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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 30 2015 at 10:46
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

The Hatchet album not merely beating the Squire album.... but massacring it.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 30 2015 at 15:18
Birds of Fire is one of the best fusion albums ever made.....period. Saw these guys a few years after it came out.
But.....I am a  pretty big fan of Hatfield so I gotta go with Rotters Club....perhaps my favorite Canterbury album.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 31 2015 at 10:30
the Hatfields in a close one for me
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 31 2015 at 12:27
Please do not take it seriously, but I voted for The Lobster's Club.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 31 2015 at 19:10
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 31 2015 at 21:59
Hattie-pants.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 01 2015 at 11:28
Birds of Fire.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 01 2015 at 12:14
Rotters Club
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 02 2015 at 08:43
Tough choice for me, but it went to the Birds...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 02 2015 at 08:58
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 02 2015 at 20:36
Rotters Club has been a bit of an eye opener for me. This is my third listen thus far and it impresses more each time. It has sufficient moments of oddness to keep things interesting but also enough melody in the hooks to satisfy my need for a bit of mellow. Its more free formish moments are still musically pleasant and nothing feels like a visit to the dentist. That may well make it too middle of the road for some but boring old farts like me appreciate it.

As talented as he undoubtedly is and accepting that he keeps impeccable company its hard to dismiss MO but it simply leaves me unmoved.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 03 2015 at 14:57
^ you wouldn't be the first to consider Rotters Club a grower.. I immediately took to the first Hatfield and the North album and was sort of ehhh about this one but over the last few years it has shot way up my list of favorite albums and has definitely become my favorite of the two.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 03 2015 at 18:43
The North and Hatfield.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 04 2015 at 18:07
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

^ you wouldn't be the first to consider Rotters Club a grower.. I immediately took to the first Hatfield and the North album and was sort of ehhh about this one but over the last few years it has shot way up my list of favorite albums and has definitely become my favorite of the two.


Yep. While albums that take ten listens to even vaguely get the drift do test my patience, this one was hmmm from first listen and just keeps on digging in. Well worth the effort.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 06 2015 at 11:41
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

^ you wouldn't be the first to consider Rotters Club a grower.. I immediately took to the first Hatfield and the North album and was sort of ehhh about this one but over the last few years it has shot way up my list of favorite albums and has definitely become my favorite of the two.


I have similar feelings. I struggled with it for a long time and recently it clicked finally. Clap

So, I voted for it though that Mahavishnu album is also very good.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 06 2015 at 16:23
^ That reminds me, I have to give Hatfield another go..
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 07 2015 at 17:27

Mahavishnu Orchestra, Birds of Fire.

Master James of St. George.
Of the fields and the sky.
He used to build castles of stone, steel, and blood.
But lines get broken down.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 10 2015 at 14:13
talk about too close for comfort.. LOL  Did M.O. have anything that approached the god-like Richard Sinclair. 

Hell NO!! 

Listen to that voice and don't tell me you wouldn't give that ass to him if he had asked if he promised to sing to you afterward....
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 10 2015 at 14:13
Originally posted by Tuzvihar Tuzvihar wrote:

Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

^ you wouldn't be the first to consider Rotters Club a grower.. I immediately took to the first Hatfield and the North album and was sort of ehhh about this one but over the last few years it has shot way up my list of favorite albums and has definitely become my favorite of the two.


I have similar feelings. I struggled with it for a long time and recently it clicked finally. Clap

So, I voted for it though that Mahavishnu album is also very good.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 10 2015 at 17:06
Because I didn't ever get into Soft Machine and Hillage doesn't do much for me I've tended to ignore the Canterbury stuff but I have to say that Rotters Club inspired me to go looking and I'm very happy I did. Egg and Quiet Sun are already on my like list, not to mention Caravan of course.
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