Third

Excellent musicianship, but boring as hell 1/5

The first song is terrible noise and feedback like sounds and I skipped it two minutes in. Second song isn’t much better, until the sax kicks in and at least gives it a bit of direction and substance. Third song-had to turn it off. Listen again: no Purchase for my collection: no Favourite Song: none

Another shit album. Who the fuck is this guy and why the fuck am I taking him at his word when says I have to listen to some of this shit.

No.

Entirely way too long. No need for a double album. Plus it was only 4 songs. It was very weird too. No need to listen.

Weird

70’s weird rock music. Not impressed. Top album? Nope.

I'm sorry, I tried.

Never heared of Jazz-Rock before. Musically not bad and after tracks 1 and 2 I´m on at least 2 stars for that. But the voice on track 3 is an imposition. And why is there over 4 minutes annoying noise on track 4 before the music starts. I really don´t like to be pissed of by an album.

Avant-Garde Jazz meets psychedelia. Count me out.

Trash

Unlistenable. I'd give it zero stars if I could. But isn't it amazing that there are so many different kinds of people in the world that some folks love this record? I'll do my best to appreciate that because the album itself ... no.

Why was this on the list? Shameful

Just a few songs on this album. And they're each 20 minutes long. And excruciating. Mostly guitar and saxophone, it goes nowhere and is not enjoyable to listen to.

Dieses Album ist mir zu sehr künstlerisch mit kaum einer Melodie aber mit viel Geduddel, geklimper, Geräuschen aus synthetischen und echten Instrumenten. Das ist nicht mein Fall.

⭐️ 16 minutes + per song of instrumental, electronic, machine music. Sounds like people using machines to make their own AI music before there was such a thing.

Sounds like the soundtrack to a bad 60’s movie.

I had never heard of Soft Machine and I like to try to have an open mind with music. This sounded like a cacophony to me, not the kind of jazz that I like.

I know I'm going to forget this one 2 Omg the screeching wtf Like nails on a chalkboard I actually can't listen to this 1

Less than a minute in and I want to stab them to death. The fuck is this shit?

Truly awful. Four of the seven tracks on the album were all that YT had. Of those four, each was over 17 minutes. I did not listen to them they were not good.

So I read that this album plays a significant role in what rock ‘n’ roll was to become. I’m glad it’s over! Super hard to listen to.

Yikes. Not a fan. That vocal performance may have been my least favorite song on any album so far.

Terrible. 0 stars.

Horrid

An album I have not previously listened to. This holds up to my prior feelings about prog being too inaccessible and unfocused. Track one is a cacophony that felt like a pretentious attempt to showcase how differently-thinking they are. Also what's with prog musicians and their organs? Turn it down in the mix, good lord. Really not appreciating the vocal contributions on track 3 either, I find them mumbly and a bit off key. Beyond the vocals, the lyrics were meandering and I couldn't grasp much of anything that he was trying to express. I'd probably get more meaning from the song without words altogether. Track 2, on the other hand, was actually pretty excellent. It worked as more of a jazz track, but it never lost a sense of groove and forward motion. The first fourth of track 4 is dope and I could listen to a whole album of that kind of thing. Backwards guitars and bubbling effects really putting one in the zone. Of course they decide to make the next part of the track a jumpy jazz number, which works well unto itself but why they don't just make it another song when it clearly has nothing to do with the first aspect.... Then they go back to ambient and then back to jazz then back to ambient again.. Just make them separate songs, God I have so many questions for these people. I'm glad I'm ruminating on this because I like a lot of difficult, avant garde music. I even like what many describe as boring or downright obnoxious music. What is it that I hate so deeply about these skilled and seemingly very informed musicians in the overall cannon of prog? Altogether, there's some cool moments in this album, and clearly a lot of talent. Ultimately, however, I find genres most grating when they have no restraint. Just because you have a lot of talent, and are brimming with ideas, doesn't mean you have to execute every single one of them to it's maximum degree.

And the point of this is..?

Horrible. Can't give zero stars.

Well, the first cut, Facelift, was just so discordant, who would listen to a bunch of instruments screeching at you? The second cut, Slightly All the Time, was better, but not much on chord changes. The last two cuts just were not interesting. Not sure how this one ended up in your curation.

Well, I'm not quite sure where to start with this one. It is certainly experimental. I'm not the biggest fan of jazz, and I just found this way too much for me - rambling all over the place, and a lot of it just noise. I've made a concerted effort to listen to all of the albums suggested on here in full, even if they are not my thing, but on this one I struggled to make it half way through the first song, and just skipped through the rest :(

It made my lawn mowing more interested than nothing, but I guess “better than silence” isn’t glowing adulation.

Random noise, with bits of jazz hidden in it. And now I feel harsh for rating Willie Nelson so low.

Pretentious, garbage "music" for pretentious, garbage "humans." Hard pass.

Jeff Beck III killed me softly with his song, and now my teeth couldn't be any whiter and brighter.

Listened Before? N Nope. Not a fan. It's like Miles Davis with way less talent. Boring. Added to Library: N Songs added to playlist: None because they're all 18+ minutes

I could only tolerate two songs. Not to my liking at all

Wibble

Ugh. Besides a couple decent moments, always involving woodwind instruments, I found this annoying and really hard to get through.

Virtuos artists. Interresting sounds. This album shows the line between music and noise. For me it's noise.

Música un tanto psicodélico y sin mucho ritmo. Sucesión de canciones largas instrumentales en su mayor parte. No me ha gustado, por lo poco que me ha aportado

Sinceramente no me gustó mucho. Melodias vocales desafinadas. Conozco otros álbumes y artistas de la época que también son percusores e innovadores, pero con un sonido más lindo.

Tedious, self indulgent explanation. And a jazz track. It was a struggle to get through.

Just not for me. Parts of tracks 2 and 3 were ok for awhile--then they went somewhere.

Hier had ik nu net even geen zin in

HAHHAHAHA Ik had al 3 minuten geluisterd voordat ik jullie commentaar las maar ik ben het met iedereen eens natuurlijk. Wat is dit?

Mijn God, kill me now!

Why? No seriously, why?

Smart rock

Just noise??

How is anyone expected to even get through track 1? I'm going to need those 45 seconds back at some point in my life. Do over.

At its best (Slightly All the Time) this is a mediocre contribution to the jazz fusion world of Miles, Herbie Hancock, Donald Bird, Chick Core, et al. At its worst (FaceLift) it comes across as slightly organized noise.

It's a live album, which should be enough said, right? I said, right? But this one has to be indulgent. It has to have only one song on each side of the record. How the hell am I expected to carry around a record player when I'm walking around? Maybe I'll call it a "record man" or something?

This is about as bad as it gets. Not only is it that experimental instrument noodling, but the dated nature of it locks all the instrumentation into horrible organ or weird 60's electronic noises. Glad when it was over.

I can't come up with any activity I could be doing that would make me enjoy this album. Just bad.

This one was hard for me to get through...I simply do not think jazz will EVER grow on me. It's like each instrument is playing its own rambling ass jam with no regard to the other players & no regard to a structured song. I suppose that is part of the allure for jazz fans? Idk. In MY opinion, this album is a good candidate to be piped thru the loud speakers of hell.

No.

This was better than I had expected. The first few minutes felt like just-another-improv-jazz album, but it evolved into a bit more of a prog-jazz wig out. It's not really my bag, but it was ok and easy on the ear.. eventually.

squonky squonky jazz sax and brass, oooooof. i barely made it through the first 10 minutes which were nails-on-chalkboard bad to hear. the album gradually became less bad to listen to, but more boring. i kept wanting to walk away from the second and third tracks to do chores. i kept checking the timestamp. i just didn't want to hear more. then the final track came on and i was into it! i really loved the layering and tones in that track ... and then the jazz horns started again and i was back to disliking it. this album seems to represent a transition moment for this band, unfortunately for me, it's between one genre i am indifferent to and another genre i dislike. i feel unfair giving this album such a low rating since i'm sure the musicianship was very high, but it's just very much something i never want to listen to again.

prog rock is a tool of the devil. jazzy prog rock is a WMD.

This was so difficult to get through. Every song was at least 15 minutes too long, and there weren't enough interesting changes to make the length worth it. It took me multiple tries to finish listening to it.

no, thank you

I started listening to us with headphones, but I could not deal with the instruments being separated. The way they were, the piano on my left ear was driving me nuts. I switched to playing it on my phone speakers and that was better Interesting the album is called third when I hated the 3rd song the most because of the vocals The other 3 songs were fine background music at times but then it would just get really disharmonious and jarring, only to go back to fine again

Wow, this was intense.. I heard these guys were something else, but not really expected this. Very King Crimson esque, but a bit crazier. It was too much for me too dig out enjoyable moments and I don’t think I’ll really connect with this band or music. 2 out of 10

Olen onnellinen siitä, ettei Spotifyssa ollut kuin puolet albumin kappaleista. Puuduttavaa tiluliluleita, ei jatkoon. Tässä meni useampi päivä, vaikka biisejä vain muutama. Mutta niiden kesto onkin 15-20 min.

Who actually likes this album? One of the worst to date by quite some way.

Starts out with just a load of sound, and continues that way for too long. "Creative", in my opinion, implies breaking the norm in a new, positively substatial way. Emphasis on positively. Jumping up and landing flat on your face to try and win the 100 meter race should not be described as a creative approach to the 100 meter, and much in the same manner, the first track of this album should not be described as creative music. There are good parts on the first track, but they are sparse and short lived. It sounds like if miles davis trained and coached The Shaggs. I'm calling it quits after the first track. If you want to hear rock jazz fusion done well, just listen to the Mahavishnu orchestra.

Nope. Not my thing

18 minute long songs? No thanks.

Ok, I can see how it influenced more modern music, perhaps...but not for me.

I love prog and I love jazz, but this was insufferable.

Despite some interesting sax, not my idea of good.

Hey, this sucks. That first track was so incredibly bad, that nothing on the rest of the album could redeem it from a 1 star. Second track was ok, third track had its moments, fourth, ehh, this was not a good time.

I’m glad other people enjoyed this. However, I did not. The first song drove me nuts and I could not do 18 minute songs. So I listened to a little of each song and I’m ready to move on.

Tous les ingrédients ont été parfaitement concoctés pour nous offrir une bouille musicale absolue, longue et pénible, c'est un superbe 1 que j'accorde aujourd'hui. Soft Machine ira donc à Baltard en compagnie des autres prétendants au titre de pire album du générateur, comme Napalm Death, Slayer, ou encore CAN.

No. The third “song” where they we red e singing really brought this down to a one for me. Maybe a 1.5 up until that point

No thanks

If this is #20 on the top 40 ‘cosmic rock’ albums, does this mean: A. I have another 19 to listen to Or B. I am only half way cos if feels like I’ve done 20 already Speaking of 19 or 20. Are the tracks really that length!

Half the album isn’t even on Spotify and what’s left is entirely too long and tiresome to listen to. I really can’t stand tracks that run on longer than 5 minutes. This is a real chore.

Urgh

I’m glad this exists and is on the list but I didn’t enjoy it.

Jazz

Wish I could give it 0 stars

Not really a fan

Strange. Not for me.

Not my cup of tea. Technically proficient but messy.