Underwater Moonlight
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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
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Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
by English
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
band The Soft Boys
The Soft Boys
The Soft Boys were a pop band during the punk era led by Robyn Hitchcock, whose initially old fashioned music style of psychedelic/folk-rock became part of the neo-psychedelia scene with the release of Underwater Moonlight...
. 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
Cambridge
The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...
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Side one
- "I Wanna Destroy You" – 2:52
- "Kingdom of Love" – 4:10
- "Positive Vibrations" – 3:10
- "I Got the Hots" – 4:42
- "Insanely Jealous" – 4:15
Side two
- "Tonight" – 3:44
- "You'll Have to Go Sideways" (Hitchcock, Kimberley RewKimberley RewKimberley Rew is an English rock and roll singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as a member of Katrina and the Waves 1981 to 1999 and of Robyn Hitchcock's Soft Boys 1978 to 1981...
) – 2:57 - "Old Pervert" (Hitchcock, Rew, Matthew SeligmanMatthew SeligmanMatthew Seligman is an English bassist who took part of the new wave scene in the 1970s and the 1980s, best known as a member of the Soft Boys.-Biography:...
, Morris Windsor) – 3:52 - "The Queen of Eyes" – 2:01
- "Underwater Moonlight" – 4:17
- The Canadian release on Attic Records included a slight reordering of tracks, as well as a cover version of Syd BarrettSyd BarrettSyd Barrett , born Roger Keith Barrett, was an English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and painter, best remembered as a founding member of the band Pink Floyd. He was the lead vocalist, guitarist and primary songwriter during the band's psychedelic years, providing major musical and stylistic...
's "Vegetable Man".
Outtakes on reissue release
- "He's a Reptile" - 4:27
- "Vegetable ManVegetable Man"Vegetable Man" is an unreleased song by the English psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd. The song was recorded from October 9–12, 1967, and was an attempt to record a follow-up single to "See Emily Play", as well as the beginning of sessions for the album which would eventually become A Saucerful of...
" (Syd BarrettSyd BarrettSyd Barrett , born Roger Keith Barrett, was an English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and painter, best remembered as a founding member of the band Pink Floyd. He was the lead vocalist, guitarist and primary songwriter during the band's psychedelic years, providing major musical and stylistic...
) - 2:59 - "Strange" - 2:59
- "Only the Stones Remain" - 2:50
- "Where Are the Prawns?" - 6:06
- "Dreams" - 4:37
- "Black Snake Diamond Rock" - 4:24
- "There's Nobody Like You" - 3:11
- "Song #4" - 4:35
Bonus reissue disc: ...And How It Got There
- "Old Pervert - section 1" – 1:38 (Hitchcock, Rew, Seligman, Windsor)
- "Like a Real Smoothie" – 3:43
- "Alien" – 3:13
- "Bloat (extract)" – 1:00 (Hitchcock, Rew, Seligman, Windsor)
- "Underwater Moonlight" – 6:24
- "She Wears My Hair" – 5:22
- "Wang Dang Pig" – 3:56
- "Old Pervert - section 2" – 1:31 (Hitchcock, Rew, Seligman, Windsor)
- "Insanely Jealous" – 5:03
- "Leave Me Alone" – 6:45 (Lou ReedLou ReedLewis Allan "Lou" Reed is an American rock musician, songwriter, and photographer. He is best known as guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground, and for his successful solo career, which has spanned several decades...
) - "Goodbye Maurice or Steve" – 3:14
- "Old Pervert - section 3" – 0:36 (Hitchcock, Rew, Seligman, Windsor)
- "Cherries" – 2:54 (Hitchcock, Rew, Seligman, Windsor)
- "Amputated" – 4:22
- "Over You" – 4:00 (Bryan FerryBryan FerryBryan Ferry, CBE is an English singer, musician, and songwriter. Ferry came to public prominence in the early 1970s as lead vocalist and principal songwriter with the band Roxy Music, who enjoyed a highly successful career with three number one albums and ten singles entering the top ten charts in...
, Phil ManzaneraPhil ManzaneraPhil Manzanera is a musician and record producer. He is the lead guitarist with Roxy Music. In 2006 Manzanera co-produced David Gilmour's album On An Island and played in Gilmour's band for tours in Europe and North America...
) - "I Wanna, Er... (extract)" – 0:42 (Hitchcock, Rew, Seligman, Windsor)
- "Old Pervert - section 4" – 1:24 (Hitchcock, Rew, Seligman, Windsor)
Personnel
- Robyn HitchcockRobyn HitchcockRobyn Rowan Hitchcock is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist. While primarily a vocalist and guitarist, he also plays harmonica, piano and bass guitar....
- GuitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, Vocals, Rhythm BassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
on "Insanely Jealous" - Kimberley RewKimberley RewKimberley Rew is an English rock and roll singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as a member of Katrina and the Waves 1981 to 1999 and of Robyn Hitchcock's Soft Boys 1978 to 1981...
- Guitar, Vocals, Bass & SynthesiserSynthesizerA synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...
on "You'll Have To Go Sideways" - Matthew Seligman - Bass
- Morris Windsor - DrumDrumThe drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a...
s & Vocals
- Gerry Hale - ViolinViolinThe violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
on "Insanely Jealous" & "Underwater Moonlight" - Andy King - SitarSitarThe 'Tablaman' is a plucked stringed instrument predominantly used in Hindustani classical music, where it has been ubiquitous since the Middle Ages...
on "Positive Vibrations"