Original Album Classics Third/F Ourth/Fifth/Six/Seven

Soft Machine 3 was pretty heady stuff for a high school kid wearing headphones and smoking pot in his bedroom. While the rest of my schoolmates were getting into Grand Funk Railroad and Carly Simon, my best friend and I were discovering King Crimson, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Pink Floyd, Hatfield and the North and Soft Machine. Not that we didn't like AM radio stuff, but we were into "expanding" our consciousness as much as possible. Soft Machine 3 and the subsequent albums were milestones for us. Nothing else in all of music sounded like Mike Ratledge's staccato fuzz piano, except for perhaps Dave Stewart's fuzz piano in Egg and Hatfield or Dave Sinclair's fuzz piano in Caravan. Listening to Soft Machine also got us into "real" jazz, such as John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders. We were then listening to what our heroes were influenced by, and eventually we made little distinction between the generations of jazz musicians. They were all great. Soft Machine 3 was played side by side with A Love Supreme. Aside from the fantastic music that the Mike Ratledge era of Soft Machine produced, I will always be grateful to them for opening up a whole new world of music to me. This box set is a fantastic way to get into this great band.

Since I was wee bit of a boy collecting music, I have always looked for music that challenged my senses in one form or another. My search out weighs my funds often times, therefore the choice to purchase The Original Album Classics was one of my best finds. The collection finds the band at a time where the original incarnation is evolving and transforming into a free for all rock fusion, progressive, jazz influenced monster. I find the collection intoxicating and mind numbing when played a high volumes (over loud speakers, not ear buds). The band started out as a psychedelic outfit sharing bills with Pink Floyd and Tangerine Dream and the like while transforming in similar fashion from strange psychedelic pop into heavy duty progressive music which taps into the brain. If you like jam bands or improvisational rock/jazz fusion like Miles Davis (68- - 72') or the Mahavishnu Orchestra this collection will knock your socks off. I have listened to these recordings over and over and over for the past two months. Stunning and completely enjoyable.

Good collection of albums

lots of Good Proper Fair Reviews. i was already a Soft Machine deadicated fan... when Thirds came out on vynil !! wow: i got the vynils inmediatelly upon USA release. i am lucky that way now: say you Also have all the original albums ? ,> get this !! and so : you Also got the CDs ? indivudually ? > Get This ! not for in-car spin. this tremendous moody brainy music has Silences between notes which are Key to get your neurons reconnecting and expanding remember two of these albums are Double Albums. play each one Repeatedly before going on to the next one - there is both an Original SM genetic, and a progression. so thinking about giving it to some lucky youngster ? good for both of you - but then order Two: you don' wanna take your "present" back from the poor kid. go slowly: examp on Third 'facelift' i hear different mixes: friends on horns are clearer! more live on concert feel ( say Where is the rest of that/those concerts‽ ) yep: No data: no dates no times no listed musicians no engineers no data At All. slippery pretty box lists 3 sites for data... Ø. go to Wikipedia. i have played 3 CDs in order for Days i shall try to get back here. jgl

I'm glad that I found this Soft Machine Collection. Great Price.

Well, just a wonderful group of albums that blends parts of early Weather Report and the"Careful with that Axe, Eugene" PinkFloyd era into some great,creative music. My observation is Soft Machine is what Pink Floyd might have become had they not hit gold with"Dark Side of the Moon". Commercial success at times dulls the musical creative edge or at least redirects it. However, if you prefer your progressive rock sans vocals with tangents into jazz then this is for you. Not always melodic yet the forays into dissonance are obviously a logical part of the music structure. This is late night, reflective music,not a three in the afternoon pick me up. If you like early Pink Floyd instrumentals or appreciate the early to mid 60's music of Coltrane or Miles then go for it.

Para gente que pase del regueton

もともとこのバンドの作品は、アナログ盤とカセット・テープ（ＬＰをダビングしたもの）でおよそ３０年来、聴き狂っていました。 そろそろ、少しずつＣＤで買いなおそうかと思っていた矢先に、これはもう全く狂気乱舞の５枚組みセットじゃありませんか。 私にとっては大好きな、サンタナ、マハヴィシュヌ・オーケストラやウエザー・リポート、リトルフィート、ブルー・オイスター・カルトの同シリーズ以上に重要な５枚組みです。 しかし、この作品集には例によってクレジットもデータも何もありません。はっきり言って、ソフトマシーンのこの時期の音楽が特別好みな方以外には積極的にはおすすめできません。 しかし、後の素晴らしい「バンドルズ」、「ソフツ」、「アライブ＆ウエル」のフュージョン３部作を既に聴いている方には、この作品集を順番に体験すれば、このような非凡な音楽がいかにして育まれ熟成していったのか、その生成過程を、まざまざと知ることが出来るでしょう！ 各アルバムも内容はそれぞれに興味深いのひと言。進化するバンド・ソフトマシーンの名作の数々を秋の夜長にじっくり聴けるのは幸せです。 長生きはしてみるものです。たまにはいいことあるよなあ。

Veramente comodo avere in unico box CD tutti gli LP dei Soft Machine pubblicati negli anni 70 dalla Columbia/Cbs (ora Sony) in formato "mini Lp" (con le copertine originali); non so se siano stati rimasterizzati, ma i CDs sono della serie Legacy della Sony e direi che la qualità del suono è più che sufficiente, nonostante siano incisioni di più di 50 anni fa. Purtroppo però sul retro delle custodie di cartoncino non sono riportati i titoli dei brani (che però sono sul retro del box) né l'elenco dei musicisti. Ovviamente non è presente nemmeno alcuno libretto, ma nonostante tutto ciò lo ritengo un box imprescindibile per ogni appassionato dei Soft, anche per via delle copertine originali: assolutamente da avere!

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