Toy Love - Live at the Gluepot (Vinyl)
Toy Love’s music was in a constant state of formation and reformation throughout the band’s existence—songs would warp and twist with every playing. So, for all its undeniable power, it appeared unstable, almost fragile, threatening to burst out of its own skin, shards and globs all over the place. Every gig was like another attempt to make this strange creature hold together and live. At times, it would only take off at a few unpredictable points, at others it would lift off immediately and roar through the air, an astonishingly compelling and unlikely flying thing full of dark folds and flashes of light. The best stuff was transcendent, and the near-failures were so often funny or had the buzzy pathos of a crash site, one couldn’t look away.
This double-album captures the legendary band in September 1980 at The Gluepot in Ponsonby, Auckland—one of their final live performances. The recording was transferred and prepared for vinyl mastering by Steve McGough at Stebbings from a desk tape recorded by the band’s soundman Doug Hood.
TRACKLIST
Fifteen
Blackboard Grin
Unscrewed Up
Amputee Song
Toy Love Song
I Wanna Die
Don't Catch Fire
Bedroom
Photographs
Lust
Second To Last Song Toy Love Ever Wrote (With Ad Lib Lyrics)
Sheep
Swimming Pool
Fast Ostrich
Good Old Joe
I Thought I Needed You
I'm In Love
Green Walls
Horror Comic
Rebel
Cold Meat
Don't Ask Me
Squeeze
I Don't Mind
Ain't It Nice
The Crunch
Death Rehearsal
Bride Of Frankenstein
Pull Down The Shades
Toy Love’s music was in a constant state of formation and reformation throughout the band’s existence—songs would warp and twist with every playing. So, for all its undeniable power, it appeared unstable, almost fragile, threatening to burst out of its own skin, shards and globs all over the place. Every gig was like another attempt to make this strange creature hold together and live. At times, it would only take off at a few unpredictable points, at others it would lift off immediately and roar through the air, an astonishingly compelling and unlikely flying thing full of dark folds and flashes of light. The best stuff was transcendent, and the near-failures were so often funny or had the buzzy pathos of a crash site, one couldn’t look away.
This double-album captures the legendary band in September 1980 at The Gluepot in Ponsonby, Auckland—one of their final live performances. The recording was transferred and prepared for vinyl mastering by Steve McGough at Stebbings from a desk tape recorded by the band’s soundman Doug Hood.
TRACKLIST
Fifteen
Blackboard Grin
Unscrewed Up
Amputee Song
Toy Love Song
I Wanna Die
Don't Catch Fire
Bedroom
Photographs
Lust
Second To Last Song Toy Love Ever Wrote (With Ad Lib Lyrics)
Sheep
Swimming Pool
Fast Ostrich
Good Old Joe
I Thought I Needed You
I'm In Love
Green Walls
Horror Comic
Rebel
Cold Meat
Don't Ask Me
Squeeze
I Don't Mind
Ain't It Nice
The Crunch
Death Rehearsal
Bride Of Frankenstein
Pull Down The Shades
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