Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians - So You Think You're In Love

What this video is

Released in 1991 on A&M Records as the lead single from *Perspex Island*, the ninth Robyn Hitchcock studio album and his fifth with The Egyptians, the video accompanied what became the band's commercial peak: the single reached #1 on the U.S. Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. The clip sits at a precise cultural hinge point — the final months before Nirvana's *Nevermind* and the alt-rock explosion redrew the…

Why it matters

Represents the apex and near-terminus of the college rock / Paisley Underground-adjacent British psychedelic pop tradition on the U.S. Modern Rock chart. The video's stripped performance aesthetic — bright, graphic, rapid-cut — reflects the promotional visual grammar of the era's alternative…