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listen  1. Intro (Spoken Word)(Album Version)0:20$0.69 Buy Track
listen  2. 1974 (Live) (Album Version) 5:00$0.69 Buy Track
listen  3. Spleen Rap (Spoken Word)(Album Version) 1:23$0.69 Buy Track
listen  4. Let's Go Thundering (Live) (Album Version) 3:36$0.69 Buy Track
listen  5. Carcasses Rap (Spoken Word)(Album Version) 1:32$0.69 Buy Track
listen  6. I'm Only You (Live) (Album Version) 4:54$0.99 Buy Track
listen  7. Glass Hotel (Live) (Album Version) 3:32$0.69 Buy Track
listen  8. Minotaur Rap (Spoken Word)(Album Version) 2:43$0.69 Buy Track
listen  9. I Something You (Live) (Album Version) 2:35$0.69 Buy Track
listen10. Problem With Physics Rap (Spoken Word)(Album Version)0:25$0.69 Buy Track
listen11. The Yip! Song (Live) (Album Version) 3:33$0.99 Buy Track
listen12. Electric Coffee Rap (Spoken Word)(Album Version)0:37$0.69 Buy Track
listen13. Freeze (Live) (Album Version) 4:48$0.69 Buy Track
listen14. Minneapolis Rap (Spoken Word)(Album Version) 1:41$0.69 Buy Track
listen15. Alright, Yeah (Live) (Album Version) 3:13$0.69 Buy Track
listen16. Where Do You Go When You Die? (Live) (Album Version) 4:54$0.69 Buy Track
listen17. The Wind Cries Mary (Live) (Album Version) 3:20$0.69 Buy Track
listen18. No, I Don't Remember Guildford (Live) (Album Version) 6:15$0.69 Buy Track
listen19. TS Eliot Rap (Spoken Word)(Album Version)0:21$0.69 Buy Track
listen20. Beautiful Queen (Live) (Album Version) 7:21$0.69 Buy Track
listen21. Dinner Conversation (Spoken Word)(Album Version) 2:36$0.69 Buy Track

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"The title refers to two long nights spent in Oslo in 1982 by Morris Windsor and myself with some friends," Robyn Hitchcock says of Goodnight Oslo, his new Yep Roc release with his ace combo the Venus 3. "The album, in part, celebrates the ghosts of the smoke age, and the various ways they were wrecked but still sailed on. That's the way it is with humans. You could call it the comfort of doom.… Read more in Amazon's Robyn Hitchcock Store

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Product Details

  • Audio CD (May 9, 2005)
  • Original Release Date: October 27, 1998
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Soundtrack, Import
  • Label: Wea International
  • ASIN: B00000DD50
  • Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #278,446 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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The soundtrack to the Jonathan Demme full-length documentary film of the same name, Storefront Hitchcock demonstrates that Robyn Hitchcock's psychedelic folk music is as multifaceted when presented live, solo, and acoustic as it often is with studio elaboration. Hitchcock's Lennon-, Barrett-, and Byrds-influenced songs--a dozen showcased here, both old and new--are dense with off-kilter imagery, humor, and warmth; his guitar playing is strikingly nimble and inventive; and his between-song raps never cease to blow the mind ("I like to imagine a church full of carcasses," begins one such soliloquy). In other words, nothing more is necessary to make Storefront Hitchcock the lively, graceful, and twisted experience it is. --Neal Weiss


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Hitchcock's public profile received a substantial boost in 1998, when noted filmmaker and longtime fan Jonathan Demme paid tribute to the veteran artist with the feature-length performance film 'Storefront Hitchcock'. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Don't take it so seriously man - and trim your nose/ear hairs, November 2, 2005
This one is going out to those uncertain about getting this CD as well as those who wrote the low ranking reviews who seem to take this CD (and themselves) too seriously. Boo Hoo I was alive in 1974 too, so the song must be about me as well (this song is actually not a very good RH song - there are far better songs here: I'm Only You, Glass Hotel, Freeze, Alright Yeah, The Wind Cries Mary...). The between song chatting ranges in humor, but so what?! If you don't like Hitchcock's thinking, of course you're not going to find what he says of any interest or content. This CD is not his strongest and not recommended for the newcomer (start with Black Snake Diamond Role, Fegmania, Invisible Hitchcock, Eye, and everything by the Soft Boys - all 10 out of 5 stars for me). When the time is right, you can give a hairless ear to this CD.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars How much is the Englishman in the window?, November 17, 1998
I would like to highly recommend this to all fans of 60's psychedelia, folk-singer-songwriters, and anthropologists alike. Something for every walk of life and death to be dug here as Robyn does, well what only he can do on what may seem to be to the untrained eye just "another live album". First of all, there's the spontaneous prose honed to a laser point but still free-floating enough to be effervescent. If you know "Hitch", you know he likes to make stuff up that goes on and can take on a life as vibrant as the songs he themselves. For this reason, bootleg tapes of his live shows are highly sought after as the songs and set list may stay the same but, with these "narrations" each show takes on a wonderful life of its own. Second, rather than a band banging away in bad acoustics and fighting back the undying undulation of the faithful in attendance (that can a listening to a "live album" so dreary), what you get is a listening experience so intimate and stripped down (with only a violist and a second guitarist on 3 of the songs)it goes the "unplugged" concept one better by removing any fabricated barrier between song and listener. Also highly recommended is the companion 2 LP vinyl edition which contains 5 additonal songs not on the CD, and completely different "narrations" to make it worth your while. And if this weren't a dearth of blessings enough to satiate the slobbering fan, this is all a "soundtrack Package" to a film making the festival rounds directed by the prestigious Jonathan Demme (He of the 'Silence of the Lambs' and 'Stop Making Sense'). There's never been a better time to lie back with headphones on and imagine Winchester.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Hello? you ..., December 3, 2002
By "richlatta" ("The War Zone" ABQ, NM) - See all my reviews
I think this is a very strong set from Robyn. I don't understand why anyone would complain about it - unless they simply don't like Robyn Hitchcock in which case I say, "Buzz off! go listen to something you do like and leave behind what you obviously don't get." Of course, everyone's entitled to their 2 cents, but come on, this is a cool album that even includes classic off-the-wall Hitchcock banter. He shreds on "Glass Hotel" and the Hendrix cover (I've never heard a cover of "Wind Cries Mary" before) is very cool, too.

What I think is a real shame is that Amazon.com is not selling my favorite album he did with the Egyptians: QUEEN ELVIS. Not the most popular one, but it oozes creativity with some very impressionistic, evocative and bizarre songs. I wonder about Hitchcock fans who don't like this one, or STOREFRONT HITCHCOCK for that matter.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Better set-list than the movie
When I got this CD, I was struck by how great it flowed as an album, since I remembered being slightly bored in points by the film of this concert -- it was my first exposure to... Read more
Published on March 26, 2005 by Arthur Martin

2.0 out of 5 stars completists only - the DVD is way better
Last week I downloaded 12 Robyn Hitchcock concerts. This album is better than some and not as good as others. Read more
Published on October 2, 2004 by Ed Stokes

4.0 out of 5 stars The old curiosity shop
It's ironic that the publicity surrounding the film Storefront Hitchcock (and this soundtrack album) will introduce a lot of new listeners to this wondrous English singer, because... Read more
Published on June 27, 2001 by brad lonard

2.0 out of 5 stars Purposeless and Passionless
I've just been punched in the face by the generation gap. Yea, and it hurts too. `1974' opens Storefront Hitchcock with a verbal attack on "my generation" (no, not the Who... Read more
Published on June 2, 2000 by dev1

4.0 out of 5 stars Dude from Tokyo musta thought this was a Talking Heads CD..
...great intro to the weird, twisted world of Robyn Hitchcock, presented acoustically in front of a small audience, which is the best way to experience Robyn. Read more
Published on March 11, 2000

1.0 out of 5 stars pretentious and overdone
I picked up this CD on a whim,and I'll never do that again. The music is tired, the lyrics are incredibly pretentious and trite. Like a early 80s nightmare. Read more
Published on January 27, 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars robyn captured in top form
Robyn has long maintained that his studio recordings fail to capture the full essence of his talent the way his live performances do. Read more
Published on October 23, 1998

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