S6E335 - The Soft Boys 'Underwater Moonlight' with Tom Lawery

That Record Got Me High Podcast

For our final episode of Season 6, we're joined by TRGMH super-fan Tom Lawery as we explore a classic of neo-psychedelic post-punk, The Soft Boys' seminal 1980 release: 'Underwater Moonlight'. Robyn Hitchcock's jangly, twisted pop songs were hugely influential to a slew of 80s alternative bands, and we could hardly contain our glee at revisiting this timeless classic of a record!

Songs discussed in this episode: Queen Of Eyes - Fastbacks; My Wife And My Dead Wife - Robyn Hitchcock and The Egyptians; Human Music - The Soft Boys; Moral Kiosk - R.E.M.; Octopus - Syd Barrett; Walking On Sunshine - Katrina & The Waves; I Wanna Destroy You, Kingdom Of Love, Positive Vibrations - The Soft Boys; Pretty Persuasion - R.E.M.; I Got The Hots - The Soft Boys; Peaches - The Stranglers; Insanely Jealous Of You - The Soft Boys; Days - Television; Tonight, You'll Have To Go Sideways - The Soft Boys; Celestial Transgression - Robyn Hitchcock; Old Pervert - The Soft Boys; Bill's Corpse - Captain Beefheart; Old Pervert (Original LP Version), Queen Of Eyes - The Soft Boys; Teenage FBI - Guided By Voices; Underwater Moonlight, Only The Stones Remain, Vegetable Man, Empty Girl - The Soft Boys