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Robyn Hitchcock - Invisible Hitchcock Audio CD

A fair review of the Robyn Hitchcock "Invisible Hitchcock" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Robyn Hitchcock reviews here, or go back to the Robyn Hitchcock tabs.

Robyn Hitchcock Band: Robyn Hitchcock
Title: Invisible Hitchcock
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Release Date: 1995-03-28
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: All I Wanna Do Is Fall in Love 2: Give Me a Spanner, Ralph 3: Skull, a Suitcase, and a Long Red Bottle of Wine 4: It's a Mystic Trip 5: My Favourite Buildings 6: Falling Leaves 7: Eaten by Her Own Dinner 8: Pit of Souls [Country Version] 9: Trash 10: Mr. Deadly 11: Star of Hairs 12: Messages of Dark 13: Vegetable Friend 14: I Got a Message for You 15: Point It at Gran 16: Abandoned Brain 17: Let There Be More Darkness 18: Blues in A 19: Listening to the Higsons [*] 20: Dr. Sticky [*]

Contains some great, great Robyn songs!
To tell the truth , I think it was the cover that won me over. Oddly enough this was the first RH record that I ever bought. Really. This sounds much more like a cohesive artistic statement rather than just a stop-gap odds and ends compilation. By the end of the Black Snake outtake, "All I Wanna Do Is Fall In Love" (why this track was an outtake I'll never understand), I knew it was just a matter of time till I purchased all things Robyn. In fact aside from a few way-out-there experimental tunes this may be my fave collection of Robyn tunes. "Give Me A Spanner (i. e. wrench), Ralph", "I('ve) Got A Message For You", "Eaten By Her Own Dinner", "A Skull. . . ", "The Abandoned Brain", "Falling Leaves"
and the version of "My Favorite Buildings" on here are all great songs and some of my fave Robyn moments.

This album is music for Autumn nights with abundant beer (or wine if you will) and just kick back, relax, listen and enjoy.
Sample lyric: "Trevor Go And Shave Your Playmates".


Hey, hey, it's a mystic trip....why don't you try it?
Robyn often sounds like John Lennon on warped psychedelics(never mind. . Lennon was no stranger to that sort of thing), and here the resemblance is as strong as ever. So picture yourself in a boat on a river with tangerine trees and marmalade skies and let Robyn take you to a place stranger than Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds ever went. Most of the arrangements are sparse with awesome harmonica and backward guitar treatments. The majority of the songs here were recorded betweeen 1980 and 1983 and have definitely withstood the test of time. .


A classic full of memories
It must have been 1988 or '89 when I first heard it. I have actually owned the LP version of "Invisible Hitchcock" for many years (well before this CD version was released). My then flatmate; Dave(where are you now?), and I would drink copious amounts and put this album on. By the end of side 1, munchies were setting in so it was the perfect break (just after the psychedelic jungle beat that is "Pit of Souls") and then on to the hilarious "Trash" which opened side 2. Ahhhhh. . . . the memories! The superb bass line to "A Skull . . . . . ", the surreal lyrics to. . . well most of the songs here, and the twisted, hilarious brutallity of "Blues in A" all help make this album a timeless classic for this listener. Now that we have the CD version, there are many more tracks available that were/are not on my old dusty LP version. However, on the sleeve notes of my LP it does say that one day a second album of similiar demos, b-sides, and general recorded lunacy will be released at a later date. Maybe these tracks are them. However, I certainly recommend it for the 12 or so tracks that were on the original vinyl version.


Very representative, though slightly hodgepodge
Underneath the tongue-in-cheekiness of the humor lies the sweet folk rock of a man who can both make fun of buildings and lament their immanent demise. The attraction of Robyn Hitchcock goes beyond the playfulness of a song like My Favourite Buildings. The drunken barroom sounds of Give Me a Spanner, Ralph and the typically Hitchcock smoothness of A Skull, A Suitcase, and a Long Red Bottle of Wine serve up the kind of diversity he's known for. If you're a Hitchcock fan, you have to have this one, if only for My Favourite Buildings. If you have no clue who he is, this is a great intro.


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Even so, it's a fairly consistent and varied collection. This basically consists of outtakes from "Black Snake Diamond Role" and demos. Everything from good pop tunes like "All I want to Do is Fall in Love" to somber acoustic stuff like "A Skull, a Suitcase. . . " to silly stuff like "Blues in A. " Basically minor Hitchcock, I suppose, but an oddly likable album and really pretty representative of most of what he does.


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