Soft Machine discography

! Year

! Album

! Line-up

! Additional musicians

| The Soft Machine

| Mike Ratledge, Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers

| Hugh Hopper, The Cake

| Volume Two

| Ratledge, Wyatt, H. Hopper

| Brian Hopper

| Third

| rowspan="2"|Ratledge, Wyatt, H. Hopper, Elton Dean

| Lyn Dobson, Nick Evans, Jimmy Hastings, Rab Spall

| Fourth

| Evans, Hastings, Mark Charig, Roy Babbington, Alan Skidmore

| Fifth

| Side 1: Ratledge, H. Hopper, Dean, Phil Howard
Side 2: Ratledge, H. Hopper, Dean, John Marshall

| Babbington

| Six (Disc 2)

| Ratledge, H. Hopper, Marshall, Karl Jenkins

|

| Seven

| Ratledge, Marshall, Jenkins, Babbington

|

| Bundles

| Ratledge, Marshall, Jenkins, Babbington, Allan Holdsworth

| Ray Warleigh

| Softs

| Marshall, Jenkins, Babbington, John Etheridge, Alan Wakeman

| Ratledge

| Land of Cockayne

| Marshall, Jenkins, Holdsworth, Warleigh, Jack Bruce, Stu Calver, Dick Morrissey, Alan Parker, John Perry, Tony Rivers, John Taylor

|

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| Marshall, Etheridge, Babbington, Theo Travis

| Nick Utteridge

| Other Doors

| Marshall, Etheridge, Travis, Fred Baker

| Babbington

| 1973

| Six (Disc 1)

| Mike Ratledge, Hugh Hopper, John Marshall, Karl Jenkins

| 1978

| Alive & Well: Recorded in Paris

| Marshall, Jenkins, John Etheridge, Ric Sanders, Steve Cook

| 2020

| Live at The Baked Potato

| Marshall, Etheridge, Roy Babbington, Theo Travis

|2001

| Soft Machine Turns On Volume 1

|April – June 1967 recordings: Mike Ratledge, Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers, Daevid Allen
22 September – 10 December 1967 recordings: Ratledge, Wyatt, Ayers

| 2006

| Middle Earth Masters

| rowspan="2"|Ratledge, Wyatt, Ayers

|2001

| Soft Machine Turns On Volume 2

| 1996

| Live at the Paradiso 1969

| Ratledge, Wyatt, Hugh Hopper

| 2021

| Live 1967 – 69

| October 1967 recordings: Ratledge, Wyatt, Ayers
25 July 1969 recordings: Ratledge, Wyatt, H. Hopper (Brian Hopper was in the band at this time but is absent from this show)

| 2000

| Noisette

| rowspan="4"|Ratledge, Wyatt, H. Hopper, Elton Dean, Lynn Dobson

| 2022

| Facelift France & Holland (Disc 2)

| 2005

| Breda Reactor

| 2022

| Facelift France & Holland (Disc 1 + DVD)

| 2004

| Somewhere in Soho

|rowspan="2"|Ratledge, Wyatt, H. Hopper, Dean

| 2002

| Facelift

| 2002

| Backwards

| November 1969 recordings: Ratledge, Wyatt, H. Hopper, Dean, Dobson, Mark Charig, Nick Evans
May 1970 recordings: Ratledge, Wyatt, H. Hopper, Dean

| 1998

| Live 1970 (mostly an edited version of Live at the Proms 1970, but includes two previously unreleased recordings from a different concert)

| February 1970 recordings: Ratledge, Wyatt, H. Hopper, Dobson (Dean was in the band at this time but is absent from this show)
13 August 1970 recordings: Ratledge, Wyatt, H. Hopper, Dean

| 1988

| Live at the Proms 1970 (re-released as disc 2 on 2007 remaster of Third)

| Ratledge, Wyatt, H. Hopper, Dean

| 2024

| Live in Europe 1970 (Disc 1 is a re-release of Facelift France & Holland disc 1, disc 2 is a previously unreleased concert)

| 2 March 1970 recordings: Ratledge, Wyatt, H. Hopper, Dean, Dobson
24 October 1970 recordings: Ratledge, Wyatt, H. Hopper, Dean

| 2006

| Grides (also includes a DVD of 23 March 1971 Beat Club appearance)

| rowspan="5"|Ratledge, Wyatt, H. Hopper, Dean

| 2024

| Høvikodden 1971

| 2009

| Live at Henie Onstad Art Centre 1971 (this concert later included on Høvikodden 1971 with another concert at the same venue the previous day)

| 1993

| Soft Machine & Heavy Friends: BBC in Concert 1971

| 1998

| Virtually (DVD with footage of this recording included on Grides)

| 2003

| BBC Radio 1967 – 1971

| Various line-ups including Ratledge, Wyatt, Ayers, H. Hopper, B. Hopper, Dean, Dobson, Charig and Evans

| 1990

| The Peel Sessions (all tracks here later included with others on BBC Radio 1967 – 1971 and BBC Radio 1971 – 1974)

| Various line-ups including Ratledge, Wyatt, H. Hopper, B. Hopper, Dean, Dobson, Charig, Evans and Phil Howard

| 2008

| Drop

| Ratledge, H. Hopper, Dean, Howard

| 1994

| Live in France (re-released with same content as Live in Paris in 2004)

| Ratledge, H. Hopper, Dean, John Marshall

| 1994

| Soft Stage: BBC in Concert 1972

| Ratledge, H. Hopper, Marshall, Karl Jenkins

| 2010

| NDR Jazz Workshop Hamburg, Germany (also includes a DVD of the concert)

| rowspan="2"|Ratledge, Marshall, Jenkins, Roy Babbington

| 2023

| The Dutch Lesson

| 2003

| BBC Radio 1971 – 1974

| Various line-ups including Ratledge, H. Hopper, Dean, Howard, Marshall, Jenkins, Babbington and Allan Holdsworth

| 2015

| Switzerland 1974 (also includes a DVD of the concert)

|rowspan="2"|Ratledge, Marshall, Jenkins, Babbington, Holdsworth

| 2006

| Floating World Live

| 2005

| British Tour '75

| Ratledge, Marshall, Jenkins, Babbington, John Etheridge

| 1972

| Jet Propelled Photographs (gained this title in 1988, previously released under various other titles including Faces and Places Vol. 7 and At the Beginning)

| Mike Ratledge, Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers, Daevid Allen

| 1996

| Spaced

| Ratledge, Wyatt, Hugh Hopper, Brian Hopper

| Triple Echo

| Triple album covering the band's whole history to that point, featuring select tracks from all the albums up to Softs (the most recent at the time), the band's first single "Love Makes Sweet Music" and its B-side "Feelin' Reelin' Squeelin'" (both later included on 2009 remaster of The Soft Machine) and several unreleased recordings (all later included among the archival albums listed above except this version of "She's Gone", which remains exclusive to this album).

| Rock Generation Vol. 7

| One side only, April 1967 De Lane Lea Studios demo recordings with Giorgio Gomelsky.

| Rock Generation Vol. 8

| One side only, more April 1967 demo recordings. This and the preceding entry were combined on many subsequent releases, under such titles as Faces & Places Vol.7 (BYG Records, 1972), At the Beginning (Charly Records, 1976), Jet Propelled Photographs (Piccadilly, 1980 [LP], Charly, 2003 [CD]), and several others. These issues contain the track "She's Gone", recorded in April 1967, which is not the same track released in Triple Echo.

| 1&2 (Architects of Space Time)

| Double album reissue of the first two albums.

| The Untouchable

| Compilation of tracks from Bundles, Softs, and Alive and Well.

| As If...

| Curious (probably unauthorized) compilation with six Ratledge/Hopper compositions ranging from 1970's Third to 1973's Six.

| Soft Machine

| Live At The Paradiso 1969 plus six tracks from Jet Propelled Photographs.

| The Harvest Albums 1975–1978

| Box set of the Harvest-era albums Bundles (1975) to Alive & Well (1978).

| Canterburied Sounds (Vol. 1–4)

| Voiceprint Records released four CDs containing several tracks by various musicians from the Canterbury scene (mainly from the Soft Machine and the Caravan bands), compiled and with notes by Brian Hopper. The four single CDs are re-released in 2013 in a box set.

| Fourth / Fifth

| CD reissue of Fourth and Fifth, the first CBS-era album Third was already available on CD individually.

| Man in a Deaf Corner: Anthology 1963–1970

| Disc 1 mainly containing live pieces from 1963 to circa 1967, with tracks 7–9 also in Turns On vol. 1 (respectively tracks 2, 1, 16); Disc 2 containing a recording at the Paradiso, 29 March 1969 (tracks 1–10) also in Live at the Paradiso (about 32 min out of 40 min); tracks 11–12 ("Facelift" and "Moon in June" – short versions) also in Live 1970 (respectively tracks 1–2); tracks 13–16 recorded at the Fairfield Halls in Croydon on 26 April 1970, also in Facelift (respectively tracks 4–7); track 17 is a Jakko Jakszyk rendition of "As Long as He Lies Perfectly Still" in conjunction with the two short tracks "That Still and Perfect Summer" and "Astral Projection in Pinner" to appear in his future album The Bruised Romantic Glee Club (Iceni 2006).

| Six / Seven

| 2-CD reissue of the last two CBS-era albums Six and Seven.

| Out-Bloody-Rageous: An Anthology 1967–1973

| 2-CD compilation of tracks from up to, and including, Seven.

| Orange Skin Food

| 2-CD compilation of previously released live recordings; tracks from Somewhere In Soho, recorded 20–25 April 1971, Facelift, recorded 26 April 1970 and the entire Live in Europe 1970, recorded 13 or 14 February 1970 and 13 August 1970 at the Proms.

| Original Album Classics

| 5-CD box set of the 2007 remasters of the CBS-era albums Third, Fourth, Fifth, Six and Seven.

| Tales of Taliesin: The EMI Years Anthology 1975–1981

| 2-CD compilation of tracks from Bundles to Land of Cockayne.

| 68

| Credited to Robert Wyatt, it nonetheless contains an 18 minutes early version of "Rivmic Melodies" (to appear in the 1969 album Volume 2) and a 20 minutes early version of "Moon in June" (to appear in the 1970 album Third), both recorded in U.S. in 1968, after Soft Machine's first dissolution, and just before the new formation with Hopper in place of Ayers.

| Canterburied Sounds

| Re-issue in a single 4 CDs edition of the four titles previously released in 1998 by Brian Hopper on Voiceprint.

| Tanglewood Tails

| 2 CDs, Disc 1 with tracks 1–4 from 1963 (also in "Canterburied Sounds"), tracks 5–12 from 1967 studio recordings (also in Turns On vol. 1); Disc 2 with tracks 1–4 live from the Col Ballroom, Davenport, Iowa, 11 August 1968 (also in Turns On vol. 2), tracks 5–6 live from the Paradiso, Amsterdam, 29 March 1969 (also in Live at the Paradiso), tracks 7–11 live from the Fairfield Halls, Croydon, 26 April 1970 (also in "Facelift"). The quality of tracks are far better than in both volumes of Turns On (especially "She's Gone" – June 1967 version that now has a quality comparable to the Triple Echo version – that is up to now the only acceptable CD version of this track).

| Turns On (An early collection)

| 2 CDs – Reprint from Floating World Records of the two Turns On volumes of 2001, with the same track list. The low quality of the former editions was here maintained.

| Live in 1970

| 4 CDs – Reprint of two live concerts. Disc 1 and Disc 2 recorded at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club on 20–25 April 1970 (already in Somewhere in Soho, Voiceprint, 2004), Disc 3 and Disc 4 recorded at Het Turfschip, Breda, Netherlands on 31 January 1970 (already in Breda Reactor, Voiceprint, 2005).

| Live in the 70s

| 4 CDs – Reprint of various live concerts. Disc 1 and the first four tracks on Disc 2 also issued as Live in Paris (Cuneiform, 2004); tracks 5–7 of Disc 2 also appear on Backwards (Cuneiform, 2002); Mark Charig is here wrongly mentioned as the trumpet player; Disc 3 was previously released as Noisette (Cuneiform, 2000) and Disc 4 was previously issued as Drop (Moonjune, 2008).

| Hugh Hopper
Volume 9: Anatomy of Facelift

| Five performances of "Facelift", 1969 through 1971.

| Live in London in the early Sixties (LP)

| Eight tracks recorded live in 1963 in London, with Brian Hopper (sax), Hugh Hopper (cello, bass), Robert Wyatt (drums, voice), Kevin Ayers (bass, voice), Mike Ratledge (organ), Daevid Allen (guitar). These tracks are also in Man in a Deaf Corner (2001, 2 CD) as tracks 1.01–1.06 in a different remix.

| Top Gear Live in London 1967–1969 (LP)

| Side 1 recorded in 1967 with the Ratledge/Wyatt/Ayers line-up; Side 2 recorded in 1969 with Ratledge/Wyatt/H. Hopper/B. Hopper line-up and including "Facelift" and "Moon in June".

! style="width:50px;"|Year

! style="width:300px;"|Album

! style="width:300px;"|Soft Machine members involved

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|The Wilde Flowers (released in 1994)

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Ayers, B. Hopper, H. Hopper, Wyatt

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Deep Dark Blue Center

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Jenkins, Marshall

| style="background:#e8d6c0;"|Down Another Road

| style="background:#e8d6c0;"|Jenkins, Marshall

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Joy of a Toy

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Ayers, H. Hopper, Ratledge, Wyatt

| style="background:#e8d6c0;"|Shooting at the Moon

| style="background:#e8d6c0;"|Ayers, Wyatt

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Whatevershebringswesing

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Ayers, Wyatt

| style="background:#e8d6c0;"|Bananamour

| style="background:#e8d6c0;"|Ayers, Ratledge, Wyatt

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|The Confessions of Dr. Dream and Other Stories

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Ayers, Ratledge

| style="background:#e8d6c0;"|The Unfairground

| style="background:#e8d6c0;"|Ayers, H. Hopper

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Songs for a Tailor

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Bruce, Marshall

| style="background:#e8d6c0;"|Harmony Row

| style="background:#e8d6c0;"|Bruce, Marshall

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|A Question of Time

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Bruce, Holdsworth

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|The End of an Ear

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Wyatt, Charig, Evans

| style="background:#e8d6c0;"|Rock Bottom

| style="background:#e8d6c0;"|Wyatt, H. Hopper

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Elastic Rock

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Jenkins, Marshall

| style="background:#e8d6c0;"|We'll Talk About It Later

| style="background:#e8d6c0;"|Jenkins, Marshall

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Solar Plexus

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Jenkins, Marshall

| style="background:#e8d6c0;"|Labyrinth

| style="background:#e8d6c0;"|Babbington, MacRae

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|You Are Here... I Am There

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Charig, Dean, Evans

| style="background:#e8d6c0;"|Dedicated To You, But You Weren't Listening

| style="background:#e8d6c0;"|Babbington, Charig, Dean, Evans, Howard, Wyatt

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Greek Variations & Other Aegean Exercises

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Babbington, Bruce, Jenkins, Marshall

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|The Madcap Laughs

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|H. Hopper, Ratledge, Wyatt

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Bryter Layter

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Dobson, Warleigh

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Lizard

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Charig, Evans

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Jesus Christ Superstar

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Jenkins, Marshall

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Banana Moon

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Allen, Evans, Wyatt

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Elton Dean (re-released as Just Us in 1998)

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Dean, Babbington, Charig, Howard, Ratledge

| style="background:#e8d6c0;"|Oh! for the Edge

| style="background:#e8d6c0;"|Dean, Charig, Evans

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Happy Daze

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Dean, Charig

| style="background:#e8d6c0;"|Boundries

| style="background:#e8d6c0;"|Dean, Charig

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|The Bologna Tapes

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Dean, Evans

| style="background:#e8d6c0;"|Two's & Three's

| style="background:#e8d6c0;"|Dean, Etheridge

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Septober Energy

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Babbington, Charig, Dean, Evans, Jenkins, Marshall, Wyatt

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Pieces of Me

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Jenkins, Marshall

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Matching Mole

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|MacRae, Wyatt

| style="background:#e8d6c0;"|Matching Mole's Little Red Record

| style="background:#e8d6c0;"|MacRae, Wyatt

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Belladonna

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Babbington, Holdsworth, MacRae, Wakeman

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Ode

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Charig, Jenkins, Wakeman

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|1984

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|H. Hopper, Evans, Marshall

| style="background:#e8d6c0;"|Hopper Tunity Box

| style="background:#e8d6c0;"|H. Hopper, Charig, Dean

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Reverie

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Warleigh, Taylor

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Rubber Riff (re-released under the Soft Machine name in 1994)

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Jenkins, Babbington, Etheridge, Marshall

| style="background:#e8d6c0;"|Adiemus: Songs of Sanctuary

| style="background:#e8d6c0;"|Jenkins, Ratledge

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Cruel But Fair

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"| H. Hopper, Dean

| style="background:#e8d6c0;"|Mercy Dash (released in 1985)

| style="background:#e8d6c0;"| H. Hopper, Dean

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|El Skid

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"| Dean, Marshall

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Planet Earth

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"| Jenkins, Ratledge

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Rogue Element

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"| H. Hopper, Dean

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Soft Heap

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"| Dean, H. Hopper

| style="background:#e8d6c0;"|Al Dente (released in 2008)

| style="background:#e8d6c0;"| Dean, H. Hopper

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|A Veritable Centaur (released in 1995)

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Dean

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Push Button

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Jenkins, Ratledge

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Wonderin'

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Jenkins, Morrissey, Parker, Ratledge, Warleigh

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|First Steps

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Etheridge, Sanders

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Cuts for Commercials Vol. 3

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"| Jenkins, Ratledge

| style="background:#e8d6c0;"|For Christmas, For Children

| style="background:#e8d6c0;"| Jenkins, Ratledge

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Movement

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"| Jenkins, Ratledge

| style="background:#e8d6c0;"|Some Shufflin'

| style="background:#e8d6c0;"| Jenkins, Ratledge

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|I.O.U.

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"| Holdsworth, Carmichael

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Invisible Threads

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"| Summers, Etheridge

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|View From the Edge

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"| Travis, Marshall

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|The Mind in the Trees

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"| H. Hopper, Dean

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Bodywork

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"| Marshall, Travis

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Zero to Infinity

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"| Allen, Travis

| style="background:#e8d6c0;"|2032

| style="background:#e8d6c0;"| Allen, Travis

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Tribute To Soft Machine: Live At Le Triton 2002 (released in 2003)

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Dean, H. Hopper

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Abracadabra

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Dean, Holdsworth, H. Hopper, Marshall

| style="background:#e8d6c0;"|Abracadabra in Osaka (released in 2020)

| style="background:#e8d6c0;"|Dean, Holdsworth, H. Hopper, Marshall

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Soft Mountain (released in 2007)

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Dean, H. Hopper

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Live at Le Triton 2004(released in 2005)

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Dean, H. Hopper

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Live In Zaandam

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Dean, Etheridge, H. Hopper, Marshall

| style="background:#e8d6c0;"|Soft Machine Legacy

| style="background:#e8d6c0;"|Dean, Etheridge, H. Hopper, Marshall

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Live at the New Morning

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Dean, Etheridge, H. Hopper, Marshall

| style="background:#e8d6c0;"|Steam

| style="background:#e8d6c0;"|Etheridge, H. Hopper, Marshall, Travis

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Live Adventures

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Babbington, Etheridge, Marshall, Travis

| style="background:#e8d6c0;"|Burden of Proof

| style="background:#e8d6c0;"|Babbington, Etheridge, Marshall, Travis

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Dedicated To You But You Weren't Listening: The Music Of Soft Machine

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|H. Hopper (as a guest on some tracks)

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Still Waters

| style="background:#d8e2ee;"|Sanders, Etheridge