This Is the BBC
2006 live album by Robyn Hitchcock
This Is the BBC | |
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Live album by Robyn Hitchcock | |
Released | April 2006 |
Recorded | 1995–1999 |
Genre | Alternative rock |
Label | Hux Records |
This Is the BBC is an album by Robyn Hitchcock, released on the Hux Records label in April 2006.
It rounds up fourteen tracks recorded for radio, primarily with Andy Kershaw between 1995 and 1999. It can therefore be viewed as a sequel piece to The Kershaw Sessions.
The tracks cover Hitchcock's contemporary material at the time of recording, and include a version of the evocative "I Saw Nick Drake" with lyrical amendments. It also includes a cover of Bob Dylan's "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry".
The packaging features Hitchcock's artwork and significantly utilises a painting by his father Raymond as a cover, which dates to 1954. (Raymond Hitchcock is also pictured in the booklet.)
Track listing
- "Man With a Woman's Shadow"
- "Heliotrope"
- "De Chirico Street"
- "The Cheese Alarm"
- "Jewels for Sophia"
- "Polly on the Shore"
- "Where Do You Go When You Die?"
- "I Saw Nick Drake"
- "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry"
- "Andy Kershaw Jingle"
- "Birds in Perspex"
- "Sally Was a Legend"
- "Elizabeth Jade"
- "Madonna of the Wasps"
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- Black Snake Diamond Röle
- Groovy Decay
- I Often Dream of Trains
- Eye
- Moss Elixir
- Jewels for Sophia
- Luxor
- Spooked
- Tromsø, Kaptein
- Love from London
- The Man Upstairs
- Robyn Hitchcock
- Shufflemania!
- Gotta Let This Hen Out!
- Give It to the Thoth Boys – Live Oddities
- The Kershaw Sessions
- Storefront Hitchcock
- Storefront Hitchcock L.P.
- Live at the Cambridge Folk Festival
- Robyn Sings
- This Is the BBC
- Groovy Decoy
- Invisible Hitchcock
- Mossy Liquor
- A Star for Bram
- Obliteration Pie
- Shadow Cat
- The Man Downstairs: Demos & Rarities
- Gravy Deco
- Robyn Hitchcock
- Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians: Greatest Hits
- Uncorrected Personality Traits