Alright / Chance Of A Lifetime6:38
7-4The Love In Your Eye15:01
7-5L'Auberge Du Sanglier / A Hunting We Shall Go / Pengola / Backwards / A Hunting We Shall Go (Reprise)8:31
7-6The Dog, The Dog, He's At It Again6:24
7-7For Richard16:54
7-8Hoedown6:00
The Show Of Our Lives: Live At The BBC 1970-1975
8-1 If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You2:46
8-2Hello Hello3:11
8-3As I Feel I Die6:24
8-4Love To Love You3:12
8-5Love Song Without Flute3:34
8-6In The Land Of Grey And Pink3:44
8-7Nine Feet Underground14:27
8-8Feelin', Reelin', Squealin'9:30
8-9A Hunting We Shall Go9:15
Waffle Part One:
8-10aBe All Right
8-10bChance Of A Lifetime
9-1Memory Lain Hugh5:04
9-2Headloss4:27
9-3The Love In Your Eye13:54
9-4Mirror For The Day4:16
9-5Virgin On The Ridiculous7:01
9-6For Richard15:05
9-7The Dabsong Conshirtoe15:11
9-8Stuck In A Hole3:14
9-9The Show Of Our Lives4:57

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