194. Soft Machine – Third
The dark winter of Prog rock is coming, but Soft Machine’s final behemoth album isn’t without its intrigue, even if it is hard work.
Quarkmonkey’s 1001 Album challenge
One man’s thoughts on the 1001 Albums he apparently needs to listen to before he dies
The dark winter of Prog rock is coming, but Soft Machine’s final behemoth album isn’t without its intrigue, even if it is hard work.
This is where I start to struggle. This isn’t the first time I’ve alluded to the fact that I can’t…
The other night, I streamed this album over AirPlay as I was having a meal around a friend’s house, and it’s a telling testament to this bossa nova trailblazer that we were only about 30 seconds in before the conversation turned to “Mad Men”.
Is it bad that I had to wait 21 albums into this audio odyssey before I got to an album…
As you may have gathered from my constant moaning about it, jazz has never really been my thing. These bebop…
More jazz? Well if you insist. Actually, if all the jazz albums I had to plough through were like this,…
Ugh. Jazz. Well, undertaking to list to 1001 Albums starting in the fifties meant that I was going to have…