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Yet ANOTHER ABSOLUTELY Unofficial And POSITIVELY Fan Based Trib Page By YOUR Ever Faithful Leftenant, Me, Reg? .In 1982, The Lime Spiders won a Battle of the Bands contest at Sydney's Southern Cross Hotel (later the Strawberry Hill Hotel), beating 63 other bands. The prize was a contract with the independent label Green Records, which resulted in the band's debut single 25th Hour late in 1983.
The band toured consistently to strong reviews and audience reactions, and subsequent singles Slave Girl (March 1984) and Out Of Control (1986) proved extremely popular on the Australian independent charts. A debut album was not to eventuate until June 1987 when The Cave Comes Alive was released.
The album gained much attention on the US college radio circuit, and reached Number One on their playlist.
Below from Trouser Press Dot Com --
The excellent retro-rock that fills the Lime Spiders' aptly titled Cave Comes Alive! album gleefully plunders various '60s punk vaults. Rather than imitating any specific genre, this quartet from Sydney, Australia synthesizes an original version of that musical era with searing guitars, Tony Bambach's exceptional bass work, occasional churning organ, raveup drumming and Mick Blood's hardy singing. Sketchy but unaffected production allows the group to color their songs (plus a swell cover of Cream's "NSU" and a couple of more obscure non-originals) in different shades of black leather, dayglo green and deep purple.
Slave Girl is a compilation of the band's first two Australian 45s: a 1983 double 7-inch and "Slave Girl"/"Beyond the Fringe." Headcleaner is a sixteen-track compilation.
The Spiders' second album is well played but miserably plain, utterly lacking The Cave's colorful personality. With dumb lyrics and pedestrian hard-rock that is less inspired by the past than mired in it, Volatile does have a few stick-to-your-ribs tunes ("The Other Side of You," the CD-only "Jagged Edge"), but is otherwise old-fashioned in the worst possible way. A needless dance mix of the dismal title track is among the three CD bonuses.
[Mark Fleischmann/Ira Robbins/Glenn Kenny]