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yeproc.com wrote:
After a long hiatus from print and 30 years after its initial appearance on Armageddon Records, The Soft Boys' Underwater Moonlight is being released in its 10-song original form by Yep Roc, on CD and 180 gram vinyl. This is the first reissue of the album to feature all the bonus tracks (last time taking up 2/3rds of the package) as digital downloads free with purchase. The vinyl release is the first ever reissue of the LP in its original form.
Underwater Moonlight has long been considered a classic record, "Big Star and us were the rickety bridge between the Byrds and REM", says former Soft Boys' main man Robyn Hitchcock.
Additionally, the first, and rarely reissued Soft Boy's album, A Can of Bees is also being released with similar bonus downloads. "A red-hot poker up the arse of rock music" was how Julian Cope once described this album. The vinyl version of Bees is the first ever reissue of the LP in any form.
A Can of BeesGive It To The Soft Boys
The Pigworker
Human Music
Leppo and the Jooves
The Rat's Prayer
Do The Chisel
Sandra's Having Her Brain Out
Return of The Sacred Crab
Cold Turkey
School Dinner Blues
Wading Through a Ventilator (Live)
Let Me Put It Next To You (Bonus Track)
Blues In The Dark (Bonus Track)
When I Was a Kid (Bonus Track)
Love Poisoning (Bonus Track)
The Asking Tree (Bonus Track)
Muriel's Hoof/Root of the Clones (Bonus Track)
Have a Heart Betty (Mark 1) [Bonus Track]
Rock 'n' Roll Toilet (Mark 1) [Bonus Track]
Heartbreak Hotel (Bonus Track)Underwater MoonlightI Wanna Destroy You
Kingdom of Love
Positive Vibrations
I Got The Hots
Insanely Jealous of You
Tonight
You'll Have To Go Sideways
Old Pervert
Queen of Eyes
Underwater Moonlight
He's a Reptile (Bonus Track)
Vegetable Man (Bonus Track)
Strange (Bonus Track)
Only The Stones Remain (Bonus Track)
Where Are The Prawns (Bonus Track)
Wey Wey Hep Uh Hole (Bonus Track)
Dreams (Bonus Track)
Black Snake Diamond Rock (Bonus Track)
There's Nobody Like You (Bonus Track)
Song #4 (Bonus Track)
Empty Girl (Bonus Track)
Have a Heart Betty (Mark 2) [Bonus Track]
Rock 'n' Roll Toilet (Mark 2) [Bonus Track]
Old Pervert (Section 1) [Bonus Track]
Like a Real Smoothie (Bonus Track)
Alien (Bonus Track)
Bloat (Extract) [Bonus Track]
Underwater Moonlight (Early Version) [Bonus Track]
She Wears My Hair (Bonus Track)
Wang Dang Pig (Bonus Track)
Old Pervert (Section 2) [Bonus Track]
Insanely Jealous (Bonus Track)
Leave Me Alone (Bonus Track)
Goodbye Maurice or Steve (Bonus Track)
Old Pervert (Section 3) [Bonus Track]
Cherries (Bonus Track)
Amputated (Bonus Track)
Over You (Bonus Track)
I Wanna, Er (Bonus Track)
Old Pervert (Section 4) [Bonus Track]When I first heard news about the Soft Boys records being reissued, I had heard it would be a deluxe box set like the two Robyn Hitchcock solo boxes. Screw that, I guess. Got your Rykos and Matadors? Keep 'em.
