The Lime Spiders: 4 Albums 1987 - 2007

 

Lime Spiders were an Australian punk rock band which formed in 1979 with Mick Blood on lead

vocals. He was later joined by Richard Lawson on drums, and David Sparks on guitar. Their debut studio album, The Cave Comes Alive! was released in June 1987 and reached the top 60 on the Kent Music Report Albums Chart. Their most successful single, "Weirdo Libido", was released in January that year and reached the top 50 on the related Kent Music Report Singles Chart. 
                   

In April its music video was the first ever shown on Australian Broadcasting Corporation TV music

series rage. The track was used on the 1988 feature film Young Einstein's soundtrack. The group disbanded in 1990 and in 1999 Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, noted they had provided "raucous sound mixed screaming vocals and wild, fuzz-tone guitar riffs to arrive at a mutant strain of acid punk that bordered on heavy metal". 
                          

Patrick "Mick" Blood on lead vocals, cites their influences as being 1960s garage bands with

psychedelic rock. Early fellow members included Eric Roman Grothe on guitar, Dave Guest on bass guitar, and Darryl John Mather on guitar. The band's name relates to a non-alcoholic cocktail – a combination of vanilla ice cream and lime soft drink (soda). The group's first show was supporting The Lonely Hearts on Christmas Eve 1979, which Mather later recalled: "We were absolutely horrible. So horrible that people didn't get it. I don't think I got it, either. We came back properly in late 1980".
                      

The band recorded two singles during 1983 (released on the Slave Girl EP two years later) and signed

to Virgin Records. Lime Spiders' first album was the excellent The Cave Comes Alive!, but the following year's Volatile was a bit of disappointment, veering closer to stultifying hard rock. The group broke up after 1990's Beethoven's Fist. 
                            

THE LIME SPIDERS - THE CAVE COMES ALIVE 1987

                           

The Cave Comes Alive! is the first album by The Lime Spiders, released on vinyl in 1987 through Virgin Records. There were three singles released from the album; "My Favourite Room" b/w "Blood

From A Stone", "Just One Solution" b/w "Drip Out", and "Jessica" (New Version) b/w "Sparks" (Live). In November 2012 FasterLouder listed The Cave Comes Alive! at No. 45 of "The Most Underrated Albums of All Time". Their reviewer Max Easton opined, "a collection of forgotten gems from one of the richest veins of Australia’s garage history... a chronically underrated and forgotten record lost in time." David Szatmary of AllMusic rated it at four-and-a-half-out-of-five stars and briefly stated, "This is the snarling debut from the punk quartet who owe a debt to the '60s."
                         

The Lime Spiders – The Cave Comes Alive!
Label: Virgin – VOZCD 2006
Format: CD, Album
Country: Australia
Released: 1987
Genre: Rock
Style: Garage Rock

TRAXS

                 

01.  My Favourite Room    3:47
02.  Are You Loving Me More    2:46
03.  Ignor My    2:24
04.  (Interlude: "Hey")    0:26
05.  NSU    2:32
06.  Just One Solution    2:55
07.  Blood From A Stone    3:46
08.  Just One Solution (Reprise)    1:36
09.  Action Woman    2:40
10.  (Interlude: "I'm Going Mad")    0:16
11.  Rock Star    3:11
12.  Jessica    3:41
13.  Space Cadet    3:30
14.  (Interlude: "Zorba")    0:26
15.  Theory Of Thira    3:40

LINE - UP

Mick Blood - lead vocals
Gerard Corben - guitars
Tony Bambach - bass, backing vocals, piano
Richard Lawson - drums, backing vocals, percussion

Additional musicians

Chris Abrahams - Hammond organ
Jim Zembis - bouzouki on "Theory of Thira"
Bill Gibson - backing vocals on "My Favourite Room" and "Just One Solution"

NOTES

Track 2 is written on the disc itself as: Are You Loving Me More?
Track 3 is written on the disc itself as: Ignormy 

Flac Size: 251 MB

THE LIME SPIDERS - HEADCLEANER 1988

                       

Headcleaner is a sixteen-track compilation album by Australian alternative rock band the Lime Spiders,

issued in 1988 by Virgin Records. It compiled all their singles and B-sides up to that point in a single package. It was initially released on music cassette before appearing on vinyl LP (1989) and CD. 
              

Lime Spiders – Headcleaner
Label: Virgin – VOZCD 2012
Format: CD, Compilation
Country: Australia
Released: Dec 1988
Genre: Rock
Style: Garage Rock

TRAXS

                  

01. 25th Hour
Written-By – D. Mather, M. Blood
02. Can't Wait Long
Written-By – M. Blood, R. Jakimyszyn
03. Slave Girl
Written-By – M. Blood, R. Jakimyszyn
04. Out Of Control
Written-By – G. Corben, M. Blood, R. Lawson, T. Bambach
05. That's How It Will Be
Written-By – R. Tanner
06. 1-2-5
Written-By – B. Burgess, J. Peter
07. Beyond The Fringe
Written-By – M. Blood, R. Jakimyszyn
08. Save My Soul
Written-By – Christopholus, Kelman
09. Weirdo Libido
Written-By – D. Mather, M. Blood
10. Here With My Love
Written-By – D. Mather, M. Blood
11. Heard Her Call My Name
Written-By – L. Reed
12. Drip Out
Written-By – M. Blood
13. I Was Alone
Written-By – The Exotics 
14. Mr Soul
Written-By [Uncredited] – Neil Young
15. Time Of Day
Written-By – B. Tashian
16. My Flash On You
Written-By – A. Lee

LINE - UP

Mick Blood – lead vocals
Gerard Corben – guitar
Tony Bambach – bass guitar
Richard Lawson – drums
Richard Jakimyszyn – guitar
Darryl Mather – guitar
Stephen Rawle – drums

Flac Size: 291 MB

THE LIME SPIDERS - NINE MILES HIGH 1983 - 1990 (November 5, 2002)

                     

The bottom line is this: the Lime Spiders catalog is unavailable in the United States. This collection of 26 cuts on a single disc offers the best of the best of Mick Blood and company's Australian garage

madness on the greatest of Australian labels and one of the best reissue labels in the biz -- Raven. This quartet was obsessed with the late '60s but seemed to draw inspiration from punk as well. Included here are album tracks as well as most of the Weirdo Libido EP and covers of "1-2-5," Arthur Lee's "My Flash on You," and Barry Tashian's "Time of Day." Perhaps the Lime Spiders' most important moment is here as well: their completely unhinged "Out of Control," the single greatest track they ever cut. At the risk of hyperbole, "Out of Control" is worth the entire purchase price of this monster set. Highly recommended. 
                       

The Lime Spiders – Nine Miles High 1983-1990
Label: Raven Records – RVCD-144
Format: CD, Compilation
Country: Australia
Released: 2002
Genre: Rock
Style: Garage Rock

TRAXS

               

01. 25th Hour (Written-By – D. Mather, M. Blood)   3:09
02. That's How It Will Be    2:32
03. 1-2-5    2:10
04. Slave Girl    2:50
05. Beyond The Fringe    2:34
06. Out Of Control    3:15
07. Save My Soul    2:53
08. Weirdo Libido    3:39
09. Time Of Day (Live)    1:56
10. My Flash On You (Live)    1:50
11. My Favourite Room    3:46
12. Blood From A Stone    3:45
13. Just One Solution    2:55
14. Drip Out    2:27
15. Jessica (Single Version)    2:56
16. Action Woman    2:38
17. Volatile    2:46
18. The Other Side Of You    3:22
19. Can't You Read My Mind    2:46
20. The Captor And The Captive One    3:34
21. My Main Attraction    3:15
22. Too Close To The Sun    3:31
23. Children Of The Sun    3:20
24. Cherry Red    2:44
25. Mr Big Mouth    3:12
26. Nine Miles High    2:57

The track No 25 is missing cause my EAC Programm can't convert it.
Flac Size: 532 MB

THE LIME SPIDERS - LIVE AT THE ESPLANADE 2007
                           

Lime Spiders – Live At The Esplanade
Label: Figtree Words & Music – FT102
Format: CD, Album
Country: Australia
Released: 2007
Genre:R ock
Style: Alternative Rock, Garage Rock

TRAXS

                    

01. My Favourite Room
Written-By – M. Blood
02. Silent Partner
Written-By – G. Corben, M. Blood
03. Old Dog New Tricks
Written-By – M. Blood
04. Ain't Nothin To Do
Written-By – Chrome, Bators
05. I Was Alone
Written-By – The Exotics 
06. Children Of The Sun
Written-By – Browne, Hill
07. Out Of Control
Written-By – G. Corben, M. Blood, R. Lawson, A. Bambach
08. The Dead Boys
Written-By – M. Blood, P. Murphy, S. Waters
09. This Time
Written-By – M. Blood
10. You Burn Me Up And Down
Written-By – T. Talton
11. Just One Solution
Written-By – M. Blood
12. Society Of Soul
Written-By – M. Blood
13. Career Of Evil
Written-By – Bouchard, Smith
14. Test Pattern
Written-By – M. Blood
15. Action Woman
Written-By – Kendrick
16. Slave Girl
Written-By – M. Blood, R. Jakimyszyn
17. Save My Soul
Written-By – D. Christopholus
18. Weirdo Libido
Written-By – D. Mather, M. Blood
19. Volatile
Written-By – G. Corben, M. Blood
20. 25th Hour
Written-By – D. Mather, M. Blood
21. Beyond The Fringe
Written-By – M. Blood, R. Jakimyszyn
22. He's Waiting
Written-By – Roslie

Flac Size: 581 MB

The Lime Spiders: Beethovens Fist 1990 on Urban Aspirines HERE
The Lime Spiders:  Slave Girl 1985 on Urban Aspirines HERE