he final album from Robyn Hitchcock's whimsical satirists, I was directed this way by Peter Buck's fulsome praise in early interviews . Reacting to comments that his style was heavily influenced by the Burds. He protested that it really came from this record really.
The guitar sounds on Underwater Moonlight certainly came from The Brds, The off the wall weirdness came from Syd Barrett, But Hitchcock and the others always had their own thing. They weren't as far away from Punk as they claimed. There's vertainly a fair bit of anger and rebellion here. In among the chiming melody and Hilaire Belloc and Lewis Caroll.
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