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Ingiustamente oscurato dai due lavori successivi, il primo album dei Soft Machine contiene alcune delle migliori trovate pop dell'intera scuola di Canterbury, e notevoli brani più sperimentali, tipici di quell'avanguardia-che-non-si-prende-sul-serio di cui la band diventerà uno dei maggiori esponenti.
Il disco comincia con "Hope For Happiness", e "Hope For Happiness" comincia con "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah". Un brano dissonante, con due tracce vocali magnificamente sovrapposte, e con un ritornello che avrebbe fatto storia se i Soft Machine avessero avuto un decimo del successo che si meritano. Un'altra traccia che necessita di un commento è "Why Am I So Short?", che continua nella successiva "So Boot If At All". Melodia fantastica, stacchi ritmici eccellenti. Uno dei pezzi migliori, se proprio devo dirla tutta; un brano golosamente pop che sfuma in un delirio di dissonanze tenute assieme dalla batteria Wyatt, e che si chiude col ritorno del tema principale.
È un disco che in alcune occasioni appare poco spontaneo, ma è così pieno di idee, potenza e ironia [finire la frase con un paragone banale a scelta tra "da renderlo uno dei migliori dischi dell'intera scena di Canterbury"... "da inserirlo immediatamente nel pantheon dei dischi irrinunciabili"... "a mio zio stanno sul culo i maestri di sci"].
Elenco tracce testi samples e video
01 Hope for Happiness (04:22)
I can tell... like the ring of a bell
A chime that is clear and true
But if a crack, the sound is flat
Like happiness... that's become untrue
Out of the East, the sun flew West
Trailing its golden spray
My heart burns, when fortune turns
The trail to light my way
Days go by, I watch the sky
My eyes forever quest
The sun returns, though my hope yearns
Forever things point the rest
Sun heart burns, moon glow turns
Stars will trade hope for happiness
Hope for happiness, happiness, happiness
Flowers grow wild, just for the child
Sniff this sprinkling bloom
When you grow up, hope colours up
The things that cause us gloom
Tell can you now how fun is made?
It's how happiness is really found
Look for advice, be told more than twice
By people all around
Sun heart burns, moon glow turns
Stars will trade hope for happiness
Hope for happiness, happiness, happiness
05 So Boot If at All (07:24)
You may laugh at me
Say I don't deserve
All the things I've had
Sad...
06 A Certain Kind (04:14)
A certain kind... of love, I'd say
Exists for me, and every night
Your kind of love sets me alight
And I know it's real, it's what I feel, what I feel...
And loving you the way I do
Makes everything seem right again
And when you're near I know
I know you just can't tell the time
When you... it's just not right
And so our love I see in you
The things today, the things we do
And when you're near I know
You just can't see... well
I know it's real, it's what I feel
And loving you the way I do
Makes everything seem right again
And when you're near I know
I know you just can't see
All the time of day
I know you're mine, and all the time
09 Lullabye Letter (04:42)
I've got something to tell you
Hold on, I wanted to thrill you
It's nice, makes you feel better
It's called the Lullabye Letter
Hold tight, I'm not trying to con you
Get ready, I'm going to lay it on you
You're the sweetest thing I ever seen
I'm telling you it's no lie
I've got lights in my brain, girl
We'll have fights in the rain, girl
You'll be good and bad together
Writing songs and call that the weather
If you've got something to save me
4 o'clock is the best time to ring me
You're the sweetest thing I ever seen
I'm telling you it's no lie
I've got lights in my brain
We'll have fights in the rain
You'll be good and bad together
Writing songs and call that the weather
You're the sweetest thing I've seen
I'm telling you it's no lie
I've got something to tell you
Hold on, I wanted to thrill you
It's nice, makes you feel better
It's called the Lullabye Letter
Hold tight, I'm not trying to con you
Get ready, I'm going to lay it on you
You're the strangest scene I ever seen
I'm telling you it's no lie
You're the sweetest thing I've seen, seen
In my life, life
10 We Did It Again (03:46)
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''(repeat ad nauseam)''
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