Bundles (studio album)
by Soft Machine
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Soft Machine bestography
Bundles is ranked 5th best out of 40 albums by Soft Machine on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Soft Machine is Third which is ranked number 1066 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,633.
(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).
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Bundles ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 5 days ago | Exist-en-ciel | 4,873 | 70/100 |
| ! | 5 days ago | stangetzaway | 2,150 | 85/100 |
| ! | 11/26/2024 23:55 |  slatsheit | 2,041 | 81/100 |
| ! | 10/21/2023 22:34 | Skerns | 5,055 | 80/100 |
| ! | 03/24/2023 06:54 |  Igtonumama | 10,790 | 63/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 11% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.8/100, a mean average of 75.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.0.
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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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