![]() ![]() Hen-recorded in 1985 at London’s Marquee-remains an essential snapshot of the band, covering a catalog that stretches back to The Soft Boys. ![]() The group then recorded Fegmania!, the live album Gotta Let This Hen Out!Īnd Bad Case of History’s live “part 2” disc demonstrate. ![]() After the largely acoustic I Often Dream Of Trains, he partially reformed The Soft Boys, corralling bassist Andy Metcalfe and drummer Morris Windsor to form The Egyptians. In between The Soft Boys’ run and Hitchcock’s late-’80s college-radio hit “Balloon Man,” the songwriter hit his stride as a solo artist. Cult following), Buck was one of his occasional sidemen-a role he still plays. By the time Hitchcock released 1988 solo album Globe Of Frogs (which cemented his U.S. The Soft Boys’ overlooked classic, 1980’s Underwater Moonlighta revelation to the clerk at Athens, Ga.’s Wuxtry Records: guitarist Peter Buck, whose young band would glean much from The Soft Boys’ approach. Hitchcock, the band’s lyricist, sidestepped both politics and rote boy/girl pop narratives, opting instead for cracked, surrealist metaphors that were equal parts Syd Barrett’s twee madness and Bob Dylan’s stream-of-consciousness wordplay-all delivered with a voice like a loopier.
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