The Soft Machine - Triple Echo

tracks:
side 1:
1. Love Makes Sweet Music
2. Feelin' Reelin' Squeelin'
3. Memories
4. She's Gone
5. Why Am I So Short?
6. So Boot If At All
7. A Certain Kind

2.27
2.50
2.58
2.29
1.39
7.25
4.11

Ayers
Ayers
Hopper
Ayers
Hopper/Ayers/Ratledge
Ayers/Ratledge/Wyatt
Hopper

tracks 1 & 2 released as the A & B-side of the first Soft Machine single in 1967.
track 3 released on Jet-Propelled Photographs in 1989.
track 4 previously unreleased. Look here for details.
tracks 5-7 released on Soft Machine in 1968.

side 2:
1. We Did It Again
2. Plus Belle Qu'une Poubelle
3. Why Are We Sleeping?
4. A Concise British Alphabet - Part 2
5. Hullo Der
6. Dada Was Here
7. Thank You Pierrot Lunaire
8. Have You Ever Bean Grean?
9. Pataphysical Introduction - Part 2
10. As Long As He Lies Perfectly Still
11. Dedicated To You, But You Weren't Listening

3.46
1.03
5.30
0.12
0.55
3.25
0.49
1.20
7.33
2.34
2.33

Ayers
Ayers
Ayers/Ratledge/Wyatt
Hopper - arr. Wyatt
Hopper - arr. Wyatt
Hopper - arr. Wyatt
Hopper - arr. Wyatt
Hopper - arr. Wyatt
Wyatt
Ratledge/Wyatt
Hopper

tracks 1-3 released on Soft Machine in 1968.
tracks 4-11 released on Volume Two in 1969.

side 3:
1. The Moon In June
2. Esther's Nose Job

13.00
11.57

Wyatt
Ratledge

tracks 1 recorded for the BBC in 1969, released on The Peel Sessions in 1990. for recording details look here.
tracks 2 recorded for the BBC in 1969, released on The Peel Sessions in 1990. for recording details look here.

side 4:
1. Mousetrap
2. Noisette
3. Backwards
4. Mousetrap Reprise
5. Slightly All The Time
6. Out Bloody Rageous
7. Eamonn Andrews




8.46


15.19

Hopper
Hopper
Ratledge
Hopper
Ratledge
Ratledge
Ratledge

tracks 1-4 recorded for the BBC in 1969, released on The Peel Sessions in 1990. for recording details look here.
tracks 5-7 recorded for the BBC in 1970, released on The Peel Sessions in 1990. for recording details look here.

side 5:
1. Teeth
2. Kings And Queens
3. All White
4. Bone

9.13
5.01
6.05
3.28

Ratledge
Hopper
Ratledge
Dean

tracks 1-2 released on Fourth in 1971.
tracks 3-4 released on 5 in 1972.

side 6:
1. Stanley Stamps Gibbon Album
2. Carol Ann
3. Hazard Profile - Part 1
4. The Tale Of Taliesin

5.55
3.46
9.16
7.14

Ratledge
Jenkins
Jenkins
Jenkins

tracks 1 released on Six in 1973.
tracks 2 released on Seven in 1973.
tracks 3 released on Bundles in 1975.
tracks 4 released on Softs in 1976.

Musicians in order of appearance:

Kevin Ayers - bass, vocals (side 1-2)
Robert Wyatt - drums, vocals (side 1-5)
Mike Ratledge - organ, electric piano (side 1-6)
Hugh Hopper - bass (side 2-6)
Elton Dean - alto sax, saxello, electric piano (side 3-5)
Phil Howard - drums (side 5)
John Marshall - drums (side 5-6)
Karl Jenkins - sax, oboe, piano, keyboards (side 6)
Roy Babbington - bass, double bass (side 6)
Allan Holdsworth - guitar (side 6)
John Etheridge - guitar (side 6)
Alan Wakeman - saxes (side 6)

released in 1977