HiFi
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The Canterbury Thread!I've seen so many different opinons on the Canterbury album. So why not a thread dedicated to discussing Canterbury? I'm curious to know everyone's thoughts, etc. on this album. I'll put in my own .02 later on. 
HiFi
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Alan Shi
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Least said about in general the better. A few good tracks on it but it was always going to be difficult to ever repeat the white album.
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Weissheim
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DH obviously went for a totally different sound on Canterbury, and you have to admire them for it. It doesn't have as cohesive a feel to it as Borrowed Time, partly because of the experimentation and partly because the classic line-up fragmented during the recording of it. When it's good, it's brilliant (Knight Of The Swords, Canterbury, One More Night, To The Devil His Due, Ishmael). Some tracks don't work quite as well (The Kingmaker, Out of Phase) and I never managed to get a vinyl copy that didn't jump all through Makin' Music!
After being blown away by Brian's performance on Borrowed Time, it's really odd to hear an album with hardly any noteworthy guitar solos (Knight Of The Swords being a notable exception). He obviously suppressed his lead playing for more of a "band" feel.
Having said all this, at the time I loved it and still regard it highly, but for me it's Borrowed Time that stands up as the better album.
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Lloydie Lloyd
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Ishmael...I just love the chorus all eerie like!
What wrong have I done
Ishmael, oh Ishmael
Ishmael, oh Ishmael
thats a track man! and as for Makin' Music, I think it's track number 3 of disc 2 on the greatest hits double disc I have, so to say that... I know it's a great track! (Although I believe number 8 is Truckin' so you will probably find that my 3 and 8 buttons on my stereo are a little looser than the others!!!).
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sleeper
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I think that it is a great album, although it is a different style.
I can see why it flopped, as I imagine it was a great shock when it came out as people were expecting a borrowed time 2.
Of all the DH albums I feel that Death and Progress is the most disapointing, esp when compared to the their other 'come back' ablum AWBR.
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Ceri
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I've spent the last twenty odd years telling people that Canterbury is one of the greatest rock albums ever recorded 
It was a radical departure when released but many of us quickly learned to love it (skip and all). It features one of Brian's best guitar solos ('Knight of the Swords' - you know that pause before he really kicks off, and some of the band's best songs in 'To the Devil His Due', 'Out of Phase','Ishmael' and the title track.
Listening to it now Canterbury still sounds fresh (only on 'the Kingmaker' does the production sound dated). Also, when I bought my first copy (I've worn out several) I played it on a crappy Alba stereogram, these days I have a quazillion quid hifi system (there are benefits to getting older) and can hear the continuity between '...Borrowed Time' and 'Canterbury' especially in Brian's guitar parts behind the riffola.
I have never been able to understand why the album has never had a CD release in the UK.
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