"The song … has a kind of weary sense of defeat. It’s as if you found that you had just become incontinent and soiled your clothing, but you’ve just been given an enormous amount of painkillers so it doesn’t matter. It’s a combination of defeat and indifference."

Robyn Hitchcock hates “Arthur’s Theme” like he hates clean underwear

Someone should offer him a job as a regular columnist.  If you don’t have some kind of allergy to old guys talking about the 60s, his favourite albums list for the Quietus is a good read too.

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Hitchcockiana

lightbulbhead:

Just came across these curated collections of Robyn Hitchcock oddities, curios, covers and the like. I haven’t had a chance to listen yet, but from the tracks I know they should be pretty great.

Thanks for the crablings, Victorian Squid!

Unhatched Crablings, Vol 1 - Moments In The Orchard

Unhatched Crablings, Vol 2 - Who’s Got All The Tunes

Unhatched Crablings, Vol 3 - Statues In My Bathroom

Unhatched Crablings, Vol 4 - The Palest Imaginings

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doomandgloomfromthetomb:

Soft Boys, Vegetable Men

Robyn Hitchcock once said of his former band the Soft Boys: “We could … sound like the Byrds or the Beatles, or whoever it was we wanted to sound like at the time … We sort of became a very high-grade covers band, combined with this sort of psychedelic coven.” Robyn was being slightly disparaging, I think, but the Soft Boys were indeed a very great covers band. Case in point, this compilation of live recordings and rehearsals I’ve thrown together, featuring the band tearing through a wide range of tunes by the Velvet Underground, Pink Floyd and Roxy Music, among others. The whole thing kicks off with two manic renditions of Sun Records-associated songs that sound about a galaxy and a half removed from Memphis, and concludes about an hour later with an (inter)stellar jam on “Astronomy Domine.” Climb aboard the Mystery Train!

1. Mystery Train
2. Heartbreak Hotel
3. Caroline Says
4. We Like Bananas
5. Cold Turkey
6. Poor Will & The Jolly Hangman
7. My Evaline 
8. That’s When Your Heartaches Begin
9. The Book of Love
10. In The Mood
11. All Shook Up
12. Leave Me Alone
13. Over You
14. Vegetable Man
15. Run Run Run
16. Gigolo Aunt
17. Train Round The Bend
18. Bells of Rhymney
19. Outlaw Blues
20. Astronomy Domine  

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Special thanks go out to the Man With The Lightbulb Head for supplying a lot of the material for this comp! 

Alternate lyrics to the Yip Song →

Reglar Wiglar Magazine: Music Review: Robyn Hitchcock →

reglarwiglar:

ROBYN HITCHCOCK
Chronology (Yep Roc)
Robyn Hitchcock is one of those rare musicians that there just aren’t enough of—or maybe there are. Maybe there shouldn’t be too many like him. Maybe it would get a little too crowded in the pantheon of highly prolific artists with decades-spanning…

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