THIS IS THE 1984 UK REPRESSING on TWO CRABS UNIVERSAL Records (with different tracklist to the first pressing). SINGLE COVER. The cover is in VG+ condition: normal wear BUT light discolouration/wear on spines/corners, mild creases on edges, surface ringwear, left spine is fully readable; please for details see photos (with and without flashlight). Vinyl is in EX condition and plays wonderfully. FIRST ALBUM.

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THE SOFT BOYS

Blissful post-punk weirdness, fueled by the winding guitar of Kimberley Rew and the warped songwriting vision of Robyn Hitchcock. The Soft Boys have turned out to be one of the most influential bands in shaping contemporary alternative music, though few are completely familiar with the quirky band's legacy. Formed in Cambridge, England in 1976 on the heels of the punk revolution, the Soft Boys eschewed the three-chord nihilism of punk and opted for a crude version of psychedelic/folk-rock that was well on its way out of fashion, but oddly, just on the cusp of a resurgence...

<reissue, originally published in 1979 with different tracklist>

tracklist

Side A: GIVE IT TO THE SOFT BOYS - THE PIGWORKER - HUMAN MUSIC

LEPPO AND THE JOOVES - THE RAT'S PRAYER

Side B: DO THE CHISEL - SANDRA'S HAVING HER BRAIN OUT - FATMAN'S SON

(I WANT TO BE AN) ANGLEPOISE LAMP - UGLY NORA - COLD TURKEY*

*written by John Lennon

LP      TWO CRABS UNIVERSAL  RECORDS      CLAW 1001  

MADE IN ENGLAND      1984 REPRESSING

SINGLE SLEEVE

NOTES: Second reissue with different back cover/tracklisting to first two. Orange creme back cover background.

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LABEL: TWO CRABS - RED (A) & BLACK (B) LABEL - BLACK & RED TEXT

Catalog on cover (spine): CLAW 1001

Catalog on label: CLAW 1001 A / CLAW 1001 B

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): MPO  CLAW 1001 A1  JONZ

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): MPO  CLAW 1001 B1  Sound clinic   Welcome to Vince.

On labels: rim text reads "All rights.......prohibited"

 Produced by Spaceward

℗ 1984

(on Side A only): All titles published by Cherry Red Music Ltd.

(on Side B only): Published by Cherry Red Music Ltd. (1, 2)

Two Crabs Music (3, 4, 5)      Northern Songs Ltd. (6)

On Back Cover: This album is dedicated to anyone who started out as an animal and winds up as a processing unit.

Distributed by IDS

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RECORD EX but (please, read above description)

 SLEEVE VG+ but (please, see pictures and read above description)

The Soft Boys, like so many other underground miscreants in the '70s, spent their formative years (unbeknownst to them) generating enough critical capital to earn much sought-after biographical adjectives like “influential” and “underrated.” The Robyn Hitchcock-led, Cambridge, England-born, pseudo-psych rock outfit's shared love for all things Byrds, Beatles, Dylan, and Syd Barrett was both venerated and blown to smithereens on their 1979 debut long-player, A Can of Bees. More angular and jarring than the band’s beloved 1980 follow-up, Underwater Moonlight, Hitchcock, Kimberly Rew, Morris Windsor, and Andy Metcalfe sounded positively possessed, channeling both '60s progressive rock and late-'70s punk into an unholy guitar-driven onslaught fueled by Hitchcock's surreal lyrics: opening a record with a line like “feel like asking a tree for an autograph” is one thing, but backing up those words with an atonal, apocalyptic blues riff is another. It’s an often brutish affair that works more often than it should, with highlights arriving by way of the pounding and addictive “Leppo and the Jooves,” the incendiary “Do the Chisel,” and the impossibly dumb but nearly perfect pop gem “Sandra’s Having Her Brain Out.”...(AllMusic)