Side A
Artist	Song
The Soft Boys	Give It To The Soft Boys
The Soft Boys	I Want To Be An Anglepoise Lamp
The Soft Boys	The Face Of Death
The Soft Boys	Skool Dinner Blues
The Soft Boys	Sandra's Having Her Brain Out
The Soft Boys	Human Music
The Soft Boys	Leppo And The Jooves
The Soft Boys	Cold Turkey (live)
The Soft Boys	Have A Heart, Betty (I'm Not Fireproof)
The Soft Boys	Innocent Boy
The Soft Boys	The Book Of Love (live)
The Soft Boys	We Like Bananas (live)
The Soft Boys	Wy Wey Hep Uh Hole
The Soft Boys	When I Was A Kid
The Soft Boys	Rock 'n' Roll Toilet
The Soft Boys	Empty Girl
The Soft Boys	He's A Reptile
The Soft Boys	You'll Have To Go Sideways
The Soft Boys	Song #4
The Soft Boys	Like A Real Smoothie
The Soft Boys	Goodbye Maurice Or Steve
The Soft Boys	Over You
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
The Soft Boys	I Wanna Destroy You
The Soft Boys	Kingdom Of Love
The Soft Boys	Positive Vibration
The Soft Boys	Tonight
The Soft Boys	Old Pervert
The Soft Boys	The Queen Of Eyes
The Soft Boys	Underwater Moonlight
The Soft Boys	Vegetable Man
The Soft Boys	Strange
The Soft Boys	Only The Stones Remain
The Soft Boys	Where Are The Prawns?
The Soft Boys	Black Snake Diamond Rock
The Soft Boys	There's Nobody Like You
The Soft Boys	Gigolo Aunt (live)
The Soft Boys	Train 'Round The Bend (live)
The Soft Boys	Astonomy Domine (live)
The Soft Boys	Oulaw Blues (live)
The Soft Boys	Pulse Of My Heart
The Soft Boys	Mr. Kennedy
The Soft Boys	Sudden Town
The Soft Boys	Unprotected Love

Comment:

Pretty much all the Soft Boys you could ever want, and then some. This was Robyn Hitchcock's original twisted pop band circa '77-'81, before embarking on a successful (sort of, at least by indie standards) solo career. I had a single-cd mix of their finest work awhile back, but wanted to update it to include a few tracks from their 2002 "reunion" disc (though as Rob Conroy noted on his own Soft Boys mix, the reunion disc sounded pretty much like any other Hitchcock disc from the past 20 years, which isn't surprising since the Soft Boys rhythm section backed him on a lot of those, but, still, the band was back together and I'm all for having an exhaustive mix). Of course, I couldn't think of anything I'd cut from my original mix to accommodate the newer stuff, so I just went all out and made it a 2-cd collection. Yes, this meant including most of 1980's superb Underwater Moonlight, but it's a pretty great album; and also had room for a lot more of Robyn's quirky covers (lots of Syd Barrett, of course, but also the VU, Roxy Music, Dylan, Lennon, etc.). If you haven't discovered the 'Boys yet, you should at minimum pick up a copy of Underwater Moonlight and take it from there.

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