"Love Makes Sweet Music" | ||||
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Single by Soft Machine | ||||
B-side | "Feelin' Reelin' Squeelin'" | |||
Released | February 17, 1967 | |||
Recorded | January 1967, Advision Studios | |||
Label | Polydor 56 151 (UK) | |||
Songwriter(s) | Kevin Ayers | |||
Producer(s) |
Chas Chandler (A-side) Kim Fowley (B-side) | |||
Soft Machine singles chronology | ||||
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"Love Makes Sweet Music" was the first single released by the psychedelic rock group Soft Machine. It is one of the first British psychedelic releases, predating Pink Floyd's " Arnold Layne" by a month. [1] The A-side is more pop-oriented, featuring Robert Wyatt on lead vocals. The other side, "Feelin’ Reelin Squeelin" is a disturbing tour de force with Kevin Ayers handling the lead vocal for the verses, while Wyatt sings the chorus; there is an elliptical series of strange noises and flute in the solo.
The single was a commercial flop. [2]
The tracks from the single have been reissued on the Soft Machine compilations Triple Echo and Out-Bloody-Rageous - An Anthology 1967 -1973 (Sony), on the 1972 Polydor compilation LP Rare Tracks, and on the 2009 CD edition of the album The Soft Machine. A cover of "Love Makes Sweet Music" was recorded by The Valentines, an early band of AC/DC frontman Bon Scott, as a B-side for their cover of " Peculiar Hole in the Sky".
"Love Makes Sweet Music" | ||||
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Single by Soft Machine | ||||
B-side | "Feelin' Reelin' Squeelin'" | |||
Released | February 17, 1967 | |||
Recorded | January 1967, Advision Studios | |||
Label | Polydor 56 151 (UK) | |||
Songwriter(s) | Kevin Ayers | |||
Producer(s) |
Chas Chandler (A-side) Kim Fowley (B-side) | |||
Soft Machine singles chronology | ||||
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"Love Makes Sweet Music" was the first single released by the psychedelic rock group Soft Machine. It is one of the first British psychedelic releases, predating Pink Floyd's " Arnold Layne" by a month. [1] The A-side is more pop-oriented, featuring Robert Wyatt on lead vocals. The other side, "Feelin’ Reelin Squeelin" is a disturbing tour de force with Kevin Ayers handling the lead vocal for the verses, while Wyatt sings the chorus; there is an elliptical series of strange noises and flute in the solo.
The single was a commercial flop. [2]
The tracks from the single have been reissued on the Soft Machine compilations Triple Echo and Out-Bloody-Rageous - An Anthology 1967 -1973 (Sony), on the 1972 Polydor compilation LP Rare Tracks, and on the 2009 CD edition of the album The Soft Machine. A cover of "Love Makes Sweet Music" was recorded by The Valentines, an early band of AC/DC frontman Bon Scott, as a B-side for their cover of " Peculiar Hole in the Sky".