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Joy of a Toy

Release date: 1st December 1968

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"Joy of a Toy" is a track by Soft Machine, from the album The Soft Machine, released 1st December 1968.

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Soft Machine

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From The Soft Machine

1968

Album

The Soft Machine

Release year

1968

—A Certain Kind
—Why Are We Sleeping?
—Plus Belle Qu'une Poubelle
—Hope for Happiness
—Hope for Happiness (Reprise)
—Box 25/4 Lid
—Joy of a Toy
—Lullabye Letter
—Priscilla
—So Boot If at All
—Save Yourself
—We Did It Again
—Why Am I So Short?

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Soft Machine — Beledo Balado (from Thirteen) [4:34]
Soft Machine — Which Bridge Did You Cross (from Thirteen) [2:59]
Soft Machine — Daevid's Special Cuppa (from Thirteen)
Soft Machine — Open Road (from Thirteen) [7:29]
Soft Machine — Waltz for Robert (from Thirteen) [4:21]
Soft Machine — The Longest Night (from Thirteen) [13:05]
Soft Machine — Turmoil (from Thirteen) [5:06]
Soft Machine — Pens to the Foal Mode (from Thirteen) [2:43]
Soft Machine — Seven Hours (from Thirteen) [5:13]
Soft Machine — Green Books (from Thirteen) [5:35]
Soft Machine — Time Station (from Thirteen) [2:49]
Soft Machine — Disappear (from Thirteen) [3:58]
Soft Machine — Daevid's Special Cuppa (feat. Daevid Allen) (from Thirteen) [3:11]
Soft Machine — Lemon Poem Song (from Thirteen) [3:23]
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Soft Machine — Now! Is the Time
Soft Machine — A Flock of Holes
Soft Machine — Crooked Usage
Soft Machine — Careless Eyes
Soft Machine — Back in Season
Soft Machine — The Stars Apart
Soft Machine — Maybe Never
Soft Machine — The Visitors at the Window
Soft Machine — Penny Hitch (Re-Recorded Version)
Soft Machine — Other Doors
Soft Machine — Whisper Back
Soft Machine — Fell to Earth
Soft Machine — Joy of a Toy (Re-Recorded Version)
Soft Machine — Drifting White
Soft Machine — One Glove
Soft Machine — The Man Who Waved at Trains (2018 Rerecording)
Soft Machine — Out Bloody Rageous, Pt. 1
Soft Machine — Out Bloody Intro
Soft Machine — Broken Hill
Soft Machine — Life on Bridges
Soft Machine — Hidden Details
Soft Machine — Heart Off Guard
Soft Machine — Fourteen Hour Dream
Soft Machine — Ground Lift
Soft Machine — Flight of the Jett
Soft Machine — Breathe
Soft Machine — Nettle bed - remastered 2006
Soft Machine — Carol ann - remastered 2006
Soft Machine — Jet Propelled Photograph
Soft Machine — We Know What You Mean
Soft Machine — When I Don't Want You
Soft Machine — That's How Much I Need You Now
Soft Machine — A Concise British Alphabet (Part 2)
Soft Machine — I'd Rather Be With You
Soft Machine — You Don't Remember
Soft Machine — Clarence in Wonderland
Soft Machine — I Should've Known
Soft Machine — Instant Pussy
Soft Machine — She's Gone
Soft Machine — Hot-Biscuit Slim
Soft Machine — Over 'N' Above
Soft Machine — (Black) Velvet Mountain
Soft Machine — A Lot of What You Fancy
Soft Machine — Panoramania
Soft Machine — Behind the Crystal Curtain
Soft Machine — Isle of the Blessed
Soft Machine — Sly Monkey
Soft Machine — Palace of Glass
Soft Machine — Lotus Groves
Soft Machine — Aubade
Soft Machine — Kayoo
Soft Machine — Ban-Ban Caliban
Soft Machine — One Over the Eight
Soft Machine — Song of Aeolus
Soft Machine — The Tale of Taliesin
Soft Machine — Out of Season
Soft Machine — Second Bundle
Soft Machine — Etika
Soft Machine — Nexus
Soft Machine — The Camden Tandem
Soft Machine — Hazard Profile Part 4
Soft Machine — Bundles
Soft Machine — Hazard Profile Part 3
Soft Machine — The Man Who Waved At Trains
Soft Machine — The Floating World
Soft Machine — Four Gongs Two Drums
Soft Machine — Hazard Profile Part 1
Soft Machine — Hazard Profile Part 5
Soft Machine — Hazard Profile Part 2 (Toccatina)
Soft Machine — Gone Sailing
Soft Machine — Land Of The Bag Snake
Soft Machine — Peff
Soft Machine — The German Lesson
Soft Machine — Block
Soft Machine — Bone Fire
Soft Machine — Tarabos
Soft Machine — D.I.S.
Soft Machine — Carol Ann
Soft Machine — Down The Road
Soft Machine — The French Lesson
Soft Machine — Day's Eye
Soft Machine — Snodland
Soft Machine — Penny Hitch
Soft Machine — All White
Soft Machine — Fanfare
Soft Machine — The Soft Weed Factor
Soft Machine — Nettle Bed
Soft Machine — L B O
Soft Machine — As If
Soft Machine — Drop
Soft Machine — Pigling Bland
Soft Machine — M C
Soft Machine — Bone
Soft Machine — Virtually Part 3
Soft Machine — Fletcher's Blemish
Soft Machine — Teeth
Soft Machine — Virtually Part 2
Soft Machine — Kings and Queens
Soft Machine — Virtually Part 4
Soft Machine — Virtually Part 1
Soft Machine — Moon in June
Soft Machine — Facelift
Soft Machine — Out-Bloody-Rageous
Soft Machine — Slightly All the Time
Soft Machine — The Moon in June (BBC Version)
Soft Machine — Orange Skin Food
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Soft Machine — Thank You Pierrot Lunaire
Soft Machine — Hibou, Anemone and Bear
Soft Machine — Dedicated to You But You Weren't Listening
Soft Machine — As Long as He Lies Perfectly Still
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Soft Machine — 10:30 Returns to the Bedroom
Soft Machine — A Concise British Alphabet, Pt. 1
Soft Machine — Fire Engine Passing with Bells Clanging
Soft Machine — Have You Ever Bean Green?
Soft Machine — Pataphysical Introduction (Part 1)
Soft Machine — Hulloder
Soft Machine — Dada Was Here
Soft Machine — A Door Opens and Closes
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Soft Machine — Pataphysical Introduction (Part 2)
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(Black) Velvet Mountain
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A Concise British Alphabet (Part 2)
A Concise British Alphabet, Pt. 1
A Concise English Alphabet, Pt. 2
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A Flock of Holes
A Lot of What You Fancy

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Credits

Credited: Chas Chandler, Kevin Ayers, Mike Ratledge, Tom Wilson