Give it to the Soft Boys Releases Gigs Lyrics Comments

Details

Author
Robyn Hitchcock
Performances
46

Releases

Title Artist Label Type Year
A Can of Bees The Soft Boys Two Crabs Music Album 1979
Live At The Portland Arms The Soft Boys Midnight Music Album 1983
Wading Through a Ventilator The Soft Boys Delorean Record Company Bootleg 1984
Soft Boys The Soft Boys Black Snake Records Bootleg 1986
Raw Cuts The Soft Boys Overground Records EP 1989
The Soft Boys 1976-1981 The Soft Boys Rykodisc Album 1993
Where Are The Prawns? The Soft Boys Fan Club release 1994
Rout Of The Clones The Soft Boys Bootleg 1995
Sex, Food, Death... and Tarantulas Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3 Yep Roc Album 2007

Gigs

Billed As Venue City State Country Date
Dennis and the Experts Alma Cambridge England UK 11/06/1976
The Soft Boys Alex Wood Hall Cambridge England UK 11/15/1977
The Soft Boys Alex Wood Hall Cambridge England UK 12/01/1977
The Soft Boys Alex Wood Hall Cambridge England UK 01/07/1978
The Soft Boys Hope & Anchor London England UK 05/20/1978
The Soft Boys The Portland Arms Cambridge England UK 11/01/1978
The Soft Boys Leicester University Leicester England UK 11/21/1978
The Soft Boys Lady Mitchell Hall Cambridge England UK 11/27/1978
The Soft Boys Great Northern Hotel Cambridge England UK 01/19/1982
The Soft Boys Astoria London England UK 01/13/1994
The Soft Boys The Concorde Brighton England UK 01/14/1994
The Soft Boys Astoria London England UK 01/15/1994
The Soft Boys Corn Exchange Cambridge England UK 01/17/1994
Robyn Hitchcock Crocodile Cafe Seattle Washington US 10/04/1994
Robyn Hitchcock Crocodile Cafe Seattle Washington US 06/13/1997
The Soft Boys Crocodile Café Seattle Washington US 04/04/2001
The Soft Boys The Fillmore San Francisco California US 04/07/2001
The Soft Boys Knitting Factory Los Angeles California US 04/10/2001
Robyn Hitchcock Crocodile Café Seattle Washington US 04/21/2002
Robyn Hitchcock Crocodile Café Seattle Washington US 11/15/2003
Robyn Hitchcock & the Minus 3 Academy II Birmingham England UK 01/20/2006
Robyn Hitchcock & the Minus 3 The Junction Cambridge England UK 01/22/2006
Robyn Hitchcock & the Minus 3 Komedia Brighton England UK 01/23/2006
Robyn Hitchcock & the Minus 3 Scala London England UK 01/25/2006
Robyn Hitchcock & the Minus 3 Fleece and Firkin Bristol England UK 01/26/2006
Robyn Hitchcock & the Minus 3 Phoenix Exeter England UK 01/27/2006
Robyn Hitchcock with Minus 5 The Coach House San Juan Capistrano California US 02/24/2006
Robyn Hitchcock & the Minus 3 Loppen Copenhagen Denmark 07/04/2006
Minus 5 Dingwalls London England UK 07/10/2006
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 FAB Tokyo Japan 10/08/2006
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 The Gov Adelaide South Australia Australia 10/14/2006
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 Maxwell's Hoboken New Jersey US 11/18/2006
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 Crocodile Café Seattle Washington US 11/25/2006
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 The Zodiac Oxford England UK 01/07/2007
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 Carling Academy Islington England UK 01/11/2007
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 The Boardwalk Sheffield England UK 01/14/2007
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 Smith's Olde Bar Atlanta Georgia US 03/20/2007
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 World Café Live Philadelphia Pennsylvania US 03/26/2007
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 Iron Horse Northampton Massachusetts US 03/29/2007
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 The Bell House New York New York US 06/11/2009
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 Barby Club Tel Aviv Israel 03/24/2012
Robyn Hitchcock Village Underground - Robyn Retrospective London England UK 02/28/2013
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 The Troubadour Los Angeles California US 04/30/2013
Robyn Hitchcock's New Melbournian Softest of the Soft Boys The Tote Melbourne Victoria Australia 12/20/2016
Robyn Hitchcock Robyn and Emma's house London England UK 07/02/2021
Robyn Hitchcock Robyn and Emma's house London England UK 12/22/2021

Comments

Dr. (Willie) Messerschmidt is the man who created Lufwaffe Messerschmidt, the successor to the German Fokker warplane dynasty in the late 1920s. His plant built the entire first two waves (of five models) of German fighter planes for Adolph Hitler after his rise to power in 1933. All of these planes, as well as a few made by Ernst Porsche (yes, he of hot red sports car and VW Beetle fame) and the few remains of the Fokker airplane factories, with a bunch of new ones, composed the Luftwaffe, Hitler's rather formidable air force that served him very well for ten years before the Allies started Bosche-bashing in 1943. His most successful plane was the Messerschmidt ME-109 (hence: "just 109's 'em" meaning, presumably, to shoot something down, literally or figuratively).

Lyrics

[Give it to the soft boys! Ha ha!
Take one
(one, two, great to be here!) Sure is, three, four!]

Feel like asking a tree for an autograph
And I feel like making love to a photograph
Photographs don't smell

Yeah - Give it to the Soft Boys
Soft Boys

Well I told you, baby, I was the only one
Then I left myself and now you're the lonely one
Machines can't jerk

Yeah - Give it to the Soft Boys
Soft Boys

Course, hard boys groove and wide boys a-mess a bit
But them soft boys wind up with a Doctor Messerschmitt
He just a one-o-nines 'em

Yeah - Give it to the Soft Boys
Soft Boys

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