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Poll Question: Who is Your Favourite Canterbury Band/Artist?
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2 [1.40%]
30 [20.98%]
2 [1.40%]
21 [14.69%]
1 [0.70%]
5 [3.50%]
2 [1.40%]
1 [0.70%]
26 [18.18%]
44 [30.77%]
4 [2.80%]
5 [3.50%]
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You forget  HENRY COW

The most virtuose and complex of all bands!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Originally posted by oliverstoned oliverstoned wrote:

You forget  HENRY COW

The most virtuose and complex of all bands!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Yes, I would agree with you (especially Legend/Leg End)- but for a time they were dumped into the "Cambridge music" slot - odd company for Pink Floyd, the other band plonked there at the same time.Big smile



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Yes i agree, Legend is an absolute must

It has NOTHING to do with PF
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Originally posted by oliverstoned oliverstoned wrote:

yes, MGP, but it's too repetitive.

Don' t forget classic canterburyan efforts like "KHAN/SPACE SHANTY"

with Steve Hillage

 

Has that album even made it to CD? There is a remastered Khan track (along with a couple Caravan tracks), on that most excellent compo Legend Of A Mind. which sounds very Canterbury and makes me want to make up for the omission of Khan in my record collection. I suppose it comes down to patience again: for instance,  what appears the whole of the Gilgamesh recordings are now available on CD - and there were considerable delays in  reissuing their first album.



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I don't know legend of mind, that's interesting

I have Space shanty by mantra (french label) which released it the early 90's

but this label is dead...

Maybe i can send you a copy by postmail, and you send me "Legend of mind"?
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Well I simply can't answer this poll. I love so many of these artists so much! I wonder though, what people here think of non-English bands with a distinct Canterbury influence such as The Muffins and Supersister?
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Originally posted by Trouserpress Trouserpress wrote:

Well I simply can't answer this poll. I love so many of these artists so much! I wonder though, what people here think of non-English bands with a distinct Canterbury influence such as The Muffins and Supersister?



Supersister & The Muffins were fantastic.It's a pity that their material is so difficult to get hold of.
My most recent regret was not having enough cash on
me when I saw Fred Frith's Guitar Solos remaster for sale.Usual story.I went back to the shopthe next day and someone with excellent taste (hopefully) had bought it.
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Supersister 's Not bad

Mut not as good as the real

I don't like much muffins
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I found the muffins to be...indigestible
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Fish rising is really a canterburyan must, big classic!

There's the Gong spirit, but also canterburyan typical kewboard sound

Listen to the first track including "Canterbury sunrise"

The line up is fantastic:most of the gong plus Dave Stewart, from EGG, master

of keyboards...

Fish Rising
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MATCHING MOLE MARCH
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I casted my vote on SOFT MACHINE, though I enjoy GILGAMESH, NATIONAL HEALTH, MATCHING MOLE and HATFIELD & THE NORTH as much.

I happen to find CARAVAN a bit overrated, but I think they're great nonetheless: all in all, that's much better than being blatantly and unfeirly underrated, as most Canterbury bands usually are (let alone, the RIO bands...)

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Caravan has not onlymade great albums, but:

-If i could do it..

-In the Land

are really absolute must

The last CD edition by Repertoire records is really excellent, with very good

bonus.

 
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Hatfield And The South. 
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Originally posted by oliverstoned oliverstoned wrote:

Caravan has not onlymade great albums, but:

-If i could do it..

-In the Land

are really absolute must

The last CD edition by Repertoire records is really excellent, with very good

bonus.

 



I had the Repertoise edition of Grey & Pink but replaced with the much superior remastered Decca/Deram issue released in the last 18 months. In fact I found the remastering on If I Could Do It Again probably the best I've heard on any reissue, making the album sound very fresh and new.


I really surprised that Hatfield & North are leading at the moment............................
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Originally posted by Dick Heath Dick Heath wrote:

Originally posted by oliverstoned oliverstoned wrote:

Caravan has not onlymade great albums, but:

-If i could do it..

-In the Land

are really absolute must

The last CD edition by Repertoire records is really excellent, with very good

bonus.

 



I had the Repertoise edition of Grey & Pink but replaced with the much superior remastered Decca/Deram issue released in the last 18 months. In fact I found the remastering on If I Could Do It Again probably the best I've heard on any reissue, making the album sound very fresh and new.


I really surprised that Hatfield & North are leading at the moment............................
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Yes sorryi've made a mistake

you're right this is Decca Deram that i was talking about

i agree with you, there are actually among the very best prog CD for sound quality.

"If i could do it " and "Waterloolily" are also excellent

There are also the last KC remaster,(but no more available for the moment)

which are great, especially "Lark's tongue..."
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If I Could Do Itīd, all would oult I , t all of oi  all over you , you Stunning c**ts 
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'If I Could Do It All...' is my all-time CARAVAN favourite album, but my all-time fave CARAVAN piece is the instrumental closure track of 'For Girls...' - A Hunting We Shall Go (as well as In the Land of Grey and Pink and For Richard) is admittedly one of the pinnacles of Canterbury.

STEVE HILLAGE's 'Fish Rising' (sorry) is a stunning album, almost as good as the best ones by GONG (are they listed in this poll?)



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SteBe hillage, as you say

I agree
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