Miraculous Hump Returns From the Moon [Original recording remastered]

Sopwith Camel | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 10, 2001)
• Original Release Date: 1971
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Generic Type
• ASIN: B00005B2V7
• Also Available in: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #59,270 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Customer Reviews

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A GREAT, CLASSIC ALBUM;No ifs, ands or buts about it!!, October 30, 2001

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D. Lockman (Southern California, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Miraculous Hump Returns From the Moon (Audio CD)

This album is a perfect and magical blend of rock, jazz, pop, folk, Eastern music and even sci-fi elements. Anyone who likes the music of Steely Dan or Traffic would take to this masterful
work by a little-known, but obviously talented and very smart band.
The melodies are superb, the arrangements exquisite, the lyrics devilishly clever and wide-angle view imaginative. The sound fidelity is also quite good (especially for the early 70s). Why this album didn't sell at least several million copies will always remain a mystery to me (must have been due to a lack of promotion?). I find this music timeless, absolutely ageless. As fresh today as it was 30 years ago. The folks who DO know about this album tend to be downright ferocious in both their love of it, and their support for it. Find out why. Check it out.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Way ahead of their time., January 10, 2002

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Fred Luiszer (Boulder, CO United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Miraculous Hump Returns From the Moon (Audio CD)

Sopwith Camel's "The Miraculous Hump Returns From The Moon" sounds as futuristic today as it did 30 years ago. Good music only gets better with time. I can not add anything else that the other reviewers have not already said, except, "BUY IT!

17 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars hidden treasure uncovered, June 3, 2001

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Peppino - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Miraculous Hump Returns From the Moon (Audio CD)

With even the most obsure titles avaliable on cd format, I was always perplexed that this "UNDERGROUND CLASSIC LP" did not exist on cd. As of this date, it is still only accessable special order. Well, Peppi "orders" you,please - get this cd sent to you ASAP. Sopwith Camel's unfortunate legacy (as most people who have even heard of this group usually equate), is with the silly novelty "hit" "HELLO HELLO"- a song that gives absolutely NO indication as to the contents of this recording. Sopwith Camel were not a guitar driven group, but rather emphasis was on jazzy and (way ahead of the current craze) "world" and quasi-Latin grooves,with sax/ keyboards sound predominant. The basslines are subtlely funky, the vocals understated in an almost "bossa nova" fashion ( as in whisper/spoken sung).The compositions are dreamy, floating sound poems, no instrumental "stretching out", but appropriate & tasteful soloing- emphasis is on the songs . What maks the musics all the more enjoyable are the scathing lyrics, in the fashion of ZAPPA & STEELY DAN in their sardonic outlook or in direct criticism of the "hippy movement" and other of life's absurdities.Quite a dadaist approach, at times.As for the musics.............. "Fazon" is the centerpiece, with its hip groove & trancelike arrangement. It was a minor "hit" on FM underground radio, and owes a little in comparison to Jimi Hendrix's suite "1983, a merman I should turn...."in lyrical content, and it's etherial sound. "Coke, Suede, & Waterbeds simply skewers the hippies, and is not only "right on" lyrically, but is a hip melody to boot! "Orange Peel" takes you closer to the Indo/Asian continent than any western rock group ever could! A great lost treasure of the early 70s is "found " again! A galaxy of stars for this release! Sopwith Camel do indeed "return from the moon", a most "miraculous HUMP"!