Eye

Certain Songs #1971: Robyn Hitchcock – “Raining Twilight Coast”

December 2, 2020 by Jim Connelly

Album: Eye
Year: 1990

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My favorite song on Eye was the stark and desolate “Raining Twilight Coast,” a gorgeous elegy for a relationship that is clearly over, but is also on the short list of the Prettiest Song Ever Recorded, Robyn Hitchcock Divsion.

“Raining Twilight Coast” is one of those songs that takes its sweet time to get to where it wants to go — to the point where it’s normally the kind of song I would probably ignore — but the trip is incredibly worthwhile.

Certain Songs #1970: Robyn Hitchcock – “Beautiful Girl”

December 1, 2020 by Jim Connelly

Album: Eye
Year: 1990

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While Eye was mostly filled with longish and downbeat-sounding songs, there was at least one seemingly upbeat tune, “Beautiful Girl,” which is just basically a strummy acoustic guitar song, like you’d imagine a busker somewhere singing while wandering around a BART station.

Certain Songs #1969: Robyn Hitchcock – “Executioner”

November 30, 2020 by Jim Connelly

Album: Eye
Year: 1990

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In 1990, Robyn Hitchcock released his first purely solo album since 1984’s I Often Dream of Trains. The album was called Eye, and as befitting the bandless nature of the venture, it was released on Twin/Tone rather than A&M.

Not that the world necessarily needed to have that kind of distinction between Robyn Hitchcock with or without The Egyptians, but I think that A&M were still holding out the hope that his electric music would strike some kind of chord with the general public.