Volatile (The Lime Spiders album)

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Volatile
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Studio album by The Lime Spiders
Released May 1988
Recorded Glebe Studios - Sydney
February, 1988
Genre Alternative rock, garage rock
Length47:11
Label Virgin
Producer Peter Blyton
The Lime Spiders chronology
The Cave Comes Alive!
(1987) The Cave Comes Alive!1987
Volatile
(1988)
Headcleaner
(1988) Headcleaner1988
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Volatile is the second studio album by The Lime Spiders, released in 1988 through Virgin Records on vinyl.

Album collection of recorded music, words, sounds

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a collection on compact disc (CD), vinyl, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78-rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP records played at ​33 13 rpm. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format used alongside vinyl from the 1970s into the first decade of the 2000s.

Lime Spiders are an Australian punk rock band which formed in 1979 with founding mainstay Mick Blood on lead vocals. He was later joined by Tony Bambach on bass guitar, Gerard Corben on guitar, his son Tom Corben on drums, and David Sparks on guitar. Their debut studio album, The Cave Comes Alive! appeared 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". The band have reformed for reunion shows and tours. In May 2016 the Lime Spiders catalogue was re-released for the first time ever digitally on platforms around the world.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Volatile" (Mick Blood, Gerard Corben) - 2:46
  2. "Can't Hear You Anymore" (Richard Lawson, Gerard Corben) - 2:37
  3. "The Odyssey" (Richard Lawson) - 3:16
  4. "Lot to Answer For" (Mick Blood) - 2:15
  5. "The Captor & the Captive One" (Tony Bambach) - 3:33
  6. "My Main Attraction" (Mick Blood) - 3:21
  7. "The Other Side of You" (Mick Blood) - 3:20
  8. "Deaf, Dumb and Blind" (Mick Blood) - 2:59
  9. "Strange Kind of Love" (Tony Bambach) - 3:00
  10. "Under My Umbrella" (Mick Blood) - 2:50
  11. "Won't Fall in Love" (Mick Blood) - 3:05
  12. "Test Pattern" (Mick Blood) - 4:35

Personnel

The Lime Spiders

Additional musicians

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References

  1. Szatmary, David. Volatile at AllMusic