 | Third by Soft Machine
Buy new: £7.48 / Used from: £6.95 The ultimate Softs album with Robert Wyatt's presence still evident, and now with a brilliant bonus CD of the Proms concert. Great remastering too (really!)
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 | Little Red Record by Matching Mole
Buy new: £10.29 / Used from: £5.99 Strangley Robert Wyatts request that the CD be made with side 2 of the LP first then side 1 makes this a much more accessable album. I guess this is the way round I used to play it on LP.
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 | Matching Mole by Matching Mole
Buy new: £10.29 / Used from: £12.84 I loved this album when I first heard it. What would this band have gone on to if Robert's career had not been interupted so taumatically?
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 | Rock Bottom by Robert Wyatt
Buy used from: £6.66 Robert Wyatt showed he could still cut the mustard but took a new direction, brilliant , aslo see Shleep below.
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 | BBC Radio 1967-1971 by Soft Machine
Buy new: £11.98 The BBC sessions serve this band very well but they have such a high quality of live and "for broadcast" recordings availble on CD it is difficult to know where to start, well right here!
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 | Hatfield and the North by Hatfield & The North
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £4.25 Dave Stewart has always resented the Canterbury tag but he is in here several times so he'd better get used to it. Lovely but challenging sounds.
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 | The Rotters' Club by Hatfield and the North
Buy used from: £3.99 More Hatfield brilliance
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 | National Health by National Health
Buy used from: £60.14 This will make you feel better!
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 | Camembert Electrique by Gong
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £7.00 Spaced out hippy nonsense, wonderful
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 | Jet-Propelled Photographs by Soft Machine
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £19.72 With Allen & Ayers still onboard this is a more playful sounding band, another "what if " in Robert Wyatts career as the balance of power was very much in his camp at this point.
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 | Egg by Egg
Buy used from: £14.99 With Movement 3 restored to Symphony No. 2 this is even better than I remember the LP, Essential!
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 | The Polite Force: Remastered by Egg
Buy used from: £7.99 Further development of this brilliant trio that should have been bigger than ELP
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 | Space Shanty by Khan
Buy used from: £9.99 Steve Hillage's band (I know it put me off at first too) with Dave Stewart guesting, excellent!
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 | Arzachel by Arzachel
Buy used from: £15.94 Egg make another album with their friend and former bandmate (Steve Hillage) during his summer holidays from university! What did you do during your summer holidays?
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 | In the Land of Grey and Pink by Caravan
Buy new: £5.68 / Used from: £4.39 The album that really confirmed to me that this was my kind of music. I do have much much wider tastes now.
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 | The Complete Concert by Caravan
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £4.97 In all it's glory on this CD re-issue Again the rock band symphony orchestra combo did not turne me on at first.
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 | Live at the Fairfield Halls, 1974 by Caravan
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £10.65 If you can't bear the orchestra on, above, then this is the band alone with much the same set.
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 | Seven by Soft Machine
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.73 The end of this line of musical development before the change of direction heralded by Alan Holdsworth's arrival on Bundles (which was the last great Soft machine album)
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 | Gazeuse! by Gong
Buy new: £5.78 / Used from: £4.35 As Pierre Moerlen took over this became a different band. It is asame that so few of the subsequent albums are availble.
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 | Of Queues & Cures by National Health
Buy used from: £29.53 The album with the cappella drum solo.
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 | Another Fine Tune You've Got Me Into by Gilgamesh
Buy used from: £32.90 Alan Gowan's brilliant band
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 | Gilgamesh by Gilgamesh
This looks like a childrens' record but the sound is definitely for mature ears only
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 | On The Radio by Matching Mole
Buy new: £12.69 / Used from: £10.63 A top notch collection of BBC sessions capturing the essence of Matching Mole
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 | Six by Soft Machine
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £8.84 The Studio:Live album susstains the mood more effectively on a single CD. Remember all that messing around having to change sides 3 times?
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 | Shleep by Robert Wyatt
Buy used from: £21.59 Just when you thought that the music industry had gone stale here come Mr. Wyatt to the rescue.
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