The Floating World : The "Official" Soft Machine Thread

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by Scope J, Mar 11, 2010.

  1. florandia

    florandia Forum Resident

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    As wonderful as 'Nothing Can Stop Us Now', is , it has very little in common with Soft Machines recorded output with Robert Wyatt except in terms of consummate musicianship
    and creativity.
     
  2. Grow Fins

    Grow Fins ...and leave you laaaaand-lubbing women alone

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    Dig the Soft Machine for sure. I particularly like 3/4/5, but should really venture beyond them. As stated by others, there is plenty more to discover in their catalog.

    It's fantastic that many of their albums have recently been reissued by Music on Vinyl, so that these great albums are readily available again in LP format. That hopefully will mean more exposure for this terriffically interesting band.
     
  3. kendo

    kendo Forum Resident

    "I smash up the telly with remains of the broken phone"
     
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  4. Mugrug12

    Mugrug12 The Jungle Is a Skyscraper

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    Oh man I must confess that part freaks me out. Is it like a bridge troll?
     
  5. StarThrower62

    StarThrower62 Forum Resident

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    If you like Softs, check out the Nucleus 2-fers re-issued on the BGO label.
    BGO Records
     
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  6. kendo

    kendo Forum Resident

    No, it's Ivor Cutler doing the Scottish-eccentric and generally being himself.
    His own material is worth checking out,in a benignly weird yet normal way, John Peel was a fan.

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    ....ahem, sorry, as you were, back to the Soft Machine!
     
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  7. Chrome_Head

    Chrome_Head Planetary Resident

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    We were talking Wyatt and the above poster mentioned Rock Bottom, another Wyatt release.
     
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  8. jeddy

    jeddy Forum Resident

    4 & 5 are my favourites!

    and "live in Paris"
     
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  9. PFA

    PFA Forum Resident

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  10. klockwerk

    klockwerk Forum Resident

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    Instant album collection
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    It is missing Softs, which is my favorite.
     
  11. rene smalldridge

    rene smalldridge Senior Member

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    I miss Kevin Ayers , I really do.
    Long live his music !
     
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  12. Jason Pumphrey

    Jason Pumphrey Forum Resident

    Spaced Two, also part of it appears on Facelift on Third.
     
  13. Scott Sheagren

    Scott Sheagren I’m a Metal,Rock,Jazz Fusion,Gaga type of guy.

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    I bought this set and Bundles and Sodts separate.they sound amazing on my system except for 3 which is not a great sounding album
     
  14. Chrome_Head

    Chrome_Head Planetary Resident

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    I’m hearing the Music On Vinyl re-release of Third is very good-sounding, if records are your thing.
     
  15. SquaRoots

    SquaRoots The North Star Grassman

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    All time favourite band.
    I own #1 thru #7.
    Bundles
    and Softs are on my wantlist.

    Never cared too much about nos. 1 & 2.
    Love 3,4,5 and Bundles.

    Played 4 thru 7 to death.

    My GF saw SM live back in the days, whereas I missed them somehow.
    She loves 6 and 7.
     
  16. stereoptic

    stereoptic Anaglyphic GORT Staff

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    NY
    Cool! What is the name of the biography?
     
  17. Alan2

    Alan2 Forum Resident

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    Plenty love. I like any incarnation of SM, especially the Harvest albums.
     
  18. Rodney Toady

    Rodney Toady Waste of cyberspace

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    What? Nobody's deemed it necessary to bring up The Beatles connection here? I must inadvertently have strayed on some strange forum...
     
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  19. irong

    irong Forum Resident

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    It's called "Different Every Time", written by Marcus O'Dair. It's a very good read.
     
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  20. stereoptic

    stereoptic Anaglyphic GORT Staff

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    thanks very much!
     
  21. kendo

    kendo Forum Resident

    This is a very select part of the forum where lightweight pop bands just don't make the grade. :winkgrin:
     
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  22. Glenn Christense

    Glenn Christense Foremost Beatles expert... on my block

    I bought their first album on vinyl with the spinning cover when it was released and I like it but for some reason I never pursued their music beyond that album.
     
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  23. Scope J

    Scope J Senior Member Thread Starter

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  24. Mook

    Mook Forum Resident

    Does anyone have the Switzerland 1974 CD/DVD set?

    There is a closed thread on it on here where one poster states that the video quality on the DVD is awful, this is in my local record shop & I'd like to buy it but at £20 I would like to garner some opinions on the footage first.
     
  25. Scope J

    Scope J Senior Member Thread Starter

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    Hidden Details (2018)

     
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