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What are we doing here guys?
Not my style
tired spongebob phew meme
To get away with this nonsense it's got to sound like everyone is an absolute virtuoso. There are moments in track 2 when they manage it, when it's just drums, a bit of organ and the sax isn't trying too hard, but I don't think it's possible to be a stylophone virtuoso. Track 1 is truly awful. Track 2 is mostly ok, like a 70s soundtrack and occasionally quite listenable. Track 3... The singing and lyrics make me wish it was another 18 minute instrumental. Oh my god it's horrible. It's actually painful to listen to. I'm determined to make it to the end, because how can this go on for 19 minutes??? Oh great, more stylophone. I don't care if it isn't actually a stylophone, it's probably not because there's too many notes. Finally it's (genuinely) good to get to some speeded up and slowed down violin that sounds like The Clangers. That's what the song was missing. Holy fuck this is terrible. Track 4 starts more interesting with a bit of electronic drone, but then goes into average jazz rock plus more stylophone again. This one is ok or maybe it's all relative at this point. I'm not a fan.
I knew when I saw a four-song album ran 75 minutes that I was gonna be annoyed listening to this, and sure enough, this was truly awful. Just noise and precious few melodies. The track with vocals had a few interesting moments that kind of reminded me of Mars Volta (I'll bet those dudes LOVE this band), but overall this was not for me at all. Yeet this shit into the sea.
Long, boring, repetitive, and straight up sounds bad. I despised listening to this, it drags on. I knew it was going to suck when I saw that it was more than an hour long and only had 4 songs. I wish I never had to listen to albums like this again.
Oh boy, when you open an album up and see 4 tracks with over an hour long runtime, you're either in for a great time or a miserable one. My experience was mostly the latter. This album lies somewhere between prog rock, psychadelic rock, and jazz. It's a lot, and it's a slog if you're not into it. I hope these guys stuck to instrumental work though, the lyrics and vocals on "Moon In June" were... pretty bad. That whole song rubbed me the wrong way to be honest. I really liked the beginning of "Out-Bloody-Rageous" but then the horns came in and killed the whole vibe. There are some good instrumentals in parts, and sometimes that guitar comes chugging in with some nice distortion and I have hope but then nothing truly epic ever pans out. I have to give this 1 star. Its just not good enough in my opinion. There are just so many jarring sounds. It's way too much. I heard this before I died and wish I had that time back.
I just didn’t get it
A pretty exhausting listen. Found myself checking how far along I was before the second song even finished. Just way too long Favorite Song: Moon in June
Too long. Won’t listen again
I really couldn't wait for this to be over.
Do you like random sounds that go nowhere for over an hour? Then Soft Machine have the album for you. The only thing that’s Out-Bloody-Rageous about this album is that I had to waste my time listening to it. As clear a 1* as you’ll find.
I’m no prog or jazz-rock hater, but Jesus was this album hard work. It’s so meandering, shapeless and self-indulgent, painful and hideously dull. The pattern is set with ‘Facelift’, the opening track, as we get five minutes of ambient noise before anything vaguely musical comes in. It improves later on, but never becomes more than okay even in its best moments. This applies to the whole album really. I liked ‘Moon in June’, the only track with vocals, even less, due to the terrible singing and lyrics. The album also suffers from weird edits, and poor sound quality and production.
tom for ord
Some real jazz fusion, not that Steely Dan stuff. Absolutely terrible tho.
Bloody hell, utter tripe.
My only solace is that Spotify had grayed out the 4th side of the double album so I couldn't listen to it. Drudgery.
I liked parts and can appreciate some of the weird sounds but come on.
Oh for fuck's sake...
I tried, with this I really did but no matter how good a song might sound, 18 mins of instrumental won't do it for me so it came to an early end. Some things just aren't made fro everyone.
Kind of excited for this one after reading GPTs breakdown. It is described as Jazz Rock. There are only 3 tracks on Spotify though. But that's a combined total of 56 min. This first track is a little anxiety ridden, like nails on a chalkboard. that whole first track is just noise man, couldn't even finish it. The second track was a little more enjoyable but damn this is brutal. 2 stars.
Baustelle, Gerstetten, Deutschland. Weird shit.
“There’s no option to give you a zero so I give you a one”. Dissonant, unsettling, lost the plot
Talvez se eu peidar em um microfone por 1h54 min e publicar, eu entre nessa lista.
I should have taken the advice from the person who said not to listen to track 1 first. It didn't get better for me, just a slog of a listen. Not for me at all.
Awful I hated this so much
the hell
At first I was disappointed that Spotify didn't have the 2nd disc of this release, but quite soon after starting playing the 1st disc I was very happy about that. Awful.
Another prog-rock "classic" from an English band is in this book. I was already on edge because Robert Wyatt is involved with this band and I have not totally enjoyed the two albums he has in this book. The first track sounds like a song that Chicago (whose debut album is in this book) would have written, except I didn't like it quite as much as I like Chicago's jazzy horn sounds. I had a difficult time determining where the first song ended and the second song began. The last song, Out-Bloody-Rageous, has less than 100,000 plays on Spotify which seems bizarre to me considering that's about 20% of the plays the 3rd least popular track has on this album. These are all four really long songs and I don't see the purpose of this album's inclusion in this book. Facelift takes about 7 minutes to actually get moving in a direction that doesn't sound like just jazz-ish noise. Other groups do prog-rock, and even jazz prog-rock, better and they are already represented.
Some of the most self-indulgent bullshit I've ever listened to. There is some prog I absolutely love, but this ain't it.
i will have to revist i think i could like it but this is just too much for me.
1,5 Highlights: Slightly All The Time, Moon in June
Imagine members of Soft Machine had to give up being freeform musicians and applied their undoubted randomness skills to other occupations... Imagine one of them performing surgery on you and you wake up after an operation to find your knee bone is connected to your head bone, your head bone is connected to your finger bone, etc. You'd have similar feelings of discombobulation as listening to their cats-on-piano "music" for over an hour. Physically and mentally scarred I am after an hour of this bollocks in my ears... Bollocks in my ears? Sounds like one of their surgical manoeuvres 😬
If your opening track is 18 mins long at least make it interesting from the get go… Haha, turns out they love a 18-19 min track and all of them are a yawnfest! To much noodling and a doodling for my taste.
some songs i had to skip entirely, and others part of... it felt like pure noise at times rather than a flow of music that was enjoyable
This was an extremely long album, with two discs, but luckily the second one was unavailable on Spotify, so I got away with listening to only around an hour and 20 minutes of noise. This is possibly worse than the out-of-tune jazz that some people like listening to, but the general idea is that it's not really something enjoyable, but it is something that I would listen to in the background of a very intense chase scene in an old movie.
What a start on track 1, nearly ten minutes of rather unpleasant noise. After that it becomes actual music for a while. Some of the music is fine in a vacuum I guess, but this presentation is probably not for me. A double album of long (18+ minutes EACH TRACK), meandering jazz tracks. When there are vocals, they feel half-hearted and they're nearly drowned out by the instruments. I'd much prefer shorter self-contained tracks. I can see it working for someone, but I can't get into it.
Neljän monsterimitallisen Pehmytmasiina. En ole näin ristiriitaista levyä kuunnellut vielä tähänmennessä. Noi jazzisaxot yms erikoisuudet pistää irvistämään tosi pahasti, mutta sitte taas välillä basso, urut ja rummut laitto höristämään korvia että ompa ihan kivan kuulosta. Mutta ei niin kivoilta että olisin päässy yli jazzeilusta. Levyllä vedetään niin yli genrerajojen että en ihmettele ollenkaan että on ollut jotain todella jännää tullessaan. On kyllä vieläkin.
could not get behind this
Neprišiel som tomu na chuť
How intense of a fever dream should I risk before practising self-care xo. (Read: Gave up towards the end of the first one).
I tried with this one but this is probably for musicians more knowledgeable than I to enjoy. It feels like a noise project with jam band and jazz influences. Couldn't make it past the first track, although I did listen to it's entirety
Third?? Wouldn't even put this last!
Haha va. Näe. Även om tredje låten hade bra bitar!
Meh
This is just noise?
I don't enjoy jam bands and this was way too jazzy for my tastes
I thought I would never have to hear Robert Wyatt again- I was unfortunately wrong. Specific rating- 1.3 Fav song - out bloody rageous Least fav- moon in june
These guys were just having a fun little (long) jam together- absolutely no need for it to be recorded or sold though. Felt like a lot of effort to get through it all. Favourite song: Out Bloody Rageous Least: Facelift
i just didn’t like it at all and had no interest to keep listening.
Blind album and artist. This album no from me jazz dog.
juste un méli mélo de sons, comme si ils pensaient que ça allait être intéressant à écouter, nul..
Absolutely everything wrong with 70s/80s prog rock summed up: stupidly long pretentious crap without form or function that exists solely because some people wanted to record themselves noodling on a guitar. The jazz parts were okay but nothing special or standout and then it went back to more mind-numbingly boring and dull prog. Compare to something like Yes, where it's stupidly long guitar noodling but it's great fun to listen to.
1/5 - Would rate very highly on my list of 1,001 albums to listen to after I die.
Wtf was this?! I just can't with these types of albums, sooooo fucking weird
2/10
01) Facelift - 1,5 02) Slightly All the Time - 2,0 03) Moon in June - 3,0 04) Out-Bloody-Rageous - 2,5 TOTAL: 2,25 (23/100) Current ranking:
What was that hot garbage? Ok, maybe hot garbage is a little harsh. In the right mood that might work… but I was not in the mood to go all experimental prog jazz today. Only a 1 😬
This sounds like four people tuning up at once and just agreeing not to stop.
What did I just listen to?? It sounded like two whales f*cking. That was an assault of my senses. I’m seriously considering bringing up charges. I have no doubt that this is the album they play in Git-mo when the terrorists are being water-boarded. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Not for me. 1/5
Malort is also complex and challenging. That doesn't mean it's tasty.
Seriously? Another English prog rock band? And its a fucking double album? I'm done with these man, and I love prog rock. There are entire countries that aren't represented on this list that have probably centuries of music better than this album
1.5
Any Album that has you listen to over 5 minutes of screeching is a 1 star album I do not care what the rest is or could be its an awful album.
Horrible. Hated every second of it. Listened to it right before bed and it gave me such nightmares I think I might have chipped a tooth from clenching.
Absolutely unbearable
Just because you can produce a double album with only 4 tracks it doesn’t mean you should.
NOPE...Hated it!
Someone needs to find these master tapes and burn them. Nothing about this was worth hearing. But I am committed to listening to entire albums hoping to find another red great music I've never heard, so I keep an opened mind to the extent of being patient when an album opens up with no apparent direction in hopes it'll get better. Again, another selection did not. I'm only around 25 days in and the majority of choices given to me have been absolute failures....as this had. How any record company could invest money in manufacturing a product not worth wiping your ass with is beyond me. I would give this negative stars id I had the opportunity.
I'm a big prog guy and enjoy soft machine but having this as an album you just listen to before you die? Nah. Starting with an 18 min live jam then the following 3 tracks are jams too is just a lot to take in. I do enjoy parts of it but it just feels like recorded jams than planned and thought out songs, plus not much thought put into this as a coherent piece of art. I mean on this list comparing it to Marvin Gaye's what's going on, which really thinks about song transitions is just incomparable. Can't rate this high in the context of this list, its just repetitive and the jams get dull. Maybe if you smoke a joint or have the album on in the background of a party you're throwing while drinking wine and eating your fancy canapés. Sorry prog fans but this is not an album you must hear before you die, I'd say most should avoid it.
Get the fuck out of here with four nearly 20 minute long songs of poorly arranged and mastered noodling.
insufrible, 16 minutos cancion por cancion
Reminds me of sitting through a av exhibit at a modern art museum.
Yeah this one definitely wasn’t for me. I’m not having a good run of albums at the moment.
unbelievably badly
Unpleasant
If you can make it through Track 1, it barely improves.
Me siento mal. Me obligué a mi misma a escuchar hasta el final todo, incluso lo que no me gustaba pero con este album la tuve re difícil.
too experimental for me - didn't get it
Too long
Horrible!
To say that this album was a chore is to do a disservice to chores. It was long an laborious without any sense of cohesive musicality. At time it sounded like a cat walking over a keyboard but somehow even worse than that. Do not listen
unlistenable prog jazz crap.
really long
Terrible prog
This is like an album made of only the bad parts of pink floyd. Also making it four 20 minute tracks somehow makes it less accessible than it already was. Feels like a band only pretentious people would admit to liking, now and when they were contemporary.
Track 1: The cacophonous intro was not for me, but once the proper song started, it got even worse. The rest of the songs are somewhat less bad, but still sound like they were recorded inside an ashtray. Best left to the sands of time.
Absolutely not. You should have your guitar taken away for producing several 20 minute songs in a row.
Hell no, I'm not that dedicated.
I just don’t get this style of music!
are you fucking kidding me
Add this to the list of some of the most horrendous atrocities mankind has created. War, genocide, famine, slavery, torture, rape, murder, abuse, pedophilia, Captain Beefheart, and now Third by Soft Machine.
This is the kind of poop that gives jazz a bad name - way too freeform, laissez-faire, disjointed, whatever - it's poop and I didn't want to finish it. Leave it to some white brits to ruin jazz for me and waste 75min of my time.
This thing nearly put me to sleep while listening to it. If that was the artists' attempt, then I would give it a five star review. But I highly doubt that it was, so I'm giving it the one star it deserves.
Not good
I would like to give a shoutout to the youtuber 'gaypenis' for producing some of the 'best' micspam to grace the internet. Without that, I would have turned this album off immediately. It's boring. Yes, the band are talented and some parts of these very, very long tracks are good but frankly it is mixed in with so much dawdling shit that it's just not worth it. I don't care that it's a live album, if these guys spent some time in the studio and trimmed up this album it could be great. Instead it's a slog that I won't be listening to again. Highlights: Slightly All the Time (somewhat)
Absolutely awful. If I could give a lower rating than one star, I would.
Experimental jazz / rock. It sounded a bit too random and aimless upon first listen. The musicianship is impressive but I didn't enjoy listening to it.
I’m not sitting through 2 hours of psychedelic rock
Fav: Slightly All The Time Least Fav: Moon In June It’s almost cruel for them to have some nice snippets of good sounds sprinkled in between the terrible sounding melodies
Kind of a mess. These did not need to be 20 minute songs. In two of the tracks there are sections that are quite engaging and interesting. But there's a reason I hate jam bands. This is mostly directionless, disjointed and self-indulgent. I mean, the musicianship is fine, but does that matter if I tune out 2 minutes in?
p209. 1970. 1 star Oh dear. Four 18+ minute tracks of jazz-prog rock fusion. No.
1/5
Another spin of the Robert Wyatt roulette wheel. Unfortunately, this time the ball landed on 00. Sorry, mate - there was simply no recovering from that first track. Oof.
Haha, Third. I get it. It takes a third of your life to get through a third of this album. Fitting, but fuck no.
Third? Last.
Too soft
Confusing
2/10 - I get it, but it's not good, I can just imagine a bunch of stoners in the 70s listening to this
Couldn't stand it from the first minute, If I wanted to listen to a meat grinder and a car crash at the same time, I'd listen to this. Not for me.
Oh great, another album of obnoxious noise passing itself off as music. And, bonus, it lasts an hour and 15 minutes. Shite.
Nearly unlistenable. First track was just noise. I sat with it for a while thinking it was maybe a "Close to the Edge" type of intro, but no. Just noise. Later tracks the audio quality was so distorted to be unpleasant.
Not my vibe at all
Meh. Too long. The songs are sprawling, meandering, with no forward progress.
Started off very noisy and I was tempted to quit. I persevered and found myself liking it. Then it kept going. On and on and on. Finally I realized that no one was forcing me to listen so I stopped after about an hour. I would given it more stars if they hadn't insisted on this being 2 hours long.
This was never and will never be my kind of thing.
Nope
Of all the various kinds of nonsense in here I like the jazz nonsense the best, but the bar is very low.
If Canterbury had its own Cantanamo Bay then this album would be the most effective one for torturing prisoners. What the frick is the first 5 minutes of Facelift?! Please stop… I’ll tell you everything! [sobs uncontrollably] It does clear up in the same way that a 400 car pile up into a noisy construction site eventually gets cleared up but Robert Wyatt sings on some later sides so really the torture never stops.
they should take that organ away from that man
I... Didn't like it. And I almost fell guilty because it's not like I never enjoy free form jazz, this just never seemed to find any kind of groove I could enjoy. I often feel like free form isn't well served by listening to it pre-recorded, so maybe this works live but this is what I've got. The cover is cool though, 3/5.
This album broke my streak of knowing (and liking) the artists and the music selections. If I liked the music more I might spend time researching more of the "why?" Behind what is going here. But I gave it about half an hour of time and I was still more like "why the f--k??" Were they trying to be English cottage Frank Zappa?
Yeah, now this is what I thought this experience would be like. A band I've never heard of, making a long prog-ish, jazz-ish album. In all honesty. this was interminable at points. A bit too noodley, and free form for my tastes. Now, I can certainly appreciate how influential these guys are. The Canterbury Scene is cool, and I do like the boundaries that they pushed with technology and song form, and it's cool that Andy Summers went from this band to the Police. Also at points when the band fully comes together it's not a bad listen. Clearly, these are all fantastic musicians who were experimenting, and thats cool and worthy. But....as an album....it's not something that I am going to listen to again. The 1 star seems low, and it may be, but if I'm grading this on my opinions and predilections, that's where it's at. If I'm grading based on historical significance and coolness, it's probably a 4/5.
me da pereza
Is this album broken?
You would have to be completely stoned off your ass to listen to this with intent
bad
I’d heard of this album before but never felt compelled to listen, mainly because it’s Soft Machine’s take on prog rock with a jazz twist—which already sounded like a bad idea. True to prog form, the record stretches to 75 minutes across just four songs, one per side. It was a slog to get through, and honestly, even giving it a 1 feels generous. This was not for me and I won’t be revisiting it. Favourite track: None worth picking out. Least favourite track: All four of them. Album artwork: Simple but effective.
I tapped out, came back and endured the rest
Bad.
Nope, just no thank you very much. Listened before? N Saved to library? N Favorite track(s): N/A ⭐: Hated it.
The worst parts of jazz and prog rock mixed into one album.
Nah. Fuck off Canterbury. Some things are influential because people took elements and made them good. 1/5 JF
Arvoin pitkään että mitäs tälle nyt iskisi arvosanaksi. Välistä kuitenkin jopa ihan diggailin. Mutta aika lyhyitä hetkiä olivat ne. Yksi tähti, en varmasti palaa tämän pariin toistamiseen.
Piss off. 1 star.
An 18 minute avant garde opener. Well, what was I expecting? And it's live?! Wait, the closer is like that too?! This album is no good. I can see why it is something you might need to experience once. This is why I signed up for this. Normally, I pick a song I like to put on a playlist. Not this time. They're long, esoteric, and sporadic. I'm not saying there are odd bits which I admire or liked, but they are too far between randomness and weird sounds. I feel like it's a joke the band are in on but I am missing. They're currently touring by the way, I won't be going. Even as background noise (which I sometimes use some of these albums as - Looking at you Ryan Adams!), it's a tough listen. I just became angrier and angrier as this went on. There was a moment in the one song I remember with vocals where the singer left in a mistake and his reaction to it (professional choice?). It's too well thought out to be a jam session... but too random to be a series of well written songs. I once saw Yoko Ono, I left by the second song. I'd be leaving by the first song for this one. Otherwise, I'd stay and boo (or hiss!). 1 Star.
The 1st track sucked. Why relase a song that is 50% just random noise. Had to be some kind of inside joke. The rest is not much better. There is progressive, and then there is excessive. This is the latter.
Not actually as bad as I feared given it’s essentially 2 hours for 4 tracks. But still, I will never listen to this again.
woof.
Hard to imagine a more horrifying phrase than “pioneers of jazz-rock fusion”.
Hated this
Prog rock is for nerds! JK, nerds are cool. I still hate it though.
Oh, no. No, thank you. Listened before? N Saved to library? N Favorite track(s): N/A ⭐: Hated it.
I wanted to turn this off 20 seconds in. I'd even take more Honky Tonk. Ugh. 1.
I can’t even start to imagine who might reach for this and play it because they like it. All that music out there in the universe and somehow this makes the cut. Unbelievable Jeff.
MEH
Teacher scratching on a blackboard with her fingernails is more listenable than whatever the f*** this is.
4 songs; 1 hour and 15 minutes. Oh boy. 2:30 into the first "song" and I am not sure I have the patience for this. It's quite annoying. Oh wait...now there is actually music? Not just random noises? I hate this so much. Facelift? More like face meltingly bad, am I right? Even after the disaster of the first song, this is so not my thing. Maybe things improve when the singing starts? Nope. It doesn't. Annoying from start to finish. People actually like this?
I like prog rock. I like instrumental jazz. I don't like this album.
I admire the ambition behind Soft Machine's "Third" and the passion of those who love it, but I find it to be a challenging listen. The album, for the most part, is devoid of structure and meanders its way through four lengthy tracks. It's a one-star album in my book, but I can respect its legacy. 1- "Facelift" - 1 2- "Slightly All the Time" - 1 3- "Moon in June" - 2 4- "Out-Bloody-Rageous" - 1 Total - 5 Average - 1.25 80/1001
Pure torture.
Oh great. 4 songs and over an hour long. I knew it was going to be shit. DNF. 1/5
Possibly a zero
I fucking hate prog rock. don't waste my time with this being one of the top 1001 albums of all time. I don't think this is in the top 1 million albums of all time
Prog I usually like. Jazz I'm not a great fan. But this seems to have fused the worst of both together. Some interesting bits of time signatures. Some interesting bits of music. A lot of nurdling.
Ugh. Cease that infernal tootling.
Not something I could get into. This really went past my tolerance for jams, psychedelic vibes, and jazz flutes.
I like jazz, I like prog, this didn’t feel like either. I can appreciate the talent but I just did not enjoy this. I started this to discover new music but unfortunately I don’t think this one will be joining the collection. I’ve seen reviews that suggest the first two albums are the gateway to Third, but as a stand alone without that context, this is not it.
What the hell? What the helly?
Enough!
SMH. What a cruel joke. There is no excuse for this sort of noise. This isn't Prog. It's not Jazz. This is just TWO HOURS of fucking around.
Approximately 9 minutes transpired before I heard anything even remotely resembling music
i didn't like this one TBH
Igitt
J - 1/5 Best Track - N/A F - DNL
Even John Thomson’s character in the Fast Show Jazz Club sketches would struggle to put a positive spin on this incoherent, self-important, prog-rocky jazz nonsense.
Managed 2 tracks. As obvious a 1 star as you're likely to get.
I’m pretty sure my primary school music class sounded better
Someone tell them to stop
Aimless, meandering saxophone playing that goes on nearly 80 minutes. Might have given this a 2 if it was a single LP but i was fed up after the 1st side, let alone the 4th
Had high hopes for this album, after stumbling upon a reddit post claiming this to be a remarkable album, with multiple people agreeing...only to find it was just a sonic mess. Started out as a 1 Star album, then tracks 2-3 showed some flashes of musical talent, only to wash back down to a 1 in the end. This is the worst side of Prog Rock in my mind. Should call it Regressive Rock.
oh no
Not for me
< The Beatles Calling this rock is a fucking stretch. Track 1 is abysmal. The rest has something going for it but... not enough
OMG...this is horrible. I think we should play this on repeat for at least 24 hours to a certain shackled world leader and hope for the best. There is no way that world leader would survive and we'd all go back to being somewhat better Americans. No other word can describe this: torturous.
Garbage
didnt like it, like a concert of weird sounds like eventually get harmonic and rhythmic but it was more nonsense than anything understandable
May be live they were a wild experience, but on Vinyl it´s just terror.
Ich sehe das Album, klicke auf den Wikipedia Link und sehe Rock. Ich drücke Play bei Youtube und aufeinmal fängt ein Gekratze und Gedudel an, als ob drei rollige Katzen durch ein Aufnahmestudio springen. Da schaue ich beim Wikipedia Artikel genauer hin und sehe "Jazz Rock", "Progressive Rock", etc........ Das ist doch nicht Jazz oder Progressiv.... das ist einfach nur Dreck
War doch insgesamt sehr schwach, auch wenn kleine Lichtblicke vorhanden waren.
Das war definitiv ein Album. Zwar scheiße, aber immerhin. Das ist doch keine Musik zwischendurch, einfach nur Geräusche. Wer sitzt 1970 zuhause sagt ich hab Lust auf gute Musik und legt diese Schallplatte ein?
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1/5
Listened to the full ~2 hour version on Youtube and I kinda regret it. This is a classic example of just because you are talented doesn't mean your music is good. This sounds difficult and complex, but was not a good listen....ugh. There is no melody here ever, barely any words, nothing to hum along to...nothing. It kinda just hurts my head to listen to. There are moments (like the end. The wrap up is really song) but overall this just feels like noise. I won't be returning to this album again. I almost NEVER wanna listen to 15-20 minute songs. They lose me. I didn't really "like" any of the songs, but these were the best ones.... Liked Songs: "Slightly All the Time" and "Moon in June"
This wasn't entirely bad, but it certainly wasn't good. 1.5
I am definitely not a prog rock fan and this album again confirms that. The whole thing comes across as self important, self indulgent, and masturbatory. The last may not be the most apt descriptor though as, with even a little proficiency, this is certainly not a 19:11 affair. You will also most certainly be arrested for performing in public something which probably would have best stayed in the bedroom......and these guys made a record of it. There are some pockets of really interesting music in here and I dig some some the left turns, but IMO, these moments are too few and far between to save this record from itself. Next.
Hated it
1. face - 1.5 2. time - 1.5 3. moon - 0 4. bloody - 1.5
What in the name of god is this
Oh boy, when you open an album up and see 4 tracks with over an hour long runtime, you're either in for a great time or a miserable one. My experience was mostly the latter. This album lives somewhere in between the areas of prog rock, psychadelic rock, and jazz. It's a lot, and it's a slog if you're not into it. I hope these guys stuck to instrumental work though, the lyrics and vocals on "Moon In June" were... pretty bad. That whole song rubbed me the wrong way to be honest. I really liked the beginning of "Out-Bloody-Rageous" but then the horns came in and killed the whole vibe. There are some good instrumentals in parts, and sometimes that guitar comes chugging in with some nice distortion and I have hope but then nothing truly epic ever pans out. I have to give this 1 star. Its just not good enough in my opinion. There are just so many jarring sounds, and these guys needed to learn how to self edit their stuff down a little. It's way too much. I heard this before I died and wish I had that time back.
Really tough listen for me, and a very rare 1 star. I'd like to think I'm open to enjoying a wide range of music, and there's plenty of music I enjoy that others might say is pretentious, and I would vigorously defend it. However, at least that music has a decent sound quality. If you get past the freeform, improvised (I assume), noodly style of this album, it's horribly produced. It's really muddy and flat sounding, which makes the most listenable moments sound like a high school jazz band.
Not my cup of tea
A random set of noises that occasionally form interesting music.
Nicht wirklich meins, packte mich an keiner Stelle, plätschertenur vor sich hin.
Jesus, what a slog. As a listener I felt completely unnecessary; this is music made for the people playing it and literally no one else. Self-indulgent rubbish
This was bloody awful, just a mash of sounds. Far too long…. I could have rewatched the original disney's jungle book instead of this rubbish, then I would have at least I would of heard some good songs
Man fuck prog rock and fuck the Canterbury scene. This is unbelievably pretentious and that's coming form a jazz lover.
1/5
Didn't finish. Not my cup of tea.
awful. Ill try again in 20 years maybe Rating: 1.2
Pointless, annoying, way too long noise being called progressive Rock.
Thanks generator, I hate it. When I listen to music I am not interested in ‘the tension between complicated harmonies, extended improvisation, and the sincere desire to write catchy pop songs’. Well, they certainly failed in the last one here. This is music for boring musos - those who would rather stand at the back of a gig analysing the music than really getting in to it. Robert Wyatt’s accent is irritating (although at least there is not a great deal of it here). And I can’t even imagine this being a blast live, unlike the likes of Throbbing Gristle, Einsturzende Neubaten etc where there is very much a performance element. I imagine them standing concentrating, noodling away. No thanks. Bonus, I was motivated to do my hoovering on the second listen through
FUCK. ROBERT. WYATT. Favourite song: Moon in June Least favorite songs: Facelift, Slightly All the Time, Out-Bloody-Rageous 1/5
18 dakikalık physchodelik şarkılar benlik değilmiş
Awful. Waste of time and space.
4x 18 minute prog jazz/ prog rock. Nope, not for me.
Slightly All the Time was okay, but listening to this after The Dave Brubeck Quartet has jaded my opinion.
I just couldn't get into it. It was good at times but each song was too long
No, just no. What even is this?
??? gave up by first song. 20 mins long no vocals is crazy
Dont have the patience for this right now
Pre-bloody-tentious
Turd 💩
wish I could give it negative stars
I was hoping this would be all weird glitchy stuff like the first 5 mins (because I like that kind of bollocks) but it's just jazz jams after that for two pissing hours. A bit like Heavy Weather, I feel like there's something here that you could get into, but I'm not so it's a 1
Starting off crappy
People listen to this sort of crap on purpose? I would give this zero stars if I could.
Not for me, too 1970’s modern jazz.
I didn't think I was going to make it through that first song. After that it got a little more bearable but still terrible. Just noise and screeching. 1.5 stars
A little too experimental for my tastes, couldn’t get through any of the songs
Psych
This is some of the smelliest trash I've listened to on this list. When the first song began with discordant electronic noises, I wished for the end of this double album. The instrumental parts were OK at times. I do enjoy jazz, but the electronic bits made it so unenjoyable. And when the vocals began, I missed the instrumental parts. The vocals were so terrible and out of tune! I refuse to ever listen to this disaster of an album ever again.
Unlistenable but at least there's a lot of it
eh
meh
Wondered when on Earth it was going to end
Not for me. And at an hour and 18 that pushed it
I can't listen to this.
Second half of Facelift is good, enjoy the more Jazz style. First half a little dull. Out-Bloody-Rageous is nice, again because of its more jazz sound. The vocals are atrocious
Not sure what this was doing on the list. It was alright nonetheless
Can't be bothered with that
No fucking way
Nah Don't mind noise but this sounds like everyone is playing every instrument for the first time at points. The fact that it hits some amazing grooves at other points only hammers home that it could have been something better. Was relieved when it was over
This was pretty crap. Lots of noisy sounds.
My favourite bit was when it was over.
That’s a negative sir.
Un exemple parfait de pourquoi je peux autant adorer que détester les albums supers progressifs. Soit c'est un incroyable voyage musical, ou c'est du gros jerk off prétentieux avec aucune substance ou direction. Cet album tombe dans la 2e catégorie. 2/10
Look, I'm fine with experimental. I love some experimental music. But I also understand that some experiments just don't yield good results. It's ok to admit that. What baffles me is that this experiment, in which four apparently excellent musicians get high and/or drunk and muck about on their instruments (sadly including the quite awful vocals of Robert Wyatt), has made it not only out of the jazz club where it took place but was then actively and consciously pressed onto a release and shared with the world. Sold for money. And even after that series of questionable decisions, the editor(s) of this book somehow decided to go one further, and that a lot of pissing about with instruments was worthy of being deemed a *MUST* hear. And I use the term 'a lot' because it is. 75 long, hard minutes. SEVENTY-FIVE MINUTES. It took about half an hour for any discernible melody to attempt to emerge and I use the term very loosely indeed. I had high hopes as my Dad has raved about Soft Machine for years but either he had gone off them by this point, started to lose his hearing, or he was just taking the piss out of me.
Urrffff
Oh man I did not like this. Jazz rock makes me think of Steely Dan, which is an instant negative. Combine that with very little singing (when there was singing, it was not good) and lots of random sounds to make “music” and you get a real clunker. Ciara said it was the kind of music you hear in a record store and I think it’s spot-on. It’s pretentious, boring, and a real slog to get through. Every song had redeemable moments, but they inevitably found a way to become grating and terrible. I guess if there’s one that was listenable it would be “Slightly All the Time” but that was the jazziest so not saying much there. Just completely not for me
absolute dog shite
Absolutely not
WTF.
Ugh wanky wizard jazz.
The most positive thing I can say is that there are some listenable sections.
Trippy songs that go on way too long.
I rate these albums based on how much I like them and how good they make me feel (I'm not a musicologist or an expert, so it couldn't be any other way!). This album is definitely not my thing, sorry; I know it's considered by many to be a perfect 5 but, for me, I can't give it more than 1 star :-( Next :-)
Not my thing
I can respect what they're doing here, but god damn if this isn't just really annoying music to listen to. Every time I listen to a prog rock album punk music makes more and more sense to me.
Why in the world would you start your album with 10 solid minutes of tuning up and making noise? 1/5
I disliked this one more than the Pantera album from yesterday.
This was an exercise in patience - rambling, sometimes atonal, and often without melody. This was tiring and entirely unenjoyable.
"...arguably the most influential group to emerge from the birth of progressive rock and British jazz-rock fusion..." - Spotify bio It's like someone wrote a sentence describing my kryptonite. 18 minute long tracks of utter shit.
i didn't take enough psychedelics to enjoy this...
Not a fan
Arvoin pitkään että mitäs tälle nyt iskisi arvosanaksi. Välistä kuitenkin jopa ihan diggailin. Mutta aika lyhyitä hetkiä olivat ne. Yksi tähti, en varmasti palaa tämän pariin toistamiseen.
mental - couldn't wait for it to end
FUCKING JAZZ
There are parts of this that remind me of a Noise band, which I liked. As for the rest - I have never been stoned enough to enjoy something like it.
Way to long. Better served as background music. 1.5/5
Suoraan paskuuden kuninkuusluokkaan. VMP.
I hat prog rock...boring
The first half of Track 1 sounds like some music I heard while walking through one of those “jump scare” haunted house one year. The rest just sounds like an experimental jam session, a failed one.
Shit Machine.
Maybe 1001 was too many albums.
May be my least favorite album we’ve had thus far…18+ minute songs of mostly noise plus a live track? GTFO. Maybe I don’t “get it” but this just sounds like self-indulgent crap to me. 0.5./5
I get it. I like noise. But how do you separate good noise from bad noise? I don't know, but this is not good noise. It's like 70s sitcom music with feedback and prog leanings. I hate it.
If you follow my reviews, you'll notice my zero-tolerance policy for tracks over 5 minutes in length. This egregiously violates my rules. It also sounds like a truck load of instruments was given to a toddler daycare.
Favourite Song: Out-Bloody-Rageous
Even though it’s not the worst thing ever I’m 1050 albums in and trying to have a brat summer so forgive me for not giving a 75 minute long psych jazz prog rock album much of a chance. Just don’t have it in me right now or maybe ever.
3.90 rym prog/jazz per me è un no, mi dispiace 1/5
Unlistenable
not for me.
A big disappointment. Psychedelic rock from 70s, some connection with Pink Floyd, very long songs, mostly instrumental? On paper it looks incredible. But this album was just straight down awful. Boring, nauseating, uninteresting, slightly repulsing. And with the addition of vocalist on the third song, it became even worse. Why did I listen to the whole thing? Give me back my time!
Facelift: Just say No, trust me Just say No. Slightly All The Time: Could have been a decent 5 minute track, didn't survive stretching to 18. Moon In June: Last ever track with lyrics, shame that decission wasn't made before recording this. Out-Bloody-Rageous: Really 3 tracks, none interresting all irritating. Whole Album: Why???
Miten tällainen pronssinvärinen kansi kieliikin heti tylsästä jazzista… jota koko levy on. Ihan aavistus kuuluu bändin rokimmasta, psykemmästä taustasta, mutta aika hissimusaksi on vedetty. Tylsä.
Hämmästyttävää. Koomista myös mutta liian harvoin.
Am I glad I listened, sure. Will I ever listen again, probably not.
Irritating
That was utter tripe. Give up and go get a job.
Some experimental trippy shit.
Hard pass
feeling more and more like almost all music produced since 1965 is just crap
I just don’t get it, I think I tuned out for almost all of this album.
I was looking forward to this listen as I frequently hear about Soft Machine whilst poking around Pink Floyd sites. However... This is borderline un-listenable. A truly horrible album and perhaps my least favourite in the challenge. Just a pointless mess of sounds.
Soft machine - a trinity of more accurate names: impotent instrument limp unit droopy device
I didn't need this today...
Was hoping this would be one of those "spoils await the victor who perseveres through the initial avant garde-ness" situations but after 14mins of perseverance you can only imagine my dismay upon realising I was still on track one.
This is what happens when you let toddlers loose with some pots and pans and a keyboard.
Als ich 18 war habe ich sowas gehört. Heute nehme ich keine Drogen mehr, und beim Hören bekomme ich Migräne. Nix für alte Leute.
Yea, this is a big no for me. 4 songs and over 1 hour? What the hell. Not coming back for another listen and not a fan.
1.5 https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxuRQB1_96_Q22crgCTK6-tzf-R2wTOoo1?si=glw7Y0cquRI6GSg7 I feel like some of these albums lately have been trying to piss me off. This is just random noise for 78 minutes that sometimes turns into jazz (which I guess in and of itself is just random noise), broken up into four nearly twenty-minute chunks. I checked a few times to see how far I made it in and was surprised to learn each time that I was still on the first track. Fortunately, it gets a little better and more conventional after that, but not by much. As someone who isn’t even a huge fan of jazz to begin with, the attempt at it here feels far from the most interesting the genre has to offer, especially considering how long these tracks are. The third track at least adds some vocals, but they’re kind of terrible - the dude sounds like he’s battling a cold and out of breath for most of it. By the fourth track I was completely tapped out. I’m giving this thing a half-star because there’s a hint of an album buried here somewhere, but my god, was this a slog. I can’t even begin to tell you how grateful I am that Spotify has the bonus tracks on the album grayed out and unplayable. Don’t ever see myself listening to this again.
There is prog that is really good and there is prog that is the drizzling shits. This album is the drizzling shits. Just another reason why punk had to happen.
I can’t do experimental, long-form jazz anymore now than I could when I listened to jazz.
Pretentious and unlistenable. The vocalist makes me feel better about my admittedly poor ability to sing.
Slightly All the Time is good.
Reviewing a few months after I listened to it, but I don’t think I enjoyed it
Lost me in the first minute, I could not make it all the way through Facelift. Please make sounds that sound good together.
if a band is the first to try something new or experimental, that doesn’t mean it’s something that’s very good. If Jim Zorn was a 60s, jazz inspired Prog musician then this is what he would sound like a 1 out of 5.