Planet Caravan

"Planet Caravan"
Song by Black Sabbath from the album Paranoid
Released 1970
Genre Psychedelic rock, space rock[1]
Length 4:35
Label Vertigo (UK) Warner Bros. Records (US)
Writer Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler
Producer Rodger Bain
Paranoid track listing
"Paranoid"
(2)
"Planet Caravan"
(3)
"Iron Man"
(4)

"Planet Caravan" is a psychedelic song by Black Sabbath. The song's lyrics and mellow music create a dreamy atmosphere.

Geezer Butler has stated that the song's meaning is floating through the universe with your lover. The song appears on their 1970 breakthrough album, Paranoid. Lead singer Ozzy Osbourne uses a Leslie speaker to achieve the vocal effects.

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Pantera version

"Planet Caravan"
Single by Pantera
from the album Far Beyond Driven
Released 1994
Recorded 1994
Genre Psychedelic rock
Label EastWest
Producer Terry Date, Pantera
Pantera singles chronology
"I'm Broken"
(1994)
"Planet Caravan"
(1994)
"5 Minutes Alone"
(1994)

"Planet Caravan" was later covered by American heavy metal band Pantera for their album Far Beyond Driven.

It was released as a single in 1994 on EastWest Records as a 12" single. It comes as a 12" gatefold with a blood-red vinyl. Inside, the vinyl has a band picture with "To our fans: Thanks for the support!! You rule!! We'll see y'all next year!!" in silver. The pictures have also been signed in silver.

A video was produced for the song. All of the computer-generated visuals for the video were taken from Karl Sims digital animation "Panspermia" produced for the 1991 SIGGRAPH conference. The "Planet Caravan" video has been omitted from recent Pantera music video collections.

The song was Pantera's highest charting single in the United States, peaking at #21 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.

Track listing

Side A

  1. "Planet Caravan" (Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Bill Ward)
  2. "The Badge" (Poison Idea)

Side B

  1. "Cowboys from Hell" (Live)
  2. "Heresy" (Live)

Personnel

Charts

Chart (1994) Peak
position
UK Singles Chart 26
U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks 21

Other cover versions

"Planet Caravan" has also been covered by:

References

  1. ^ Wells, David.Paranoid (p. 13) [CD booklet]. London: Sanctuary Records Group, Ltd.