I've Had About As Much As I Can Stand

The early Lime Spiders stuff is mostly unbeatable, even if afterwards they would settle into a string of "Slave Girl" rewrites... of which "Weirdo Libido" is definitely one, leaning on Mick Blood's "I know a girl who lives down the lane/She's got a curl that drives me insane" schtick ad infinitum. Otherwise, the one other original track on this EP, "Here With My Love", is an absolute keeper, as is the flipside: four slash-and-burn covers recorded live in 1985, including a 2-minute revved-up version of Love's "My Flash On You", which comes out sounding a bit like "Wango Tango".




Lime Spiders -

"Weirdo Libido"

"Here With My Love"

"I Was Alone"

"My Flash On You"

Beats Waiting In The Dark For A Suntan

I'd mentioned once before that when I first bought this record I was hoping that it was maybe an early Lime Spiders LPs that I didn't have yet, since there's no date on the back, but when I found out later that it was actually their final LP (you'd think the haircuts woulda tipped me off), I never even bothered to open the shrinkwrap. Then John Beers said that it was halfway decent, considering-- and he generally knows way more about this stuff than I do-- so I finally got around to checking it out, and... it's okay. Honestly, if this album was the Rave-Ups from Los Angeles, California, instead of the Lime Spiders from Australia, I'd be mocking the shit out of it. The drums are mixed way louder than the guitar in that late-80's Bon Jovi record kind of way, and the lyrics are still painfully dumb, but overall I guess there's some stuff here that rocks out pretty good. Nowhere near as good as their early singles on Citadel, etc., but a lot more respectable than I would've figured. The production is totally of its time, though, which only points out how I didn't know how good I had it back then, when college radio stations were looking to play stuff that sounded like The Godfathers and The Cult, instead of non-rock like Animal Collective or Beach House or whatever crap it is that they like now.




Lime Spiders -

(these files are now listen-only)

"This Time"

"Real Thing"

"Old Dog New Tricks"

"I Get Off at the Next Stop"

This happens to be one of the best-sounding vinyl rips I've ever done,
so for one week only (maybe two) I'm going to make a .zip file of
the entire LP available for download:

Lime Spiders - Beethoven's Fist LP (320kbps).zip

Bury Me In A Hole In The Ground

This is a EP that throws together the first two Lime Spiders releases-- the "25th Hour" double 7" and the "Slave Girl"/"Beyond The Fringe" 45. I had the originals once, back when I'd buy almost anything that said Citadel or Aberrant on it, but those are long gone now, so this'll have to do.

It was those early singles, plus the "Out of Control" 45 in 1985, that established the Lime Spiders as one of those Aussie bands that you just had to check out; not quite as hot as the New Christs or Scientists, of course, but they were up there. Their stuff started going downhill fast once they jumped to the majors (and, wouldn't ya know it, those are the records that I still have), but for raw, rippin' garage punk, the early Lime Spiders 7"-ers are pretty hard to beat. The "Slave Girl" 45 seems to be their high-water mark (the Citadel web site says it's still their best-selling single ever), so here's those two here's those two songs plus one more.




Lime Spiders -

"Slave Girl"

"Beyond The Fringe"

"That's How It Will Be"

(these files are now listen-only)