Bundles
by Soft Machine
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Soft Machine bestography
Bundles is ranked 4th best out of 41 albums by Soft Machine on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Soft Machine is Third which is ranked number 1177 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,490.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Bundles track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Bundles rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 5 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | stangetzaway | Top 61 Music Albums of 1975 | 12/61 | 4 |
| 2026 |  slatsheit | Top 60 Music Albums of 1975 | 60/60 | 0 |
| 2026 | Steppenwolf666 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1975 | 60/100 | 2 |
| 2026 |  Arthurknight | Only Over 10k | 85/99 | - |
| 2026 | dukeboxkool | Top 86 Music Albums of 1975 | 76/86 | 1 |
| 2026 | Skerns | Top 100 Music Albums of 1975 | 50/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | pctrooper | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 64/100 | 37 |
| 2025 | TodFitz | Top 100 Music Albums of 1975 | 7/100 | 5 |
| 2024 | Arthurknight | Top 100 Music Albums of 1975 | 23/100 | 4 |
| 2023 |  Igtonumama | Top 100 Music Albums of 1975 | 73/100 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 25 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 95 | |||
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Bundles ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! | 08/26/2026 07:32 |  Bunzer | 185 | 76/100 |
| ! | 03/05/2026 09:13 |  Liedzeit | 2,543 | 74/100 |
| ! | 12/28/2025 10:43 | Exist-en-ciel | 16,424 | 70/100 |
Rating metrics:
Outliers can be removed when calculating a mean average to dampen the effects of ratings outside the normal distribution. This figure is provided as the trimmed mean. A high standard deviation can be legitimate, but can sometimes indicate 'gaming' is occurring. Consider a simplified example* of an item receiving ratings of 100, 50, & 0. The mean average rating would be 50. However, ratings of 55, 50 & 45 could also result in the same average. The second average might be more trusted because there is more consensus around a particular rating (a lower deviation).
(*In practice, some albums can have several thousand ratings)
This album is rated in the top 7% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.3/100, a mean average of 76.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.3.
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Bundles forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 08/14/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5404): By pctrooperView latest topic →
Liedzeit 03/05/2026 08:46 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)View all forum mentions
Bundles comments
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IanFrance 01/09/2021 08:03 | #264091
Soft Machine had always been somewhat the jokers. With this release, they dispense with that and focus on straightforward jazz-rock, which they do to excellent effect. The continuous vibe begins with the very strong, 5-part suite, Hazard Profile. This sets the tone for the rest of the album – mostly frantic guitars (an instrument which had been ignored by the band for several years) and strong on tunes. There is little let-up, both in the music and the quality – in fact, there is only one track which doesn’t hit the spot particularly highly, the aptly named Four Gongs Two Drums: everyone was doing drum solos, so why couldn’t Soft Machine? There isn’t much to distinguish one track from the next, for the most part, but listening to the whole album as a piece of work, this barely matters.
High Points: Hazard Profile Part One; Land Of The Bag Snake; The Floating World
Two words: Allan. Holdsworth.
Arthurknight 10/11/2014 22:53 | #124142
the album was very smartly constructed
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