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    Posted: November 26 2005 at 00:35
I've heard a lot of good things about the Soft Machine, and I just heard a song by them called "10:30 Goes To The Bedroom" or something along those lines, and I like it a lot.  Right now I can only get one album, so which one should I get?

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of course their masterpiece 'Third'
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I like the albums Bundles,Land of Cockayne and Third.


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The first two albums are available as a single CD and are very much in the style of the track you heard (which comes from volume 2). Start with that or the brilliant Third.
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There is a wonderful compilation called "Out-Blood Rageous" tha covers their golden age, 1968-1973.
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I'd say that as an introduction, the 2cd anthology 'Out Bloody Rageous' is hard to beat. However, you can't go wrong with the first three albums, which have imagination aplenty, and arguably influenced the Krautrock genre more than any other UK prog band did.

However, thereafter, the flair and imagination was largely lost; the albums that followed were not bad by any means, but they were relatively stagnant jazz fusion affairs.

They did gain a second wind when they signed to Harvest, yet there were no original members left after a while. Indeed, the band by this point had more members of Nucleus than they did Soft Machine...
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Get Third, Fourth or Bundles
RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!
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I'm thinking I'll get Third.  Not only does it seem the best choice, it is conveniently the only one available at the store I plan on getting it at

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third. without a doubt.
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Originally posted by The Wizard The Wizard wrote:

There is a wonderful compilation called "Out-Blood Rageous" tha covers their golden age, 1968-1973.


Excellent suggestion - at least tracks from the first two albums have been remastered (good choices) for this 2005 release and there is half of Third including Moon In June . 
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don`t forget live in nyc 1974 allan holdsworth era
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Originally posted by TimothyLeary TimothyLeary wrote:

don`t forget live in nyc 1974 allan holdsworth era

I never knew Holdsworth was in the Soft Machine! Amazing guitarist, by the way.

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he got around and indeed is afine musician
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I bet not a lot of people know that Andy Summers ("Police") was briefly in Soft Machine too!

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I still like first the best with Ayers/Ratlidge/Wyatt.
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Got Soft Machine's British Tour yesterday form Amazon.UK - really good quality and excellent performance; strongly  recommended it as an example of the Soft Machine immediately before its collapse
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i'll give you some recommendations...

  • THE SOFT MACHINE (1968)
  • THE SOFT MACHINE VOLUME TWO (1969)
  • JET PROPELLED PHOTOGRAPHS (1967) released in 1989.
  • LIVE AT THE PARADISO 1969
  • THIRD (1970 2 lps)
  • FOURTH & FIFTH ( you can find them in 1 cd) (1971/1972)
  • SIX (1973 2 lps)
  • LAND OF COCKAINE (1981)

THE FIRST TWO ALBUMS ARE PSYCHEDELIC ORIENTED, WHILE "JET PROPELLED...." ARE RECORDINGS AS A WHOLE BEFORE THE FIRST ALBUM:1967.

"THIRD" IS THEIR MASTERPIECE:PROGRESSIVE JAZZ-ROCK AT HIS BEST!

 
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-- I bet not a lot of people know that Andy Summers
("Police") was briefly in Soft Machine too!


Wow, interesting little piece of info. I never knew that, and have been a fan
since the 70s.

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