Yer Top 5 Canterbury Albums

[Firedog57]

I would not be original :

-1 Robert WYATT Rock bottom
-2 HATFIELD and the NORTH First
-3 GONG Camembert électrique
-4 CARAVAN In the land of....
-5 MOVING GELATINE PLATE The world of genius hans

[Galactic Bulldozer]

1 Rock Bottom Robert Wyatt
2 Third Soft Machine
3 In the Land of Grey and Pink Caravan
4 If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You Caravan
5 Flying Teapot Gong
6 The Rotters' Club Hatfield and the North
7 The Soft Machine The Soft Machine
8 Volume Two The Soft Machine
9 Space Shanty Khan
10 You Gong
11 Angel's Egg Gong
12 Picchio dal Pozzo Picchio dal Pozzo
13 Camembert Electrique Gong
14 Of Queues and Cures National Health
15 Shleep Robert Wyatt
16 Joy of a Toy Kevin Ayers
17 Hatfield and the North Hatfield and the North
18 Fish Rising Steve Hillage
19 To the Highe$t Bidder Supersister
20 Whatevershebringswesing Kevin Ayers
21 For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night Caravan
22 National Health National Health
23 Arzachel Arzachel
24 Present From Nancy Supersister
25 Matching Mole Matching Mole
26 The World of Genius Hans Moving Gelatine Plates
27 Moving Gelatine Plates Moving Gelatine Plates
28 Bells, Boots and Shambles Spirogyra
29 Viva Boma Cos
30 Caravan Caravan
31 Dedicated to You, But You Weren't Listening The Keith Tippett Group
32 Old Rottenhat Robert Wyatt
33 The Polite Force Egg
34 Cuckooland Robert Wyatt
35 Mainstream Quiet Sun
36 Postaeolian Train Robbery Cos
37 Dondestan Robert Wyatt
38 Pudding en Gisteren Supersister
39 Waterloo Lily Caravan
40 Manna/Mirage The Muffins
41 Shooting at the Moon Kevin Ayers and the Whole World
42 Comicopera Robert Wyatt
43 Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard Robert Wyatt
44 Hopper Tunity Box Hugh Hopper
45 Shamal Gong
46 Bundles Soft Machine
47 Fourth Soft Machine
48 Psychillis of a Lunatic Genius Pazop
49 The Peel Sessions - 1971-74 Pre-Modernist Wireless on Radio Gong
50 Iskander Supersister

As you can see I'm not a Cant Connoisseur even though I've got almost half of Rym's Top 50.

[Trane]

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28 Bells, Boots and Shambles Spirogyra

mmmhhh!!!...

I was sort of kidding

oyutstanding album from the most Canterbury band (they always remained there, unlike Softs and others), but musically, they're acid/psych folk prog

[miamiscot]

1) Egg The Polite Force
2) Caravan In The Land Of Grey And Pink
3) National Health Of Queues And Cures
4) Hatfield And The North The Rotter's Club
5) Khan Space Shanty

(Honorable mention goes to: Soft Machine Third)

But that really looks like everyone else's list, doesn't it?

[chalkpie]

Hatfield - Rotters (The greatest album ever made)
Soft Machine - Third, with Vol. 2 just a few pubic hairs behind
Health - Of Queues, with s/t a few more pubes behind
Wyatt - Rock Bottom
Caravan - If I Could....or Grey and Pink....can't decide so cut each disc in half with a hacksaw and glue them together

It's a crime that there isn't a Gong, Mole, or Scrambled Egg album here, but life's a beach. Same with Henry Cattle.

Why is this O/T btw? The main board needs more Canterbury threads

[rcarlberg]

Hatfield - Rotters (The greatest album ever made)

If it's not, you can see it from there.

Wyatt - Rock Bottom

Another vista on TGAEM.