"Weirdo Libido" is likely the closest the
Lime Spiders ever came to digging into real pay dirt, if only for the fact that the tune was featured on the
Young Einstein soundtrack. It's also a genuinely great number, capably exemplifying Spiders mouthpiece
Mick Blood's utterly raspy panache clad to his band's relentlessly pounding garage-punk sway. "Here With My Girl" ups the frantic ante a notch, regarding what sounds like a potential romantic triangle. If you bought the 45 of this these were the only songs you were served, whereas the 12" ep entailed four more - all live covers fittingly in the band's wheelhouse, including killer takes of Neil Young's Mr. Soul and Love's "My Flash on You."
And speaking of covers, come to think of it, The Goo Goo Dolls threw their version of the Spider's "Slave Girl" onto their mega-platinum A Boy Named Goo in 1995 thereby earning Blood and his Aussie cohorts a splendid pile of dough (one would hope anyway).
01. Weirdo Libido
02. Here With My Girl
03. I Was Alone (live)
04. Mr. Soul (live)
05. Time of Day (live)
06. My Flash on You (live)
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Thank you, and happy new year.
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