Favorite Robyn Hitchcock Song

[Wickerman]

Well, if I do say so, the Softboys favorite song thread went over quite well! 8 posts over a week - heck, thats like, one a day! Anyway, Robyn as Robyn is still going strong. His new record, Luxor, a solo acoutstic is fantastic vintage Robyn. He has reportedly left the Soft Boys again. Once every 25 years appears to be enough. He contributed City of Women to Wig in a Box, a collection of songs inspired by Hedwig And The Angry Inch. He's published a short story in a collection of work by rockers called Carved In Rock that includes Kinky Friedman, Jim Carroll, Joan Jett, Greg Kihn, Richard Hell, Ray Davies, Graham Parker, Eric Burdon, Suzzy Roche, Pamela Des Barres, John Entwistle, Pete Townsend, Lydia Lunch, Excenne Cervenka, Wayne Kramer, Steve Earle, Steve Wynn, and Ray Manzarek.

So, this poll includes no Softboys tunes, no covers.
And it is really hard to limit it to 10.

[zekeson]

1. Uncorrected Personality Traits

what a great song!

Lack of involvement with the father, or over-involvement with the mother, can result in lack of ability to relate to sexual fears, and in homosexual leanings, narcissism, transexuality (girls from the waist up/men from the waist down), attempts to be your own love object. Reconcile your parents to you by becoming both at once!

Even Marilyn Monroe was a man, but this tends to get overlooked by our
mother-fixated, overweight, sexist media.

So:
Uncorrected personality traits that seem whimsical in a child may prove to be ugly in a fully grown adult.

If you give in to them
Every time they cry
They will become little tyrants
But they won't remember why

Then when they are thwarted
By people in later life
They will become psychotic
And they won't make an ideal husband or wife

The spoiled baby grows into
the escapist teenager who's
the adult alcoholic who's
the middle-aged suicide. (Oy.)

So:
Uncorrected personality traits that seem whimsical in a child may prove to be ugly in a fully grown adult

[Wickerman]

2. Ok, how about tell me about your drugs?

kinda in line with Sweet Zombie's Drug Songs...

Do you believe in the Holy Grail?
Tell me about your drugs
Do you know anyone in jail?
Tell me about your drugs

Do you wake up on somebody's floor?
Tell me about your drugs
And you just can't take it anymore?
Tell me about your drugs

Ah, we all get hit by forces that we just don't understand

Do you believe in the Holy Ghost?
Tell me about your drugs
Do you like the things that hurt you most?
Tell me about your drugs
Do you wish you were somebody else?
Tell me about your drugs
But you wake up and you're still yourself
Talkin' about your drugs

Ah, we get messed up by forces that we just don't understand

Well, now tell me about your drugs, come on (Bop bop shoo bop, a-wop bop shoo bop)
Why don't you tell me about your drugs?
I'd love to know more about your drugs
Why don't you get intimate about your drugs
Why don't you call me up and go on for hours 'n hours 'n hours 'n hours 'n hours 'n hours 'n hours about your drugs
Tell me Morris

Do you believe in the endless sleep?
Tell me about your drugs
Do you believe in human sheep?
Tell me about your drugs
WIth their curly little whirly tails?
Tell me about your drugs
So they hang themselves when all else fails
And they're thinkin' about their drugs

Oh, we gets messed up by forces that we just don't understand

[mac56]

3. Balloon Man!

"And it rained like a slow divorce."

Brilliant.

[CanuckAmok]

4. I voted "...Wife...", but I would have voted...

..."Listening to the Higsons", had it been on the list. Amazing overdrive sound, and thse primo lyrics, too:

"the Higsons come from Norwich, whoa-oah!
And they eat alot of porrigde, whoa-oah!"

I have the live LP (Gotta Let This Hen Out!). What an amazing record!!

[Wickerman]

6. Yes, that is a fantastic record

Brenda's Iron Sledge! And HEaven leading into Higsons. Dammit, you are right,s hould've been on the list...

[JCMach1]

5. 1. 'Ghost Ship'

2. Colour of Night
3. I Often Dream of Trains
4. Satellite
5. Railway Shoes


I love Robyn... sorry I missed the other thread.

[Wickerman]

7. good choices, I love the often dream of trains

lp. I didn't know if there would be takers that knew that record, though I was gonna put Autumn is Your Chance from there... Ghost Ship is cool, was that on anything besides the Globe of Frogs Ep thing?

[JCMach1]

8. The version of Ghost Ship I really like

is on 'You and Oblivion'

Which I adore...

Other cool songs from that LP are 'Nothing' and 'Fiend Before the Shrine'

I Have and Old Vinyl import of 'I often dream of Trains'

I also love 'Sleeping Knights of Jesus' from there-- should be the Freeper theme song.

[Wickerman]

9. I've got that same vinyl import

it had extra songs that you couldn't hear until the Rykodisc CD came out with even more takes. Sleeping Nights - the Freeper Themes Song!!!!

[BurtWorm]

10. The Yip Song

Yip yip

[NashVegas]

11. Way Tough Call!

Chinese Bones
I Am Not Me
My Wife & My Dead Wife
Sinister But Happy
Devil's Radio
(can you tell I like Moss Elixir a LOT?)


Limbaugh
He was talking through a bimbo
But don't
Touch that dial
Or that hateful smile
Kate said
"The flowers of intolerance and hatred
Are blooming kind of early
This year
-- Someone's been watering them"

[Dogmudgeon]

12. Perspex Island

Still one of my faves.

Not his best lyrically OR musically, but it all came together ("lyrically AND musically") in pop music in that album.

Anything he has done, though, has been better-than-good.

Also check out some of the even-more-obscure stuff from SB bandmate Kimberly Rew, co-writer of "Walking on Sunshine".

--bkl