...Sounds Like This

The idea behind ...Sounds Like This, conceived by the band themselves, was to create an album that recreated Nektar's live sound while avoiding the various recording and sound quality difficulties inherent to live recordings.{{Cite AV media notes |title=Sounds Like This |others=Nektar |year=2013 |first=Dave |last=Thompson |type=liner notes |publisher=Purple Pyramid Records }} To this end, on 12 October 1972 the band set up their gear in Dierks Studios and performed for a little over an hour to an audience of just a small group of friends. The majority of the tracks had already been written before Nektar had formed, and were commonly played during their live shows before the album's recording. Some had also been recorded in 1970 as the, "Boston Tapes," but those recordings were never released until their inclusion on the 40th Anniversary Edition of Remember the Future [https://nektarsmusic.com/music/sounds-like-this/][https://www.amazon.com/Remember-Future-40th-Anniversary-Deluxe/dp/B00CK1RHP8].

Dissatisfied with the original master, Nektar and producer Peter Hauke opted to do a series of dubs and re-recordings, which took place in February. Of the tracks recorded during the original October session, only "Wings" appeared on the album in its original form, without dubbing or additional takes. Two songs from the original session ("Sunshine Down on the City" and "It's All in Ya Mind") were cut from the album entirely, and new songs that had been written in the intervening four months were added. The original sleeve notes state the album to have been recorded entirely in February 1973, omitting the October 1972 session. Several of the recordings from the October 1972 session later appeared as bonus tracks.

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Allmusic's brief retrospective review dismissed ...Sounds Like This as "a step backward, with lighter, less ambitious songs that didn't work as well as their long form sound."

{{Track listing

| headline = Side one

| all_writing = Nektar except where noted

| title1 = Good Day

| length1 = 6:45

| title2 = New Day Dawning

| length2 = 5:02

| note2 = This song includes an excerpt from "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" (Lennon–McCartney).

| title3 = What Ya Gonna Do?

| length3 = 5:24

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Side two

| title4 = 1-2-3-4

| length4 = 12:47

| title5 = Do You Believe in Magic?

| length5 = 7:17

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Side three

| title6 = Cast Your Fate

| length6 = 5:44

| title7 = A Day in the Life of a Preacher"

:a. "Preacher"

:b. "Squeeze"

:c. "Mr. H

| length7 = 13:01

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Side four

| title8 = Wings

| length8 = 3:46

| title9 = Odyssee"

:a. "Ron's On"

:b. "Never, Never, Never"

:c. "Da-Da-Dum

| length9 = 14:31

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{{Track listing

| headline = Disc two bonus tracks

| title1 = Good Day

| note1 = Recorded at Dierks Studio, Stommeln, Germany on 12 October 1972

| length1 = 7:10

| title2 = New Day Dawning

| note2 =

| length2 = 5:36

| title3 = Sunshine Down In The City

| note3 =

| length3 = 13:02

| title4 = Da Da Dum

| note4 = Recorded at Dierks Studio, Stommeln, Germany on 19 February 1973

| length4 = 6:30

| title5 = What Ya Gonna Do?

| note5 =

| length5 = 6:50

| title6 = It's All In Your Mind

| note6 =

| length6 = 12:48

| title7 = Cast Your Fate Jam

| note7 =

| length7 = 20:25

| title8 = Wings

| note8 =

| length8 = 3:54

}}

Double CD reissue on Purple Pyramid Records. Disc one is the original double LP. Disc two includes bonus tracks: two radio edits, plus more songs from the same "Official Bootleg" 1971 live show used for bonus tracks on the 2013 reissues of Journey to the Centre of the Eye and A Tab in the Ocean. The 2013 reissue includes none of the bonus tracks from the 2006 reissue.

{{Track listing

| headline = Radio edits

| title1 = 1-2-3-4

| note1 = radio version

| length1 = 2:56

| title2 = Do You Believe in Magic?

| note2 = radio version

| length2 = 3:48

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{{Track listing

| headline = Official Bootleg. Recorded live November 13, 1971 at Bessunger Turnhalle, Darmstadt, Germany

| title3 = Good Day

| length3 = 7:59

| title4 = Odyssee (Da Da Dum)

| length4 = 6:38

| title5 = 1-2-3-4

| length5 = 13:20

| title6 = Do You Believe in Magic?

| length6 = 4:53

| title7 = Odyssee (Ron's On)

| length7 = 10:36

| title8 = New Day Dawning

| length8 = 7:28

}}

• Roye Albrighton – lead vocals, guitars
• Allan "Taff" Freeman – keyboards, vocals
• Derek "Mo" Moore – bass, vocals
• Ron Howden – drums, percussion
• Mick Brockett – lights

• Peter Hauke – producer
• Dieter Dierks – engineer

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20091016065503/http://www.thenektarproject.com/discography/slt.aspx Sounds Like This at TheNektarProject.com]

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