University of Errors

 

I think the main problem with the band is Allen's singing voice - limited to say the least. When he shuts up the music is more accessible.

 

BTW strictly Jet Propelled Photos was not Soft Machine's first offical album - it was a series of demo recordings not intended for general release. Eventually when the album was released without the band's permission in 1971 (5 years after its recording) it was called Rock Generation and then spread over two sides of different volumes of the Rock Generation series. When all the tracks were eventually brought together on one piece of vinyl in the late 70's, Charly Records called it From the Beginnings. The Jet Propelled title is of the 80's!  As Daevid Allen states in the liner notes his version of JPP, his intention was to re-record the demos under significantly better studio conditions than he and the rest of that line-up of the Softs suffered originally - Allen  even employed a guitarist who could play the music better than himself!

 

Sony/Columbia's Out-Bloody-Rageous plus the Harvest Records Machine compilation and the two Hux Records' Soft Machine BBC Radio sets, cover most of the materials found on Triple Echo - (while Graham Bennett's book Out-Bloody-Rageous provides the liner notes )