Breathless
by Camel

Breathless by Camel
Year: 1978
Overall rank: 10,824th   
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 70 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1978 (158th)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (1,539th)
Award Best albums of all time (10,824th)

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Camel bestography

Breathless is ranked 10th best out of 21 albums by Camel on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Camel is Mirage which is ranked number 698 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,494.

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Breathless track list

   The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Breathless rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 10,824th | 1970s rank: 1,539th | 1978 rank: 158th

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Breathless ratings

Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 70 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 22% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.8/100, a mean average of 72.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.4.

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85/100
From 01/01/2024 05:56 | #300827
My final first-impression review of 2023 goes to Camel's Breathless. This is definitely not classic Camel, as it leans much more into a pop-prog sound than previous offerings, and has more of an overall "laid-back" feel to the music. As such, it's not super popular with prog diehards, but it's a good enough album anyway, especially if you're looking for something a little more gentle from this band. And though I the record is a bit inconsistent on quality, there are some really strong tracks here that all do something fairly new—Echoes meshes new and old, The Sleeper goes for a more jazzy approach, and Summer Lightning even pulls off disco-prog pretty well. A mixed bag, and definitely not the starting place if you want to get into Camel (go back to Mirage or Moonmadness for that), but an enjoyable enough album to "mix it up," if you're in the mood.
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80/100
From 09/03/2021 17:40 | #273247
The title track is heavenly, hints of disco on songs like Summer Lightning and You Make Me Smile, overall a pretty good Camel release.
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65/100
From 08/22/2018 04:53 | #219990
Mirage is one of my favorite albums. This one has a couple glimmers of that brilliance on tracks like Summer Lightning and The Sleeper, but the rest of it just didn't do it for me.
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1. Darkness On The Edge Of Town by Bruce Springsteen
2. Parallel Lines by Blondie
3. The Cars by The Cars
4. This Year's Model by Elvis Costello
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20. Powerage by AC/DC
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