Mossy Liquor is the title of a vinyl

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 LP

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 released by Robyn Hitchcock

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 in 1996. The album preceded the release of the Moss Elixir

Moss Elixir

Moss Elixir is a 1996 album by Robyn Hitchcock, containing twelve original compositions, predominantly acoustic, and released by Warner Music.Following the traumatic loss of his father, Hitchcock had recorded little in the preceding five years...

 CD by a few weeks, and half of it was made up of demos

Demo (music)

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 or alternative versions of the Moss Elixir

Moss Elixir

Moss Elixir is a 1996 album by Robyn Hitchcock, containing twelve original compositions, predominantly acoustic, and released by Warner Music.Following the traumatic loss of his father, Hitchcock had recorded little in the preceding five years...

material.

Opening with a Swedish language

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 rendition of "Alright, Yeah", side one also features four all new tracks, including the instrumental "Shuffling over the Flagstones", the casual "Cool Bug Rumble", and two particularly strong songs in "Wide Open Star" and "Each of Her Silver Wands", the latter remade several years later by a reunited Soft Boys

The Soft Boys

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 line up.

The rest of the new material includes "As Lemons Chop" and the archaeological

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 comedy

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 "Trilobite", rounded off with a previously unheard and untitled guitar

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 instrumental acting as an extended coda

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 to the demo version of "Heliotrope".

The sleeve

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was created by switching the front and back images from Moss Elixir.

Track listing

1. "Alright, Yeah" (in Swedish)
2. "Beautiful Queen" (Demo)
3. "Shuffling over the Flagstones"
4. "Cool Bug Rumble"
5. "Wide Open Star"
6. "Each of Her Silver Wands"
7. "DeChirico Street" (Demo)
8. "As Lemons Chop"
9. "Sinister but She Was Happy" (Demo)
10. "Trilobite"
11. "The Devil's Radio" (Demo)
12. "Heliotrope" (Demo)