| Canterbury Tales: The Best of Caravan | ||||
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| Released | 1976, 1994 | |||
| Genre | Progressive rock | |||
| Label | Decca/Chronicles | |||
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Canterbury Tales: The Best of Caravan is the 1976 compilation album released by Caravan. It was expanded, repackaged and released in 1994. [1]
Original release (1976)
| No. | Title | Music | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You" | Coughlan, Hastings, Sinclair, Sinclair | 03:07 |
| 2. | "Aristocracy" | Coughlan, Hastings, Sinclair | 03:03 |
| 3. | "For Richard" | Coughlan, Hastings, Sinclair, Sinclair | 17:05 |
| 4. | "Nine Feet Underground/Nigel Blows a Tune/Love's a Friend/Make It 76/Dance of the Seven Paper Hankies/Hold Grandad by the Nose/Honest I Did!/Disassociation/100% Proof" | Coughlan, Hastings, Sinclair, Sinclair | 22:42 |
| 5. | "Golf Girl" | Coughlan, Hastings, Sinclair | 05:00 |
| 6. | "Hoedown" | Coughlan, Hastings, Sinclair, Sinclair | 03:20 |
| 7. | "The Love in Your Eye/to Catch Me a Brother/Subsultus/Debouchement/Tilbury K" | Coughlan, Hastings, Sinclair, Sinclair | 12:32 |
| 8. | "Memory Lain, Hugh Headloss" | Hastings | 09:23 |
| 9. | "Virgin on the Ridiculous" | Coughlan, Hastings, Sinclair, Sinclair | 07:57 |
| 10. | "The Dog, the Dog, He's at It Again" | Hastings | 05:58 |
The 1994 edition added tracks to make a 2 CD release..
| No. | Title | Music | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Place of My Own" | Coughlan, Hastings, Sinclair, Sinclair | 04:04 |
| 2. | "Magic Man" | Coughlan, Hastings, Sinclair, Sinclair | 04:04 |
| 3. | "Hello, Hello" | Coughlan, Hastings, Sinclair, Sinclair | 03:47 |
| 4. | "If I Could Do It All over Again, I'd Do It All over You" | Coughlan, Hastings, Sinclair, Sinclair | 03:07 |
| 5. | "And I Wish I Were Stoned/Don't Worry" | Coughlan, Hastings, Sinclair, Sinclair | 08:18 |
| 6. | "Can't Be Long Now/Francoise/For Richard/Warlock" | Coughlan, Hastings, Sinclair, Sinclair | 14:25 |
| 7. | "Love to Love You (And Tonight Pigs Will Fly)" | Coughlan, Hastings, Sinclair, Sinclair | 03:06 |
| 8. | "Golf Girl" | Coughlan, Hastings, Sinclair, Sinclair | 05:01 |
| 9. | "Nine Feet Underground" | Coughlan, Hastings, Sinclair, Sinclair | 22:41 |
| 10. | "Songs and Signs" | Miller | 03:38 |
| 11. | "The World Is Yours" | Coughlan, Hastings, Sinclair | 03:37 |
| 12. | "Memory Lain Hugh" | Hastings | 04:52 |
| 13. | "Headloss" | Hastings | 04:22 |
| 14. | "The Dog The Dog, He's at It Again" | Hastings | 05:57 |
| 15. | "Be All Right/Chance of a Lifetime" | Hastings | 06:35 |
| 16. | "L' Auberge du Sanglier/A Hunting We Shall Go/Pengola/Backwards/A Hunting We Shall Go (Reprise)" | Hastings, Perry, Ratledge | 10:04 |
| 17. | "The Love in Your Eye [Live]" | Coughlan, Hastings, Sinclair | 12:12 |
| 18. | "For Richard [Live]" | Coughlan, Hastings, Sinclair, Sinclair | 14:13 |
| 19. | "Stuck in a Hole" | Hastings | 03:09 |
| 20. | "Lover/No Backstage Pass" | Wedgwood, Hastings | 09:39 |
| 21. | "The Show of Our Lives" | Sinclair, Murphy | 5:44 |
Notes: "For Richard" is the shortened name of "Can't Be Long Now/Francoise/For Richard/Warlock". The track that appears on the 1976 release of Canterbury Tales was recorded at Fairfield Halls in 1974. The CD issue replaces this version with the two other previously released versions: the original studio recording from If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You (1970), and a live version from Caravan and the New Symphonia (1974).
| Year | Type | Label | Catalog # |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | LP | Decca | 81/82 |
| 1976 | LP | Decca | DK-R 8/2 |
| 1994 | CD | Decca/Chronicles | 515522 |
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