This was a cassette given away free in a music magazine called Lime Lizard (as Kieran corrected me) in 1993. It's a good mix of indie pop and rock and here are the 5 songs from the A-side. On the B-side was a track by Earth, which just trudges on for so long that I couldn't be bothered to wait till it finished! Anyway, have a listen to the rest of it.
Velocity Girl - Creepy
Pond - Agatha
Dwarves - Underworld
The Walkabouts - Drag This River
The Fastbacks - All About Nothing
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This is a blog to hear many classic indie songs (usually first heard by me on the John Peel radio show) which passed by largely unknown. Some of the tracks have less than perfect sound quality as I transferred them from my old cassettes to the PC. I'll include any information I know about the bands and the songs. I will put some music on here again but it may not be that often. I intend to give you stuff that you can't get anywhere any more.
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Most of the songs here are more than 10 years old and didn't sell many copies when they were released. If you have an issue about whether they should be allowed to be downloaded, think about the fact that no money is being made from them here, they are linked to because I think they shouldn't have got lost in time and that people may be hearing them for the first time here.
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11 comments:
thanks for those tunes - had stopped listening to indie so much by '93, going raving and that. so i hadn't heard any of these. great tracks esp the dwarves and the fasbacks.
cheers :)
The cassette was actually given away with a mag called "Lime Lizard". Have the cassette at home myself- but the tape inside it snapped a few years ago. Great tunes! Even the Earth track...
Ah right. Thanks Kieran, I'll change that then. I just assumed every free tape I got was from the NME.
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I used to get limelizard magazine and I am trying to track another one of its free tapes.
I can't remember what the song titles were but the tape had 'kingmaker' and 'the blue aeroplanes' on it. I think the blue aeroplanes song had 'acceleration' somewhere in the lyrics. Just know I loved it at school and it is now lost! Juts going on a trip down memory lane...
Hi Caroline,
I don't know about any other of their tapes, this is the only one I have. Have you searched on the web for its identity?
I don't have anything by the Blue Areoplanes, either, I'm afraid so I can't help you out with which song you are thinking of.
There was a tape on pretty much every issue for over a year (can't remember now). I have most issues from #2 as I used to design it.
Facebook: Ex Lime Lizard Magazine Group
Are you sure it lasted a year? I actually subscribed and I was probably one of few because I only got six issues before the magazine went into iquidation.
There was nothing with The Blue Aeroplanes or Kingmaker. The Sub Pop tape was the first followed by an RCA/BMG six tracker. Third was an untitled 11 tracker featuring anything from Sheep On Drugs to Dodgy. Fourth was The Sound Of Mob Culture - 11 tracks (Gallon Drunk, Pram, mambo Taxi etc) and fifth was Altered States Of America (12 tracks - Cop Shoot Cop, Come, Trumans water etc) Finally, we got Separated at Birth (8 tracks - Back To The Planet, Faith No More etc).
After that I got a letter - and for the first time in my life I was a creditor!!
funny, i used to work with the creator of lime lizard, she told me about that kurt thing. we worked together at cafe pasta in london. a really cool girl, we danced together to the stone roses "i am the resurrection" at her opening party for the mag. Was like '93 and "baggy" had just about broken into the souther english club scene, great times. funny thing is, she brought some american guy to the party who was a dead ringer for kurt cobain...;)
I've got the Blue Aeroplanes Lime Lizard tape you mention somewhere in my loft. The Blue Aeroplanes track was I think called Autumn Journal XIV, there was also a kingmaker tracck and one track by another band who name escapes me, but it might pale saints or pale fountains.
Hi there, I used to have that 11-tracker you mentioned (Lime Lizard 2 or 3); I'm desperate to recover the tracks, but can only remember 4 of them:
sheep on drugs - motorbike
sunscreem - broken english
kinky machine - blue polythene
eugenius aka captain america - indian summer
dodgy - ?
Could anyone out there give me a list of the rest of the songs on the tape? I've tried to track it on the web with no joy.
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be, yeah?
Just added to Discogs: http://www.discogs.com/release/1938663
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