Best Canterbury album - Progressive Rock Music Forum

My goodness, so much to choose from , almost impossible, a 12 horse race! I guess Rotter's club, but Khan, Caravan, National Health, Hillage, Gong, Soft Machine........... ahhh! I give up. This is the cruelest poll ever.

I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth.

So many great albums and i can only vote for one..

Well it was between Polite force and space shanty 2 great albums with way to few votes, i been lisening ot space shanty alot recently and love it very much so it got the vote. Other pics whuld have been, well all of em!

National Health Of Queues got my vote but it really could have been any of National Health, Hatfield, Gong, Hillage, Egg or Caravan. They've all been fav's at one time or another.

Edited by Nogbad_The_Bad - May 31 2008 at 21:43

I can't wait until I can actually have an opinion on every one of all these. Mmm Canterbury.

For now I'll go with the majority, In the Land of Grey and Pink.

CARAVAN has always been one of my favourite bands and at different times since the 70s I've listened to and enjoyed most of the bands and albums listed . But the album which has really endured for me and stood the test of time is 'ROTTERS CLUB' . FINE musicianship , composition and humour combine to create the best for me-- not to mention the 'Northettes'!

Looking still the same after all these years...
mrgd

Caravan - In the land of grey and Pink

DallasBryan wrote:

Picchio dal Pozzo is not a Canterbury album! A tribute to Robert Wyatt on the back cover dont make it Canterbury. Although their are some influences from Wyatt or Soft Machine, the music is much closer to French Progressive Electronic than anything that Canterbury produced. Actually Rock Bottom has more to do with Continental progressive than Canterbury. Supersister also, I hear influences from England and the Continent, not a CACKLEBURY BAND!!!

Seems like some Greek and Polish band make a reference to Jim Morrison from the Doors, that does not make their music american psychedelic blues rock!

I had my doubts, but when I saw Picchio Dal Pozzo and Supersister had albums among the essential Canterbury albums in the archives, I decided to include both. I don't think of it as absurd, like you seem to.

I wouldn't have put them in the poll if they weren't categorized Canterbury here, so you really have to blame the archives.

There's a lot of bands in Norway that think they are playing Americana. I guess they are all wrong.

Panzerpappa (from Norway) sounds to me like a mix between Canterbury and Samla Mammas Manna. Is that impossible?

Over land and under ashes
In the sunlight, see - it flashes
Find a fly and eat his eye
But don't believe in me
Don't believe in me
Don't believe in me

The Rotter's Club.

In the land and The Rotters

My vote goes to "In The Land of Grey and Pink" followed closely by "You" and "The Rotters Club".

"Music is the Wine that fills the cup of Silence"
- Robert Fripp

Poll Question: Your favorite of these:
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Caravan - If I could do it all over...	3	[3.33%]
Caravan - In the land of grey and Pink	25	[27.78%]
Caravan - For Girls who grow Plump..	4	[4.44%]
Khan - Space Shanty	3	[3.33%]
National Health - National Nealth	1	[1.11%]
National Health - Of Queues and Cures	4	[4.44%]
Gong - Flying Teapot	1	[1.11%]
Gong - Angel's Egg	1	[1.11%]
Gong - You	6	[6.67%]
Soft Machine - The Soft Machine	0	[0.00%]
Soft Machine - Volume Two	3	[3.33%]
Soft Machine - Third	10	[11.11%]
Hatfield and the North - Hatfield and the North	1	[1.11%]
Hatfield and the North - The Rotter's Club	9	[10.00%]
Picchio Dal Pozzo - Picchio Dal Pozzo	1	[1.11%]
Steve Hillage - Fish Rising	5	[5.56%]
Gilgamesh - Gilgamesh	0	[0.00%]
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom	7	[7.78%]
Matching Mole - Matching Mole	0	[0.00%]
Supersister - Present from Nancy	0	[0.00%]
Supersister - To the Highest Bidder	0	[0.00%]
Supersister - Pudding en Gisteren	2	[2.22%]
Egg The Polite Force	1	[1.11%]
Egg - Civil Surface	0	[0.00%]
Other (specify)	3	[3.33%]
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