Toy Love (2xLP), by Toy Love

Toy Love (2xLP)

by Toy Love

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Toy Love (Double LP)

To celebrate Toy Love recieving the 2012 Legacy Award at the New Zealand Music Awards and induction in to the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame, we have teamed up with Real Groovy Records for the release of the Toy Love double LP.

The 28-track compilation collects all the A & B sides of the three Toy Love singles, plus the best demos from 1979, a live track and even a radio jingle. All mastered for vinyl, straight from the original analogue tapes, no nasty CDs nor digital sources were used at all.

Housed in a gatefold jacket, a 24 page booklet accompanies the release with photos, ephemera and commentary from Toy Love. While, the back cover features a sketched cartoon of an early Toy Love flyer drawn by Chris Knox.

Evolving from Dunedin band, The Enemy, Toy Love had a brief but bright existence between January 1979 and September 1980. Invoking the ghost of punk and the melody and creativity of 60-70s pop, they were peerless at a time when New Zealand music was still struggling to imprint itself on the national consciousness. They became a model for local musicians around the country and inspired the birth of Flying Nun Records – a label which many from the band went on to work with, including Chris Knox and Alec Bathgate with the Tall Dwarfs and Paul Kean with The Bats. Then, in 2005 Flying Nun released Cuts, a double CD anthology of Toy Love material.

Electrifying and unmissable, Toy Love made an impact on all who saw then, and continue to do so around the world today.

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Immediate download of 29-track album in your choice of high-quality MP3, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire.

All downloads come with a bonus 24 page PDF booklet that accompanied the double LP release.

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1.	Squeeze 03:31
2.	Rebel 02:23
3.	Don't Ask Me 02:45
4.	Sheep 02:40	download
5.	Bride of Frankenstein 02:06
6.	Amputee Song 02:35
7.	Good Old Joe 02:19
8.	Squeeze (Revised) 03:26
9.	Sheep 02:43
10.	I Don't Mind 01:59
11.	Swimming Pool 02:31
12.	Death Rehearsal 03:16
13.	Unscrewed Up 02:39
14.	Toy Love Song 02:42
15.	Photographs of Naked Ladies 03:51
16.	Lust 02:07
17.	I'm Not Bored 04:20
18.	1978 02:38
19.	Fifteen 01:36
20.	Cold Meat 03:08
21.	The Crunch 02:22
22.	Wanna Die With You 01:57
23.	Don't Catch Fire 03:23
24.	Green Walls 02:25
25.	Pull Down The Shades 01:44
26.	Frogs 04:46
27.	Fast Ostrich 01:03
28.	Radio Hauraki Jingle 00:33
29.	Second To Last Song 03:05

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28-track compilation collects all the A & B sides of the three Toy Love singles, plus the best demos from 1979, a live track and even a radio jingle. All mastered for vinyl, straight from the original analogue tapes, no nasty CDs nor digital sources were used at all.

Evolving from Dunedin band, The Enemy, Toy Love had a brief but bright existence between January 1979 and September 1980. Invoking the ghost of punk and the melody and creativity of 60-70s pop, they were peerless at a time when New Zealand music was still struggling to imprint itself on the national consciousness. They became a model for local musicians around the country and inspired the birth of Flying Nun Records – a label which many from the band went on to work with, including Chris Knox and Alec Bathgate with the Tall Dwarfs and Paul Kean with The Bats. Then, in 2005 Flying Nun released Cuts, a double CD anthology of Toy Love material.

Electrifying and unmissable, Toy Love made an impact on all who saw then, and continue to do so around the world today.

credits

released 24 January 2013
Chris Knox (vocals), Alec Bathgate (guitar), Paul Kean (bass), Jane Walker (keyboard), Mike Dooley (drums).

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Independent record label from New Zealand. Established in 1981 and still going strong. Home to past and current acts including Chris Knox, The Clean, The Bats, HDU, The Chills, Straitjacket Fits, The Verlaines, Bailterspace, Skeptics, Mint Chicks, Grayson Gilmour, F IN MATH, Surf Friends and T54 ... more