Jewels for Sophia

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Name = Jewels for Sophia
Type = Album
Artist = Robyn Hitchcock


Released = 1999
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Genre = Folk pop
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* Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:rek9ikpdbb59 link]
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/robynhitchcock/albums/album/93244/review/5940823/jewels_for_sophia link]
Last album = "Storefront Hitchcock L.P."
(1998)
This album = "Jewels for Sophia"
(1999)
Next album = "A Star for Bram"
(2000)

"Jewels For Sophia" is a 1999 album by Robyn Hitchcock, released on Warner Records.

Since "Respect" (1993), the hitherto prolific Hitchcock had released just one full studio album ("Moss Elixir" in 1996), the rest of his recent output consisting largely of repackages and live recordings. "Jewels For Sophia" however contained a dozen tracks, only one of which ("No, I Don't Remember Guildford") had been recorded previously, and two extras not listed on the cover, and hidden away after a substantial pause following the album's "last" track.

Tracks include a paen to cheese in all its forms, with a sub-text of the global power struggle, and the quasi-nonsensical title number, whose lyric is rather pointed, in similar vein to John Lennon's "I Am the Walrus".

The two hidden extras are comedy numbers, "Mr. Tongs" and "Don't Talk to Me About Gene Hackman".

Track listing

#"Mexican God"
#"The Cheese Alarm"
#"Viva! Sea-Tac"
#"I Feel Beautiful"
#"You've Got a Sweet Mouth on You, Baby"
#"NASA Clapping"
#"Sally Was a Legend"
#"Antwoman"
#"Elizabeth Jade"
#"No, I Don't Remember Guildford"
#"Dark Princess"
#"Jewels for Sophia"
#(Unlisted) "Mr. Tongs"
#(Unlisted) "Don't Talk to Me About Gene Hackman"