Top 5 favorite Canterbury Scene albums? Let me know!

[u/JealousCandidate3816]

Top 5 favorite Canterbury Scene albums? Let me know! I love early Caravan and am looking for more music like that.

[u/SlimGishel]

Other than In the Land of Grey and Pink,

Soft Machine - Third

Hatfield and the North - Rotters Club

Egg - The Polite Force

Gong - Radio Gnome Invisible trilogy

[u/batlord_typhus]

Egg - The Polite Force

Soft Machine - Third

National Health - National Health

Gilgamesh - Gilgamesh

Supersister - Present from Nancy (Metamorphosis Suite)

[u/Over-Mulberry-7096 → u/batlord_typhus]

Are supersister Canterbury?

[u/Mr_Cosmico → u/Over-Mulberry-7096]

They are, Pudding En Gisteren is a good example, they have also done sessions with Elton Dean

[u/batlord_typhus → u/Over-Mulberry-7096]

Canterbury by way of the Netherlands. I hear Soft Machine and Zappa influence in their early works.

[u/Habitualflagellant14]

Can we add some Matching Mole?

[u/TheModerateGenX]

In the Land of Grey and Pink is the only one that I still listen to regularly.

[u/Belgakov]

Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom

Henry Cow - The Henry Cow Legend

[u/After-Dentist-2480]

Gong - Camembert Electrique

Soft Machine - Third

Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom

Kevin Ayers - Whatevershebringswesing

National Health - Of Queues And Cures

[u/homariseno]

Soft Machine - Third
Caravan - In the Land of Grey and Pink
Supersister - Present from Nancy 
Hatfield and the North - Rotters Club
Egg - The Polite Force

[u/Major_Bag_8720]

Soft Machine - Third

Picchio Dal Pozzo - Picchio Dal Pozzo

Supersister - A Present From Nancy

Caravan - If I Could Do It All Over Again, I’d Do It All Over You

Hatfield And The North - The Rotters’ Club

[u/Mr_Cosmico]

National Health - Of Queues and Cures

Hatfield and The North - Hatfield & The North

The Muffins - Chronometers

Henry Cow - Legend

Gilgamesh - Gilgamesh

As a special mention I also include Zero To Infinity (Gong), Missing Pieces (NH), Kew. Rhone. (John Greaves), Dirge (Mr. Sirius) and Cunning Stunts (Caravan).

[u/Good-Guarantee6382]

Moving Gelatine Plates / The World Of Genius Hans (1971)
Khan (Steve Hillage & Dave Stewart) / Space Shanty (1972)
Pierre Moerlen's Gong / Gazeuse! (1976)
Homunculus Res / Andiamo in Giro di Notte e ci Consumiamo nel Fuoco (2020)
Zopp / Dominion (2023)

[u/majwilsonlion → u/Good-Guarantee6382]

Khan!

[u/Good-Guarantee6382 → u/majwilsonlion]

So underrated!

[u/Icecoldduck]

Soft Machine - Third

Caravan - In The Land of Grey and Pink

Soft Machine - Volume Two

Egg - The Polite Force

Henry Cow - Leg End

HM: Moving Gelatine Plates - The World of Genius Hands, Gong - You / Angel’s Egg

[u/ValenciaFilter]

1) Hatfield and the North

2) Third

3) Egg (or Picchio dal Pozzo if we're allowing it)

4) Flying Teapot

5) Space Shanty

runner up is prolly natty health

[u/djpdjf]

Soft Machine - Third

Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom

Caravan - If I Could Do It...

Gong - You (if that even counts)

Henry Cow - Legend

Some runner ups are Fish Rising, Sea Shanty and Of Queues and Cures

[u/eknobl]

I really like Mirage by Camel.

[u/Mysterious_Dr_X]

I'll just give one that deserves more recognition imo : Tom Penaguin's self titled album

[u/Bonnelli72]

Is John Martyn considered part of Canterbury? Either way, Solid Air is a great album to check out

[u/Over-Mulberry-7096 → u/Bonnelli72]

No

[u/Over-Mulberry-7096]

Nucleus elastic rock, soft machine bundles, caravan land of grey & pink, gong gazeuse, Hatfield & the North the rotters club.

[u/student8168]

You- Gong

Egg- Egg

Gilgamesh- Gilgamesh

Hatfield and North- Hatfield and North

In the Land of Grey and Pink- Caravan

Stuck to 1 album per artist otherwise my list would be full of Gong

[u/freethemarket1776]

Caravan - For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night

Hatfield and the North - The Rotters' Club

Khan - Space Shanties

Supersister - To the Highest Bidder

Egg - The Polite Force

[u/basbo_bibbins]

All I can say for sure is top 1:

National Health - Of Queues and Cures

If anyone hasn't listened to it: do yourself a favor and do it ASAP. Might be my favorite album I've heard in the last 6 months or so. Doesn't get discussed or praised nearly enough.

[u/Gregrock3 → u/basbo_bibbins]

I’m obsessed with that album, I snagged it only having heard of the band from used record shop, haven’t seen it again since in the wild.

[u/UvarighAlvarado]

I find really curious a lot of people consider “Legend” Canterbury, for me it has always been RIO, even after I fell in love with Canterbury.

Anyway:

Caravan - In The Land of Gray and Pink

Hatfield and the North

Soft Machine - Third

Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom

Kevin Ayers and the Whole World - Shooting at the Moon

I really hate leaving out so many albums, but this is my top 5:

[u/Wyvern_Kalyx]

Gong. Especially Camebert Caravan - land of Grey and pink. If I could do it Khan - space shanty Hatfield and the North - both

[u/PedroPelet]

Caravan’s Cunning Stunts is among my top 10 favorite albums ever and has my favorite song ever probably, Dabsong Conshirtoe. Be sure to check this and Blind Dog out, incredibly underrated albums.

Outside of that, I love Space Shanty by Khan, the Radio Gnome trilogy by Gong (specially You but listen to the 3), Hatfield and the North’s debut and Soft Machine’s first 2 albums. If you want something more similar to Caravan hear Camel (they’ve even got Richard Sinclair from Caravan in 2 albums, all from the debut up until Nude are highly recommended.)

[u/missymay571]

Caravan In the Land of Grey and Pink

[u/PrydonianWho]

If you haven’t heard any of The Tangent’s albums, they’re heavily influenced by the Canterbury scene. They started in 2002, and their last album was in 2022. I’ve heard “The Music that Died Alone,” “A Place in the Queue,” and “The World that We Drive Through” and all of them are great discs.