Various - Dedicated To You (But You Weren't Listening) Canterbury Scene Various

A LEISURELY PERAMBULATION THROUGH THE CANTERBURY SCENE 1967-1979

First-ever multi-artist anthology of this leading UK progressive rock sub-genre.

Features all the main players from the hugely incestuous Canterbury family tree.

Seminal tracks from Soft Machine, Caravan, Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers, Gong, Hatfield & The North, Egg, Steve Hillage and many others.

Headed by scene originators Soft Machine and Caravan, 'Dedicated To You (But You Weren't Listening)' is the first-ever commercial release to celebrate the Canterbury Scene from its emergence during the late 60s psychedelic era to its growth and development within the soft white underbelly of the Seventies art-rock and progressive rock movements.

The bands associated with Canterbury always maintained a slightly separate identity to their UK underground contemporaries, leavening their cerebral, muso-style prog rock/free jazz improvisation and tricky time signatures with an approach that was informed by a quintessentially middle-class English bucolicism as well as a predilection for skewed, ironic pop songs that gloried in a love of language, a self-deprecating wit and a keen sense of the absurd.

Housed in a clamshell box featuring a 48-page booklet with detailed notes and many rare photos, this 3-CD, four-hour anthology is a unique, fascinating look at a tight-knit scene that may not have enjoyed a great deal of commercial success, but nevertheless remains a much loved element of the UK 70s rock landscape.

Tracklisting

DISC ONE
1. The Soft Machine - Save Yourself (demo version)
2. Caravan - Place Of My Own
3. Egg - Seven Is A Jolly Good Time
4. Kevin Ayers - The Lady Rachel
5. Nucleus - Elastic Rock
6. Gong - Five And Twenty Schoolgirls
7. Soft Machine - Moon In June
8. The Keith Tippett Group - Stately Dance For Miss Primm
9. Carol Grimes & Delivery - Fighting It Out
10. Robert Wyatt - To Caravan And Brother Jim
11. Egg - A Visit To Newport Hospital
12. Caravan - In The Land Of Grey And Pink
13. Lol Coxhill - Little Triple One Shot
14. Daevid Allen - Fred The Fish And The Chip On His Shoulder

DISC TWO
1. Daevid Allen - Memories (lead vocals ROBERT WYATT)
2. Gong - Tropical Fish: Selene
3. Kevin Ayers - Song From The Bottom Of A Well
4. The Coxhill-Bedford Duo - Mood
5. Matching Mole - O Caroline (single version)
6. Khan - Driving To Amsterdam
7. Spirogyra - A Canterbury Tale
8. CMU - Lightshine
9. Gong - The Pothead Pixies
10. Hatfield & The North - Lobster In Cleavage Probe
11. Robert Wyatt - Sea Song
12. Isotope - Golden Section
13. Lady June - Bars
14. Hatfield & The North - Fitter Stoke Has A Bath (single version)
15. Robert Wyatt - I'm A Believer (extended version)

DISC THREE
1. Steve Hillage - The Salmon Song
2. Quiet Sun - Mummy Was An Asteroid, Daddy Was A Small Non-Stick Kitchen Utensil
3. Caravan - A Very Smelly, Grubby Little Oik
4. Soft Machine - Song Of Aeolus
5. John G. Perry - Sunset Wading
6. Quantum Jump - Barracuda
7. National Health - Tenemos Roads
8. Gilli Smyth - Shakti Yoni
9. Camel - Down On The Farm
10. National Health - The Bryden Two-Step (For Amphibians) Pt. 1
11. Gilgamesh - T.N.T.F.X.
12. Soft Heap - Circle Line
13. Gizmo - Gravity Brings You Down