Robyn Hitchcock - Respect - Acoustic Versions (1993)

I have a million Robyn Hitchcock albums to post, and here's the next one. If you've been following this blog, you may have noticed that I try to post an all-acoustic version of each of his studio albums. This is the acoustic version of his 1993 album "Respect."

I think it's particularly important to have an acoustic version of this album, because this is one of two albums he made for A&M Records in the early 1990s, and he would later express regret at how overproduced the two albums were. While the production isn't really that bad, it's not up to his usual standards. He later said he got caught up in the record company hype of wanting to sound current in order to have a big hit.

In all-acoustic form, we can see that Hitchcock's songwriting is as good as usual. The last two songs aren't actually from the album, but are songs he did around that same time that I'll include in different versions on another stray tracks album.

01 The Yip Song (Robyn Hitchcock)
02 Arms of Love (Robyn Hitchcock)
03 Railway Shoes (Robyn Hitchcock)
04 When I Was Dead (Robyn Hitchcock)
05 The Wreck of the Arthur Lee (Robyn Hitchcock)
06 Driving Aloud [Radio Storm] (Robyn Hitchcock)
07 Serpent at the Gates of Wisdom (Robyn Hitchcock)
08 Wafflehead (Robyn Hitchcock)
09 Ivy Alone (Robyn Hitchcock)
10 Zipper in My Spine [Solo Electric Version] (Robyn Hitchcock)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16067986/RobynH_1993b_RespecAcousticVersions_atse.zip.html

For the cover art, I used a painting by Hitchcock. It appeared as part of the cover for the 1993 single of "Driving Aloud," but in small size and with some lettering over it. I got the full version from Hitchcock's website, then added my own lettering. I also had to crop the rectangular painting to fit the square album cover format.