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The Best Show on WFMU => Dear Tom => Topic started by: cupine on August 26, 2011, 07:47:59 PM

Title: Song "I Will Destroy You"
Post by: cupine on August 26, 2011, 07:47:59 PM

Hi Tom,

Could you or someone on the board tell me the artist and title of the song you played a couple of weeks ago with that line in it? I can't seem to find the show in which you played it.

Thank you!

Title: Re: Song "I Will Destroy You"
Post by: daveB from Oakland on August 26, 2011, 08:17:27 PM

Pretty sure you're talking about this one ... "I Wanna Destroy You," by the Soft Boys. From their 1980 album Underwater Moonlight ... which is an awesome, awesome album.

Soft Boys - I Wanna Destroy You (1979) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAt7hK_zKr0#)

Soft Boys was Robyn Hitchcock (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robyn_Hitchcock)'s first band, and he continued/continues to make lots of good music ... but Underwater Moonlight was a real high-water mark early on in his career

Title: Re: Song "I Will Destroy You"
Post by: cupine on August 26, 2011, 08:47:41 PM

That's the one! Thanks Dave!

- Mike (Also from Oakland!)

Title: Re: Song "I Will Destroy You"
Post by: fonpr on August 26, 2011, 08:54:28 PM

Quote from: daveB from Oakland on August 26, 2011, 08:17:27 PM

Pretty sure you're talking about this one ... "I Wanna Destroy You," by the Soft Boys. From their 1980 album Underwater Moonlight ... which is an awesome, awesome album.

Soft Boys - I Wanna Destroy You (1979) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAt7hK_zKr0#)

Soft Boys was Robyn Hitchcock (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robyn_Hitchcock)'s first band, and he continued/continues to make lots of good music ... but Underwater Moonlight was a real high-water mark early on in his career

Please note Kimberly Rew was also a guitar player/songwriter in the Soft Boys.

Title: Re: Song "I Will Destroy You"
Post by: jimswanson on August 28, 2011, 05:02:31 PM

I'm pretty ashamed that I had no idea that The Soft Boys were Robyn Hitchcock's band until right now

Title: Re: Song "I Will Destroy You"
Post by: Rick in Salt Lake on September 10, 2011, 05:43:45 PM

Quote from: daveB from Oakland on August 26, 2011, 08:17:27 PM

Pretty sure you're talking about this one ... "I Wanna Destroy You," by the Soft Boys. From their 1980 album Underwater Moonlight ... which is an awesome, awesome album.

Soft Boys - I Wanna Destroy You (1979) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAt7hK_zKr0#)

Soft Boys was Robyn Hitchcock (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robyn_Hitchcock)'s first band, and he continued/continues to make lots of good music ... but Underwater Moonlight was a real high-water mark early on in his career

That's such a great album...