Robyn Hitchcock-Spooked (2004)


 


Artist: Robyn Hitchcock

Title: Spooked

Label: Yep Rock

Format: CD

Cat #: YEP 2086

Year of Release: 2004

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 2004

Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ 

Sell Date: 3/29/25

Sell Price: $4.38

Discogs Last Sold: 3/31/25 NM/VG+ $4.88

Low: $3.51

Median: $5.00

Average: $5.80

High: $11.54

Current low price: $5.00

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 25

Have/Want: 608/33

Where Sold: Grand Junction, CO

Time it took to sell: 9 years

Where and When Bought:  used online mid aughts

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A-

Sad To See It Go: No

Spooked is a pretty solid album start to finish.  There really isn't a weak track on it.  Sometimes when you give something an A-, it sounds like an underhanded compliment but in this case my feeling was that grade was an upgrade not a downgrade to reflect what I felt about the album as a whole.

10 of the 12 tracks have made his live set some time or another.  He plays "Full Moon In My Soul" the most and "Sometimes A Blonde," "Television" and "Creeped Out" are the in the next group of songs likely to be played live.  Not bad for an album whose recollection I have of playing start to finish is nil.  I'm sure I played it once around the time when I bought it, which would be somewhere around the time Spooked came out in the 20-21 years ago range.

"A big fat juicy worm/I'll bring you millipedes!" is my favorite couplet on my second favorite track, "Live In The Trees."  Other highlights include an odd fade out at the start of "English Girl," a Dylan cover of "Trying To Get To Heaven" from Time Out of Mind and the spoken "Welcome To Earth."  A song like "Everybody Needs Love" neatly sums up what I like about Robyn.  Characters are maimed, lost and swimming in permafrost before a sitar unexpectedly appears.  

It took a secret show in London for him to break that one out.


FOR FURTHER REVIEW:

Robyn Hitchcock @ City Winery, New York, NY 10/30/24

Sex, Food, Death...& Tarantulas (2007)

Storefront Hitchcock-Soundtrack From The Jonathan Demme Picture (1998)

Eye (1990)

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