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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 22 2004 at 18:58

Originally posted by Joren Joren wrote:

I only have Volume One (Soft Machine) and Volume Two. I'll get Third asap!

Be sure that you do!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 23 2004 at 02:07

Alexander: You might enjoy the first two albums by East Of Eden " Mercator Projected " and " Snafu ".

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 23 2004 at 18:41
Thanks for the recommendations. I'll keep them in mind.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 06 2004 at 19:41
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>I think every Progressive Rock fan should own this masterpiece!

A bit far too left of centre for some, I would suggest - but I've argued every jazz rock/jazz fusion fan should have a copy, e.g.  to show "Bitches Brew
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 08 2004 at 12:52

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A bit far too left of centre for some, I would suggest - but I've argued every jazz rock/jazz fusion fan should have a copy, e.g.  to show "Bitches Brew" wasn't the only major piece of  jazz rock recorded in 1971.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 09 2004 at 06:44
Originally posted by Alexander Alexander wrote:

Originally posted by Joren Joren wrote:

I only have Volume One (Soft Machine) and Volume Two. I'll get Third asap!

Be sure that you do!

It's my birthday soon...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 09 2004 at 14:22
Originally posted by Joren Joren wrote:

Originally posted by Alexander Alexander wrote:

[QUOTE=Joren]I only have Volume One (Soft Machine) and Volume Two. I'll get Third asap!

Be sure that you do!

It's my birthday soon...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 09 2004 at 15:09

Please don't think me antagonistic, but I have tried a number of times to understand the attraction of this album, but to no avail. I first heard it around the time of its release, and thought it to be unstructured and boring.

I bought it on CD

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 10 2004 at 07:49
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A bit far too left of centre for some, I would suggest - but I've argued every jazz rock/jazz fusion fan should have a copy, e.g.  to show "Bitches Brew" wasn't the only major piece of  jazz rock record

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 21 2004 at 17:41

 

HI, THIS IS C+SAR INCA.

I'm not being original on this one, This is my favourite SM album. The four songs are so long, and yetm they never meander in pointless saturation - on the contrary, the improvs and extensions are always in

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 01 2004 at 17:37
Got it today. It'll take a few listens to make an educated opinion.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 03 2004 at 23:08

You learn a lot, by reading, what listeners and readers write at amazon.com, what is stated in this post, basically, I read some time ago, concerning the listeners reviews of bitches brew. (and english counterpart is amazon.co.uk). of course, before bel

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 04 2004 at 14:11
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I bought it on CD a couple of years ago, thinking I must  have missed something, and given that my tastes had "matured", I may now enjoy it. Unfortunately, I find it just as bad now as I did then. All I can hear

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 04 2004 at 15:29

Interesting points Dick, I've no idea what they're playing as trad jazz in Scotland, since, as you rightly surmised, I don't like jazz. To my untrained (jazz) ear "Third" sounds very similar to any jazz I have heard in the past. Undou

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 04 2004 at 20:16
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The observations you make about Camel and Caravan are probably the reasons why I love their music so much. The Caravan album I like least is "Waterloo Lily", the one which had the most jazz

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The observations you make about Camel and Caravan are probably the reasons why I love their music so much. The Caravan album I like least is "Waterloo Lily", the one which had th

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