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Hankypanky 
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Joined: March 12 2008 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 33 |
 Topic: Soft Machine VS CaravanPosted: March 13 2008 at 20:51 |
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The 2 biggest Cantebury bands ( sry Gong), either sides of the original Wilde Flowers. Its your choice.
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Leningrad
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Posted: March 13 2008 at 20:51 |
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Caravan for me, I still haven't fully 'got' Soft Machine yet.
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micky
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Posted: March 13 2008 at 20:54 |
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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Logan
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Site Admin Joined: April 05 2006 Location: @ wicker man Status: Offline Points: 32698 |
Posted: March 13 2008 at 20:58 |
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Much as I like Caravan, definitely Soft Machine. Fantastic band, and what terrific musicians were involved with it.
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Just a fanboy passin' through.
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obiter
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Joined: September 05 2006 Location: Donaghadee Status: Offline Points: 116 |
Posted: March 13 2008 at 21:02 |
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Soft Machine .... awesome. personal faves are third and six but pye hastings is pye hastings and no other band quite hits the golf girl, grubby little oik, for richard thing for me,
caravan win not by a neck (it's cheltenham week after all) but by a sense of humour |
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An té nach mbíonn láidir ní folláir dó bheith glic
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tszirmay
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Posted: March 13 2008 at 22:24 |
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Pffff! both are great but Soft wins because I saw their "hard" 1974 concert with Holdsworth that I still can get out of my mind!
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I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth.
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memowakeman
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Posted: March 13 2008 at 22:36 |
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Soft Machine is my choice as well, both are terrific bands!
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Padraic
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Posted: March 13 2008 at 22:40 |
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Hard to choose - two bands with a completely different sound, which really shows you the variety of music contained in the Canterbury genre.
I would prefer Soft Machine myself - I think "Third" is a better album than the two Caravan albums I have. But I was listening to In the Land of Gray and Pink the other day, and Caravan is just so much damn fun - the music puts a smile on your face! |
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tszirmay
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Posted: March 13 2008 at 22:42 |
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I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth.
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gr8dane
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Posted: March 13 2008 at 23:31 |
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That is where I stand,but I am working on it.
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Seltzer
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Posted: March 14 2008 at 00:52 |
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While they're both awesome and I prefer Gong to both, I have to go with Soft Machine on this one. Robert Wyatt's solo material is quite good also.
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Zargus
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Posted: March 14 2008 at 05:41 |
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2 of my favorite bands in canterbury and prog in general, immposible too shoose but i voted for Caravan since they where under in votes.
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Man Erg
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Posted: March 14 2008 at 05:55 |
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Hmmm. I thought that this thread looked familiar.
http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=46777&KW=soft+machine 
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IVNORD
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Posted: March 14 2008 at 08:27 |
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less than 2 weeks ago...
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Dick Heath
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Posted: March 14 2008 at 08:47 |
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We haven't tried Caravan vs Soft Machine recently, to put it another way......  |
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IVNORD
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MovingPictures07
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Posted: March 14 2008 at 09:33 |
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I love them both, but in the end I had to choose Soft Machine, particularly for "Third".
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Okocha
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Posted: March 14 2008 at 11:58 |
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Impossible to choose... |
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Erpland316
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Joined: October 30 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 359 |
Posted: March 14 2008 at 13:49 |
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Caravan is a great band! In terms of albums, I think Soft Machine has the most consistency. Pretty much all of their albums are excellent, even Seven!
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Froth
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Posted: March 14 2008 at 14:08 |
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different bands really. too hard to compare. caravan were a better pop group that the softs were, but soft machines music was far more ground braking than caravan. caravan werent an experimental band.
personally i think hatfield made the perfect balance of pop and experimental music, so they would be my favorite band from the so-called 'canterbury scene'
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