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| | Vols. 1 & 2 | | | Music Artist : | | Soft Machine | | Music Style : | | Psychedelic Rock | | Record Label : | | Big Beat UK | | Release Date : | | 2004-12-27 | | Store Price : | | $19.99 | | Artistopia's Price: $19.99 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Hope for Happiness
2. Joy of a Toy
3. Hope for Happiness (Reprise)
4. Why Am I So Short?
5. So Boot If at All
6. Certain Kind
7. Save Yourself
8. Priscilla
9. Lullabye Letter
10. We Did It Again
11. Plus Belle Qu'une Poubelle
12. Why Are We Sleeping?
13. Box 25/4 Lid
14. Pataphysical Introduction, Pt. 1
15. Concise British Alphabet, Pt. 1
16. Hibou, Anemone and Bear
17. Concise British Alphabet, Pt. 2
18. Hulloder
19. Dada Was Here
20. Thank You Pierrot Lunaire
21. Have You Ever Bean Green?
22. Pataphysical Introduction, Pt. 2
23. Out of Tunes
24. As Long as He Lies Perfectly Still
25. Dedicated to You But You Weren't Listening
26. Fire Engine Passing With Bells Clanging
27. Pig
28. Orange Skin Food
29. Door Opens and Closes
30. 10:30 Returns to the Bedroom
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 A Collage Of Sound @ Color For All Those Wanting To Get Into The Know..
Submitted on: 2007-03-09 |
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The Soft Machine left a legacy, this innovative talented 60's UK band were totally unnventional,rocked,jazzed,sang all in a totally creative fashion not comparable to any in a class all their own.
Yet there is beauty and total structure..Art and music meet.
This CD is a bargain fusing their 1st 2 albums with glorious sound and original artwork intact.
Vol 1 1s easier to grasp than Vol 2 and by Vol.3 the Softs were known to most achieving critical acclaim.
Also check out the 2 CD sets of their BBC Recordings for a taste of this exciting era. |
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Don't Be Sorry My Friend
Submitted on: 2007-01-05 |
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| To each his/her own. The sound may have no "backbone" but the sonic miracles that this group consistently manages is the real experience. Go ahead and juxtapose Soft Machine with anyone else based purely on sound textures (the only real substance to be extracted from music of any genre). The harmonics is really what speaks to the music beast inside each of us. Lyricism, structure and "backbone" are meant to add only a subtle layer of abstraction which isn't absolutely necessary for pure bliss. Try it one time. Shut off the mind and open the heart. All worthy religions preach something similar. Please notice that I didn't only say "Shut off the mind". There is no suggestion of "dumbing oneself down" in order to heighten appreciation but rather to access a different pathway for a new experience. This is not only the fundamental pillar of wisdom but it proves to be vital for the maturation of the soul. All praises due to The Most High. |
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 Sorry to disagree with all the raves, but
Submitted on: 2006-12-05 |
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| these guys are mediocre at best. There is a flash of real grooviness here or virtuosity there, but their sound has no backbone. Not at all at the same level with the best music of that era. . . Airplane, Doors, Hendrix, etc. . . It's just your average fuzzy BritTwittery. If you're looking for something similarly dated and far more mindblowing, I would advise you to save your money and purchase a good performance of Debussy Images et Estamps, or perhaps Ravel Ondine. |
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Excellent
Submitted on: 2006-08-06 |
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I just got this records separately and I must say that I was very surprised, I was expecting somethig good but not outstanding from Pink Floyd's 'rival' band in the sixties.
Volume 1 is a psychedelic exploration, the good thing is that is not your typical flower album like Satanic Majesties, Sgt. Pepper or Forever Changes, it is instrumental in most part and is more jazzy than rock. Volume Two continues the evolution towards a more experimental approach musically and instrumentally, in which neither rock nor jazz or psychedelia are predominant, is just The Soft Machine Style.
I can understand some good rock fans not digesting very well this music, a reviewer compared it negatively with Jimy Hendrix; while they indeed are from the same period (they even toured together), this music is a very different league: the guitar is not the main instrument, in fact there is very few of it. There is some of rock, more of jazz, weird keyboards and piano, horns freestyling and excellent drumming; this band, they are all great performers and musicians.
The best thing is that Soft Machine were not reaching for commercial recognition, they followed completely their own artistic rules and that makes this band the very few in a million. Music like this is very rarely made nowdays, highly recommended to fans of classic rock (a la Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, King Crimon) and fussion / jazz (Miles Davis' Bitches Brew, Jack Johnson tribute; Sun Ra) that do not think the hardcore way. |
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 Five Stars for the Music,Two for the CD
Submitted on: 2006-02-23 |
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| The unlistenable CD prompts this review.The music is great,be assured of that.It is ingeniously inventive and highly imgainative lyrically while fully satisfying musicianship engages you with deft skill producing truely fun , pleasant and enjoyable aural fruit that's why i bought it but within seconds i was hearing distortion not associated with the playing,it was a poor CD mastering job in my opinion then the skips.....skips,skips and more skips.Little one second dead spots.Enough to get blood pressure up.The disc is going back but i won't be buying another from this label.I'll take Vol.Three from Sony in exchange thank you.Great music of course right?Don't hesitate to buy the seperate original recordings remastered if you like intelligent fun.A study of that phenomenon referred to as Dada said to influence these blokes could benefit in getting underneath the the psycology of the music.Whatever its real nature or influence the track on Volume 2 titled;Dada was here is a beautifully refreshing piece sung aentirely in Spanish and if that embodies any aspect of this 'movement' it gets my hearty applause as it really conveys a whimsical elegance that lends a deep satisfaction to ones contemplation of life. Enjoy.......... |
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