Planet Caravan

"Planet Caravan"
Song by Black Sabbath from the album Paranoid
Released	1970
Genre	Psychedelic rock, space rock
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.

Pantera cover

"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

• All tracks by Pantera unless noted otherwise.

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

• Phil Anselmo – Vocals
• Rex Brown – Bass
• "Dimebag" Darrell – Guitar
• Vinnie Paul – drums

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:

• Mercury Rev as part of a 2001 John Peel radio session and as a B-side on CD1 of their 2002 single The Dark Is Rising.
• Clive Jones of Black Widow and Agony Bag in 2007.
• Cable on In These Black Days: Volume 4, a tribute to Black Sabbath.
• Estonian band Rondellus covered this song in Medieval style, on their tribute album Sabbatum, for voice, lute and psaltery. In their version the lyrics are translated into Latin, and the song has been retitled "Planetarum Vagatio" (literally, "Wandering of the Planet").
• Svarti Loghin on their album "Drifting Through the Void".