![]() Snuggie Camel $14.99 The blanket that has sleeves. Super soft, luxurous fleece blanket with oversized sleeves. Stay warm from head to toe with the Snuggie fleece throw. Perfect for outdoor use, too. Machine washable. As seen on TV. No. SN011106: Blue No. SN091106: Leopard print No. SN061106: Pink ![]() Camel $13.99 Luis Mejia (son) - The debuting Camel album may work extremely good just in the case of music purists and people devoted to the band searching for their origins and the core of their music, but all in all, the album fails to achieve a concrete musical style. Its music is plain, covered to the top with an awkwardly insipid improvisational style (which many may affirm this is because of it's jazzy textures but this is argueably), and a very muted, underachieving prog style which neither blends to complexity neither to an accessible side of their music. Within its songs, the album is painfully filled with uninspired rock performances, but still some reach eventually into an original style, as for customized rock songs like "Slow Yourself Down", "Six Ate" and "Curiosity", the others work tighter, "Mystic Queen" has a delicate acoustic harmony, "Separation" might be the most recognizeable piece in the album, this is classic Camel, and "Arubaluba" has a cohersive improvisation, but this doesn't excuse the uneven songwriting. As for the classic "Never Let Go", this piece is severely dissapointing in all senses in this studio piece, but if you want to hear a real Never Let Go, listen to the live version in A Live Record, this was the awesome piece I fell in love with. The vocals were yet to develop, and the songwriting had to be fixed, but luckily, a vast majority of these problems are fixed in the following Mirage, in conclusion, the album will only work for reaching to the core of their improvisational style. ![]() Moonmadness $14.98 Luis Mejia (son) - Moonmadness was the last album from Camel's original lineup. The album itself is interesting because it is the last one which possesses Camel's traditional sound; a flowing trayectory, dreamy style and overwellming riffs, their original traits of prog rock. The music is quite compelling, atmospheric, the arrangements are welcoming in its own aura, reinforcing it with its cover designed by Roger Dean, the titles are compromising in ambients (water, moon, snow, air), but the music flows lineal and directionless, the themes are attractive, but the music sounds confusing and betraying; tuneless instrumental passages are the welcoming themes, including the playful "Aristillus" and the soaring "Spirit Of The Water. The album seems to achieve a loose concept album, the songs are based on the personalities of the musicians, Ward, Latimer, Fergueson and Bardens. "Air Born" is much more recalling to "Nimrodel", it has the strong sense of progressive rock, but it is underachieving, and "Another Night" is also a vocal misachievement. "Lunar Sea" got to be a fancy piece for the group, specially for its one-way music and streaming rhythm job. The only piece that work highly achieving and proper in the album had to be the classic "Song Within A Song", which covers itself with archaic vocal effects, a cohersive and truly hypnotic aura, and an atmosphere, keyboard-full effect with uprising sections, of a true dreamy lunar setting. All in all, the music is impossible and unaccessible, which got stressful in their initial lineup, but the pull-ups it got from achieving, growing pieces was their true setting, but in effect, its a step down from The Snow Goose. ![]() GUND - Plush - Camela Camel $17.99 I bought this toy for our grandson, 2 yrs. old. My husband and I had recently been to Egypt and rode camels while there. He loved it. It is well made and did not have any decorations, etc. that would be dangerous for a two year old. |
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