The Soft Machine - Slightly All the Time (1/2)

[kzbxvz]

Fantastic music from an fantastic era 1968-1972 :)

[jeanjean1331]

a perfect combination,i agree to...

[immolator6666]

You can notice that from 8:00 starts the melody from Egg's "I Will Be Absorbed". Btw I really love this track!

[spacemanbose]

the drum work of Mr. Wyatt in this track is AMAZING. Listen it!!

[gilouseb]

40 ans après, toujours beau à en pleurer...

[HuGoIsMyReALName]

........ rrrrrrRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrr....­.....

[PremiumRyan]

I love listening to Soft Machine in the fall/winter months. 3rd and 4th are especially great for the seasons. Perfect to relax and study along with. Definitely helping me get through college.

[1freecuba1]

i was the wierd cuban kid in south florida who listened to this stuff.... and I was right.,,, I have them all... does anyone remember ABC records?

[1freecuba1]

i was the wierd cuban kid in south florida who listened to this stuff.... and I was right.,,,

[Zaadaa]

Tthank you so much for the upload!

I nearly forgot how good this is. As a teenager I drove my friends grazy with it!

Zaadaa.

[peopleinsorrow]

I like this track the best among the four tracks of "III". This smoothly segues into their "IV", the greatest of all Soft Machine albums, in my humble opinion.

[MrShuggieTodd]

Great track, reminds me of "Tout de Suite" by Miles Davis on Filles de KIlimanjaro (1968). Check it out !

[dachikinn]

This is fantastic, thanks so much for the upload.

[gasparperalta]

/watch?v=FBg5nfK7480

[KenobiFromCoruscant]

prog did not ruin itself...its just changed. its progressive.

[comsky159]

When music really was synonymous with art. Thanks for the upload.

[MrTulip65]

Magnificent stuff B-)

[94incurabil]

thnk you for posting this

[tantissimacacca]

Listen to the chords in the backgroung... Simply perfect!

[simonalamona345]

70s were wonderful

[MegaLamka]

punk fashion ( sex pistols and other such bands) fucked up music but there is great punk out there and does this not remind you of henry cow. I know they were part of the whole canteberry fusion scene but still....

[toetapper04]

"Moon in June" captured me in '71 or '72 and the rest of this album has reeled in my head since.

I'm glad that others are finding the band and enjoying their music.

[Alvinobeat27]

i just became a fan

[xneilp]

i know but all that can make better like the biggest number plus 1

[ronaldmcdonald333]

FUCKIN SOFT MACHIINEEE \M/

[PaulThe123]

i'm so baked.

[goffredosani]

great band, in Italy in the 70's the band Perigeo have tried to make something like this, sometimes with good results.

[edctgbujm123]

These lads deserve entry into the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame, no matter what this "committee" thinks.

[dantean]

@edctgbujm123 Bit too esoteric for the RnR HOF-types. Besides, their true "Rock and Roll" period is over after the first two releases, even though "Third" features Moon in June, which begins their before changing direction (Wyatt giving over to Ratledge, maybe). In any case, they won't make the HOF on the strength of the rest of that album or their subsequent output, having nothing to do with musical quality. They simply couldn't be easily classified as a rock band by Hall voters. Alas...

[TerData]

Seen them live a couple of times in Amsterdam at the Concertgebouw ( can you believe that nowadays??).Unforgettable! A mindchanging, and thus, al life changing experience!!

[xxxslayerxxx666]

very frank zappa, reminds me of peaches en regalia(the melody of the saxophone in some parts are very similar to that song) but fused with lounge jazz!

[pooperscoopr69]

If you enjoy SM's Third try wrapping your ears around Miles Davis' "In a Silent Way."

[OneWOneL]

This has the capacity to lift, and is now a piece of me.

[lesjacquets]

Une musique qui a marqué, à l'époque - et ça fait un bail - mais qui n'a rien perdu de sa fraîcheur, de sa beauté.

[SteProg70]

Third è la pietra miliare canterburyana... inizia tutto da qui

[ronaldmcdonald333]

6:00 i just transcended

[mayonaises2002]

A pinnacle of music.

[ronaldmcdonald333]

this makes me cry, it's so good, and its hard for me to comprehend being a 19 year old teenager that at one point in our century people were actually appreciating this kind of music in the masses the way kanye west is appreciated today. music is the only good thing man invented

[SouBrazil]

Clássico!! Eu adoro o Soft Machine.

[WELLBRAN]

The very first Album I bought as a 15yr old with my first wages was Soft Machine Vol 2 have not been the same since!...lol...now at 55 My Music tastes have changed slightly but can still go back and listen to the old stiff like SF, I STILL have the Album

[sparrowxy]

@WELLBRAN

Same here. Though the first album I ever bought from my wages was a Chicago Blues stuff by Muddy Waters.

[poppy71114]

music to make love to :)

[psychedelicfloyd]

esto es bueno, no solo bueno, es genial y mas que genial es musica, porque esto en equivalencia para lo que yo vivo hoy en dia, merece ser llamado musica.

soft machine me acaba de hacer un lavado de oidos.

[PaulThe123]

it's like smooth jazz fusion.

[jllpmusicman]

Think I bought this album when it first came out mainly because of a "sticker" quote on the cover by Frank Zappa highly recommending it, wasn't familiar with the group prior to that . . . wonderful album.

[avatarofm]

Quotations 'And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not."

Soren Kierkegaard

[seb2112]

Is every album this good? If not, what other albums besides THIRD should I get?

[GeorgeLupine3]

@seb2112 Get ''volume two'' and ''fourth''.

[puddypuss]

@seb2112 I was lucky to know them from the beginning, and I think the first 4 lps are worth it, then robert wyatt left and that special feel went, though the general nature of music went mainstream too in the 70s

[curiousnomad]

It's amazing that this group became as well known as it did. If this was attempted today it wouldn't make it past the rented practice space. What happened to the masses appreciating creative, unique, and beautiful music?

[kolteblount]

Kevin Ayers



[bbtoob]

WOW!

[doronky]

jenious!

[VivalaVita04]

CHE GODURIA!

[jaysonvalentine]

I'm not hearing the harmony.

[valterjose]

banda abençoada

[BetterTasteThanU]

garbage from noisemakers. the horn sounds like it was uphisazz

[andhemills]

I'm 27 from USA. I'm not sure how I found out about soft machine. I may well have discovered them back in the napster days. I love progressive stuff. I'm particularly interested in "progressive blues" (ala the doors and black sabbath). I'm also curious about, but there doesn't seem a particular genre of "progressive hip hop" which I would very much like to be exposed to and considering to create if there isn't anything (it's niche for sure anyways).

[feastscraps2]

@andhemills they were very influential in their day. Such greats as Daevid Allen Robert Wyatt played in their ranks. They influenced ambient movement without a doubt.

[LTBL88]

@andhemills i've always thought hip hop with odd time signatures and really complex rhymes would be cool. i don't think there really is anything like prog hip hop thats come out, apart from some groups with more glitchy electronic type beats but not anything drastically progressive

[sigbangschmidt]

it is slighly diffrend all the time!

i miss the moon in july!!!!!

[Discgallerynow1]

great track-----

a pitty this group is not more

appreciated and known..........

[businessfreedom]

@Discgallerynow1 Totally agree!The Combination of Trippy-far out Psychedelic mixed with the elegance of Jazz,the beauty of Progressive Rock.

The Best Combination on the planet!!!

[gilouseb]

@businessfreedom

You're deeply right.

[nohajc]

Possibly the best track on Third. But I still hesitate to choose between this one and Out-Bloody-Rageous.

[ECKMABOHM]

Hallo aus Deutschland ,

ja auch hier haben einige von uns S.M. die Dritte ( Third ) gehört . Ich liebe diese Musik bis heute . Bin selbst Musiker und habe durch S.M, 7/4 und )/4 und 11/4 Takte gehört,gefühlt und begriffen .

Gruß aus der BRD

[ECKMABOHM]

Hello ,

I can imagine , that you are English . I am

a german musician , who still loves Soft Machine , especially the third album . I learnt

from S.M. 7/4 , 9/4 and 11/4 ,. I love S.M.

[nohajc]

I'm Czech and as far as I know, there are only few people who appreciate this music today in our country. Anyway, S.M. and other groups like them will always be remembered. Nothing can beat this kind of art.

By the way, do you know Passport? I think you could since they were german band. Some of their stuff is also worth listening.

[philipatoz]

@nohajc, Sorry, never saw your post. Yes, I am a BIG Passport fan and have many of their albums. Great stuff!

[davidelomat]

wow! this is music how it can´t be produced by someone else in the popular biz today!

[PerryLogan]

I've been crazy about this ever since I first heard it, eons ago.

[Tengent]

A highly influential song of mine. I love the bass and wah organ later in the song.. mmmm.. Canterbury Scene is incredible.

[Tengent]

Neither did the people who say "This is my favorite song!"

[noahawk07]

Beautiful!! The Soft Machine was original, unique and one of a kind. I would say Third is my favorite and in my view an enduring classic. Fourth is further out, but if you listen to it, it does tend to grow on you.

[poorpy134]

jazz is the best

[businessfreedom]

@poorpy134 Absolutely,Jazz is the best!

[headmark915]

I haven't checked out this band, but I definitely will after hearing this. I'm something of a Zappa fan, so this is right up my alley.

[DAVO1984FI]

Come è bello questo grande pezzone!!!!!

Genial Soft Machine!!!!

[windmilltilter]

I totally agree with Tarabos1. My birth in January 1968 marked the start of great period in music. 'Slightly All The Time' is one of my favourite Soft Machine tracks. Sometimes I wake up with this tune in my head. This leads often to great improvisations on the theme (in my head)during the day....

[triplettam]

Fantastic. Thanks for uploading this. I have all of their early stuff . . .in storage. This is where fusion began. Unbelievable. Robert Wyatt and Hugh are better than most of the American jazz icons.

[ginsberguru]

WAOUH! 8th minute is fantastic! i love it! soft machine are unique!

[amamuffin]

WOWOW.

[Tarabos1]

1968 to 1975: Best years of popular music, I think.

Punk wave spoiled it all, afterwards....

[BanColPan]

Aint that the truth?

[altebaran]

bands like WIRE,STRANGLERS,THE JAM,TELEVISION,THE POP GROUP,CLASH,UNDERTONES,MAGAZIN­E spoiled 'popular' music?

[767fife]

Well I'd even say 1965 - 1975, just to leave some more Psychedelic Rock songs in there.

[Tarabos1]

You are right, perhaps we must fit in even the year 1962, when the Beatles had their breakthrough, Alexis Korner´s Blues Band versions, cornerstone of the fantastic swinging London scene of the 60s.

[zaxmania]

@Tarabos1 you've got that right.

[PippoBlues93]

@Tarabos1 that's the prog years to you!

[MountainGirl1956]

@Tarabos1 Although punk was the counter culture and doesn't sound directly like this, the idea of being more abstract in comparison to the 50's obviously came from the 60's, and obviously morphed into punk. This unorthodox music is what early punk stemmed from (throughout the entire decade of the 70's)

[Spitch89]

@Tarabos1 1000 thumbs up for one of the most sad but also true sentences of this century....

[xxxslayerxxx666]

@Tarabos1 music is still music, punk has it's place in it....bands like mr. bungle and nuclear rabbit don't care about labels they get inspired by ANYTHING! but punk in itself is a shitty genre, yet it still inspires other artists(because a true artist can make a song his own, a true artist utilizes the feeling of numerous genres)

[animegalc4]

@Tarabos1 punk was good.

[dantean]

@Tarabos1 1963-1973.

[smptefreak]

@Tarabos1 Disco spoiled it first. Comparing punk and Prog is like comparing hammers and oranges...

[XVonGrimmX]

@Tarabos1 Punk saved music.

dickweed.

[teddingtontcu]

@XVonGrimmX 

[underagedpickle]

@XVonGrimmX punk is a pointless music, and tarabos is right punk did indeed ruin prog.

[MrMonsterstiffy]

@underagedpickle prog ruined itself... punk had nothing to do with prog other than be bored to tears... you can't compare the two.

[TheBelva85]

@XVonGrimmX Suure.. how?

[camelspottergr]

can't thank you enough man for posting this!! although i have the album, when i'm surfing utube i always want to listen to this! and after moon in joon, and then out-bloody-rageous! :D

[fusionhar]

undescribable and wonderful

[volcanoforhire]

turned me onto jazz forever !! thankyou robert, mike, elton and hugh

[thereisnoproblem]

... some of da best shit me knowzzz ...

[zipppit89]

Hmm, I can see where portishead got there idea for their album 'Third"

[unclemeat2u]

Really cool. I wonder if this album came out before 'Hot Rats."

[marimokayo]

Awesome, awesome track, album, and band. Third is one of the major musical works of the last century (at least for me).

[philipatoz]

Outstanding! Soft Machine bridged a link to jazz for many of us who originally grew up listening to rock. To me, it's the richly layered textures, melodic, thematic explorations, relaxing, mood-inducing and reflective elements that make this such exciting, satisfying music. SM's music is simultaneously induces both melancholy and excitement. It puts me in a mood to mentally look both backward as well as forward. Listening to "Outbloodyrageous" is like listening to my life flashing by.

[ECKMABOHM]

hello philipatoz ,

I am from germany and i am 59 years old ( but feeling like eleven ) and the first time I heard Out bloody rageous it was like beeing reborn or in other words : I felt , this is my music !!!!!!! I didnt take drugs before , but the beginning made me feel

like an aboriginee or Mephisto .I first learnt the basslines , then a bit of the organ and then teh drums .

[philipatoz]

ECKMABOHM - I am 52 and live in the American South. I'm a muscian as well - a guitar player since I was 17. You are the first person I've come across who has learned parts of OBR. It is no surprise that Ratledge later dabbled in film music. He apparently didn't find much satisfaction in SM's fusion period - some of which I like, but I don't like much of the fast-paced, mindless scale-driven guitar work. To me, Ratledge, Wyatt and Hopper and Dean produced their best tracks. Cheers!

[ECKMABOHM]

Hello philipatoz ,

it is a great surprise to me , that somebody in America has heard music from S. M. , maybe i am too restricted . ( My father was a convinced nationalist in the fourties , but this

is a really another field ) ... I like S. M. up to the fifth album , but then ... as you mentioned , ... the technique of Al. Holdsworth ... Do know some records of Robert Wyatt ?????

most of musicians are technicians )

Bye Eckart

[philipatoz]

Eckart - I have heard some of Wyatt's solo and collaboration material, but not too much. I own vinyl copies of all Soft Machine LPs up through the "Softs" album (1976) and "Triple Echo." I love lots of progressive rock, jazz, classical, film music, World Music - a bit of everything good. Very much like Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, Gentle Giant, early Genesis, Pink Floyd, The Who, Hatfield and the North, National Health, King Crimson, Camel, ELP, Yes, Moody Blues, Jeff Beck, Gong, etc., etc.

[poorpy134]

im 15 from america i really like a lot of jazz from Europe as well as jazz fusion from america

[lilic1]

In the last one hour I've listened the album "Third" from beginning to end. Such a GREAT music. I don't need any pot or LSD, it's THE TRIP itself. So great!

[camelspottergr]

this is indeed a unique album!!! trippy!! sometimes i listent to it twice :D

[Peaceganjareggae]

@lilic1 That's nice but don't patronise those who do. If you've never done it, don't knock what a real trip is.

[lilic1]

@Peaceganjareggae I have never said I've never done it. I know what is it like and I think Soft Machine's music is better than ANY trip.

[Peaceganjareggae]

@lilic1 There's nothing wrong with combining the two

[lilic1]

@Peaceganjareggae Agree! :)

[miepdetruus]

@lilic1 imagine when you're on 1 of those 2..

[cameron829sm]

@lilic1 a little pot is always cool too though ;)

[PaulThe123]

@cameron829sm Yeah i agree!

[Nobodie92]

@lilic1 Says the man who has never taken a drug.

[kzbxvz]

One great example (1970) from one the greatest pop/rock music era of our time between 1968-72.

[xTjPx]

wonderful!

oh @ 4:50

thanks for posting.

[majk2006]

R.I.P Hugh

[swans1997]

LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS ALBUM!!!!

[businessfreedom]

totally with ya there swans.

Just listening to it,and i'm like wow!!!

One of the best Albums ever put togather and made

[morsonwelsh]

aaah, what a delight! and there still more to come from the next albums!

[Well108]

Euro jazz. :D

[killeraven]

alguien me puede sugerir bandas de rock progresivo?

can someone suggest me , prog rock bands?

[progreadicto]

pues king crimson es esencialisima del prog, tambien genesis, aunque soft machine es de hecho una de las mejores, tambien despues puedes tratar con yes, uf!, el prog es todo un universo hermano, si te metes en el ya no sales, pero tampoco quedras salir, le dara sentido a tu vida

[progreadicto]

quien habra sido el sujeto (gilipollas) que me puso puntaje negativo, seguro debe ser reggaetonero o no sabe nada de prog

[mrcorn19]

probablemente sera tonto a secas y no sabra apreciar esta música

[progreadicto]

alguien quiza pueda notar que esta pieza tiene algunas dosis de "erotismo" en ciertas partes ( en especial el "tema principal" del inicio de la cancion) y no es que sea un enfermo sexual, solo que cuando la escucho puedo sentirlo

[progreadicto]

third is a masterpiece, one of the best prog rock albums ever!!!!

[pdondini]

It's Mr.Hopper. My favourite "song" of The Soft Machine. Third is one of the edges of music in last century.

[dubasher]

the bass kills...is that Hugh Hopper?

[riversend21]

I think that it is a base of Hugh Hopper.

[xbxbear]

@riversend21 ~ DEFINITELY Hugh Hopper

[micheljch]

@riversend21 Yes it is Hugh. R.I.P. Hugh

[hvmotu]

@dubasher Yes it is.

[Hercules1ization]

@dubasher  YES INDEED

[RLW1967]

The Soft Machine were very brilliant.

[sofalugger]

Think I recorded SM on a old `Elizabethan` spool tape recorder. They were playing at Last night of the proms!!! 1968/9 ???? Can anyone remember???

[SVENDANSK]

I first heard Soft Machine live in Paris in 1970. Slightly All The Time still works for me!

[miketattershall]

good to hear again

[alsdouble]

A most influential album. Shaped my musical taste for over 40 years.