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- Artist: The Soft Boys
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- Release Date: 1979
- Total Time: 60:30
- Genre: Rock
Review
One of the band's earliest recordings, featuring their signature tune "Give It to the Soft Boys," A Can of Bees includes a lot of the zaniness principal member Robyn Hitchcock would become known for in his later work, but the band had not yet jelled and found them still in search of their ultimate sound, an amalgam of new wave and psychedelia. However, the record is essential to any Soft Boys collection, as it demonstrates the band flying in the face of what was happening musically at the time and creating their own unique style. ~ Denise Sullivan, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Give It to the Soft Boys | Robyn Hitchcock | Robyn Hitchcock | (1:57) |
| The Pigworker | Robyn Hitchcock | Robyn Hitchcock | (4:30) |
| Human Music | Robyn Hitchcock | Robyn Hitchcock | (4:30) |
| Leppo and the Jooves | Robyn Hitchcock | Robyn Hitchcock | (5:25) |
| The Rat's Prayer | Robyn Hitchcock | Robyn Hitchcock | (3:18) |
| Do the Chisel | Robyn Hitchcock | Robyn Hitchcock | (3:05) |
| Sandra's Having Her Brain Out | Robyn Hitchcock | Robyn Hitchcock | (4:07) |
| The Return of the Sacred Crab | Robyn Hitchcock | Robyn Hitchcock | (2:54) |
| Cold Turkey | John Lennon | Robyn Hitchcock | (4:20) |
| Skool Dinner Blues [Live] | Robyn Hitchcock | Robyn Hitchcock | (2:23) |
| Wading Through a Ventilator [Live] | Robyn Hitchcock | Robyn Hitchcock | (3:57) |
| Leppo and the Jooves | Robyn Hitchcock | Robyn Hitchcock | (5:30) |
| Sandra's Having Her Brain Out | Robyn Hitchcock | Robyn Hitchcock | (3:46) |
| Skool Dinner Blues | Robyn Hitchcock | Robyn Hitchcock | (2:14) |
| Fatman's Son | Robyn Hitchcock | Robyn Hitchcock | (2:39) |
| (I Want to Be an) Anglepoise Lamp [Live] | Robyn Hitchcock | Robyn Hitchcock | (2:50) |
| Ugly Nora [Live] | Robyn Hitchcock | Robyn Hitchcock | (3:05) |
