Robert Wyatt – Rock Bottom

How does this compare to the Japanese press? Words words

Have only heard this reissue so can’t compare it to anything
Little red riding hood is proto drum and bass and worth the Poa alone . If you’re looking you know enough about music to find value in it ,wherever and whomsoever makes it .

Saddest album of all time (ex æquo with Lou Reed's Berlin)

This is THEE pressing to own people! I bought this sealed back in the day along with a few usa pressings and promise you all that the uk press is superior

soul-healing, a timeless (for all I could possibly know) classic.

My original American vinyl pressing blows away my original UK. It was recorded in the UK, you'd think the opposite. Go figure.

This album is a blast. A sophisticated, psychedelic ‪‎Music‬ journey through excellence. Rock has, as well as ‪Jazz‬, ‪HipHop‬, ‪‎Electronic Music‬ and ‪‎Classical‬, it's sublayers wonders. Robert Wyatt's keyboard lines & percussions hypnosis blend beautifully with Gary Windo's bass clarinet & tenor Sax improvisations on 'Alifie'. A proper start to switch the day mood for the better.

Took me awhile to notice this title, being nine years old at the time it was released. Was one of my first major purchases of a stubbornly difficult-to-locate import LP (which, originally, I had as a two-fer with Ruth is Stranger Than Richard). Seemed as if I were taking an expensive chance, as I was a teen--taking the bus to the big city, where there were decent record stores--and a UK import double LP took a hefty chunk out of my wallet in those days. But I'd been so enamored of Soft Machine's first three LPs.

Worth every penny. More than 30 years later, I'd rate this as among my top five recordings. Despite so many repetitions it still sounds fresh--not dated, not in the slightest--and I continue to play it at least once a month. Feels to me like a sort of musical equivalent of Finnegans Wake; an entire universe lurks within this [seemingly?] perplexing object.

Very much of it's time this one. Listening to it again, the melancholicness of it all is quite overwhelming. But through this, 'Sea Song', Mongezi Feza’s Trumpet solo, Mr. Windo’s sax solo and Ivor Culter's guest appearance stand out as 'bright spots'. In 1974, ‘Rock Bottom’ won the French Grand Prix Charles Cros Record of the Year Award. Even so, I can't imagine this was a big seller so full marks to Virgin, even though Mike Oldfied's appearance on the last track was no doubt an effort to boost sales by 'association'. Good cover illustration by Alfreda Benge (later to be Mrs.Wyatt) but now somewhat grubby on my copy thus making the subtle pencil drawing un-scannable. Shame as there’s a different cover for the reissued CD’s and it’s far more ‘obvious’. One to stick at.