Toy Love
Live at the Gluepot 1980
Label:  Goner Records 
Date:  11/27/2012
Length:  0:00
Format:  2LP
Genre:  Rock; Post Punk
  Category:  rock
    Track Listing:
      1.  
      Fifteen    
      2.  
      Blackboard Grin    
      3.  
      Unscrewed Up    
      4.  
      Amputee Song    
      5.  
      Toy Love Song    
      6.  
      I Wanna Die    
      7.  
      Don't Catch Fire    
      8.  
      Bedroom    
      9.  
      Photographs    
      10.  
      Lust    
      11.  
      Second To Last Song Toy Love Ever Wrote (With Ad Lib Lyrics)    
      12.  
      Sheep    
      13.  
      Swimming Pool    
      14.  
      Fast Ostrich    
      15.  
      Good Old Joe    
      16.  
      I Thought I Needed You    
      17.  
      I'm In Love    
      18.  
      Green Walls    
      19.  
      Horror Comic    
      20.  
      Rebel    
      21.  
      Cold Meat    
      22.  
      Don't Ask Me    
      23.  
      Squeeze    
      24.  
      I Don't Mind    
      25.  
      Ain't It Nice    
      26.  
      The Crunch    
      27.  
      Death Rehearsal    
      28.  
      Bride Of Frankenstein    
      29.  
      Pull Down The Shades    
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      Double vinyl LP pressing. Live archive release from the legendary New Zealand band. 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 it's undeniable power, it appeared unstable, almost fragile, threatening to burst out of it's 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 release 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 Stabbings from a desk tape recorded by the band's soundman Doug Hood.