Jewels for Sophia

Jewels For Sophia is a 1999 album by Robyn Hitchcock, released on Warner Records. Since Respect (1993), the hitherto prolific Hitchcock had released just one full studio album (Moss Elixir in 1996), the rest of his recent output consisting largely of repackages and live recordings. Jewels For Sophia however contained a dozen tracks, only one of which ("No, I Don't Remember Guildford") had been recorded previously, and two extras not listed on the... more

Jewels For Sophia is a 1999 album by Robyn Hitchcock, released on Warner Records. Since Respect (1993), the hitherto prolific Hitchcock had released just one full studio album (Moss Elixir in 1996), the rest of his recent output consisting largely of repackages and live recordings. Jewels For Sophia however contained a dozen tracks, only one of which ("No, I Don't Remember Guildford") had been recorded previously, and two extras not listed on the cover, and hidden away after a substantial pause following the album's "last" track. Tracks include a paen to cheese in all its forms, with a sub-text of the global power struggle, and the quasi-nonsensical title number, whose lyric is rather pointed, in similar vein to John Lennon's "I Am the Walrus". The two hidden extras are comedy numbers, "Mr. Tongs" and "Don't Talk to Me About Gene Hackman". less