Soft Machine - Joy of a Toy

[TheCorazyCam]

Y'know, I remember back when Nirvana's "Come as You Are" received some controversy because the riff sounded similar to the riff of Killing Joke's "Eighties," but am I the only one who can hear the elements of that riff in this song, particularly around 0:13?

[TestBrandy]

not stoned - it means high - in the new order to beee freeeee - thing without feeling and feel without thingink - im german and this is the really new NEWROPA

[UndefinedMadrid]

I can always come back to this song

[johnnyaa]

guswilliamr, in response to your comment about this being a piece of music rather than a song. Could you be any more pretentious? Who in the hell cares what this is besides some egomaniac like you? If you think lyrics are meant as a cover for mediocre songwriting you've got a hole in your head. Amen!

[RaybornButtercups]

Such and awesome song. So simple, yet it immediately relaxes you once you let it take you away.

[freudastaire]

This makes my machine hard.

[irishelk2]

this is my favorite song to get stoned to

[Deepthroat1990]

@irishelk2

i know what you mean ;)

[GuyWithNoName67]

Robert Wyatt is a great drummer. Just like Carmine Appice Oddly, both were psych rockers who were in proto-prog or proto-metal, respectively.

[greatjayjay1]

For all you Soft Machine fans 'Joy of a Toy',besides being on their first album is also on the album' Soft Machine turns on volumne 2 which is a live version from 1967 when Daevid Allen was a member of the group.Kevin Ayers does have a fine album called 'Joy of a Toy'.Soft Machine is also going to issue some older live concert c/d shortly.

[mjazzguitar]

They opened for Hendrix.

[ksre420]

es increible lo que se oculta detras de este sonido O_____O

[slayerized86]

There is music for the body and there is music for the mind. Music for the body picks you off the floor and hurls you into physical activity of whatever type you may prefer at the moment. Music for the mind floats you gently downstream, through pleasurable twists and turns, ups and downs, rapids and calm waters.

[babiislash]

d i l l a

[caravaneriam]

First hearing of this.I didn't know that it was released as a single by Soft Machine prior to Kwevin Ayres releasing Joy of a Toy album.This isn't on the album but i like it.

Good find.

[miguelcontrol]

is perfect

[jaygresh]

I never heard of this band until I got on this Weather Report Mix. I'd love to find a CD one day.

[byronbenoit12]

the album that had this song was released in 1968...

[triplettam]

Yeah, they were name after William Burroughs book the Soft Machine. They eventually went into a fusion of rock and jazz unlike most of the other fusion groups. We would call it acid jazz today. They shouldn't be categorized with the prog groups of their time, but there was no other place for them. But Soft Machine was earthier and it wasn't always about technique or dramatic stage shows. it was just about music.

[CadillacL]

Very well put. I've only discovered Soft Machine, the past couple of years. I'm

sure, at the time, you really couldn't put

them in a catogory. WAY ahead of their

time.

[Yeopayo12]

album, year, members??

some description please

[Deepthroat1990]

@Yeopayo12

the album is named after the track and was released in 1969

[ChikenFeis]

actually this song is from their first album, called Soft Machine (also re-released as "Volume One"), released sometime around 1968

[cavemanfarts]

@Deepthroat1990 Do you even know anything about this song? Or band for that matter? The album isn't named after the track and the album came out 1968.

[Deepthroat1990]

@cavemanfarts

thats simply wrong! look up wikipedia or whatever and dont go on my nerves.

[cavemanfarts]

@Deepthroat1990 The album cover you have is for Peel Sessions 1969-1971. There is no album called Joy of a Toy. Joy of a Toy is from The Soft Machines first album.

[Deepthroat1990]

@cavemanfarts

okay, to get things cleared up: joy of a toy first appeared 1968 on the first album "The Soft Machine" (as you said) and then another song also called joy of a toy was realeased on a solo album by ayers.

[cavemanfarts]

@Deepthroat1990 Yes sir. Even though we aren't talking about Ayers' version which is completely different, both songs are extremely good :)

[solisale]

@Deepthroat1990 don't go by wikipedia! there's the last place you should be getting information from

[MrThielBeats]

@cavemanfarts If you already knew, why'd you ask?

[alexbar76]

@Yeopayo12

Soft Machine, 1967 first album " Soft Machine"

[lilic1]

@alexbar76 it was NOT released in 1967, it was released in December 1968, even it they already played these songs in 1967.

[lilic1]

@Yeopayo12 it's not true what Deepthroat1990 wrote! The band calls "The Soft Machine", the album is the self-titled "Soft Machine", and it was released in 1968. "Joy of a Toy" was the title of Kevin Ayers' first solo album, released in 1969.

Members:

Robert Wyatt - drums, lead vocals

Mike Ratledge - organ, piano

Kevin Ayers - bass, lead vocals, piano, backing vocals

Hugh Hopper - bass (on track 13)

The Cake - backing vocals (on track 12)

[fabiodenaromonello]

@Yeopayo12

I only know that this song comes from the fist album °Soft Mahine -1st°,1968 ca.

[geertbarbier]

Was this Kevin Ayers playing bass? Anyway, still an amazing performance. So good, I only listen to it once a year

[Deepthroat1990]

@geertbarbier

i guess so

[miliberto1985]

No mames esta bien chingon esto!

[altebaran]

great

[6907lankershim]

I remember this song from when they opened for Hendrix in Philadelphia in 1967. I think all lead is played on a bass and the bass you hear is keyboard. They were as awesome as Hendrix.

[6907lankershim]

I found the poster! It was March 31, 1968 at the Arena. Woodys Truck Stop opened the show for both Hendrix and Soft Machine.

[spurtfather]

sounds like some gig! you lucky bastard!

[juiaob]

@6907lankershim Well, you may have survived the golden age of psychodelia but this bass looks like a real bass to me.

[6907lankershim]

If I remember correctly it was a real bass. He played everything on the bass, including the lead parts. I thought it was awesome. I played bass at the time and wanted to do the same. Then I got into country music.

[nadirsharav]

awesome

[KaliYugaForKiX]

Burroughs....druggy paranoia....agreed

[stringlur]

both cobain and these guys were into burroughs after all. everyone with some burroughs influence is gonna be coming from the same place, whatever it is they do

[xTjPx]

did someone use the "N" word?

yuck!....don't like that band.

[KiittyCupcake]

ehm...

[itchyscratcher]

nutrition?

[KiittyCupcake]

0:14 - 0:36 reminds me in the beginning of Nirvana - Come as you are

[morsonwelsh]

there are more than 2 decades before this song, "come as you are" of Nirvana, was composed... but it is nice that you noticed this one. :)

[KiittyCupcake]

i know, but i'm a big fan of Nirvana so i noticed it rightaway

[cr1msonking93]

Nirvana & Soft Machine ? What the...

[KiittyCupcake]

what?

[terransage]

I'm one of those prog lovers (King Crimson, Gentle Giant, Soft Machine, early Genesis) who also like raw primitive punk and grunge energy (Nirvana, Jane's Addiction, System of a Down), even though they seem to be on opposite ends of the rock spectrum. Don't ask me why--I guess I just like whatever's on the "edge" of pop.

[KiittyCupcake]

same with me

[RobinCarmody]

I don't see that as strange or unusual at all - the sort of prog you mention in many ways has more in common with whatever is raw and inventive, wherever it comes from, than it has with the stadium-filling dreck that prog curdled into, or the ponderous philosophing of lesser prog bands.

[virusinsideus]

both styles are different sides of the same coin if you ask me

[twjames18]

more like the same ocean.

[arcticpew]

i wouldn't be surprised if nirvana were slightly influenced by soft machine actually

[KiittyCupcake]

neither would i

[evange03]

This is fucking GREAT!!! Musicians wish they were doing something this interesting today!

[macwild1234]

i dunno if youve heard of em but the mars volta were inspired by them. They are pretty interesting

[guswilliamr]

drwinkle101, in responce to your comment a few weeks ago, this is a piece of music, not a song, songs have lyrics, pieces of music don't.

I dont see why you were so shocked for it to not have lyrics. Lyrics arn't everything when you're a great band such as soft machine, who are all musically excellent.

it's only bands like Oasis and shit like that, that need lyrics to cover up the fact all there music is complete shit.

[Adamluvsyou1]

@guswilliamr yea this music is fantastic im amazed. But Oasis are not shit, and there are no bands like them apart from the Stone Roses or perhaps the Beatles. If you think their shit then you must be some sort of yuppie DICKHEAD

[Adamluvsyou1]

@Adamluvsyou1 maybe not the beatles their too good

[johnmickle]

Well this is a psychedelic rock video not english class.

[Nakkinak]

Wow, what a great songtune.

[Deepthroat1990]

whats this comment about?

[EricBlueDeer]

i hate when people think that music have to follow rules haha, not just psychedelic music doesnt need vocal..any music, music is a free state of mind or body recorded on auditive waves. just kiddin...not really =)

and one more thing...

Can anyone tell me if kevin Ayers is playn the guitar or the bass? thanks =)

Peace .º.

[drwinkle101]

A song is SUNG. Where's the vocal?!

[Deepthroat1990]

i dont get your question...psychedelic rock does not need vocal necessarily

[johnmickle]

A song can also be PLAYED

The melody is there reguardless of vocal presence

[rotes1968]

A very cool song...

[RodrigoOsO87]

good song

nice audio xD

[u1u0]

What is the artwork you put up for the "video"?

I have the Vol 1 & Vol 2 "Turns On" CDs and they don't have a WICKED design like that!!!

Thanks for the upload, I can listen to this while away from my CDs!

[Deepthroat1990]

the cover is from "The Peel Sessions"

[autumnhasgone]

It isn't "wicked design" like you said it's just art nouveau (i don't now how you call this in english...) Art nouveau is an inspiration for the psychedelic movement

=]

[u1u0]

I'm aware of art nouveau, but it's still a wicked design ;)

[RonaldVaughan]

Do you have another Soft Machine song,"Soft

Weed Factor"?

Don't see that yet on YouTube.

[Deepthroat1990]

nope, sry. never heard of that song

[RonaldVaughan]

It's on their "Sixth" album...it's an droning

interplay of two keyboards...and is a trancey

type of riff...lasts about 11 minutes...

[Fredje52]

Hey Ronald, your song is on YouTube now.

[Viznel137]

I had this album!Fave cut:So Boot if at all'Someone (on another vid)said these guys reminded him of Pink Floyd!yeah!I Agree

[TheMagicTea]

wicked- Respect.

[Barbaricfellow]

I knew this album as a young teenager and STILL play it now and then... GREAT stuff