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Grant Lee Buffalo: Jubilee

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On June 9, 1998, “Warner Bros” label released “Jubilee”, the fourth and final Grant Lee Buffalo studio album. It was recorded in 1998, and was produced by Paul Fox.

Personnel:

  • Grant Lee Phillips – vocals, guitars, mellotron, celeste
  • Jon Brion – piano, vibraphone
  • Dan Rothchild – bass, additional vocals
  • Joey Peters – drums, sleigh bells
  • Greg Leisz – pedal steel
  • Rami Jaffee – B3 organ
  • Phil Parlapiano – accordion
  • Robyn Hitchcock – harmonica, additional vocals
  • Andrew Williams – additional vocals
  • Michael Stipe – additional vocals

Track listing:

  1. APB
  2. Seconds
  3. Change Your Tune
  4. Testimony
  5. Truly, Truly
  6. Super Slo Motion
  7. Fine How’d Ya Do
  8. Come to Mama, She Say
  9. 8 Mile Road
  10. Everybody Needs a Little Sanctuary
  11. My My My
  12. Crooked Dice
  13. Jubilee
  14. The Shallow End

The Soft Boys: Underwater Moonlight

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On June 28, 1980, “Armageddon” label released “Underwater Moonlight”, the second Soft Boys studio album. It was recorded in June 1979, at “Spaceward Studios” in Cambridge, England, January – June 1980, at “Alaska” and “James Morgan Studios” in London, and was produced by Pat Collier and Spaceward.

Personnel:

  • Robyn Hitchcock– vocals, guitar, rhythm bass
  • Kimberley Rew– vocals, guitar, bass, synthesizer
  • Matthew Seligman– bass
  • Morris Windsor – vocals, drums
  • Gerry Hale– violin
  • Andy King – sitar
  • Pat Collier– engineer
  • James Morgan – engineer
  • Mike Kemp – engineer

Track listing:

All tracks by Robyn Hitchcock, except where noted.

  1. I Wanna Destroy You
  2. Kingdom of Love
  3. Positive Vibrations
  4. I Got the Hots
  5. Insanely Jealous
  6. Tonight
  7. You’ll Have to Go Sideways – Robyn Hitchcock, Kimberley Rew
  8. Old Pervert – Robyn Hitchcock, Kimberley Rew, Matthew Seligman, Morris Windsor
  9. Queen of Eyes
  10. Underwater Moonlight

Graham Coxon: The Spinning Top

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On May 11, 2009, “Transgressive Records” label released “The Spinning Top”, the seventh Graham Coxon studio album. It was recorded 2008 – 2009, and was produced by Stephen Street.

Personnel:

  • Graham Coxon – vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, bass, piano, organ, soprano saxophone, harmonica, theremin, pipe, concertina, drums, percussion, paintings
  • Robyn Hitchcock – electric guitar
  • Louis Vause – piano
  • Danny Thompson – double bass
  • Graham Fox – drums
  • Oreste Noda – congas
  • Siimon Clarke – flute
  • Gurjit Sembhi – dilruba
  • Jaskase Singh – esraj
  • Jasdeep Singh – esraj, dilruba, percussion
  • Roger Beaujolais – glockenspiel
  • Stephen Street – bells
  • Natasha Marsh – backing vocals
  • Lucy Parnell – backing vocals
  • Essy Syed – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Graham Coxon.

  1. Look Into the Light
  2. This House
  3. In the Morning
  4. If You Want Me
  5. Perfect Love
  6. Brave the Storm
  7. Dead Bees
  8. Sorrow’s Army
  9. Caspian Sea
  10. Home
  11. Humble Man
  12. Feel Alright
  13. Far From Everything
  14. Tripping Over
  15. November

Robyn Hitchcock: Same

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On April 21, 2017, “Yep Roc” label released the self-titled, twenty-first Robyn Hitchcock studio album. It was recorded in 2017, at “Readymade Studios” in Nashville, and was produced by Robyn Hitchcock and Brendan Benson.

Personnel:

  • Robyn Hitchcock – vocals, guitar
  • Anne McCue– guitar
  • Jon Estes – bass
  • Jon Radford – drums
  • Pat Sansone– vocal
  • Grant Lee Phillips– vocals
  • Emma Swift– vocals
  • Gillian Welch– vocals

Track listing:

All tracks by Robyn Hitchcock.

  1. I Want to Tell You About What I Want
  2. Virginia Woolf
  3. I Pray When I’m Drunk
  4. Mad Shelley’s Letterbox
  5. Sayonara Judge
  6. Detective Mindhorn
  7. 1970 in Aspic
  8. Raymond and the Wires
  9. Autumn Sunglasses
  10. Time Coast

Matthew Seligman

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On April 17, 2020, Matthew Seligman died aged 64. He was musician (bass), member of The Soft Boys, Thompson Twins, Bruce Woolley & The Camera Club and The Dolphin Brothers, recorded and performed with Thomas Dolby, David Bowie, Robyn Hitchcock, Kimberley Rew, Alex Chilton, The Waterboys, Peter Murphy, Transvision Vamp, Morrissey, Stereo MC’s, Sam Brown, Tori Amos, Stereo MC’s and Sinéad O’Connor.

Robyn Hitchcock: Ole! Tarantula

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On October 3, 2006, “Yep Roc” label released “Olé! Tarantula”, the fifteenth Robyn Hitchcock studio album. It was recorded in 2006, and was produced by Kurt Bloch. The cover image and internal cartoons were drawn by Roby Hitchcock.

Personnel:

  • Robyn Hitchcock – vocals, guitar, piano
  • Peter Buck – guitar, bass
  • Scott McCaughey – guitar, bass, keyboards
  • Bill Rieflin – drums

Track listing:

All tracks by Robyn Hitchcock, except where noted.

  1. Adventure Rocket Ship
  2. Underground Sun
  3. Museum of Sex
  4. Belltown Ramble
  5. Olé! Tarantula
  6. (A Man’s Gotta Know His Limitations) Briggs
  7. Red Locust Frenzy
  8. ‘Cause It’s Love (Saint Parallelogram) – lyrics:by Robyn Hitchcock; music by Robyn Hitchcock, Andy Partridge
  9. The Authority Box
  10. Y. Doll

Thomas Dolby: The Flat Earth

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In February 1984, “EMI” label released “The Flat Earth”, the second Thomas Dolby album. It was recorded 1982 – 1983, and was produced by Thomas Dolby.

Personnel:

  • Thomas Dolby -vocals, piano, effects
  • Kevin Armstrong- guitar, trumpet, backing vocals
  • Robyn Hitchcock- spoken vocals
  • Louise Ulfstedt -vocals
  • Matthew Seligman- bass
  • Clif Brigden -percussion, electronic drums
  • Peter Thoms- trombone
  • Matthew Salt – tins, thundersheet
  • Adele Bertei- backing vocals
  • Lesley Fairbairn – backing vocals
  • Lionel Richie- backing vocals
  • Bruce Woolley- backing vocals
  • Dan Lacksman – engineer
  • Mike Shipley, Alan Douglas – mixing
  • Wally Traugott – mastering .

Track listing:

All tracks by Thomas Dolby, except where noted.

  1. Dissidents – Thomas Dolby, Kevin Armstrong,Matthew Seligman
  2. The Flat Earth
  3. Screen Kiss
  4. White City
  5. Mulu the Rain Forest
  6. I Scare Myself – Dan Hicks
  7. Hyperactive!

The Decemberists: The Hazards Of Love

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On March 24, 2009, “Capitol” label released “The Hazards of Love”, the fifth Decemberists (The) album. It was recorded in 2009, and was produced by Tucker Martine, Colin Meloy, Chris Funk, Jenny Conlee, Nate Query and John Moen. “The Hazards of Love” is written and recorded as a rock opera.

Personnel:

  • Colin Meloy- vocals (voice of William, The Rake, first voice, second voice), acoustic and electric guitar, percussion
  • Chris Funk- electric guitar, tenor guitar, baritone guitar, pedal steel, mandolin, banjo, bouzouki, autoharp, hurdy-gurdy, hammered dulcimer, marxophone, piano, synthesizer, percussion
  • Jenny Conlee- piano, harpsichord, Hammond organ, Wurlitzer, synthesizer, accordion, marxophone, drums
  • Nate Query- bass guitar, upright bass, bowed bass, synthesizer
  • John Moen- drums, hand drums, percussion, backing vocals
  • Robyn Hitchcock- electric guitar
  • Becky Stark- vocals (voice of Margaret), backing vocals
  • Shara Worden- vocals (voice of the Forest Queen), backing vocals
  • Natalie Briare – vocals (voice of Charlotte)
  • Clara Ell – vocals (voice of Dawn)
  • Joseph Ell – vocals (voice of Isaiah)
  • Jim James – backing vocals
  • Rebecca Gates- backing vocals
  • Keiko Araki -violin
  • Greg Ewer – violin
  • Adam Hoornstra -viola
  • Collin Oldham -cello
  • Jenny Conlee and Nate Query – string arrangements
  • Roger Seibel – mastering
  • Carson Ellis, Colin Meloy, and Mario Hugo for Hugo & Marie – design
  • Carson Ellis – illustrations
  • Autumn de Wilde – band photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Colin Meloy, except where noted.

  1. Prelude – Jenny Conlee
  2. The Hazards of Love 1 (The Prettiest Whistles Won’t Wrestle the Thistles Undone)
  3. A Bower Scene
  4. Won’t Want for Love (Margaret in the Taiga)
  5. The Hazards of Love 2 (Wager All)
  6. The Queen’s Approach
  7. Isn’t It a Lovely Night?
  8. The Wanting Comes in Waves/Repaid
  9. An Interlude
  10. The Rake’s Song
  11. The Abduction of Margaret
  12. The Queen’s Rebuke/The Crossing
  13. Annan Water
  14. Margaret in Captivity
  15. The Hazards of Love 3 (Revenge!)
  16. The Wanting Comes in Waves (Reprise)
  17. The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned)

Robyn Hitchcock: Eye

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On March 12, 1990, “Glass Fish” label released “Eye”, the ninth Robyn Hitchcock album. It was recorded 1989 – 1990, at “Hyde Street Studios” in San Francisco, and was produced by Jim Neill.

Personnel:

  • Robyn Hitchcock – vocals, guitar
  • Wendy Bardsley, Simon Kunath – engineer
  • Brigid Pearson – design
  • Cynthia L. Hunt – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Robyn Hitchcock.

  1. Cynthia Mask
  2. Certainly Clickot
  3. Queen Elvis
  4. Flesh Cartoons
  5. Chinese Water Python
  6. Executioner
  7. Linctus House
  8. Beautiful Girl
  9. Raining Twilight Coast
  10. Clean Steve
  11. Agony of Pleasure
  12. Glass Hotel
  13. Satellite
  14. Aquarium
  15. Agony of Pleasure