The Best of Caravan – Canterbury Tales

Canterbury Tales: The Best of Caravan
Greatest hits album by Caravan
Released	1976, 1994
Genre	Progressive rock
Label	Decca/Chronicles
Caravan chronology
Cool Water (1994)Cool Water1994 Canterbury Tales: The Best of Cavarvan (1994) The Battle of Hastings (1995)The Battle of Hastings1995

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Canterbury Tales is the 1976 compilation album released by Caravan. It was expanded, repackaged and released in 1994.

Track listing

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	05:01
9.	"Nine Feet Underground"	Coughlan, Hastings, Sinclair	22:41
10.	"Songs and Signs"	Miller	03:38
11.	"The Show of Our Lives"	Hastings	05:44
12.	"The World Is Yours"	Hastings	03:37
13.	"Memory Lain Hugh"	Hastings	04:52
14.	"Headloss"	Hastings	04:22
15.	"The Dog The Dog, He's at It Again"	Hastings	05:57
16.	"Be All Right/Chance of a Lifetime"	Coughlan, Hastings, Sinclair, Sinclair	06:35
17.	"L' Auberge du Sanglier/A Hunting We Shall Go/Pengola/Backwards/A Hunti"	Coughlan, Hastings, Sinclair, Sinclair, Perry, Ratledge	10:04
18.	"The Love in Your Eye [Live]"	Coughlan, Hastings, Sinclair, Sinclair	12:12
19.	"For Richard [Live]"	Hastings	14:13
20.	"Stuck in a Hole"	Coughlan, Hastings, Sinclair, Sinclair	03:09
21.	"Lover/No Backstage Pass"	Murphy, Sinclair	09:39

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,' and a live version from 'Caravan and the New Symphonia.'

Personnel

• Pye Hastings – vocals, guitar
• Geoff Richardson – viola
• David Sinclair – keyboards
• Steve Miller – keyboards
• John G. Perry – bass guitar, vocals, percussion
• Richard Coughlan – drums, percussion, timpani
• Richard Sinclair – Bass

Releases information

Year	Type	Label	Catalog #
1976	LP	Decca	81/82
1976	LP	Decca	DK-R 8/2
1994	CD	Decca/Chronicles	515522