Underwater Moonlight

Infobox Album |
Name = Underwater Moonlight
Type = Album
Artist = The Soft Boys


Background = orange
Released = 28 June 1980
12 March 2001 (re-release)
Recorded = January–June 1980
[http://www.alaskastudio.co.uk/ Alaska Studio] , London
June 1979
[http://www.spacewardstudios.ukf.net/ Spaceward Studios] , Cambridge
Genre = Rock
Length = Original:
36:00
Re-release:
72:17 (CD1)
55:53 (CD2)
128:10 (total)
Label = Armageddon
ARM1 (original UK release)
Matador
OLE-500 (re-release)
Producer = Pat Collier and Spaceward
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:56jqeal04xa7 link]
*"Rolling Stone" (Not Rated) [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/thesoftboys/albums/album/115702/review/5940470/underwater_moonlight link]
Last album = "A Can of Bees"
(1979)
This album = "Underwater Moonlight"
(1980)
Next album = "Two Halves for the Price of One"
(1981)

"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.

Track listing

"Underwater Moonlight"

(All songs by R. Hitchcock except as indicated.)

Side 1 (of original LP):
# "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 2:
# "Tonight" – 3:44
# "You'll Have to Go Sideways" – 2:57 (Hitchcock/Rew)
# "Old Pervert" – 3:52 (Hitchcock/Rew/Seligman/Morris)
# "Queen of Eyes" – 2:01
# "Underwater Moonlight" – 4:17

Album outtakes

* "He's a Reptile" - 4:27 (Hitchcock)
* "Vegetable Man" - 2:59 (Syd Barrett)
* "Strange" - 2:59 (Hitchcock)
* "Only the Stones Remain" - 2:50 (Hitchcock)
* "Where Are the Prawns?" - 6:06 (Hitchcock)
* "Dreams" - 4:37 (Hitchcock)
* "Black Snake Diamond Rock" - 4:24 (Hitchcock)
* "There's Nobody Like You" - 3:11 (Hitchcock)
* "Song #4" - 4:35 (Hitchcock)

"...And How It Got There"

# "Old Pervert - section 1" – 1:38 (Hitchcock/Rew/Seligman/Morris)
# "Like a Real Smoothie" – 3:43 (Hitchcock)
# "Alien" – 3:13 (Hitchcock)
# "Bloat (extract)" – 1:00 (Hitchcock/Rew/Seligman/Morris)
# "Underwater Moonlight" – 6:24 (Hitchcock)
# "She Wears My Hair" – 5:22 (Hitchcock)
# "Wang Dang Pig" – 3:56 (Hitchcock)
# "Old Pervert - section 2" – 1:31 (Hitchcock/Rew/Seligman/Morris)
# "Insanely Jealous" – 5:03 (Hitchcock)
# "Leave Me Alone" – 6:45 (Lou Reed)
# "Goodbye Maurice or Steve" – 3:14 (Hitchcock)
# "Old Pervert - section 3" – 0:36 (Hitchcock/Rew/Seligman/Morris)
# "Cherries" – 2:54 (Hitchcock/Rew/Seligman/Morris)
# "Amputated" – 4:22 (Hitchcock)
# "Over You" – 4:00 (Bryan Ferry / Phil Manzanera)
# "I Wanna, Er... (extract)" – 0:42 (Hitchcock/Rew/Seligman/Morris)
# "Old Pervert - section 4" – 1:24 (Hitchcock/Rew/Seligman/Morris)

Personnel

*Robyn Hitchcock - Guitar, Vocals, Rhythm Bass on "Insanely Jealous"
*Kimberley Rew - Guitar, Vocals, Bass & Synthesiser on "You'll Have To Go Sideways"
*Matthew Seligman - Bass
*Morris Windsor - Drums & Vocals

*Gerry Hale - Violin on "Insanely Jealous" & "Underwater Moonlight"
*Andy King - Sitar on "Positive Vibrations"

External links

*musicbrainz album|id=4b5e4e54-e613-43a8-b764-5d492f4012d4|name =Underwater Moonlight ...And How It Got There (disc 1)
*musicbrainz album|id=8b44d696-ec68-4a9a-817a-b23ee5fe5553|name =Underwater Moonlight ...And How It Got There (disc 2)