''The Cave Comes Alive!'' is the first album by The Lime Spiders, released on vinyl in 1987 through

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. There were three singles released from the album; "My Favourite Room" b/w "Blood From A Stone", "Just One Solution" b/w "Drip Out", and "Jessica" (New Version) b/w "Sparks" (Live). "Jessica" (New Version) b/w "Sparks" (Live), and "Long Way to Go" (Live) was released on 12" single. The 'New Version' of Jessica for the single is shorter (2:55 from 3:40), and the mix and structure has been changed, in particular, piano replaces the

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at the start, the guitar solo is shorter, the kick drum is absent, and the song ending has been changed. "Sparks" by Pete Townshend, is a cover of the instrumental song from The Who's "Tommy" album, and "Long Way to Go" by Michael Bruce, is a cover of the Alice Cooper song from their album "Love It To Death". A live promotional EP; "Lime Spiders" was also released that contained three songs from the album: "Space Cadet", "Just One Solution", and "Action Woman", along with a cover of "Stone Free" by Jimi Hendrix.

Background

Lime Spiders Lime Spiders were an Australian punk rock band which formed in 1979 with Mick Blood on lead vocals. He was later joined by Tony Bambach on bass guitar, Gerard Corben on guitar, Richard Lawson on drums, and David Sparks on guitar. Their debut ...

had split in mid-1985 with founding lead vocalist, Michael Blood, travelling to Europe. They reconvened in September 1986 with the line-up of Blood, Tony Bambach on bass guitar,

Gerard Corben Gerard "Ged" Corben was the lead guitarist of The Lime Spiders, between 1985 and 2016. The band released three studio albums. The band toured the US, UK, Europe and widely through Australia. In 1987, he and his brother David "d" Corben (bass guit ...

on rhythm guitar and Richard Lawson on drums. The group signed with

, which issued their non-album single, "Weirdo Libido", in January 1987. The group's debut album, ''The Cave Comes Alive!'', was recorded with David Price producing and was issued in June 1987. It provided three singles, "My Favourite Room" (May), "Just One Solution" (August) and "Jessica" (October).

Reception

In November 2012 ''FasterLouder'' listed ''The Cave Comes Alive!'' at No. 45 of "The Most Underrated Albums of All Time". Their reviewer Max Easton opined, "a collection of forgotten gems from one of the richest veins of Australia’s garage history... a chronically underrated and forgotten record lost in time." David Szatmary of

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rated it at four-and-a-half-out-of-five stars and briefly stated, "This is the snarling debut from the punk quartet who owe a debt to the '60s."

Track listing

# "My Favourite Room" (Mick Blood) - 3:38 # "Are You Loving Me More" (Tucker, Mantz) - 2:45 # "Ignormy" (Blood) - 2:24 # "NSU" (Jack Bruce) - 2:57 # "Just One Solution" (Blood) - 2:55 # "Blood from a Stone" (Blood, Richard Jakimyszyn) - 3:46 # "Just One Solution (Reprise)" (Blood) - 1:35 # "

Action Woman "Action Woman" is a song by the American garage rock band the Litter, written by their record producer Warren Kendrick, and first released as the group's debut single on Scotty Records in January 1967 (''see'' 1967 in music). The song also appea ...

" (Warren Kendrick) - 2:39 # "Rock Star" (Anthony Bambach, Blood) - 3:26 # "Jessica" (Blood) - 3:41 # "Space Cadet" (Bambach, Blood, Gerard Corben) - 3:30 # "Theory of Thira" (Blood) - 4:05

Charts

Personnel

The Lime Spiders

* Mick Blood -

lead vocals The lead vocalist in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent melody in a performance where multiple voices may be heard. The lead singer sets their voice against the accompaniment parts of t ...

* Gerard Corben -

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s * Tony Bambach -

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backing vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are use ...

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

* Richard Lawson -

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, backing vocals,

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Additional musicians

*Chris Abrahams -

Hammond organ The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, Hammond organs generated s ...

*Jim Zembis -

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on "Theory of Thira" *Bill Gibson - backing vocals on "My Favourite Room" and "Just One Solution"

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cave Comes Alive!, The 1987 debut albums Lime Spiders albums