We're Not Who You Think We Are
Album: Moss Elixir
Year: 1996
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My favorite song from Moss Elixir was something that sounded like no Robyn Hitchcock song previously done — always a good sign 15+ years into a career — and yet fit squarely into his catalog. I guess just for the title alone: “I Am Not Me” is a pretty Hitchcockian song title.
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Album: Moss Elixir
Year: 1996
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Moss Elixir came out on Warner Bros, which was the second major label to take a chance that somehow Robyn Hitchcock’s considerable songwriting talent and cult following could somehow translate into a breakthrough, even though the alt-rock “revolution” that had “dominated” the first half of the decade was clearly waning.
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Album: Moss Elixir
Year: 1996
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After his contract at A&M expired, it was three full years before Robyn Hitchcock released another record, taking some time off to regroup after the death of his father, though it wasn’t like he’d fully disappeared, or even stopped writing songs. I know this, because I saw him for the fourth time at the Bottom of The Hill in San Francisco — one of my very very very favorite places to see shows — on September 23, 1994, and a glance at the setlist for that show shows that he was stockpiling songs for the next album, which finally came out in 1996.
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