The Soft Machine - The Soft Machine [Volume One]

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Album Details

Title: The Soft Machine [Volume One]
Artist: The Soft Machine
Release Date: 12/1968
Re-Released On: 8/13/2007
Label: One Way, Universal Distribution, Cuneiform Records
Duration: 41:22
Album Type(s): Greatest Hits
UPCs: 076732206423, 4988005416933, 666629134023, 4988005472397, 498800541693, 045775013022
Genre: Rock
Styles: Psychedelic, Experimental, British Psychedelia, Canterbury Scene, Freakbeat, Art Rock
Moods: Complex, Eccentric, Enigmatic, Fiery, Witty, Intense, Irreverent, Quirky, Spacey, Trippy, Energetic, Hypnotic, Literate, Rousing, Rollicking, Sophisticated, Cerebral, Playful
Total Copies: 0
Members Wishing: 6
Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

Track Listings

Hope for Happiness
Joy of a Toy
Hope for Happiness (Reprise)
Why Am I So Short?
So Boot If at All
A Certain Kind
Save Yourself
Priscilla
Lullabye Letter
We Did It Again
Plus Belle Qu'une Poubelle
Why Are We Sleeping?
Box 25/4 Lid

Additional Releases

Year	Type	Label	Catalog #
2006	CD	Universal Distribution	9687
2000	CD	Cuneiform Records	22064
1993	CD	One Way	22064
------	CD	One Way	22064

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Album Review

A wild, freewheeling, and ultimately successful attempt to merge psychedelia with jazz-rock, Soft Machine's debut ranges between lovingly performed oblique pop songs and deranged ensemble playing from drummer/vocalist Robert Wyatt and organist Mike Ratledge. With only one real break (at the end of side one), the songs merge into each other -- not always smoothly, but always with a sense of flair that rescues any potential miscues. Wyatt takes most of the vocals, and proves himself a surprisingly evocative singer despite his lack of range. Like Pink Floyd's The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Volume One was one of the few over-ambitious records of the psychedelic era that actually delivered on all its incredible promise. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide

Credits

Name	Credits
Brian Goto	Cover Design
Chas Chandler	Producer
Eli Aliman	Cover Design
Henry Epstein	Cover Design
Kevin Ayres	Guitar
Mike Ratledge	Organ, Piano (Electric)
Robert Wyatt	Vocals, Drums, Cello, Bass, Guitar
Soft Machine	Group
Tom Wilson	Producer