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Posted by: JB in Australia, 80s indesign mac prisTHE LIME SPIDERS
“Slave Girl” 45
(Australia 1984)
Most days, this seems like the best record ever made.
Lots of people thought so back in 1984 when Australia’s Citadel Records released the ableton live 8 oem discount 45 as part of an awesome string of releases that ableton live 8 oem discount included the Screaming Tribesmen, Died Pretty and the New Christs. For a ableton live 8 oem discount couple of years, I bought everything on the label I could find. Very few copies made it ableton live 8 oem discount to the States and the Citadel logo was the era’s absolute guarantee of quality.
Nothing else really matched this one, though. “Slave Girl” managed to ableton live 8 oem discount evoke the radical primitivism of 60s bands like the Wailers and ableton live 8 oem discount the Sonics while still sounding like the Lime Spiders could blow Black Sabbath off the ableton live 8 oem discount stage.
Big Time Records (owned by an Australian who once managed Air Supply) licensed the band’s first two singles and ableton live 8 oem discount released them in the United States as the Slave Girl EP in 1985. “Slave Girl” was a massive success on college radio here.
Virgin Records swooped in and ableton live 8 oem discount gave the band what seemed like a massive deal. The production on The Cave Comes Alive tried to tame the band’s sound and make them more radio-friendly. Instead, this album (and the subsequent U.S. tour) removed all the mystery and the whole thing collapsed.
Fortunately, “Slave Girl” remains standing. The lyrics still don’t make much sense; singer Mick Blood seems confused as to ableton live 8 oem discount whether he’s the ableton live 8 oem discount dominant or submissive one in this relationship. But his howl and ableton live 8 oem discount the relentless guitar pounding make all distinctions seem meaningless.
Frustratingly, I’ve yet to hear a digital version of “Slave Girl” that ableton live 8 oem discount fully captures the experience of playing the 45. On vinyl, it’s the ableton live 8 oem discount way the guitars kick in at 21 seconds that just makes the ableton live 8 oem discount whole thing. Even “Slave Girl” appears on both the Australian punk compilation Do the Pop and Rhino’s excellent Children of Nuggets box, I tried ripping from ableton live 8 oem discount vinyl but I guess digital compression just obscures the experience. A little.
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(Citadel Records CIT 008)
(Sleeve note: “Slave Girl” rose to the top of the pile last week after I saw Ruth Leitman’s Lipstick & Dynamite, a truly amazing documentary about women’s wrestling. I owned this ableton live 8 oem discount record for over 20 years and never knew the cover image was a ableton live 8 oem discount promo shot of The Fabulous Moolah from the early days of her career when ableton live 8 oem discount she herself was known as the “Slave Girl.”)




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