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Poll Question: Your favorite of these:
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
3 [3.33%]
25 [27.78%]
4 [4.44%]
3 [3.33%]
1 [1.11%]
4 [4.44%]
1 [1.11%]
1 [1.11%]
6 [6.67%]
0 [0.00%]
3 [3.33%]
10 [11.11%]
1 [1.11%]
9 [10.00%]
1 [1.11%]
5 [5.56%]
0 [0.00%]
7 [7.78%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
2 [2.22%]
1 [1.11%]
0 [0.00%]
3 [3.33%]
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If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You gets first place for me. Soft Machine's Second (appropriately hehe) gets second!
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I hadn't heard Matching Mole second in 2006, Cesar. I guess I prefer it to their debut now that I have. Rock Bottom is still my favorite. I would have made place for Cos (one of my favorite bands, for the two last years) and Moving Gelatine Plates as well.  
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Points: 4888 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 12 2008 at 15:29
And so my friends, CARAVAN is once more confirmed as the most overrated Canterbury band ever, and SUPERSISTER as the most underrated band in both canterbury and general prog terms.
 
... and where is matching Mole's second album?
 
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from the list of band posted that I like . It goes like this:
Caravan: for girls
National Health:  Of Queues and Cures
Gong: YOU
Soft Machine to many to choose from but I go this time with 6
harfield and the North H&N
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Originally posted by Seltzer Seltzer wrote:

I quite like the Canterbury Scene... my favourite band from the lot is probably Gong, but Robert Wyatt's Rock Bottom is most definitely my favourite album. I'm in love with it.
 
You realise New Zealander Dave McCrae was with later Matching Mole?
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I quite like the Canterbury Scene... my favourite band from the lot is probably Gong, but Robert Wyatt's Rock Bottom is most definitely my favourite album. I'm in love with it.
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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

amazing...  simply amazing results...

but again... people can't keep best and favorite straight. not even the poll creator hahahha

I think the best I have heard may have to be the Khan album... but my favorite.. well you know the answer to that one hahahha.


I wouldn't even know how to choose a "best", to be honest.  Ends up being a lot of apples v. oranges comparisons.
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Third is probably my favorite album of all time.  

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Rotters club and In the land of the grey and pink are classic remasters. Some of the bonus tracks are great. I don't care for Gong. I have Flying teapot and Angels egg and I thought they were pretty weak compared to most 70s prog

Edited by PROGMONSTER2008 - June 07 2008 at 22:05
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I love me some Soft Machine Third right now
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amazing...  simply amazing results...

but again... people can't keep best and favorite straight. not even the poll creator hahahha

I think the best I have heard may have to be the Khan album... but my favorite.. well you know the answer to that one hahahha.
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The almighty Third!

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From a more objective point of view: either Caravan's In The Land Of Grey An Pink or Hatfield's Rotters' Club. Caravan's album is the first Canterbury masterpiece IMHO, but Hatfield perfected the Canterbury sound and arguably they made the ultimate Canterbury - album.
 
Butbutbut... my favourite album is... Of Queues And Cures by National Health.
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In the land of grey and pink
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The Hatfield's are my favourite Canterbury band so I vote for the Rotters Club.
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When I started collecting  Soft Machine Volume 2 was the only Canterbury album available in the UK from a UK label/distributor, followed by the undistinguished eponymous Caravan album if you could find it  - If I could Do It Again I'll Do It All Over You was a quantum jump for the band. Frustratingly Soft Machine's eponymous first album was only available as a US import into the UK. 
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Originally posted by cacho cacho wrote:

I've heard 4 of these. And my vote definitely goes for In the Land of Grey and Pink


It is a very enjoyable album, and it was my introduction to Canterbury Scene music.  Hatfield and the North followed Caravan (unless one counts Camel).  I'm curious to know what the other three albums you've heard from the list are.


Edited by Logan - June 01 2008 at 14:11
Various music I am very into: a youtube playlist with two tracks per act
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The Land of Grey and Pink is like happiness in disc formation.
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I've heard 4 of these. And my vote definitly goes for In the Land of Grey and Pink
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