Matching Mole's Little Red Record

[Guy Berger]

I own this Soft Machine offshoot album produced by Robert Fripp and featuring Robert Wyatt, Brian Eno and Phil Miller. The title and album cover are tongue-in-cheek, right?

Guy

Edited May 2, 2006 by Guy

[GA Russell]

I don't think it was a joke. Robert Wyatt was a Communist who later recorded Stalin Wasn't Stallin'.

By the way, perhaps you know that the French for Soft Machine is Machine Molle; thus anglicized into Matching Mole. There's the joke!

[Guy Berger]

I don't think it was a joke. Robert Wyatt was a Communist who later recorded Stalin Wasn't Stallin'.

Yikes, what a creep.

Guy

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

I don't think it was a joke. Robert Wyatt was a Communist who later recorded Stalin Wasn't Stallin'.

Yikes, what a creep.

Guy

Communism's respectable over here.

My grandfather was a Bolshevik; deported back to Russia after the Revolution for refusing to give up starting trade unions in the sweatshops of the East End. That sort of thing was necessary and the Communists were the only ones trying to do anything about it.

MG

[Guest akanalog]

i think it shows the contrast between american and british culture-

ie wyatt's tongue in cheek-iness when it came to his "colors" compared to charlie haden's overdone overserious crap.