Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Toy Love-same, LP,1980, New Zealand





Toy Love was a New Zealand alternative/punk rock band fronted by Chris Knox. Other members were guitarist Alec Bathgate, bass player Paul Kean, drummer Mike Dooley, and keyboard player Jane Walker. The band developed out of the earlier punk band The Enemy in Dunedin, New Zealand, and are often regarded as the progenitors of the Dunedin Sound movement.
Toy Love were together for less than two years (1978-9) and spent a large part of that time in Australia. They released just one (self-titled) album, however the band members were apparently appalled by the mixing of the tracks which took the edge off the band's deliberately raw sound.

visit their website:http://www.toylove.co.nz/
Amazing punk from Down Under!Totally underrated!In some parts reminds me of Zounds sound!

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

request,please

Anonymous said...

hello mutantsouds. I thank you for your blog that is exellent, made with a superb sound taste. I had heard material by chris knox and i didnt like it too much, but when i heard toy love i loved it. I notice that the album you posted is no longer available on rapidshare. I wanted to ask you if you could upload it or maybe send it to me. I would be very greatful.

José Ignacio, from Chile, South America.
fosforosyalfileres@hotmail.com

Anonymous said...

please repost ! i need it so much...

The Boy and the Cloud said...

hey!
could you please put this up again?

cheers,

kris

topper said...

yes , please repost

mutant past said...

greetings & salutations mutantsounds, if you ever get the chance to repost this and the autopilot 7" a legion of grateful, dedicated readers will be jumping for joy

Anonymous said...

All these tracks (remastered) plus demos and singles available since 2005 on double CD "Cuts" (Flying Nun).

Bob said...

2012 the year of the Vindication with the release of 2 double lp sets one the final live gig from 1980 and the other combining the 3 singles a slew of demos and a couple of snippets that didnt make the c7005 rkinreuts cd
and a new video and vhs compolation very prolific for a 32 year dead band