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Radioactive Toy 
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 Topic: Suggestions for the uninitiated.
Posted: March 23 2004 at 13:14 |
 danbo wrote:
We should open threads for suggestions for each sub-genre. |
Indeed.. maybe we could get the progarchivesguys listen to the "notdefinedyet"-genre
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Tauhd Zaļa
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Posted: March 17 2004 at 04:42 |
philippe wrote:
It's certainly not a good entry to listen to prog music |
For you, yes it is obvious But for another guy ??
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Posted: March 17 2004 at 03:16 |
It's certainly not a good entry to listen to prog music
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Dan Bobrowski
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Posted: March 16 2004 at 11:03 |
[QUOTE=philippe] It depends of what you are searching...for beginners I advise King Crimson 'In the court of the king crimson' and 'red'...also Tangerine Dream 'Phaedra' and VDGG 'godbluff'. Fot the mos
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Posted: March 16 2004 at 07:28 |
It depends of what you are searching...for beginners I advise King Crimson 'In the court of the king crimson' and 'red'...also Tangerine Dream 'Phaedra' and VDGG 'godbluff'. Fot the most soft and pop sid
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Alexander
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Posted: February 26 2004 at 18:57 |
[QUOTE=lucas]Henry Cow defined a new subgenre in the progressive music : 'Rock In Opposition' aka RIO. It is not Canterbury as was Caravan at the very debut of their career. It is more based on improvisation and avant-garde. I like very much earlier Car
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Posted: February 26 2004 at 16:32 |
[QUOTE=Alexander] Third by Soft Machine is definetly the way to go. Other essesntials include: Hatfield & The North-The Rotters' Club
National Health-Of Queues & Cures
Matching Mole-Self-titled
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"Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood)
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Dan Bobrowski
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Posted: February 17 2004 at 15:57 |
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Thanks ya'll.
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Posted: February 10 2004 at 11:09 |
The soft way, - Caravans In the Land of Grey and Pink The way, - Soft Machines Third, that is my humble opinion. Apart from that I think music filed under Canterbury can vary from soft 
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Posted: February 09 2004 at 23:57 |
danbo wrote:
We should open threads for suggestions for each sub-genre. |
Now there's a thought...!
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Posted: February 09 2004 at 23:55 |
Ahhh, Canterbury music is without a doubt some of the best around... Like Gonghobbit and Alexander wrote, Third by Soft Machine is a start... From there? Well Alexander listed a few choices... Personally Caravan are my favourites
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Posted: February 06 2004 at 11:50 |
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Yeah, He didn't get to stretch out as much as usual. They're touring right now in Europe. If they do a second one it'll be tighter.
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Alexander
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Posted: February 06 2004 at 01:30 |
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With the Hopper/Dean connection, I was wondering if any of you heard Soft Works with Hopper, Dean, John Marshall and Allan Holdsworth? |
I own their album Abracadabra. It is okay, it seems that Allan was uncomfortable with th
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Posted: February 05 2004 at 23:47 |
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With the Hopper/Dean connection, I was wondering if any of you heard Soft Works with Hopper, Dean, John Marshall and Allan Holdsworth?
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Posted: February 05 2004 at 20:47 |
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That Lol Coxhill disc, which I'm not familiar with, brought to mind 'End of an Ear' by Wyatt, that's a minor masterpiece too, I think. I saw The Muffins a couple years ago, by the way, at The Knitting Factory in NYC, they did just a couple very rare reunio
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Alexander
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Posted: February 05 2004 at 20:37 |
Third by Soft Machine is definetly the way to go. Other essesntials include: Hatfield & The North-The Rotters' Club
National Health-Of Queues & Cures
Matching Mole-Self-titled
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Posted: February 05 2004 at 19:26 |
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We'd probably have a tough time narrowing it down to a definitive top 20, let alone 3, but I'll recommend Third by the Soft Machine (I know you've got the one SM disc, but this is really their masterpiece), 'The Polite Force' by Egg, and may
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Posted: February 05 2004 at 18:57 |
 I've always wanted to get into Cantebury music, but I don't know exactly where to start. 
I have the Bruford albums, Softs "Bundles" and one Camel "Dust a
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