"Love Makes Sweet Music" was the first single released by the Psychedelic rock

Psychedelic rock

Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music that is inspired or influenced by psychedelic culture and attempts to replicate and enhance the mind-altering experiences of psychedelic drugs. It emerged during the mid 1960s among folk rock and blues rock bands in United States and the United Kingdom...

 group Soft Machine

Soft Machine

Soft Machine were an English rock band from Canterbury, named after the book The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs. They were one of the central bands in the Canterbury scene, and helped pioneer the progressive rock genre...

. It is one of the first British Psychedelic releases, predating Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd

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's "Arnold Layne

Arnold Layne

David Gilmour, during his solo tour promoting On an Island, unexpectedly added the song to the setlist near the end of the American tour on the 17 April 2006 show at the Oakland Paramount Theatre...

" by a month.
The A-Side is more pop orientated, featuring Robert Wyatt

Robert Wyatt

Robert Wyatt is an English musician, and founding member of the influential Canterbury scene band Soft Machine, with a long and distinguished solo career...

 on lead vocals. The other side, ‘Feelin’ Reelin Squeelin’ is a disturbing tour de force with Kevin Ayers

Kevin Ayers

Kevin Ayers is an English singer-songwriter and was a major influential force in the English psychedelic movement...

 handling the lead vocal for the verses, while Robert Wyatt

Robert Wyatt

Robert Wyatt is an English musician, and founding member of the influential Canterbury scene band Soft Machine, with a long and distinguished solo career...

 sings the chorus; there is an elliptical series of strange noises and flute in the solo.

The tracks from the single have been reissued on the Soft Machine compilations Triple Echo and Out-Bloody-Rageous - An Anthology 1967 -1973 (Sony). Both sides of the single also appear on the 1972 Polydor compilation LP Rare Tracks. The original copy commands very high prices when it turns up for auction.

Track listing

1. "Love Makes Sweet Music" (Kevin Ayers)
2. "Feelin’ Reelin' Squeelin’" (Kevin Ayers)

Personnel

• Kevin Ayers
  Kevin Ayers
  Kevin Ayers is an English singer-songwriter and was a major influential force in the English psychedelic movement...
  
   - Guitar ("Love Makes Sweet Music"), Bass ("Feelin...") and Vocals
• Daevid Allen
  Daevid Allen
  Daevid Allen , sometimes credited as Divided Alien, an Australian poet, guitarist, singer, composer and performance artist is co-founder of psychedelic rock groups Soft Machine and Gong .-Biography:In 1960, inspired by the Beat Generation writers he had discovered...
  
   - Bass ("Love Makes Sweet Music"), Guitar ("Feelin...")
• Robert Wyatt
  Robert Wyatt
  Robert Wyatt is an English musician, and founding member of the influential Canterbury scene band Soft Machine, with a long and distinguished solo career...
  
   – Drums and Vocals
• Mike Ratledge
  Mike Ratledge
  Michael Roland "Mike" Ratledge is a British musician. Ratledge was part of the Canterbury scene and a long-time member of Soft Machine.-Biography and career:...
  
   - Keyboards

External links

• http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/review/1790 Review by Julian Cope
  Julian Cope
  Julian Cope is a British rock musician, author, antiquary, musicologist, poet and cultural commentator...