Can we all agree that Lunar Sea has without question the greatest Minimoog solo ever recorded? Absolute masterpiece.

My favourite prog band. Insanely fun and eclectic. Great video!

Breathless holds a special place in my soul

Was waiting for you to make a ranking of their albums, thanks! I haven't heard all of them, but I think Breathless is amazing, Breathless, Echoes, Down on the Farm and The Sleeper are all amazing, but Rainbow's End is just special, the band's great tribute for Bardens, it's just amazing!

My Ranking : 01 Moonmadness (1976) 02 Nude (1981) 03 Rain Dances (1977) 04 Mirage (1974) 05The Snow Goose (1975) 06 Camel (1973) 07 Breathless (1978) 08 Rajaz (1999) 09 A Nod and a Wink (2002) 10 Stationary Traveller (1984) 11 I Can See Your House from Here (1979) 12 The Single Factor (1982) 13 Dust and Dreams (1991) 14 Harbour of Tears (1996)

The Mighty Supersister 🐪

Camel are absolutely phenomenal, sucks they are rather overlooked. Mirage and Snow Goose are absolute masterpieces, some of the best prog ever. Also Breathless is suuuuper good

Much thanks for this ranking, Scot! I am familiar with their first 5 albums (through Rain Dances) and really like them, but have not explored beyond those. It looks like there are several more that I need to check out as well, especially Nude, Rajaz, and Breathless. Great job, as always.

Huge congratulations getting to 3k+ subs Scot! Your channel is awesome! :)

I have fallen in love with Camel's debut album! Beautiful guitar and keyboard action between Andy Latimer and Peter Bardens. A really underrated album. 'Never Let Go' is a beauty - melodic, rocking, terrific Prog. Great listing!

Thanks Scot for making this video! One of my favorite bands. I have all their stuff...love them!

Camel! My first album by them was Moonmadness - which is fantastic. I too love 'Nude' those two are my favourites for sure. 'Nude' is such a cool, clever and creative concept. I shall dig that out immediately for another listen....love it! Well done Scott!...on getting over 3000 subscribers. I predict many more will join the prog craze by next christmas... keep up the good work!

What an awesome show! Thanks for delving into one of the great bands from the 70’s prog scene. That Mirage - Moonmadness three album run is as good as it gets! For me, my no 1 is the Snowgoose. That LP is so visual and emotional, I just love it!

For today is one of andys best solos for me. Classic.

Hi Scot. Many thanks for this. I have many albums by Camel and saw them on the Moonmadness, Rain Dances and I Can See Your House From Here tours. I seem to remember PFM supporting them on one tour for the Cook tour.

For sure Breathless is a little more pop but it should definitely be in the top 5. Summer Lightning has the happiest beautiful guitar solo of all time, it gives me chills everytime

Great video Scott ! Though Rajaz is not my favorite album of Camel the title track is so haunting it makes my top 10 favorite songs of all time list most of the days !

Echos was my first Camel song I heard and I was blown away. Such a kool song! Mirage is my favorite album from Camel and they are in my top 5 😎👍

Great channel❤. I love prog and I am from Germany.

1 Rain Dances 2 Mirage 3 The Snow Goose 4 I Can See Your House From Here 5 Moonmadness 6 Camel 7 A Nod & A Wink 8 Nude 9 Stationary Traveller 10 Breathless 11 The Single Factor 12 Harbour Of Tears 13 Rajaz 14 Dust & Dreams

Fantastic show, I agree with your ranking. Only thing I would change is Rajaz and Nude. Cheers my friend and prog on.

Great video, so glad that Camel gets a ranking, a really fine prog band. The 'I Can See Your House from Here' joke has to be a long drawn out affair with St. Peter making at least 3 attempts to reach the cross, each time getting more and more mutilated by the Romans before hearing the punchline (you had to be there).

Excellent video and thanks for the love for Camel. A lot of great music. Mirage is at the top for me.

Thanks Scot, great vid. about a very underappreciated band.The Single Factor had some clunkers on it, it's true, but Sasquatch is a killer prog instumental. That song kicks ass!

I only put " I Can See Your House From Here " in top ten because of " Ice "(on most days, my favorite Camel song),agree with rankings otherwise. That 1970s run(and Nude)...amazing and astounding

Yes to seeing Rajaz in the top 5! That top 3 is so strong too, I'm not sure I can put them in any kind of order. Can't wait to see Camel in June!!!

A lot of people rank 'stationary Traveller' quite low, but I've always loved that record - including the live video they put our 'pressure points'... great video

Great show of camel albums. Top 5 band for me forever. Like I’ve said on my show they get no love. There getting dues now! Thanks Scot

Camel is great regardless of what order you rank the albums. 'Moonmadness', 'Camel', 'Mirage' are all stellar prog.

I have 'Mirage' with the album cover of the winged dragon and 'The Snow Goose'. That's as far as I got with Camel but love both albums. Great ranking Scot!🤩

My top 3 are: The Snow Goose, Mirage and Moon Madness. Great episode!

Interesting ranking. I’m not sure how I missed this video last year. Can’t argue with your ranking except I’m surprised how low Stationary Traveller is. I’m a huge Camel fan, probably my favorite prog rock group. I considered Breathless as their disco album, followed by three bland (for Camel) albums. So when Stationary Traveller came out, I absolutely loved it and considered Camel to be back on top. I still love the album. I don’t know where I’d rank it - maybe #5, and their best post Rain Dances release. But, I certainly enjoyed seeing how they stacked up for you.

Hi man! Great ranking I love Camel for over 40 years. I would switch Moonmadness with Snow Goose but for everything else I agree..... I never heard of that 1999 album you mentioned. The last I remember was Stationary Traveller and I was kind of disappointed after Nude (great, I am still getting back to it quite often). Keep going strong....

Camel’s debut was the first album I’d ever heard from them and I immediately fell in love with their style. Especially when discovering that some of it was subtly reminiscent of The Doors. But I can totally get with your # 1 an 2 choices. I think Mirage really is their finest work and I definitely dig Moonmadness, particularly Lunar Sea. Thanks for the breakdown of their discography.

For me, after the first four, that are amazing, Moonmadness being my personal favorite, I can see your house from here gets the fifth place, Yep mostly because of Ice

The albums that I care about: 1. Moonmadness 2. The snow goose 3. Mirage 4. Rain dances 5. Breathless 6. Camel 7. I can see your house from here

He said supertwister or supersister? lol PD: Nice ranking man, keep it up.

Pretty much same list for me, flip flop 1 and 2 to put Moonmadness at the top by virtue of Lunar Sea alone. In my top 10 of favorite songs of all time by anyone, what a track and Andy Latimer guitar solo. Cheers!

Minor correction- Richard Sinclair played bass guitar on Breathless.😀❤️🎼

GOOSEBUMPS - I couldn't resist 😄

fantastic, Scott - love Camel a lot, and would put together a quite similar best-list. Overall - as with so many progressive bands of the time, the first albums were the best, with an occasional later work sprinkled in... if I just judge from my own listening patterns of the last few years, I have to say, that 'Nude' is my most-listened-to. Tks a lot for this! 💖

Boy, what a great episode! My all time favorite always will be The Snow Goose. I'll go even far - for me it's the best concept album. If you ever read that little Snow Goose story you'll know... Even though my favorite Camel song since day one is Slow Yourself Down. The first song from their first album. Oh, and The Single Factor is definitely in my top 5

Excellent video! I know Camel but not the details. Thanks for the education.

The Peter Bardens years were the best but I do love Rain dances aswell.

Camel are one of those bands where it's kind of impossible for me to pick a favourite or 'best'. If I had to though it would come from these (in no particular order): Moonmadness Snow Goose Dust and Dreams Nude

The guitar solo in Summer lightning is the most underrated solos of all time. Likewise, Andrew Latimer is the most underrated guitarist of all time.

Randomly decided to listen to Camel (one of my favourite prog bands) again for the first time in a while today on the way home from college. Got home, logged on to my computer, opened KZfaq, first video in my recommended: this one. (I was listening on Spotify, so there was no way KZfaq could've known.) How did you know? Tell me your secret.

I only have one album. Moonmadness. Love it. Great cover too. I couldnt get on with Snow Goose though. I will try and add Mirage to my collection based on your rankings. Very interesting discography of the band Camel. I was hoping you would say god save Turkey. 🙏

Was lucky enough to see them a lot in their 70's heyday from many club and college gigs to promoting The Snow Goose complete with full orchestra at The Royal Albert Hall. Their debut self titled album is the album i return to the most. Love Mystic Queen, Curiosity, Never Let Go and Arubaluba. Mirage and Moonmadness are also excellent. The Snow Goose has never excited me although i understand many people would rate it as their best.

"Stationary Traveller" has REALLY grown on me in the past few years - its title track is (hands down) the best Camel song! I also LOVE "Breathless", even though its quite poppy :P When reviewing it last year, I really didn't get the appeal of "Rajaz"... maybe in the future... And yeah, those are all of my takes. **disappears into obscurity again**

My TOP 5: 1 - The Snow Goose 2 - Mirage 3 - Moon Madness 4 - Nude 5 - Harbour of Tears Thanks for the excellent video!!!

hi so nice to see someone says camel underrated !!! for me its one of the best prog band of all time ! i mean yes is the super super instrumentalist and creative and something BUT camel with their concept instrumental album is so strong ! i remember back in the days the first time i listen to the snow goose ! OH MY its too good music

Snowgoose! Mirage was the first Camel album I heard. I got it from the used bin at a record store that sold a lot of imports. It did not have the ridiculous cigarette pack cover. Don't know what American marketers were thinking with that or Gentle Giant's Octopus non Rodger Dean cover for that matter but the music is just so great! Thank God for the import option 🙂🎷🎹🎻🎸✌️

Love Camel. Saw the most live several times, and ever disappointed

Just looked on the back of the ticket..They started with The White Rider..Supertwister..then all of the Snow Goose..I was Front row centre too!

Great review of the much-underrated Camel! And it's Supertwister, not Supersister!! I have this album, along with 3 others! Many thanks!

I'd put Moonmadness in No 3 and Goose in 2 but otherwise a solid list. Mirage is just fantastic and Lady Fantasy is one of the greatest prog song ever, up there with Starless and Firth of Fifth. Just phenomenal.

And what about: The Snow Goose (Re-recording) (2013)?

I agree with the list. Bur perhaps Moonmadness is the best, ok "Lady Fantasy" is a very strong song perhaps that's why you chose "Mirage".

Ranking "A nod and a Wink" at 8 is a crime. To me their best album.

God tickets to see them with my parents this summer, honestly can't wait. It'll be great to see Peter Jones as well as my hero Latimer

I going Camel..Snow Goose, Moonmadness, Mirage...did I mention that I saw them in June 1975 for a couple of Dollars? Wishbone Ash 1st 4 Lps are SO GOOD

Hi Scot, my personal Camel top five : 1- The Snow Goose :; 2- Mirage ; 3- Nude ; 4- Moonmadness ; 5 - Rain Dances. But then, that's just me , of course....🙂

A Nod and A Wink is fantastic

Man i love single factor and stationary traveler...

Excellent rankings although personally I think Rajaz is magnificent and would put in the top 3. Thanks Scot.

Really greath video mate. I like Stationary Traveler I love the production and the title track is one of my favorite songs. 1-Moonmadnes 2- Mirage 3- Snow Goose 4- Camel 5- Nude 6- Dust And Dreams 7- Stationary Traveler 8- Harbour of Tears 9- Rain Dances 10- Breathless

It's amazing the variance you get with people trying to rank a catalogue like Camel's, their deeper catalogue outside of their first few albums rank vastly different (except maybe the last? :D ) for different folks who obviously all love this band. For example my list: 14. The Single Factor (I don't dislike it, it's just underwhelming compared to the rest) 13. Dust and Dreams (Also a bit on the underwhelming side for me) 12. A Nod and a Wink (Honestly I just don't know where to put it, haven't spent enough time with it) 11. Breathless (The creeping 80s cheese creeps into this one the wrong way for me) 10. Rajaz (Decent album, leaves me wanting something different from them though) 9. Stationary Traveller (I actually feel a bit bad ranking this one so low, but the others are just better imo) 8. Rain Dances (Probably ranks higher for most Camel fans, just ok for me) 7. Harbour of Tears (Great album, suffers only because it's so damn depressing!) 6. I Can See Your House From Here (Just a decent album until the end when Ice sinks it's teeth into me!) 5. Nude (Really really solid album from them coming out of an underwhelming era for prog) 4. Moonmadness (Can almost interchange these first 4 albums for me, they are all spectacular) 3. Mirage (Also usually ranks 1 or 2 for most Camel fans, the other 2 are just better for me) 2. Camel (I think it's their best album vocally and there's something I just absolutely love about this one) 1. The Snow Goose (Perfection)

Just remembered, before the gigs used to start and we were sat there bored, Record Companies used to get some new bands music played before what they imagined might be a receptive captive audience, I remember hearing Dreamer...but not that one this was by a band called HOME the self titled LP is a top quality LP and the follow up The Alchemist is kind of a Lost Prog Classic

My favourite band so I can honestly say there isn't an album I dont love and play often. They had many struggles with label execs trying to push them in different directions . Plus there was a blend of styles between Andy Latimer and Pete Bardens , so the dynamic was altered when Bardens left - thus another reason for different albums having diffferent style influences. So even though The Single Factor is not a great album , there are tracks I enjoy : Heroes, No Easy Answer and You are the One for example. ANy Latime has to be one of the most underrated guitarists ever, no doubt!

I need to check them out more.. heard very little.

i love The Snow Goose. what a great band, i got most of their albums.

The vocalists were fairly weak, but they perfectly fitted their songs I feel🎶☺️👍

It's remarkable how much Mirage's sound mix, and engineering, sounds like Nektar"s Remember the Future. If someone told me they used the same studio, I'd believe it

I listen to music through apple music and they just got rid of a couple Camel albums (messed up my playlist!), they never had the debut album available there but they just got rid of Mirage! Insane!

Usually, before I watch a ranking video, I like to go back and listen to the chosen band's discography but I didn't with this one... This is probably the third, maybe fourth, ranking video I have seen where I had absolutely no issue with the list. Even so, Now I think I will go and give all my Camel albums a spin... with the order being the release date, of course.

In the uk they did hit the albums charts at least 7 times ,no top 10 but top 40 , snow goose and moonflower silver sales .

I've only heard about half their albums. Gotta go scour the bins, I guess... Love Richard Sinclair's voice, so those albums get a little boost, but your top 3 are pretty much etched in stone as peak Camel. It's always been between Mirage & Snow Goose for me-Mirage in summer, Snow Goose in winter.

I enjoy very much "Camel" and i have "miles" of listening and never get tired of it. :) Finally someone like me who thinks "Stationary traveller" it's a big shit and "Nude" is a great, great work!!!! My favorite album is "Moonmadess".

Such an underrated band

Different opinions in this case: The Single Factor is very good in my opinion. A Nod And A Wink and Rajaz are both weak in my opinion.

Track 6 on Harbour of tears is " Under the moon". Here we have the master at work with the most emotional playing that brings us to tears. But not you !

Richard Sinclair replaced Doug Ferguson on Rain Dances & Breathless (Hatfield and the North, Caravan) on bass (Dave is his cousin, also from Caravan, and played keyboards on the first post-Bardens tour.)

I just bought the complete boxset.

Great list, I'd just reverse the worst 2. It's a difficult list because the quality is off the scale, great music, I thought when Andy Ward left, the music went down a little but great stuff nonetheless x

Rick Astley hahaha

Is Mirage taken off of Spotify for anybody else?

Top 10 In order of preference: Rain Dances Moonmadness I Can See Your House From Here Stationary Traveller Mirage Snow Goose Nude Breathless Camel Dust & Dreams Thanks !

Love Camel but they are a really strange band as you mentioned the ups and downs along their career. My top albums: 1. Moonmadness 2. The Snow goose 3. Mirage 4. Rajaz 5. I can see your house from here By the way, I like Rick Astley!

i'm sure i'm the only guy that has shook Andy's hand whilst wearing a Gary Numan 'Skin Mechanic' sweatshirt (at my most expensive gig) in Germany '92. shoutout to the latter half of 'End Peace', beginning of 'First Light' & the guitar solo in (The) Sleeper... my most played solo ever... even more than Marillion(t.s.e.), Charlie Dore(p.o.t.a.) or Toto(h) 🤝

Kit Watkins....saw happy the man live

Pink Floyd next??

4:50 why so low? I love this album, it's one of my top ones

Good ranking, but Stationary Traveller should be higher, better overall than I Can See Your House, Breathless and Rain Dances. First album where Camel were good at simpler songs at I like the sound of it. Just sad that they did not include the full version of Pressure Points on it.

Mirage really smokes. He he. ;)

Single factor sounds a little Alan parsons project.

Your top 3 are exactly the same as my top 3. Mirage was the first one I ever heard as well. Moonmadness is more like #1.5 than #2 for me.

You're right in saying often times the first one is your favourite, as for me that is Rain Dances, and also means I'd rank Breathless a bit higher, I'd also put I Can See Your House over Dust & Dreams and Harbour of Tears, otherwise I'd go along with the rest of your choices - your bottom two definitely my least favourites and really not essential unless you're a fan - and I'd say I'm a fairly big one of those. Annoyingly when they did the original video for Pressure Points, because it was on the Stationery Traveller tour they had those worse than a tv movie snippets interspersed with the band playing live - horrible (Barclay James Harvest suffered the same fate with their Victum of Circumstances video) - but at least they eventually released an unadulterated live DVD and album. And theyve release a ton of great live albums even the ones from the 82-84 period. Talking of live performances, for me it doesnt get better than their BBCSight & Sound in concert live show - possibly because it had a lot of Rain Dances on it, but it was also the first time I'd really seen and heard Camel and after watching it on TV and recording the radio broadcast (still have a beaten up tape of that somewhere I think, although its been properly released as bonus tracks on the Rain Dances remaster) I had to get a copy of Rain Dances, and then they released that fantastic double live album that never really gets talked about when live albums of the 70's are discussed, that has the orchestra on the Snow Goose and a cracking Lady Fantasy - thankfully that was extended with the double CD release to include a couple more from Mirage and Moonmadness. When they originally were going to call it a day back in 2003 I had the privilege of being at their then last ever gig in a small smelly club in Sheffield UK, when a very emotional Andy Latimer played an absolute blinder of a set - and the band were hauled back on to do a second encore where they repeated the first song of the night - Lady Fantasy. A great night and one of my favourite ever gigs.

Another great Brit band

I don't TRY to be different, but Snow Goose would just come into my top ten. It's good, but there are nine better albums (IMHO). Most Camel fans rank this top three. I bought Dust and Dreams when it came out, but I found it so dull and dreary, it put me off buying any more Camel for years!