Lime Spiders "LIVE AT THE ESPLANADE 1988" 2007

The first live album from legendary Aussie garage rockers Lime Spiders, recorded at the equally legendary Esplanade Hotel in Melbourne in 1998.

The garage rock revival seems to have fizzled out, but Sydney's Lime Spiders have been keeping the flame alive since the early '80s and aren't about to let it go out now. While younger bands have sparked and faded, this live document from 1998 has been smouldering away on a shelf somewhere, released in preparation for an upcoming national tour. The Live Spiders set St Kilda ablaze with acid-damaged garage punk, Mick Blood's whiskey-and-razorblades voice sounding as rough as Lemmy at times, while still managing some pretty harmonies on these knuckle-dragging, '60s punk gems. Ged Corben and Dave Sparks' trashy guitars are mixed upfront with Blood's vocals, and you couldn't ask for a clearer representation of tunes that could've bubbled up out of a tar pit. Classics like 'Slave Girl' and 'Weirdo Libido' are here, along with a handful of smokin' covers and two previously unreleased songs, 'Dead Boys' and 'Society of Soul' (Strom).

trax:
01 MY FAVORITE ROOM 02 SILENT PARTNER 03 OLD DOG NEW TRICKS 04 AIN'T NOTHING TO DO 05 I WAS ALONE 06 CHILDREN OF THE SUN 07 OUT OF CONTROL 08 THE DEAD BOYS 09 THIS TIME 10 YOU BURN ME UP AND DOWN 11 JUST ONE SOLUTION 12 SOCIETY OF SOUL 13 CAREER OF EVIL 14 TEST PATTERN 15 ACTION WOMAN 17 SAVE MY SOUL 17 SLAVE GIRL 18 WEIRDRO LIBIDO 19 VOLATILE 20 25TH HOUR 21 BEYOND THE FRINGE 22 HE'S WAITING
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