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Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Robyn Hitchcock "You & Oblivion” 1995 | Twilightzone



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Hitchcock's earliest lyrics mined a rich vein of English surrealist comic tradition and tended to depict a particular type of eccentric and sardonic English worldview.....His music and performance style was influenced by Bob Dylan, and by the English folk music revival of the 1960s and early 1970s. This was soon filtered through a then-unfashionable psychedelic rock lens during the punk rock and new wave music eras of the late 1970s and early 1980s.[2] This combination of musical styles won Hitchcock's band of the time, The Soft Boys, an enthusiastic if small fanbase. However, the Soft Boys' final album together, Underwater Moonlight, posthumously earned them a glowing reputation (particularly in America) as a major influence on bands like R.E.M. - wiki

tracklisting

01 You've Got 

02 Don't You 

03 Birdshead 

04 She Reached For A Light 

05 Victorian Squid 

06 Captain Dry 

07 Mr. Rock & Roll 

08 August Hair 

09 Take Your Knife Out Of My Back 

10 Surgery 11 Dust 

12 Polly On The Shore 

13 Aether 

14 Fiend Before The Shrine 

15 Nothing 16 Into It 

17 Stranded In The Future 

18 Keeping Still 

19 September Cones 

20 Ghost Ship 

21 You & Me 

22 If I Could Look 

23 Statue With A Walkman

ROBYN HITCHCOCK ‘ You & Oblivion’ BLOOM. MEZZAGO, MILAN, ITALY 13 FEBRUARY 1999

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