Underwater Moonlight (studio album)
by The Soft Boys
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Underwater Moonlight is ranked as the best album by The Soft Boys.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| ! | 12/15/2025 04:38 | Exist-en-ciel | 4,244 | 70/100 |
| ! | 12/05/2025 15:24 | Jakor | 4,882 | 69/100 |
| ! | 11/12/2025 20:28 | NYAndreas | 1,432 | 43/100 |
| ! | 10/07/2025 02:19 | JacobMullis | 723 | 88/100 |
| ! | 09/13/2025 17:45 |  melisandre | 149 | 89/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.5/100, a mean average of 75.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.3.
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Rabbits.
Favorite tracks: I Wanna Destroy You, Insanely Jealous
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Best Tracks: I Wanna Destroy You, Tonight
timtooky 03/12/2014 16:25 | #106067
never heard of it. now i was really surprised about the qualitiy of this record. as loveless said: growing stronger with every track. there are just 2 or 3 weaker songs - the rest is good or very good stuff.
babyBlueSedan 02/15/2014 00:57 | #103174
The missing link between #1 Record and Tim.
Well I was a bit sceptical the first couple of tracks, but then it just kept getting better (and more interesting) track by track. Will be replaying this.
What Outlaw said.
Refreshing, daring and fun. Everything can be heard in this, Dylan, Television, Syd Barret, The Fall, 13th Floor Elevators, The Kinks.
Perfect Album, every track has something new.
Brilliant, refreshing, daring and fun. It is enjoyment put on a silver disc! Something I am happy to let into my life, I'll be sure to write more later.
Hard not to love this one...silly and beautiful masterpiece of subversive pop
Released in 1980, 'Underwater Moonlight' is an album that has stood the test of time remarkably well and still sounds fresh and inventive. Reminscent of the work of Television and Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd, the band manage to straddle the early new-wave of the former and the psychedlic whimsy of the latter with the discordant fragmented blues of Beefheart to produce a distinctive and accomplished music. The band could arguably be said to have invented the '80s 'paisley' movement.
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