“I Wanna Destroy You” by The Soft Boys

Robyn Hitchcock's "I Wanna Destroy You" comes from Underwater Moonlight, the second album by English band the Soft Boys, which Armageddon put out in June 1980. Pat Collier, who ran the album's London sessions, produced and engineered it, and the whole record was cut on four- and eight-track gear for a mere £600.

Hardly anyone noticed at the time. The album drew little press and sold poorly, most of its British sales were exports to America, and the band split a few months after it came out. The reputation came later: Underwater Moonlight has since been hailed as a psychedelic classic, a record that fed the neo-psychedelic movement and bands like R.E.M.

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