There seems to be a pressing need for this. First item of business: Is this one of the best tracks ever recorded? Or do you intend to claim something incorrect?
Someone posted this on another thread. I've listened to some of it, it seems like a really good show with, as usual, oddball patter interspersed-- favorite quote: "To a pelican born in 2070, there's going to be no difference between any of us and Jim Morrison." But anyway, this has a song I've never heard called "Dragonfly," and it's really excellent: www://archive.org/details/robynhitchcock2010-02-28.aud.flac16/25-Dragonfly.flac
His late 80s and early 90s releases are wonderful. Globe Of Frogs, Perspex Island, Respect, all those. His back up musicians: amazingly good.
I love that song but it drives me crazy every time he says "one connecting doorway through the hall"! It bugs me so much, when I saw him in Philly a couple of years ago I asked him about it after the show (and probably annoyed him in the process)..."How the hell can you have one connecting doorway, through a hall? If it's one doorway, there can't be a hall!" He just said "Architecturally you're correct, but metaphorically...:" and then said something about how he wanted to say how intimately connected good and evil are. Yes, but I was asking about the literal meaning! Still a fantastic song, of course..."Sayonara Judge" and "Mad Shelley" aren't chopped liver either....
Yeah I thought of that. But then is it a "connecting doorway?" Or a random doorway in the middle of a connecting hallway? Difficulties abound...
I really love his so called Green albums like Eye, Trains, Moss Elixer and even Luxor. The man just has no equal.
Maybe its a hallways where all the doors open out towards the hall as opposed to the typical into the room. And maybe there are no doors at all, they are only in your perception.
Wow, gotta give you credit for asking. But, did you really think he'd write about a literal doorway in a hall? The man is a surrealist by nature.
I absolutely love Robyn Hitchcock. For my money one of the most insightful songwriters of the last 50 years.
It's not that it's about a literal doorway, it's that the line has a literal meaning as well as a metaphorical one.
What a lovely treasure this man is. His work with the The Soft Boys alone is enough to cement him as one of the great English pop songwriters.
Definitely a treasure. Seen him live a few times. Also got a gig booked next year in London. Looking forward to it.
Hi guys. On my 10-track LP entitled Robyn Hitchcock, on which I love every track, I don't find this track. Is it a mystery?
Which? "Autumn Sunglasses" should be track 9, "1970 in Aspic" is #7....unless there's a different s/t album with ten tracks?
First heard and saw Robyn in my hometown in 2008; He was playing with John Paul Jones and I guess that's the reason why I went. He started the concert with singing "bing-a-bong-a-bing-bong, bing-bong". Weird stuff. Loved it! Been following him ever since. His latest album is a winner!
The was the track that first hooked me. The quest began to have what I could find. Back when searching for media was a thing, and clove cigarettes.
I agree, that is a superb song. Thought it was just me who knew about it! Whole album is top drawer I think.
Weirdly, there IS another 10 track record called Robyn Hitchcock! Robyn Hitchcock (1995 album) - Wikipedia It's one of his many obscurities records.
