Side A
Artist	Song
Wilde Flowers	You Really Got Me
Soft Machine	We Did It Again
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci	Why Are We Sleeping
Kevin Ayers	Song For Insane Times
Lol Coxhill	Soprano Derivito / Apricot Jam
Matching Mole	No 'Alf Measures
Kevin Ayers	Stop This Train (Radio Broadcast)
Patto	Give It All Away
Centepede	Septober Energy (extract)
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Keith Tippett Group	Green & Orange Night Park
King Crimson	Bolero -The Peacock's Tale
Soft Machine	Esther's Nose Job
Caravan	A Hunting We Shall Go / Backwards
801	Miss Shapiro / You really Got Me

Comment:

Once I hit on the idea of topping & tailing w\ covers of the Kinks Klassik, this one essentially compiled itself.Side 1 Track 1 is probably the worst quality track any AoTMer has ever attempted to place on a mix but it does have historical interest not least as it shows what stumbling duffers the youthful Wyatt, Hopper, Ayers et al could be; also, the riff was appropriated for S1T2 and finally, as I say, when taken in conjunction w\ the last track, lends the mix some sort of conceptual coherence. S1T3: a relatively recent cover of one of Ayers' key compositions. S1T4: From Kevin's debut solo album; backing provides by erstwhile Softs colleagues. S1T5:Lol played sax in The Whole World, here he's joined by Ayers, Wyatt & bassist Archie Leggatt. S1T6: Composed by Ayers arranged by Wyatt. S1T7: Radio version of another "Joy Of A Toy" track. Leggatt back on bass but the star is guitarist Ollie Halsall. S1T8 Halsalls break-through group. S1T9: taken from side 2 of Tippets sprawlong opus. Mike Patto among the vocalists, past, present & future Soft Machinists include Wyatt, Nick Evans, Marc Charig, Elton Dean, Roy Babbington, John Marshall & Karl Jenkins. S2T1: written by Dean, also used as part of the climax to "Septober". S2T2: featuring Tippett on piano, Evans on Trombone & Charig on cornet.S2T3 Another radio broadcast. The expanded Softs lineup with Dean, Evans & Charig on board. S2T4: "Backwards" is in fact the closing part of "Slightly All the Time" From Soft Machine's "Third".S2T5 bringing us full circle. I have to admit I didn't expect this Vol to turn out like it has, but as indicated earlier, sometimes these projects take on lives of their own.
I'm expecting Vol 4 to contain shorter, more vocal-orientated tracks. Still, you never can tell...

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