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Give It To The Soft Boys

7" -- Raw Records -- RAW 5 -- November 1997 -- UK

  1. Wading Through a Ventilator
  2. The Face of Death 1
  3. Hear My Brane

I Want To Be An Anglepoise Lamp

7" -- Radar Records -- ADA 8 -- May 1978 -- UK

  1. I Want To Be An Anglepoise Lamp 1
  2. Fatman's Son 1

A Can of Bees

LP -- Two Crabs Records -- CLAW 1001 -- 1979 -- UK

White back cover. Cold Turkey by John Lennon.

  1. Give It To The Soft Boys 1
  2. The Pigworker 1
  3. Human Music 1
  4. Leppo And The Jooves
  5. The Rat's Prayer
  6. Do The Chisel
  7. Sandra's Having Her Brain Out 1
  8. Return Of The Sacred Crab
  9. Cold Turkey (live)
  10. School Dinner Blues
  11. Wading Through a Ventilator (live)

LP -- Aura Records -- AUL-709 -- 1981 -- UK

Yellow back cover. Matthew Seligman on bass on Have A Heart, Betty.

  1. Give It To The Soft Boys
  2. The Pigworker
  3. Human Music
  4. Leppo And The Jooves
  5. The Rat's Prayer
  6. Do The Chisel
  7. Sandra's Having Her Brain Out
  8. Return Of The Sacred Crab
  9. Cold Turkey (live)
  10. Rock'n'Roll Toliet 1
  11. Have A Heart, Betty (I'm Not Fireproof) 1

LP -- Two Crabs Records -- CLAW 1001 -- 1984 -- UK

Flesh-colored back cover.

  1. Give It To The Soft Boys
  2. The Pigworker
  3. Human Music
  4. Leppo And The Jooves
  5. The Rat's Prayer
  6. Do The Chisel
  7. Sandra's Having Her Brain Out 2
  8. Fatman's Son 2
  9. (I Want To Be An) Anglepoise Lamp 2
  10. Ugly Nora 1
  11. Cold Turkey (live)

CD -- Two Crabs Records -- CLAW 1001 -- 1990 -- UK
CD -- Rykodisc -- RCD 20231 -- 1992 -- US

  1. Give It To The Soft Boys
  2. The Pigworker
  3. Human Music
  4. Leppo And The Jooves
  5. The Rat's Prayer
  6. Do The Chisel
  7. Sandra's Having Her Brain Out 1
  8. The Return Of The Sacred Crab
  9. Cold Turkey (live)
  10. Skool Dinner Blues (live)
  11. Wading Through A Ventilator (live)
  12. Leppo And The Jooves
  13. Sandra's Having Her Brain Out 2
  14. Skool Dinner Blues
  15. Fatman's Son 2
  16. (I Want To Be An) Anglepoise Lamp (live) 2
  17. Ugly Nora 1

Underwater Moonlight

LP -- Armageddon Records -- ARM 1 -- 1980 -- UK

Front cover is a photo of two mannequins on a rocky beach.

  1. I Wanna Destroy You
  2. Kingdom of Love
  3. Positive Vibrations
  4. I Got The Hots
  5. Insanely Jealous
  6. Tonight
  7. You'll Have To Go Sideways
  8. Old Pervert 1
  9. The Queen of Eyes
  10. Underwater Moonlight

LP -- Base Records -- ARM 1 -- 1980 -- Italy

Substitutes an alternate take of Old Pervert.

  1. I Wanna Destroy You
  2. Kingdom of Love
  3. Positive Vibrations
  4. I Got The Hots
  5. Insanely Jealous
  6. Tonight
  7. You'll Have To Go Sideways
  8. Old Pervert 2
  9. The Queen of Eyes
  10. Underwater Moonlight

LP -- Roof Records -- 133 026 -- 1981 -- Germany

Same as original, but adding the b-sides from the Near The Soft Boys EP. Black and white cover.

  1. I Wanna Destroy You
  2. Kingdom of Love
  3. Positive Vibrations
  4. I Got The Hots
  5. Insanely Jealous
  6. Tonight
  7. You'll Have To Go Sideways
  8. Old Pervert 1
  9. The Queen of Eyes
  10. Underwater Moonlight
  11. Vegetable Man
  12. Strange

LP -- Living Cream Records -- MOIST 1 -- 1986 -- UK

Same as original, substituting an alternate take of Old Pervert. Cover art is a painting of flying things by Robyn.

  1. I Wanna Destroy You
  2. Kingdom of Love
  3. Positive Vibrations
  4. I Got The Hots
  5. Insanely Jealous
  6. Tonight
  7. You'll Have To Go Sideways
  8. Old Pervert 2
  9. The Queen of Eyes
  10. Underwater Moonlight

LP -- Attic Records -- LAT 1103 -- 198? -- Canada

Original cover, substitutes an alternate take of Old Pervert (identified as the "dance version") and adds the cover of Syd Barrett's Vegetable Man from the Near The Soft Boys EP.

  1. I Wanna Destroy You
  2. Kingdom of Love
  3. Positive Vibrations
  4. I Got The Hots
  5. Insanely Jealous
  6. Tonight
  7. You'll Have To Go Sideways
  8. Old Pervert 2
  9. Vegetable Man
  10. The Queen of Eyes
  11. Underwater Moonlight

CD -- Glass Fish Records -- MOIST 1 CD -- 1990 -- UK
CD -- Rykodisc -- RCD 20232 -- 1992 -- US

Original covert artwork, adds the Near The Soft Boys b-sides and a number of other out-takes. (Near as I can tell, the original Old Pervert is on the compact disc...but the differences, if there are any, are subtle.)

  1. I Wanna Destroy You
  2. Kingdom of Love
  3. Positive Vibrations
  4. I Got The Hots
  5. Insanely Jealous
  6. Tonight
  7. You'll Have To Go Sideways
  8. Old Pervert 1
  9. Vegetable Man
  10. The Queen of Eyes
  11. Underwater Moonlight

I Wanna Destroy You

7" -- Armageddon Records -- AS 005 -- 1980 -- UK

  1. I Wanna Destroy You
  2. Old Pervert 2 ("disco" version)

Near The Soft Boys

7" -- Armageddon Records -- AEP 002 -- 1980 -- UK

  1. Kingdom of Love
  2. Vegetable Man
  3. Strange

Only The Stones Remain

7" -- Armageddon Records -- AS 029 -- 1981 -- UK

  1. Only The Stones Remains
  2. The Asking Tree 1

Love Poisoning

7" -- Bucketfull of Brains -- BOB 1 -- 1981 -- UK

Given away free with copies of Bucketfull of Brains. The a-side is a rough mix of what would eventually end up on Invisible Hits.

  1. Love Poisoning
  2. When I Was A Kid 1

Two Halves For the Price of One

LP -- Armageddon Records -- BYE 1 -- 1981 -- UK

A collection of studio and live tracks, rushed out quickly as The Soft Boys were breaking up.

Side A: Only The Stones Remain (studio recordings)

  1. Only The Stones Remain
  2. Where Are The Prawns?
  3. The Bells Of Rhymney 1
  4. There's Nobody Like You
  5. Innocent Boy

Side B: Lope At The Hive (live at the Hope & Anchor, London)

  1. Black Snake Diamond Rock
  2. Underwater Moonlight
  3. Astronomy Domine (Syd Barrett)
  4. Outlaw Blues (Bob Dylan)
  5. Mystery Train (Parker/Phillips)

Invisible Hits

LP -- Midnight Music -- CHIME 00.02 -- 1983 -- UK

  1. Wey Wey Hep Uh Hole 1
  2. Have A Heart, Betty (I'm Not Fireproof) 2
  3. The Asking Tree 2
  4. Muriel's Hoof/The Rout Of The Clones
  5. Let Me Put It Next To You
  6. When I Was A Kid 2
  7. Rock'n'Roll Toliet 2
  8. Love Poisoning 2
  9. Empty Girl
  10. Blues In The Dark
  11. He's A Reptile

CD -- Midnight Music -- MOIST 7 CD -- 1990 -- UK
CD -- Rykodisc -- RCD 20233 -- 1992 -- US

  1. Wey Wey Hep Uh Hole 1
  2. Have A Heart, Betty (I'm Not Fireproof) 2
  3. The Asking Tree 2
  4. Muriel's Hoof/The Rout Of The Clones
  5. Let Me Put It Next To You
  6. When I Was A Kid 2
  7. Rock'n'Roll Toliet 2
  8. Love Poisoning 2
  9. Empty Girl
  10. Blues In The Dark
  11. He's A Reptile
  12. Have A Heart, Betty (I'm Not Fireproof) 1
  13. Rock'n'Roll Toliet 1
  14. When I Was A Kid 1
  15. Love Poisoning 1
  16. Wey Wey Hep Uh Hole (live)

He's A Reptile

7" -- Midnight Music -- DING 4 -- 1983 -- UK

  1. He's A Reptile
  2. Song No. 4

Live At The Portland Arms

Cassette -- Midnight Music -- CLANG 1 -- 1983 -- UK
LP -- Glass Fish Records -- MOIST 4 -- 1987 -- UK

The cassette was only available via a mail-in order insert included with the earliest printings of Invisible Hits. This show is an acoustic performance recorded in 1978 at a folk club in Cambridge.

  1. Give It To The Soft Boys
  2. Sandra's Having Her Brain Out
  3. Give Me A Spanner, Ralph
  4. My Evaline
  5. Human Music
  6. I Like Bananas (Because They Have No Bones)
  7. Horns Large Horns
  8. Book Of Love
  9. Wish I Had My Baby
  10. White Shoe Blues
  11. In The Mood
  12. That's When Your Heartaches Begin
  13. Have A Heart, Betty (I'm Not Fireproof)
  14. The Duke Of Squeeze
  15. All Shook Up

Wading Through A Ventilator

12" -- Delorean Records -- SOFT ONE -- 1984 -- UK
12" Picture Disc -- Delorean Records -- Soft 1P -- 198? -- UK

Tracks taken from the earliest Soft Boys studio sessions (Wading Through A Ventilator and Hear My Brane are also on the Give It To The Soft Boys EP).

  1. The Yodelling Hoover
  2. Give It To The Soft Boys 2
  3. Vyrna Knowl Is A Headbanger
  4. Hear My Brane
  5. The Face of Death 2
  6. Wading Through A Ventilator

Raw Cuts

12" -- Overground Records -- OVER 10 -- 1989 -- UK
CD -- Overground Records -- OVER 05 -- 1989 -- UK

A reissue of Wading Through A Ventilator on a new label with a different cover photo.

  1. The Yodelling Hoover
  2. Give It To The Soft Boys 2
  3. Vyrna Knowl Is A Headbanger
  4. Hear My Brane
  5. The Face of Death 2
  6. Wading Through A Ventilator

1976-81

2CD -- Rykodisc -- RCD 10234/5 -- 1992 -- US

Massive two-disc set, split roughly down the middle of released and unreleased material.

Disc One

  1. Wey Wey Hep Uh Hole
  2. It's Not Just The Size Of A Walnut
  3. Ugly Nora
    Recorded in Robyn's living room, March 1997, by Chris Hamburger.
  4. The Yodelling Hoover
  5. Hear My Brane
  6. The Face Of Death
  7. Wading Through a Ventilator
  8. Give It To The Soft Boys
    From the Give It To The Soft Sessions for the first Soft Boys release, June 1997.
  9. I Want To Be A Anglepoise Lamp 1
  10. Fatman's Son 1
    From the I Want To Be An Anglepoise Lamp 7" (first time on CD)
  11. Where Are The Prawns?
  12. Salamander
    Previously unreleased tracks, recorded for the aborted Radar album.
  13. Heartbreak Hotel
  14. Caroline Says
  15. We Like Bananas
  16. The Pigworker
  17. Do The Chisel
  18. Return Of The Sacred Crab
    Recorded live at Lady Mitchell Hall, 1978.
  19. That's Where Your Heartaches Begin
  20. The Book Of Love
    Recorded live at The Portland Arms, Cambridge, 1978.

Disc Two

  1. Sandra's Having Her Brain Out
  2. Leppo And The Jooves
  3. The Rat's Prayer
    From A Can Of Bees.
  4. Have A Heart, Betty (I'm Not Fireproof) #1
  5. Mystery Train
    Outtakes from A Can Of Bees, recorded November 1978.
  6. He's A Reptile
  7. Rock'n'Roll Toliet
  8. Have A Heart, Betty (I'm Not Fireproof) #2
    From Invisible Hits, recorded June/July 1979.
  9. Insanely Jealous
  10. Underwater Moonlight
    Previously unreleased early versions, recorded September 1979.
  11. I Wanna Destroy You
  12. Queen Of Eyes
  13. Kingdom Of Love
    From Underwater Moonlight, recorded January/March 1980.
  14. Positive Vibrations
  15. Gigolo Aunt
  16. Train 'Round The Bend
  17. Kingdom Of Love
    Recorded live at the Hope & Anchor, Islington, London, March 1980.
  18. Only The Stones Remains
    Recorded June 1980, originally appeared on Two Halves For The Price Of One, later added as a bonus track on the Underwater Moonlight CD.
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