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THE REVIEW
It can be enlightening, but the only real thing it illuminates is the wavering nature of Hitchcock's muse: a collection of songs that "didn't fit in with what I was doing at the time [=the first three albums] and do fit in with each other now"; how successful this combination actually is remains debatable.
Mostly it consists of traditional blues (sometimes not even imaginatively titled: Blues in A), bordering on pure goofing off; few tracks salvageable at the idea level (the opener All I Wanna Do Is Fall in Love).
Invisible Hits by the Soft Boys was a whole album released late, Invisible Hitchcock is a collection of leftovers, and Robyn Hitchcock's leftovers are predictably embarrassingly poor in quality.
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This review critiques Robyn Hitchcock's 'Invisible Hitchcock' as a collection of leftover songs that lack cohesion and quality. It largely consists of traditional blues tracks, many of which come off as uninspired. While the album offers some insight into Hitchcock's evolving muse, the overall success of this compilation remains questionable.Tracklist Lyrics
05 My Favourite Buildings (03:15)
My favourite buildings are all falling down
Seems like I dwell in a different town
But why should I bother with painting them brown
When they'll all be pulled down in the end
My favourite buildings stretch upwards for miles
Remind me somehow of your favourite smiles
Like oak leaves in autumn cascading on stiles
In the rain
Nobody seems to know how long
All of these buildings belong
Till they become part of you
People get down on your knees
Buildings are like a disease
You could wind up in a zoo
And most people do
(cha)
My favourite buildings are all laid to waste
One might as well sculpt a statue from toothpaste
And someday I could have a fifty-inch waist
It's all free
For my favourite buildings
And me
13 Vegetable Friend (02:11)
Where two spiders wander
In and out of thunder
I will sit and wonder with my vegetable friend
Where two lions water
After casual slaughter
I will kiss the daughter of my vegetable friend
Where the fire's glistening
Nobody is listening
I will do the christening of my vegetable friend
It's raining in Europe
But I've got no proof
I've got the semolina blues
Where two legs are boiling
They will not need oiling
I'm forever toiling with my vegetable friend
Under dirty sacking
Somebody is cracking
Nobody is lacking like my vegetable friend
Robyn Hitchcock
Robyn Hitchcock is a British singer-songwriter and guitarist, former frontman of the Soft Boys, and a key figure in neo-psychedelia. His solo work—often with the Egyptians—blends surreal, witty lyrics with folk, pop, and jangly psychedelia. He was the subject of Jonathan Demme’s concert film Storefront Hitchcock.08 Reviews
