Third

I was not excited when I first started this album, it did not begin on the right foot for me. It did get better as things went on, but still a bit too experimental for my tastes. 2.35/5

Unique sounding album, but it wasn’t very interesting to me. I got bored of it about a third through it and it did not pick up for me. I’ve heard prog rock before and this was one of the most boring albums in that genre I’ve heard. So unfortunately I can’t find myself ranking it highly. Favorite Track: Moon In June

Should be called Turd

Cool but not my thing

This is another overlong (75 mins!) live album, so who knows how good they were in the studio, but even Timothy Leary amounts of acid wouldn’t make this enjoyable.

Moon in June

Not for me

Meh

The prog jazz-rock is trying to pull me in but I can smell the weed and god knows what else.

Couldn't really get on board with this one. Sounds like a mix of soundtracks from 70s cop movies, jazz and early 70s Pink Floyd. I'm sure it's probably really good at what it's trying to do. 2/5

slightly all the time is amazing though

Way too long. Also this is just jazz theres no progressive rock here

It’s just noise to me

Some real funky stuff! I enjoyed it but probably not for regular listening

4.5/10

I must not be in the right mindset because this just sounded like a mess.

Quizá eso es música en otra dimensión, no en ésta en la que estoy, o me intrpolan mientras trato de comprender la fusión donde percibo jazz, psicodelia, rock, ruido. No es para mí, es para mí resaca

I like prog. I like jazz. I like Robert Wyatt. I like long compositions. But what is the actual meaning of this? Some redeemable features along the way, but it really is far too long and meandering.

First song is unbearable. Gets better after that. But four total songs on a double album is silly. 2.0

i enjoyed some parts, but others were genuinely painful to listen to!

Soft Machine, Hard Work. (albeit slightly easier after the first track)

So ahead of their time and influential! They influenced the sound of the dial up modem

Sizzler salad of music

Very jazz heavy album with some psychedelics thrown in. I was jamming along to some parts of the songs but then they got a bit to strange for me. The instruments were great and then the singer started making strange sounds for a while before singing. I would have liked the album much more without the singing parts. Just the jazz sound would have gave it a higher score for me.

Je me considère comme un grand amateur de prog rock, mais là même ça j’ai eu de la misère à finir. Y’a des bons passages, mais il y a des moments où tu veux juste pitcher tes écouteurs, histoire de retrouver le doux silence de l’usine de pâte et papier

40min into the album after 2 songs was enough

If you like that sort of thing it’s the sort of thing you’d like. I have a pretty high tolerance for experimental bullshit. But Jesus is it intolerably long. It’s just jazz!!! Like I guess it’s rock because…there’s electric guitars? It’s jazz. And not particularly engaging or fun jazz at that

Jazz crap

I have no reference point for this at all…

There were moments when the jazz was working for me, but the unlistenable opening track, plus the vocals ruined it. Since I managed to enjoy some of it I will grant it 2 stars

Hmm

Förstår inte varför jazz måste låta gnissligt jämt.

Stuck between giving it a 1 or a 2. It gets a 2 but only because 1.5 isnt an option.

I do love the fact this album is very unique... And has a strong prog rock/avant-garde/jazz fusion taste. But I just think there are so many better versions of this genre out there than this album (for example, Chick Corea). This album lacked a general sense of cohesion, struggled to really pull me in, and was a little too much "out there".

It occasionally found a song

28/1001 - The weird intro was more fun than the large sections of jamming with mostly uninteresting solos. Singer is very British (gonna have to get use to that on this list). Last song was kinda cool but the intro was too long and then a random piano intro started and I realized there was 8 more minutes of the same song again!

A few minutes into the first track and I was ready to give this album a 1, but after making my way through it - solid 2. Will I ever rate an album a 1?! This was listenable, and a 1 IMO is not. Wandering, nonsensical jazz is not my thing. I'm itching for more structure and melody. The vocals don't add much at all here either, would possibly prefer just the music. Flute goes hard at times.

My CalArts friends love prog rock and experimental jazz. And I heard a lot of it when I spent my early LA years visiting them. So this is not uncharted territory for me. I can get into it at times and hate it others, but for me the vocals kill this record. I would've much preferred a purely instrumental effort from Soft Machine as Robert Wyatt voice sounds flat as a pancake most of the time.

Track 4 just about saved this album from falling into my one-star bin. I'm proud of my tenacity for listening through the whole gamut of weird noises interspersed with a few melodic interludes.

Albumi #139, 06.02.2025 Pienen tauon jälkeen taas kuuntelemaan 1001 albumia. Soft Machine-yhtyettä en ole kuullut aikaisemmin. Third on nimensä mukaan orkesterin kolmas albumi. Se on tupla-albumi jossa albumin jokaisella neljällä puolella on yksi noin 19 minuuttia kestävä kappale. Third on siirtymäteos yhtyeen aiemmin psykedeelisemmästä tyylistä enemmän jazzrockin ja progressiivisen rockin suuntaan.

Do you like jaaaaaaaz? How about industrial jaaaaaaaaz? Мне вот не особо

один нормальный трек, на 20 минут нахуй

Not really sure what the deal is here. Listenable but nothing particularly good. Will say the 2 side of a 2.5.

This is the second "Third" album I've generated(the first "Third" I had was twenty-fourth). Just like the first "Third", I was underwhelmed. On this one, the shortest song was 18 minutes, and 12 seconds long. This normally wouldn't bother me too much, but with repetitive instrument play, and scarce lyrics, it becomes boring very quickly(especially since this is one of the longest albums I've listened to in my life). For the third consecutive day, I have to give out a "2" rating. I'm tired, boss. Favorite Song: "Moon In June".

Not good just weird. I get the influence on psychedelic rock but I think others just did it way better after them

I regret ruining the start of a good Friday with this album. I mean, jazz and prog rock are already two genres that I struggle with...what did we think would happen if the two merged? This was truly just exhausting.

Was not available

It's too hard to listen to this kind of album: It screams historical importance, probably influencing many artists that I like, but it's so boring that I feel ashamed for listening to it. I can probably just read a music history book with the same effect.

Progressiv rock, 4 laaange numre, liveudgave, lidt psyk, lidt jazzet også

It's a bit *too* avant-garde sounding for my taste starting out, but it improved as it went on.

Never loved prog rock even in its heyday when you weren't cool at school if you didn't & it's aged poorly.

I really wanted to enjoy this but then they started singing and it all went downhill

Thank god it was only the A side, once again I have a hard time enjoying any full length album without lyrics.

Some was nice (I feel it's more of a live music type of listening), some felt was really annoying to listen to.

Absolutely no thank you

Very few regrets when it comes to my career in Houmous & Chutney. Devising and inventing Prog Rock is one of them. 1.7

Very tedious listen. I’m generally pretty open to prog, but this was meandering and each track being 18 minutes long made this a chore. Moon in June is the best track by virtue of there being some sense of direction due to the vocals.

Boring but the occasional good part, glad 20 minute songs died.

Idk seems a little experimental First track? Wait its getting better... Favorites: Moon in June The song is so long

Not my cup of tea

Turd.

Stor 2’er, ikke for mig men lyder imponerende

Jazz-rock progresivo. Se me ha hecho bola. Un 2.

Jazz rock, electronic, ambiental. Muy largo. Si no fuera por lo largo que es, le subiría la puntuación.

Masturbatory self indulgent tripe. Way too long and way too boring. As I reach the end of this, this kinda shit is just so uninteresting. It's just too. fucking. long. 1.5/5

When you get an album called Third right after a Big Star record, and that album is not Big Star's Third, it's going to be a disappointment. This was kinda cool when it was a bit of an abrasive sounds jam near the beginning. The more there were 'songs' and the more the synth played melody lines the worse it got. They do a bunch of work to make sure you're sick of this by the time anything good comes in again. music: hated. (⌐■_■)

Avant-garde, not my thing.

Just noises

Cuando leí Third pensé que era el disco de Portishead.

Uma experiência psicodélica que mais parece uma junção de várias trilhas sonoras. Se quiser viajar nos seus pensamentos, pode colocar isto para tocar. O pessoal nessa época estava bem louco!

If I dig deep enough into bands that influenced my favorite bands, I often come across the name Soft Machine. I have previously put on some of the tracks I found online, but nothing entirely grabbed me. Third appears to go into more of jazz direction than what I remember about them. After a slow experimental mood builder, we finally get glimpses of melodies and progressions about 6 minutes into the opening track. This approach demands alot of attention and buy-in from first-time listeners; as such, faith that the album would be any good almost relies solely on the quality of previous work and their reputation, which assumes someone is aware of that. In the end, endurance pays off. "Slightly All The Time" is more focused in execution, maintaining the jazz approach and changing the feel throughout the composition in order to stay interesting. It would sound more improvised if not for the doubling of the saxophone and flute lines; they are intentional and rehearsed, although they feel freeform since they don't really create and return to a musical theme. Usually the lack of a musical theme on instrumental pieces feels too sprawling, but there's an intelligence in the movements that keeps my interest. It changes often enough to explore different moods, but not too much to be frantic and aimless. "Moon in June" is the first time we hear a vocal: thin, pinched, soft, and vulnerable, and not unlike a more tentative Jerry Garcia. We also feature the guitar and organ more predominantly than on the previous songs. This one did feel sprawling to me. With a name like "Out-Bloody-Rageous" and with the crazy stuff they already threw at me, one would expect this track to be mind-blowing. Another sprawler. I bet this album would be great to see live, to be amongst the mass-hypnotized in that moment, collectively experiencing the weird together. And if it was recorded as a testament to and a document of the live experience, so be it. But there's really only one track that I would play at the house; though ambitious and obviously skilled, as an album, Third is generally too unfocused to keep me coming back for more.

Cool sounds but a little too abstract for me.

I ain't gonna listen to this whole thing. Not 1-star worthy, but f this

Wasnt that good. I like that it exists and it was mustve been pretty cool in the 70s, but I think a lot other bands since did this style better.

Experimental jazz fusion. Excellent musicians (except the occasional singing), but not my kind of music

Not for me.

As Dwayne Johnsson once said: "It's the biggest piece of dog shit that I've ever heard" The album is tiring and boring. No matter how technical and innovative the sound may be, if it doesn't create connections with the listener, none of it makes sense. I'm gonna leave 2 stars today.

Schizo music into And then he got... this run music into Slightly different than usual Robert Wyatt music into Electronic jazz music? I honestly don't know All in all, not the worst Third on this list, but not the best either

Progressive jazz rock. Or jazzy rock prog. Or prog rock jazz? No matter what you call it, it’s still a no from me, dawg.

Wow. First two tracks reminded me of a cart made from parts cobbled together from a Ford, a Tesla, a Chevy and a goat cart, powered by a team of cats and geese. Ready for the journey but no one had the slightest idea of where it was supposed to go

Saved by that second track which is pretty okay jazz. Everything else is overlong garbage I must say.

I get the concept but this was was trying to be too avant garde for me. At some point, it's a lot of noise.

Some tracks are really good. Some not so much.

Not for me.

Not my cup of tea

A bit too chaotic for me. I like a smoother jazz. I know what they were going for and it’s just not my thing

Das ist aber reichlich abgehoben. Jazz, kein Rock

Once you get past the first 5 minutes of the first song, it gets more interesting. But still way too long. I am grateful that the second disc is not on Spotify.

18 minutes for a song is always too much but If ur gonna make a long song atleast make it very good. This wasn’t that.

4/10 - It was sort of jazzy and rock like but worse in every way. The songs were way too long. The album was over an hour and there were only 4 songs. The one song with lyrics was so bad.

Really not good, avant garde

75 minutes. Four songs. This prog must cease. There was actually a few interesting bits in there, but I can't see me thinking 'oh I'd like to listen to minutes seven to nine of that terrible song by Soft Machine'.

The first song is an absolute trainwreck. The last few are better but just fine.

I'm tems of best albums, it's not third that's for sure

Glimpses of quite nice things in amongst a migraine of free jazz prog rock pain.

This wax fine to have on in the background but left do little impression I didn’t even notice when it finished.

I loved the first two Soft Machine albums. This one has always left be cold. I like experimental music, but this one is too disjointed for me. And I like jazz but this one eschews swing in favor of the herky-jerky.

Facelift - oh for fuck's sake. Slightly All The Time - dudes wanking with their instruments. Moon in June - heh, that was English they were singing?! Out-Boody-Rageous - MAYBE...I'd explore this on an insomnia night. all in all, this is NOT how I would have ever spent New Year's Day 1970.

Feels like I'm in a k hole with an aged wizard.

Het begin deed me de moed in de schoenen zinken, nog meer van die experimentele mutkuziek? Gepingel, slordige opnamen (met feedback), veel te lange tracks. Maar gaandeweg werd het iets beter, er werd ook nog een mopje bij gezongen, en al met al is het nog wel uit te zitten. Mijn cijfer was hoger geweest als ze de eerste track hadden weggelaten.

Jaja. Op dit album bewoog de groep weg van de psychedelische klanken. Wat moet het daarvoor dan wel niet geweest zijn? Okee, het volgende nummer is heel wat meer jazzy. Zouden er mensen nou zo'n studio nummer geluisterd hebben, gedacht hebben dat live te willen zien en dan vervolgens iets als het eerste nummer voor hun plaat hebben gekregen? Echt heel bijzonder wordt het tweede nummer in elk geval niet. En dan komt nog een groot vraagteken. Iemand laat af en toe horen dat hij prima snapt wat de toetsen kunnen, maar meestal klinkt het of een kind wat willekeurig indrukt. En de zanger laat af en toe horen dat hij best een aardig stemgeluid heeft, maar het grootste deel van het nummer klinkt er een heel luie zang. Het is bij elkaar zo raar dat het wat intrigeert. Maar een positieve score kan dat echt niet opleveren.

Soort jazz meets progrock. Muzikantenmuziek denk ik, want ondanks dat het ongetwijfeld best aardig in elkaar steekt, mis ik persoonlijk de liedjes en wat vaste melodieën. Het verzandt nu soms in een soort 70s Columbo of Miami Vice detective filmmuziek met een psychedelisch intermezzo waarbij je allerlei felle kleuren ziet die in elkaar over vloeien. Het voordeel aan dit soort muziek is dat we ons niet hoeven te storen aan een Britse zanger met een zeikende en zeurende kutstem. Al begint op het 3e nummer wel iemand een beetje er doorheen te jengelen, dat hadden ze beter achterwege kunnen laten. Ik vind het op zich allemaal niet superslecht ofzo, maar het is mij allemaal iets te vaag en wat te experimenteel. Niet mijn genre muziek. Verpak dit in liedjes van 3 tot 6 minuten en grotere kans dat ik er makkelijker voor open sta. Dit is me allemaal te moeilijk gedoe.

The fact they could do this live is impressive. The fact they did this is not.

It sounds like they don't know how to play the instruments - Ev

Gare jazz rock Had op zich wel zin in jazz maar dit is toch iets te veel van t goede

Jazz, prog, fusion, 20 minute long songs. Bits of the songs are fantastic, other parts blend into one another. Put on your wizard's hat and cape and get stoned while imagining you're going on a quest. Best Tracks: Slightly All the Time; Moon In June

Too much for me. After getting past the initial 5 min irritating noise feedback, the album was OK. Experimental electronica rock/jazz. Moments of it being good but moments of detracting singing and too much wandering.

Gets better after track 1. That's about all I can say really. Prog rock, it's not for everyone

Listening to this album felt like wading through wet cement. Every track just trudges along without any spark or payoff. There’s a sense that something interesting is about to happen, but it never really does. Instead of building momentum, the songs get lost in their own confusion. It tries for deep and experimental, but ends up feeling tedious and joyless. By the end, I was more relieved than anything else.

I felt like I was stuck in a jazzy funk K-hole I couldn’t escape and the disjointed rhythms and chaotic melodies left me feeling lost. I kept waiting for the songs to click, but instead, it was like I was wandering through a maze with no sense of direction. It was just too much for me. I couldn’t find any connection to the album.

First five minutes pissed me off but then it kinda redeemed itself. Not my fav genre but there is a sort of mind quieting effect. Actually update they lost me again

4 tracks and 75 minutes? This is a bad sign, isn't it? Track 1 is apparently live, but there is no clapping, so it's possible it's actually live. I fought with my ear buds for a long time thinking they weren't working but it turned out there just wasn't music for a long time, and I'm using the term music very loosely. There's like 5 and a half minutes of the sound of space whales crying before anything recognized on earth as a musical act takes place. Then there's some sort of space goose battle, I think I died for 9 minutes, though it's possible that either my brain was merely protecting itself or the space geese probed me in some way and I was temporarily beamed up to the mother ship. Anyway, when I came to, the song was mercifully ending. My ears hurt. Did they probe my ears? Maybe this is the best outcome for this journey. The next song is called "Slightly All the Time" which is how I would describe my tendency towards suicide while listening so far. This is much more like music. It's kind of a cool jazz at times, though it's entirely too goddamned long and is best described as the soundtrack of having explosive diarrhea and alternating between phases of having to stand perfectly still, walk briskly, run like hell, and finally release. "Moon in June." Oh good, they've introduced singing into the mix. Now my ears are definitely being probed. I fondly recall a time of space whales singing. I wonder if they were singing about their space whale version of wanting to be home and talking blandly about living through different instances of weather. If they were, they were doing it better than this. Holy space vacuum these lyrics are brutal. It's like stream of consciousness by someone with no consciousness. The latter parts of it is just awful ambient space trash with some sort of alien moaning peppered in. If this the sort of thing we created Space Force to combat, I'm suddenly much more invested in seeing them succeed. "Out-Bloody-Rageous" is more or less how I'd describe this being on the list. This song kind of starts off like a nice, ambient noise suitable for getting settled into a relaxing massage. And then the spacecraft from planet AuralTorture makes its approach. It does launch into some not totally unlikable jazz, so enjoy the few minutes of that before we reawaken to our massage and start the whole nightmare over again. They made this 8 times longer than it needed to be, and it's out-bloody-rageous. There was a moment at the end where I thought, "Wait a minute, this just got good. There is an actual melody and where has this been the last hour and a quarter of my life?" And then I realized the auto-play feature had moved on to Jethro Tull.

Yikes- the intro was very very rough, once the first track got to 8min in the song transformed. love the cover art. It started to grow on me a bit and I was able to get through the album.

Not my thing.

Whole lot of nothing

Ekat 5 minuuttia sai jo melkein skippaamaan koko levyn, mut onneks alkoikin ihan kuunneltava musiikki. Omaan makuun lian ”kokeellista” kuitenkin, joten pitkälle levy ei pötkinyt

Did not like

>Looks at track listing >Four songs >Looks at total album time >1hr15min Hahha okay man. Sure. Why not.

Mid

Due jazz di fila è un crimine😭 mi sento troppo superficiale ma che palle

i primi minuti della prima canzone sembrano fatti da Ross Geller in quell'episodio di Friends dove usa la tastiera per comporre canzoni usando suoni completamente a caso, tipo esplosioni o cani che abbaiano. stesso effetto. grazie al cielo poi migliora leggermente, ma comunque ne ho piene le balle di sto progressive rock un po' psichedelico, ho capito che ha fatto la storia, ma sinceramente, anche basta.

Admittedly probably wasn’t on enough drugs to enjoy this. I found this to be the musical equivalent of the drunk guy at the bar who won’t stop rambling and never arrives at the point.

I see where Budos band gets their inspiration from. Chill but meh

Favorite Track: Slightly All The Time

Avant garde trash again

I dunno. Maybe too noodly for me. At times it felt like it was just jazz, but other times it was just background and uninteresting.

Too much prog rock on this list

Call it what you'd like, post psychedelic rock, whatever, sub-genre as you please, this is jazz - I listened to the whole thing without opening a vein - close call.

Struggled with this. I thought Robert Wyatt was in Soft Machine (probably wrong!)

2.5/5

The only thing stopping this album from being a one is Slightly All The Time proving serviceable jazz.

Bonkers 'experimental' music. Rock's equivalent of Stockhausen. Strangely listenable but not enjoyable.

English prog rock group try to make an avant-garde jazz album to mixed results. It’s a very ambitious and impressive record that I just didn’t really enjoy listening to

The first song was just annoying. As if it was designed specifically to irritate me. The rest was a little better, but not enough (not even close) to win me over.

Well I certainly battled it but Third does have its moments. Yeah it's too long and most of it is a waste of my time but the last third of both Slightly All The Time and Moon In June build to something fairly enjoyable. I have a bit of a natural bias towards the saxophone and it's welcome here as a jazz element to otherwise probably forgettable prog, let's call it a 2 and get on with the day.

Didn't much care for this, to be honest. Long, meandering, prog with not a huge amount of excitement. Seemed to focus much more on the musicians enjoying themselves and showing off rather than making something that would appeal to the listener. 2/5.

About half of this album was decent and kind of interesting and half, not so much. Therefore, 2.5/5.

Usually I like prog rock but this is a bit much. Some of the lyrics are really corny and the guy's voice is pretty annoying

Not for me, anyone younger than genX, or anyone else who can count on one hand the number of times they’ve smoked weed. With that in mind, I will give props to these guys for being this musically fluid while surely being cooked out of their brains

This whole scene bores me. I doff my proverbial cap to those who created it so I can enjoy all my music since but I can’t be motivated to really listen. Happy to graze and have it on while I work or whatever but it’s a no thanks from me.

Ehhh

I may have spoken too soon when I accused Aqualung of being the lamest album I’d ever heard. Best song: Slightly All the Time

Really hard start. And then it got jazzy proggy silly, and I don't have headspace today for this.

Muita viagem, mas passa bem.

Favorite Track: Slightly All The Time

Didn't really understand what I was listening to here. Prog type jazz? I dunno but I didn't care and was well ready for it to be over

Just because it's weird doesn't mean it's good

A double album with only four songs 1 per side makes this album drag a little bit as each song is nearly 20 minutes long. I like prog im still not sure about jazzy prog I liked it but I feel like everything was too long and I found myself thinking of other things. Out-Bloody-Rageous was pretty great and a good closer.

Simply: it does not work for me

how dare you begin an album with this

I had no idea what to expect and as soon as I saw this was just 4 tracks, each around 19 minutes each, I knew it was time to strap in for some hippie proggy jams. Which is exactly what this was. It was fine for sure, but not really my jam, and overly long for sure.

Not for me ! Parts were interesting but it lost me. 2*

Eh.

Not for me

I was not a fan of this. I guess I didn't really understand it. I'm sure it was inventive, but it's just not for me.

Points for uniqueness, this puts the jazz in prog...or the prog in jazz...not sure which is more prominent but I read "rock band" and that's not what happened.

Not for me. Progressive experimental jazz. Too long but songs are very predictable once they start so nothing really surprising for me. I feel that being from 1970 it was sonething new and different for the time and imagine it created quite a buzz but for me Ive seen more like it and the beatles didnexperimenting at its best.

Þetta hafði allt til brunns að bera til að vera skemmtilegt en svo var þetta bara ekki skemmtilegt. Ég fílaði ekki tempóið í djassinum og svo voru aðeins of miklar tilraunir til að fíla á svona plötu. Ég hefði alveg örugglega fílað þetta í einhverjum jam-djassklúbb en ekki á plötu. Nei takk.

Not into it...

It's ok I guess. To be honest I had it on but it never forced its self to be anything other than background noise

What in the shit is this? Let’s go ahead and lie and say I listened to this all the way through and they’ll probably still let me into music heaven.

Not sure on this. Don't get me wrong, I quite like prog, but some of the jazzy bits get annoying.

Rock progresado

TBH, a lot of this jazz is indistinguishable from each other and, without a vocalist, Soft Machine are a bit more one dimensional than others

As everyone here, I loathed the intro of the first track and then eased into it. did not hate it but i don't think I'll ever listen to this again.

Well this 1¼ hour long album of four tracks came immediately after another 1¼ hour long album recorded by another "soft", and of the two I'd probably go for Soft Cell over this one. It starts badly with an overindulgence of cacophony. Yes, it does get better in a prog wankery kind of way, but ultimately it's a prog rock album. It is not an outstanding example of prog, and what does make it notable is the amount of just unpleasantness contained..

So hard for me! I don't give it a ⭐ out of respect and because it doesn't live up to my rap ratings.

This was a perfectly enjoyable album of instrumental music until the Moon in June track presented itself. Singing not a strong point, lyrics didn’t do it for me either. Knocked down a star for that one (which is 1/4 of a four track album).

Mostly noise to me but some decent sounds

A bunch of wankers wanking. The last tune (and I use this term loosely) was the best of the bunch. Maybe I should have hit the bong before listening.

Yuppers

I do not really get it. And that‘s not meant und a interesting way.

Not to be harsh but this was everything in an album I don’t really like. Extraordinary long with little to no singing and nothing to make up for the absence of voices. I see that it is influential but I just didn’t like it.

I mean I don’t hate this but I also have no desire to sit through it again

That first track is pretty cringe and is somewhere between acid jazz and noise. Moon in June is outstanding! Definitely an off the beaten track album that was not played for a currently existing audience but might have made a lot more sense in the psychedelic scene where it was birthed out in the shadow of Pink Floyd. Hey, these guys are still playing!

Improvisational jazz rock isn’t something that captures or commands my attention. So most of “Third” drifted into the background as it meandered along, only to jar me out of my stupor with elements that seemed more akin to space rock than the Hawkwind or Spiritualized albums we listened to the next week.

Best consumed while laying in the dark before bed. That’s a limiting listening scenario. It’s not all trash, being loosely formed prog/jazz rock and all, but it’s best when not paying attention.

Just kinda meanders. The moon june song has some lyrics, structure and ok soloing. Re: the opening track - it is interesing to see all these prog bands creating "innovative!" noise and 30 years before radiohead deconstructed rock and roll or whatever

Lite experimentellt, men det lät i alla fall inte som att de ströp en gås i 56 minuter.

Genuinely intriguing mishmash of rock and jazz.

Nah

Loud piercing nonsense at the beginning of this album almost made me turn it off. After that it was "listenable", but seemed to have no direction or purpose. I'm all for improvisational jams, psychedelic type music...but this was more like a science experiment gone bad vs a legitimate album....with just a pinch of potential, at times.

doing LSD seems terrible

The first song is an atrocious attack on the ears and the rest of the album is mediocre at best. Not a fan.

Overall listenable, but about 20 mon too long.

Endless and pointless, yet with some proper songs hidden, e.g., at the beginning of Moon in June.

Meh... ekki spennandi.

Babbity prog shite. Skipped track 2. Skipped track 3. Met by silence, relieved when I thought I'd lost track 4. Left it playing but left the room.

A lot of tune up in the front. I almost gave up. But I continued. Too much work for 2 stars.

Y'know, I don't hate Jazz, but oh my GOODNESS did each song have to be nearly 20 minutes long??? I can excuse 20 minute long songs if they're interesting, see Echoes - Pink Floyd, but there's nothing here that warrants that timeframe for me.

I'll be honest, I hated this. The only reason I gave it 2 stars is because I sort of enjoyed the "acid jazz" sounds that were interspersed between the other noise.

File this one under disappointment - totally judged this book by its' cover and wasn't at all what I expected. Even having read the bio I thought it was going to be one thing and it was something else entirely. I don't think it's a bad album per-se, but even had it been labelled differently I don't think I'm as into experimental jazz records as your average participant

Nothing special

Boring mess.

this was not for me. mostly instrumental (i think one song had lyrics). the songs just kind of meander seemingly endlessly. the album only has four songs, but… none of the songs are under 18 minutes long.

Why is jazzso weird man

I had to skip two songs

Not for me.

As much as I enjoy experimentation in my music, this just skirts around ideas and just as you think they're onto something the acid takes them somewhere else and it's back to square one. There is some truly interesting snippets hidden in here but finding them was a challenge and not an altogether enjoyable one.

I’m about to turn this shit off. I do appreciate how cool this is in theory and it’s interesting place in the history of psych and prog rock, but it’s literally never what I want to listen to

It didn’t hurt me to listen…

Jazz-rock progresivo. Se me ha hecho bola. Un 2.

I don’t care what the critics say - this is the kind of album that makes people think they hate jazz. Ugh. Mindless, pointless, meandering noise.

Like a long jam session…not terrible, try jazz-fusion sound. Background music?

Ok, so at first I thought my headphones had broken because I couldn’t hear anything. Apparently that was just the introduction. Then I read a review which said to not listen to the first track first, so I switched. I also read the review that said they liked the bit when they sang. I thought this was a joke but no, there is a singing bit. Overall I have to say it’s a no from me but that’s because I just don’t like jazz.

kind of takes you on a journey but gets very dull and background-y especially with the jazz influence. starts to show something by track 3 however that's almost 40 mins in.

After King Crimson, I was excited to see the short track list/long run time combination. However, this was an underwhelming album that could’ve used more moments of excitement.

A handful of decent moments, but nothing I'd listen to again.

It was fine at parts, but the first 5 minutes were unlistenable. It's 1.25 hours and 5 songs

This is a pretty confusing album as it says rock and they talk about prog rock but after listening this was basically jazz with a couple of songs with guitar heavy instrumentals. It’s prog rock because they added a guitar. Not sure if that makes sense but either way it was confusing and dull. Not much moor to say. 4.0/10

not very listenable - a little bit like if cats had synthesizers and saxophones and jammed whilst on acid

Jazz noodling. Occasional interesting moments but if 2 minutes of 18 are good, make a 2 minute song.

Overly long songs and not really my thing

yeesh. . .long form cacophonous jazz.

overall not my thing, but i can see why people like it. although, "slightly all the time" isn't too bad

i find long tracks like this tend to very off a lot of attention but i was kept pretty interested. i find these are songs i wouldn’t go back to but the listen was okay overall. i like the style, progressive jazz-rock sounds pretty good but i think the only thing that puts this down for me is the length of tracks. light 5 i’m giving 2 stars as i wouldn’t want to go back to this album in any time soon.

Moon in June was the only track that kept this from being a one-star review. I'm sure they are masters of the inventive, rock-jazz genre, but I guess it's just over my head. Did not enjoy.

Got better as it went on, but even the best song still felt like listening to a King Crimson reject. A very exhausting and long listen. I'm super torn on this one, and I like to believe that I have pretty high tolerance to pretentious prog nonsense.

Okay

The album as a whole I'd describe as spaceship dreams. Someone must have written a PhD thesis in music on this album. What a ride. Will I listen to it again? Eh. If I could cut out the noise sections, maybe. But probably not.

why? why does 1001 albums keep torturing me with multiple 20-minute songs? i'm a good person. i don't deserve this.

this was... interesting. there were some parts of each song that i thought were really cool and musically captivating. but there were also many, many parts that were not. coupled with the tracks all being nearly 20 minutes long, woof. probably will not come back to this. favorites: (parts of) slightly all the time, moon in june

its between a 1 and a 2...generally horrible, but not the worst of the worst.

Never heard of this group. At first, I thought I heard a Miles Davis sound under some more rock-like instruments. So I suppose it's Jazz Fusion? This experiment did not hold my interests enough to have me revist the album, though I may check for other albums, as bands willing to experiment have my respect.

Man, I can usually get around longer Tracks but this album is one big exception. There are some parts of this that I like, but for something that's so long I need lots of elements to click for me.

Listened once. While I enjoyed the music as background, 18 minute tracks are not my thing. 2/5.

Struggled to listen to all of it. It’s not the album Suicide so a 2 instead of a 1.

Nope not a fan of most jazz fusion albums Iv tried, a prog rock one is just painful to my ears.

Cat on the Piano! I swear, the start of this album brought back boyhood memories of being woken by our cats walking on the piano keys. They’d sneak into the rec room, then get shut in overnight. Fucking spooky the first few times hearing this in the middle of the night! Anyway, Apple Music calls this Rock. Hardly. I call it pretentious Noise Jazz. I’m sure plenty of folk get a thrill. Not remotely for me.

Not my cup of tea, but "Slightly All the Time" is pretty great.

1-2

It’s not that this is a bad album. But so often I wondered, “What’s the point of this?” There were inspired moments, but everything dragged on for too long and it was so far from the best prog rock I’ve ever heard that I feel it hasn't earned higher than 2 stars on this list. Perhaps if I read that it was incredibly influential or groundbreaking, but it doesn’t really seem like it was.

Acid is GReAt!

Third is a live, double album by the English rock band Soft Machine, and is their third album overall (hence the title). It's a jazz rock and electronic piece with a single composition for each of the four sides. Critically acclaimed, this album did a great job of fusing jazz and rock that made this the top album of Soft Machine's catalog. I liked the concept for this album which is live jazz rock, but the tracks were too long in my opinion as a result of this recording process. There's a few slow spots or even quiet/silent sections that I feel like could have been edited out to decrease the run time. If you like jazz, then you should appreciate this album.

An overly long and samey progressive jazz rock slog.

Moon In June //

Psychedelic Rock. Für Liebhaber.

I love jazz, and prog rock like Pink Floyd and The Alan Parsons Project, but could not imagine ever playing this again.

Vibes I think. No lyrics in rock songs is always kind of a turn off for me but I’m kind of grateful for it here since the guy’s voice is really pathetic and annoying. But it’s funny so I’ll give it a pass. I really don’t like how all the drums are panned to the right the entire time. It’s really distracting and grating after a while. Nevermind, it’s not really vibes

Nah. Just nah. It’s not egregiously terrible, but these songs drone endlessly on without any clear direction; especially Track 3, my god. It wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t for the most baffling instrumental choices I think any of these albums have made so far. For a pretty early attempt to blend jazzy instruments with electronica and synth, I have to give it credit for occasionally succeeding. The problem is, those moments are so short and so fleeting under these incredibly fucking long songs that it’s like finding a $1 bill while you’re walking through a sea of pennies. Those moments are enough to put this album at a 2 for me, but… this just wasn’t it, man.

That's not my taste in musik.

I don't think this is for my listening pleasure. I can see it's interesting for music, but no song really needs to be over 9 minutes....

I can imagine how back when this came out it may have been incredible, but with today‘s music and my musical background I don‘t really get it (yet). Though I gotta say i really enjoyed the vibe in ‚Slightly All The Time‘

I may have gotten into them during the day, but they're not for me now. I did like some elements, but it wasn't cohesive for me to like as a whole.

Jammy psychedelic jazz rock. Nothing too interesting is said in this and the bass is mixed way too loud.

1.5

Weird shit

Long, drawn out jazz rock. A double album with one 18+ minute track on each side. It's not bad per se, but is somewhat dull, self indulgent and tedious. Rating: 1.5/5 Playlist track: Slightly All The Time Date listened: 05/01/24

Very long jazz songs, four in total. A small portion of the songs were decently fine jazz. The rest was a little too experimental for me, with squawking trumpets and weird beats and synthesizer. Not very musical at all

Ab dem 2. Lied wird's besser

Did not really get into it

I some times wonder if I had grown up when psychedelic rock was a thing if these would make more sense.

Didn't grow on me. A tough listen

Something strange

This was a challenge. The first 6 minutes are just some weird soundscape, no real melody or anything, but if you treat it like an orchestra tuning up you can get through it, and it improves, marginally. The rest is ...fine (and I like prog), but I really wouldn't want to hear this again. It's over long, not interesting enough, and Robert Wyatt's voice, which works really well on Shipbuilding, does not really work here.

I thought it was OK. 2/5

Bra at alle sangane e over 18 minutt. Kunne sikkert satt pris på da hvis eg hadde hørt da nåken titalls ganga, men satte seg ikkje heilt etter første forsøk

An odyssey. I’m still getting over the audacity it takes to start off an album like that. It straightened out a bit but why wouldn’t I just listen to other jazz?

Too long; didn't care.

5/10, didn't really get into this? Some of the repeating elements were cool, but the minimalism aspect didn't shine through well for me

enjoyable in parts, but so all over the place that it's hard to justify the parts i like, yk? 2

Sorry, too out there for my liking.

I typically like jazz. These songs I did not. They dragged on for 18-20mins taking forever to build.

This isn't offensively bad, but I can't really recommend anything about it. 1.5.

Very few songs are good enough to justify being almost 20 minutes long. None of these songs were worth the length.

It felt like a really long jazz record. I didn't turn it off. Low bar for jazz records.

Bored out of my mind. Thought maybe it needs some vocals. Then they came in on the third song and didn’t help.

Jazz rock, electronic, ambiental. Muy largo. Si no fuera por lo largo que es, le subiría la puntuación.

80 minutes, 4 tracks, mostly nothing. 4/10

I like a lot of prog albums quite a lot. This one is very "mid" as the kids say. It's extremely meandering and just feels like it's padded out to fill up a double album for the sake of it. The musicianship is loose without feeling intentionally so. It comes off as amateurish and bored.

Usually a huge fan of long, sprawling tracks, but I do require some interesting journeys along the way. This LP doesn't have much to share in that department, choosing instead to meander and bump its way through 4 artificially extended tracks that gave been inflated to reach an arbitrary goalpost of 18 minutes each. Just could not grab on to anything this LP was trying serve, which again is a damn shame given how long tracks like these don't come through here often

Je me suis longtemps demandé pourquoi l'expression "énorme daube" avait été créée aussi peu de temps après la publication de cet album et j'ai finalement compris hier soir.

There's some cool stuff in here. An atmospheric proggy jazz fusion album utilizes heavy synths, atonality, and minimalism to draw out four 20-minute tracks without it becoming too grating. It sounds dated, with a lot of moments feeling like gimmicks you could use with technology at the time that has become overshadowed with what the 80s could offer. It takes half of "Facelift" to get to the point, where it becomes something that vaguely resembles Bitches Brew with how some instruments screech and class while others remain constant. It tries to be as weird and abrasive as possible, and it's pretty good at this. It does have a natural progression. "Slightly All the Time" is chill and groovy, feels like a more low-key Chicago song. Goes through a lot of variations, emphasizing the improvisational method. It's ok but doesn't impress me much, and some of the transitions feel forced. "Moon in June" sounds like a typical prog rock song, less jazz, and more of the overly dramatic vocals like what you hear from Peter Gabriel. But it's god awful. And I think he's doing this on purpose to parody love songs? To make a point he doesn't need lyrics? I seriously can't tell. He gets meta in a few parts, "Don't really know what I'm singing about" or more subtlety, "Oh but you never say you like me... or something nice like that" that almost seems like he's purposely singing and writing lazily. According to wikipedia, it's a stream of consciousness, so I wonder if he's just singing whatever comes to his mind on the spot while recording, no written lyrics. Justifies it a little, but still shows he has no talent in rapping. Nevertheless, the music is pretty dull except for the instrumental middle section. Again, they try ending in a long dramatic unsettling coda, which serves its purpose and stands out, but doesn't impress me. We end with a space rock track "Out-Bloody-Rageous." It's mystical and otherworldly, but it doesn't take the beginning idea too far and it gets a bit boring. Turns into another jammy jazz fusion section, fairly good. The middle point shifts back to space rock, this time replacing the brighter industrial synths with a sax lead, kinda cool. In the last quarter, the bright synths return but multiplied and faster. Serves more as ambient music at that point. This piece does feel like a clustered mess overall, and I feel like the different sections only help me from not getting exhausted by each of them. For a prog album, they mess around a lot and get some cool sounds. But it's a very messy record, with very little that blew me away. On a few occasions I wondered how they did it, and you have to admire their innovative ideas, but they really take them very far or have them work together.

Noisy musical experimentation that periodically reveals beauty, but not often enough…

I didn't really care much for this. It started off pretty terrible and although it did get better, it didn't ever redeem itself, in my opinion.

First song i found hard to listen ro Song 2 and 3 are quite nice but they dont exactly grab me I honestly expected better of what i read... not for me

Had trouble staying awake during this one

At its best, it reminded me of Traffic, which is a good thing. I'm a fan of prog rock overall, but this was too much pointless canoodling for me. 2 stars.

When I saw 4 tracks and 1 hour and 20 minutes I groaned. The groan was warranted but at the same time it wasn’t horrible. But I was also high. So take that for what it’s worth.

Un disco densooooo AF. Malditas drogas.

Almost jazz prog rock. Interesting as background music, cool horn section.

Didn’t love it didn’t hate it.

Heel erg jazzy-chaotisch. Maar net georchestreerd genoeg dat het niet stoort.

i reckon this would only make much sense if you had a monstrous bowl of narcotics. might buy it on vinyl and head to La Paz to get on it with Manny Pacquaio.

EATING CHOCOLATE CAKE IN THE SHOWER EVERY MORNING HAS TAUGHT ME HOW TO FEEL LIKE A REAL MAN. I CAN USE IT TO DISGUISE WHEN I SHIT MYSELF. CAKE AND SHIT, CAKE AND SHIT, CAKE AND SHIT. SHOWERING WITH CAKE AND SHIT. SHITTING IN THE SHOWER, SHITTING IN THE SHOWER. CAKE AND SHIT. I'M A REAL MAN. EAT MY SHIT.

Get a big plate of drugs in you and stick this on. They're playing it at RadioSHACK in La Paz. Half man/half fly Scott Kelly is being sick in there as we speak.

It's jazz noodling. They've got skills, but who cares? Best track: Slightly All the Time

Fuck this. I hate when the artist has no damn respect for the listener to make their music even a little enjoyable. There are so few bits to latch on to in this project that they may as well not exist entirely. There are barely any enjoyable aspects to this whole album. 2/5

The first track is bad. The second track, Slightly All The Time, is pretty good ambient music for a metropolitan city. I enjoyed the surprising directions the track went in. The third track is bad. The fourth track is bad. 1.5 stars.

Imagine going to see this live and waiting about 10 minutes for something to happen in a song...... I don't mind progressive music but that opening track was too much of nothing but noises. Second track was better, quite jazzy. I dunno, rest of it passed me by a bit. Not horrible, but certainly won't be back

Not my style

Maybe I wasn't in the best mood but this album didn't do much for me

Couldn't get through the first song

Yaaaaawwwwwwwnnnn

This was quite a chore. Kinda thankful much of the album was blacked out by Spotify.

It’s like someone said, “Oh, you don’t like jazz? Let us show you just how bad jazz can get.”

Sucked. Whenever I felt like it was about to redeem itself, it'd get worse.

I only know this artist because this site had me listen to Robert Wyatt's "Rock Bottom." I didn't really enjoy that album, but let's hope this one is more enjoyable. I enjoy prog rock and jazz. This is somehow neither and both. And on top of it all, still not enjoyable. To paraphrase Dr. Ian Malcolm: These musicians were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.

Massive double album of dry, academic-sounding prog that sounds like it cares more about music theory than it does about actual human emotion.

Being a big fan of Robert Wyatt I had high hopes for this album but those hopes were destroyed when I heard the first song. It sounds like the soundtrack to your worst nightmares.