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product_id: 12830770
title: "Original Album Classics Third/F Ourth/Fifth/Six/Seven"
brand: "soft machine"
price: "$47.19"
currency: USD
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reviews_count: 9
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# Original Album Classics Third/F Ourth/Fifth/Six/Seven

**Brand:** soft machine
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- **What is this?** Original Album Classics Third/F Ourth/Fifth/Six/Seven by soft machine
- **How much does it cost?** $47.19 with free shipping
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Original Album Classics Third/F Ourth/Fifth/Six/Seven

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    a fan of SM?  get this treasure Now.
  

*by J***I on Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2021*

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 waynow:  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

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Soft Machine's prime
  

*by T***S on Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2019*

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.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Which Came First
  

*by P***X on Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2014*

This product is a 5 CD set with Soft Machine's Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, & Seventh albums all packaged in a tight 5" x 5" x 1/2" main cover. Each CD comes with its own inner cover with the basic cover art but no information. The only way to tell what is going to play next is by the back main cover which has a list of the songs but no information on the musician line ups or years that they were recorded. The recordings sound rather compressed & harsh. I never heard the originals on LPs therefore I don't know "How" they should sound. I do have Soft Machine's later recordings of "Bundles", "Soft", & "Alive & Well" on Import LPs that I bought in the mid-1970s. They sound far superior, but the music is not as experimental as these 5 earlier recordings. The later music also has more guitar solos with less woodwinds. Soft Machine is a "Which came First the Chicken or the Egg Paradox": There was already Minimal Classical music as in Terry Riley, Phillip Glass, & Steve Reich in the mid 1960's. Therefore even classical music was experimenting with rhythms & tape loops. Miles Davis was transferring from acoustic Jazz to electric Jazz Rock as well as the Beatles making edited experiments with their Sargent Pepper LP. The Doors sort of entered into Jazz within a certain sound frame work & then we have Soft Machine; an Avant Guard Rock-N-Roll band turned into Jazz Fusion. Too much was happening during the late 1960s to early 1970s that it's hard to tell who was influencing who. What a contrast with today's music that is manufactured & packaged in Buddle-Gum, Country, Gothic or Rap fashion limitations. You're going to hear some Post-Bop to Experimental Fusion, to some near John Cage noise with these 5 CDs. A lot of the other reviewers are comparing Soft Machine to some Progressive Rock groups but I don't hear enough Classical elements to make the same conclusion. In other words Soft Machine took a different path then ELP, Genesis, & Yes. Soft Machine sounds more like SuperSister, a Dutch Progressive Rock err Jazz influence group of the early 1970s & later with just a hint of Weather Report. If you already have some of these recordings, buy the remainder separately to get more information & maybe a better recording. May I suggest to buy this CD set only if you want a fast, easy, & cheap way of getting the basics of Jazz Fusion from Soft Machine. A 4 is given for the lack of information & what maybe harsh recordings.This Review has started me to think about separating Progressive Rock from Jazz Fusion. SuperSister & Soft Machine were in between these 2 categories. I classify Progressive Rock as story telling in Classical music with a Rock Beat while Jazz Fusion containing more Jazz improv with almost no story telling.

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