Suggestions for the uninitiated.
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Topic: Suggestions for the uninitiated.
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Subject: Suggestions for the uninitiated.
Date Posted: February 05 2004 at 18:57
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I have the Bruford albums, Softs "Bundles" and one Camel "Dust a |
I've always wanted to get into Cantebury music, but I don't know exactly where to start. 
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Posted By: Gonghobbit
Date 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 ------------- 'This is a local shop, there's nothing for you here' |
Posted By: Alexander
Date Posted: February 05 2004 at 20:37
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Third by Soft Machine is definetly the way to go. Other essesntials include: Hatfield & The North-The Rotters' Club
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Posted By: Gonghobbit
Date 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 ------------- 'This is a local shop, there's nothing for you here' |
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: February 05 2004 at 23:47
| With the Hopper/Dean connection, I was wondering if any of you heard Soft Works with Hopper, Dean, John Marshall and Allan Holdsworth? |
Posted By: Alexander
Date Posted: February 06 2004 at 01:30
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I own their album Abracadabra. It is okay, it seems that Allan was uncomfortable with th |
danbo wrote:Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: February 06 2004 at 11:50
| 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. |
Posted By: Verisimilitude
Date Posted: February 09 2004 at 23:55
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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 |
Posted By: Verisimilitude
Date Posted: February 09 2004 at 23:57
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Now there's a thought...! |
Posted By: Zaragon
Date Posted: February 10 2004 at 11:09
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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  ------------- Strange avenues where you lose all sense of direction -And everywhere is Main Street in the winter sun. Ian Anderson |
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: February 17 2004 at 15:57
| Thanks ya'll. |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: February 26 2004 at 16:32
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[QUOTE=Alexander] Third by Soft Machine is definetly the way to go. Other essesntials include: Hatfield & The North-The Rotters' Club |
Posted By: Alexander
Date Posted: February 26 2004 at 18:57
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[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 |
Posted By: philippe
Date Posted: March 16 2004 at 07:28
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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 |
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: March 16 2004 at 11:03
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[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 |
Posted By: philippe
Date Posted: March 17 2004 at 03:16
It's certainly not a good entry to listen to prog music ------------- 
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Posted By: Tauhd Zaļa
Date Posted: March 17 2004 at 04:42
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For you, yes it is obvious But for another guy ?? |
Posted By: Radioactive Toy
Date Posted: March 23 2004 at 13:14
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Indeed.. maybe we could get the progarchivesguys listen to the "notdefinedyet"-genre -------------   Reed's failed joke counter: ||||| R.I.P. You could have reached infinity.... |