I own some Soft Machine, but only cos Mojo magazine insisted they were important. I think you had to be there. I imagine at some point in the next ten or twenty years, I'll listen through without being - frankly - bored.
You have become confused in your pop recollection, by the way. Shipbuilding was Robert Wyatt. I reckon you're thinking of him when you say Robert Fripp, who was not in Soft Machine but in King Crimson, my Uncle Graham's favourite band. My brother loves Robert Wyatt. I love Robert Fripp for these two reasons, among others:
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