Bristol_Jonesey
These were pretty forgettable, without a hint of the huge influence they would have in the decades that followed:
Harsh ...
I disagree. I'm not sure that you can sit here and say that you were any better when you were 18/19 and trying to put something together. Both albums show an incredible amount of promise, though it can also be said that "promise" is a futile word and not something you need/want to live with ... it's hard enough to live it as it is day by day, specially when armchairs are so handy!
I could say that Gong's 1st album was weird and not very good by comparison to later work, or that Soft Machine with Kevin Ayers was terribly over rated ... but then, you would be missing out on a couple of things that helped define a whole scene in London that ended up being christened as "progressive" and still lives to this day!
Far be it from me to state that anyone had an over blown album and it was really sad, and pathetic, and I tend to not say it, because everyone has a right to do it ... but there are some things that are better developed than the others.
The one thing I would say about both those albums, is that while the promise was there, the premise, wasn't!