Product Description
The World Is Yours - The Anthology 1968-1976 is an exhaustive remastered four CD box set from Canterbury sound band Caravan. The set includes previously unreleased studio recordings, album tracks, rare single mixes, BBC recordings and out-takes, as well as a lavish book featuring an essay and previously unseen photographs plus sleeve notes by Mark Powell.

CD 1
1. Place Of My Own (Stereo Version)
2. Magic Man (Stereo Version)
3. Love Song With Flute (Stereo Version)
4. Grandma's Lawn (Stereo Version)
5. Cecil Rons (Stereo Version)
6. Where But For Caravan Would I? (Stereo Version)
7. A Day In The Life Of Maurice Haylett
8. If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You
9. Hello Hello (Demo Version)
10. And I Wish I Were Stoned/Don't Worry
11. Asforteri
12. Can't Be Long Now
13. With An Ear To The Ground You Can Make It

CD 2
1. Golf Girl
2. In The Land Of Grey & Pink
3. Nine Feet Underground (Medley)
4. Winter Wine
5. I Don't Know It's Name (Alias The Word)
6. Love To Love You (BBC Session - Sounds Of The Seventies 11/03/71)
7. Feelin', Reelin', Squealin' (BBC Live - John Peel's Sunday Concert 06/05/71)
8. The Love In Your Eye (First Version)
9. The World Is Yours
10. Aristocracy

CD 3
1. Waterloo Lily
2. Any Advance On Carpet
3. C'thlu Thlu
4. Memory Lain, Hugh/Headloss
5. The Dog, The Dog, He's At It Again
6. L'Auberge Du Sanglier/A Hunting We Shall Go/Pengola/Backwards/A Hunting We Shall Go (Reprise)
7. Mirror For The Day (Live At The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 28th Of October, 1973)
8. For Richard (Live At The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 28th Of October, 1973)
9. Virgin On The Ridiculous (Live At The Fairfield Halls)

CD 4
1. Be Alright/Chance Of A Lifetime (Live At The Fairfield Halls)
2. The Show Of Our Lives
3. Keeping Back My Love
4. No Backstage Pass
5. Stuck In A Hole
6. The Love In Your Eye (BBC Session - John Peel 07/02/74)
7. The Dabsong Conshirtoe (BBC In Concert - Paris Theatre 21/03/75)
8. Here I Am
9. A Very Smelly Grubby Oik/Bobbing Wide
10. All The Way (Including John Wayne's Single Handed Liberation Of Paris)

Amazon USA
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0036ZKLTG/?tag=imwan-20

Amazon Canada
http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0036ZKLTG/?tag=imwanca-20

Amazon UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0036ZKLTG/?tag=imwan-21

The song title "If I Could Do It All Over Again, I’d Do It All Over You" must have been used as a popular pastime in Japan

If you have been to Tokyo you'll know what I mean.

Looks like a great box set to get.

This thread had never been updated with the finalised release details, so I've done that now (see first post), and am bumping the thread to coincide with our thread for the similar Camel box set which was also overseen by Esoteric label manager Mark Powell:

viewtopic.php?f=17&t=87489

The Caravan box has sadly already gone out of print -- Amazon Canada still has one remaining in stock as I post this -- but copies are plentiful among third party sellers, and the prices aren't unreasonable.

Strongly recommend the Caravan set. As some know Steve Wilson did a 5.1 mix of "In the Land of Grey and Pink" so does what that tell you.

Rick A.

One minor note on the track listing. The Disc 1 song Can't Be Too Long Now is actually the complete studio version of the Caravan signature tune, For Richard. It originally was listed as a four song suite, comprising Can't Be Too Long Now, Francoise, For Richard & Warlock . So with this box you not only get the original version, but the Live w/ the New Symphonia version. Probably my favorite Caravan song. I didn't hear the song until I was in my late 30s, but for some reason it always reminds me of being 17. And while I'm bloviating, my all time favorite version is the one they performed for a British television program back in 1990 (god, almost 25 years ago now), with the original four band members reunited (Hastings, Coughlan, D. Sinclair & R. Sinclair) plus brother Jimmy Hastings on woodwinds (just like the album version). Thirteen minutes of heaven from the Caravan Live album on Demon Records. RIP Richard Coughlan, your drumming lives on....

I have one shipping right now.....thanks Linda!

Without going through my collection album by album, is there much unreleased that wasn't included as bonus material, when Universal remastered the catalog last time, i.e. is there enough "exclusive-to-this-release" to make it worthwhile?

Based on the title listings on the box, the unreleased material is:

1) A BBC session version of The Love in Your Eye: 11min / 27 sec.
2) A song called Any Advance on Carpet: 9 min / 7 sec.

There have been so many archive releases over the years that if you have a complete set of their BBC session discs you've probably got the rest of the live material covered. But it is a nice package, Mark Powell's liner notes are great as usual, so I'd recommend it, even for the hard core fan. And if you don't have any Caravan material already, it's an essential purchase.

To complete the picture for collectors who have gotten the box set, here's the authorised Caravan documentary Where But For Caravan Would I. The group had originally released this as a fan club-only VHS tape in 2000, and now they've uploaded it to YouTube for everybody's enjoyment:

Got my Caravan box yesterday!

That was fast. You'll find it to be a very nice collection.

Rick A.

After reading the comments here and also a review by musician/journalist Julian Cope, who had high praise for the two unreleased tracks — "Any Advance on the Carpet" is actually an instrumental reworking of a Richard Sinclair-penned Hatfield & the North track, "Bossa Nochance" — I decided to spring for it before the prices climbed even higher. So, here's my money-saving tip of the day: get it from Amazon in Germany. They still have it in stock, and after deducting the European VAT charge, the total with shipping to the US came to $40.94, $10 less than the cheapest current Amazon US private dealer's $47.08-plus-$3.99 shipping price: http://www.amazon.de/World-Yours-Carava ... d+is+Yours

"Derzeit nicht auf Lager." That's sold out too.

Hmmm, that wasn't there when I placed the order. Either I got the last copy, or when they went to the stock to fill it, realized they were out of it. I got an order confirmation e-mail but not a "your order has shipped" one. We'll see...

A great example of the resurrected thread. Just ordered mine. Now to decide about a Camel box as well.

I've heard of Caravan, but never heard them. Based on your comments, I'll try to find a way to hear this & see what I think.

Well, now that you mention it, the same comments I made for the Caravan box apply identically to the Camel box set. Between the reissues and the Camel Bootleg series, I'm pretty sure all the material has been previously released. But Pete Barden's Homage to the God of LIght is a great 19 minute Camel jam that may be worth the price of admission for anybody who doesn't already have it. The Mark Powell notes are good, the package is solid, etc., etc., etc. If you don't have any Camel, it's an excellent place to start.

Now if only I was gif capable I'd throw in the "What Day Is It" or ("What Time Is It" for movie goers) camel...

Not only Jesus was resurrected.

I'm surprised you don't have this box set. Seeing your a fan of Prog rock such as Camel and Wishbone Ash this is a must get for you Geff,

Geff,

You won't be dissapointed, get the deluxe "In the Land of Grey and Pink" remastered by Steven Wilson.

I found a stream on the net. Either it needs to grow on me, or it isn't my cup of tea. I heard all of D2 & part of D1.