The Soft Machine
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Topic: The Soft Machine
Posted By: Batman
Subject: The Soft Machine
Date Posted: November 26 2005 at 00:35
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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? -------------  you can never have too much Phil Collins! |
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Posted By: Stiefel
Date Posted: November 26 2005 at 03:11
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of course their masterpiece 'Third' |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: November 26 2005 at 03:40
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I like the albums Bundles,Land of Cockayne and Third. -------------  |
Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: November 26 2005 at 05:17
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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. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: The Wizard
Date Posted: November 26 2005 at 09:01
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There is a wonderful compilation called "Out-Blood Rageous" tha covers their golden age, 1968-1973. -------------  
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Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: November 26 2005 at 15:26
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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... |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: November 26 2005 at 17:12
Get Third, Fourth or Bundles  ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! http://www.last.fm/music/Exerior" rel="nofollow - EXERIOR Experimental tech/death/progmetal from Norway! |
Posted By: Batman
Date Posted: November 26 2005 at 23:51
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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 ------------- you can never have too much Phil Collins! |
Posted By: italprogfan
Date Posted: November 27 2005 at 00:51
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third. without a doubt. ------------- _ visit my country: http://www.molvania.com.au/molvania/photos.html |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: November 27 2005 at 17:37
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 . |
The Wizard wrote:Posted By: TimothyLeary
Date Posted: November 27 2005 at 21:26
| don`t forget live in nyc 1974 allan holdsworth era |
Posted By: The Wizard
Date Posted: November 27 2005 at 21:35
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I never knew Holdsworth was in the Soft Machine! Amazing guitarist, by the way. -------------
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Posted By: TimothyLeary
Date Posted: November 27 2005 at 21:38
| he got around and indeed is afine musician |
Posted By: ElwoodHerring
Date Posted: November 27 2005 at 21:51
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I bet not a lot of people know that Andy Summers ("Police") was briefly in Soft Machine too! http://www.mp3.com/the-soft-machine/artists/4712/biography.h tml ------------- [IMG]http://www.herring.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/DRMkillb.JPG"> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4816930.stm - Right the Copyright Wrongs (Bill Thompson's BBC blog - essential reading!) |
Posted By: NutterAlert
Date Posted: November 30 2005 at 04:46
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I still like first the best with Ayers/Ratlidge/Wyatt. ------------- Proud to be an un-banned member since 2005 |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: November 30 2005 at 08:36
| 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 |
Posted By: ANDREW
Date Posted: November 30 2005 at 09:25
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i'll give you some recommendations...
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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Posted By: roaryg
Date Posted: November 30 2005 at 21:15
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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. ------------- Tim FM, Nash the Slash, Camel |