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1974: Canterbury Scene, Sound or Flavour albums
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Poll Question: Choose an album from the list (and mention any others)
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Originally posted by progmatic progmatic wrote:

Voted Camel over Hatfield but want to mention Perigeo "Geneology". It's a great album, somewhat obscure and completely different than anything else they recorded (also my favorite), but I wonder if it fits in the Canterbury style.


To me it has some Canterbury style flavours without being Canterbury style. It's one of those out-of-the-box selections on my list that I think might appeal to quite a few who are into a Canterbury style.
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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

Rock Bottom is rock solid.

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Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

the Robert Wyatt, Gong, Cos, Henry Cow, Arti & Mestieri, Camel, Perigeo, Placebo, Egg, Camel and Hatfield-options are all rather essential to me. But well I've never not voted for Rock Bottom.

Haven't heard Melodiya Ensemble, Tortilla Flat or Dr. Dopo Jam so look forward to that - if I can find them.


Here is the Tortilla Flat:

Here is the Melodiya Ensemble, which is Soviet jazz-funk, but has Canterbury sound elements within to these ears. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgwNtnGYBAg

Dr. Dopo Jam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4BwIJ-blTA
Thank you! Started out with the Soviet jazz-funk and was pretty blown away - great, wild fun! Tortilla Flat was more immediately Canterbury-sounding (always a good thing) - like Supersister without the jokes. Loved it. Only Dr. Dope left.
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Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

Rock Bottom is rock solid.

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Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

the Robert Wyatt, Gong, Cos, Henry Cow, Arti & Mestieri, Camel, Perigeo, Placebo, Egg, Camel and Hatfield-options are all rather essential to me. But well I've never not voted for Rock Bottom.

Haven't heard Melodiya Ensemble, Tortilla Flat or Dr. Dopo Jam so look forward to that - if I can find them.


Here is the Tortilla Flat:

Here is the Melodiya Ensemble, which is Soviet jazz-funk, but has Canterbury sound elements within to these ears. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgwNtnGYBAg

Dr. Dopo Jam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4BwIJ-blTA

Thank you! Started out with the Soviet jazz-funk and was pretty blown away - great, wild fun! Tortilla Flat was more immediately Canterbury-sounding (always a good thing) - like Supersister without the jokes. Loved it. Only Dr. Dope left.



The Soviet one is my favourite of those, glad you liked it.
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Hatfield and the North for me. That album pretty much sums up everything that was so unique about the Canterbury Scene and one of the top albums of the entire scene.

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Still would have voted Camel but including Greenslade's 3rd album, "Spyglass Guest" would have made it a tougher choice Wink 
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Originally posted by The.Crimson.King The.Crimson.King wrote:

Still would have voted Camel but including Greenslade's 3rd album, "Spyglass Guest" would have made it a tougher choice Wink 


I've only heard Greenslade's self-titled, will check into that one anon.
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Still Hatfield, but Mirage and Civil Surface are close.
Honorable mentions to Rock Bottom and You.
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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

Originally posted by The.Crimson.King The.Crimson.King wrote:

Still would have voted Camel but including Greenslade's 3rd album, "Spyglass Guest" would have made it a tougher choice Wink 
 

I've only heard Greenslade's self-titled, will check into that one anon.

If you already like the first album you really can't go wrong with the next 2, Bedside Manners Are Extra & Spyglass Guest Wink
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Hatfield and the North and RW Rock Bottom tie for the top. I do Like HC Unrest and Gong You very much also. And Mirage I adore but to me it exists in a slightly (only slightly, mind) different place..

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Many great albums here - Mirage, You, and Hatfields

But Rock Bottom is particularly special and unique.
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Going with Mirage . . .
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Second vote for Cos. I really love that band. Playful, naive, complex and melodic in all the right places - add to that a female vocalist that goes from cute to sinister in a heartbeat whilst still looking you square in the eye. Something of a siren to these ears.
Could have gone for a lot of others e Gong's masterpiece but felt a little Belgian this tuesday afternoon.

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Hatfield.....but Egg and Camel are close for me....
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Originally posted by Walkscore Walkscore wrote:


But Rock Bottom is particularly special and unique.
 

Clap Totally agree- played last night and again it strikes me just how timeless and almost contemporary it sounds and how instruments, moods, textures and treatments were employed in a way that very, very few (if any) were using at that time but has come to influence a whole range of music in the following decades right up to now (and beyond im sure). An absolute genius!

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Gong with Wyatt as a good second.
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Originally posted by siLLy puPPy siLLy puPPy wrote:

Hatfield and the North for me. That album pretty much sums up everything that was so unique about the Canterbury Scene and one of the top albums of the entire scene.

Definitely...one of my desert island albums....
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No votes for Henry Cow made me sad, so I voted for that.

Henry Cow, Hatfield, Gong, Wyatt - 5 star albums all.

Hell even Camel put out their best.

Great poll, tough choice.
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Its sad alright but there's just so much good stuff to choose from
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Interestingly I recently found a nice (and cheap) copy on original vinyl of Darryl Ways Wolf-Night Music and I have an English issue  copy of Rock Bottom on vinyl that I haven't played in a long time....need to pull it out and see what all the fuss is about. I recall it being laid back and not all that exciting.
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