Underwater Moonlight

Underwater Moonlight
Studio album by The Soft Boys
Released 28 June 1980
12 March 2001 (re-release)
Recorded January–June 1980
Alaska Studio, London
June 1979
Spaceward Studios, Cambridge
Genre Post-punk
Neo-psychedelia
Length Original:
36:00
Re-release:
72:17 (CD1)
55:53 (CD2)
128:10 (total)
Label Armageddon
ARM1 (original UK release)
Attic Records
LAT1003 (original Canada release)
Matador
OLE-500 (re-release)
Producer Pat Collier and Spaceward
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The Soft Boys chronology
A Can of Bees
(1979)		 Underwater Moonlight
(1980)		 Two Halves for the Price of One
(1981)

Underwater Moonlight is a 1980 album by English band The Soft Boys. The album was re-released in 2001 as an expanded edition with nine outtakes from the main recording sessions and a bonus disc (...And How It Got There) comprising seventeen tracks from the Underwater Moonlight rehearsals at the Boathouse, a rowing-team clubhouse in Cambridge.

Contents

Track listing

All songs by Robyn Hitchcock except as indicated.

Side one

  1. "I Wanna Destroy You" – 2:52
  2. "Kingdom of Love" – 4:10
  3. "Positive Vibrations" – 3:10
  4. "I Got the Hots" – 4:42
  5. "Insanely Jealous" – 4:15

Side two

  1. "Tonight" – 3:44
  2. "You'll Have to Go Sideways" (Hitchcock, Kimberley Rew) – 2:57
  3. "Old Pervert" (Hitchcock, Rew, Matthew Seligman, Morris Windsor) – 3:52
  4. "The Queen of Eyes" – 2:01
  5. "Underwater Moonlight" – 4:17

Outtakes on reissue release

  1. "He's a Reptile" - 4:27
  2. "Vegetable Man" (Syd Barrett) - 2:59
  3. "Strange" - 2:59
  4. "Only the Stones Remain" - 2:50
  5. "Where Are the Prawns?" - 6:06
  6. "Dreams" - 4:37
  7. "Black Snake Diamond Rock" - 4:24
  8. "There's Nobody Like You" - 3:11
  9. "Song #4" - 4:35

Bonus reissue disc: ...And How It Got There

  1. "Old Pervert - section 1" – 1:38 (Hitchcock, Rew, Seligman, Windsor)
  2. "Like a Real Smoothie" – 3:43
  3. "Alien" – 3:13
  4. "Bloat (extract)" – 1:00 (Hitchcock, Rew, Seligman, Windsor)
  5. "Underwater Moonlight" – 6:24
  6. "She Wears My Hair" – 5:22
  7. "Wang Dang Pig" – 3:56
  8. "Old Pervert - section 2" – 1:31 (Hitchcock, Rew, Seligman, Windsor)
  9. "Insanely Jealous" – 5:03
  10. "Leave Me Alone" – 6:45 (Lou Reed)
  11. "Goodbye Maurice or Steve" – 3:14
  12. "Old Pervert - section 3" – 0:36 (Hitchcock, Rew, Seligman, Windsor)
  13. "Cherries" – 2:54 (Hitchcock, Rew, Seligman, Windsor)
  14. "Amputated" – 4:22
  15. "Over You" – 4:00 (Bryan Ferry, Phil Manzanera)
  16. "I Wanna, Er... (extract)" – 0:42 (Hitchcock, Rew, Seligman, Windsor)
  17. "Old Pervert - section 4" – 1:24 (Hitchcock, Rew, Seligman, Windsor)

Personnel

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