Various ‎– To The Shores Of Lake Placid [LP] (1982, Zoo Records)

The kind of album you only read about. This album is a beautiful piece of Art. It has a maroon sleeve, front back and gatefold, with the letters Z O O embossed in gold, Zoo being the Liverpool label it was put out on by Bill Drummond, who also ran the Zoo Club where Virginia Astley and her Ravishing Beauties made their live debut in the closing weeks of 1981. Inside we're informed that the music had been taken from a play "To The Shores Of Lake Placid" which ran from mid 1978 to February 1981 with "all titles performed by the Original Cast". Whatever, the recordings were all made in studios and full details are given for the items by Big In Japan, and this is followed by Drummond's own band Those Naughty Lumps with "Iggy Pop's Jacket", issued as a single in January 1979. Then The Teardrop Explodes with the original version of "When I Dream", a couple of tracks by Echo & the Bunnymen and to close side I a couple of real gems in Lori & the Chameleons' "Lonely Spy" and The Turquoise Swimming Pool's "The Wind", previously unreleased and featuring Troy Tate, who was instrumental in suggesting the Zoo Club to the Ravishing Beauties a few months later. There's another track on side 2 by the same act, called "Burst Balloons". Along with more Teardrop Explodes, Big In Japan and Echo & the Bunnymen is a track by Dalek I Love You, licensed from the Back Door label. [SOURCE: RATE YOUR MUSIC]

Label: Zoo Records ‎– ZOO 4, Zoo Records ‎– ZOO FOUR 

Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation 

Country: UK 

Released: 07 Feb 1982 

Style: New Wave, Pop Rock, Synth-pop, Indie Rock, Post-Punk, Neo-Psychedelia, Punk

 

Tracklist:

A1 – Big In Japan Society For Cutting Up Men 

A2 – Those Naughty Lumps Iggy Pop's Jacket 

A3 – The Teardrop Explodes When I Dream 

A4 – Echo & The Bunnymen Pictures On My Wall 

A5 – Echo & The Bunnymen Read It In Books 

A6 – Lori And The Chameleons Lonely Spy 

A7 – The Turquoise Swimming Pools The Winds 

B1 – Whopper Kwalo Koblinsky's Lullaby 

B2 – Dalek (I Love You) A Suicide 

B3 – The Turquoise Swimming Pools Burst Balloons 

B4 – Lori & The Chameleons Touch (Version/Excerpt) 

B5 – The Teardrop Explodes Camera, Camera 

B6 – Big In Japan Suicide A Go Go 

B7 – Echo & The Bunnymen Villiers Terrace 

B8 – The Teardrop Explodes Take A Chance 

 

Notes:

The music on this record has been taken from the play 'To The Shores Of Lake Placid', which ran from August 24 1978 to February 21 1981. The play is the first in a trilogy, the second of which, as yet untitled, began on November 10 1981 at 'Club Zoo', 'The Pyramid', Liverpool, and will close at 'Erics', Liverpool on November 15 1983. 

All titles are performed by the original cast. 

 

Track A1 - previously unreleased. Recorded T.W. Studios October 1977. Licensed from Warner Bros. Music Ltd. 

Track A2 - previously released as single (Zoo Cage 002) January 1979. Recorded Open Eye Studios, Liverpool. 

Track A3 - the original version, taken from the never released album 'Everybody Wants To Shag The Teardrop Explodes' (Zoo 1). Recorded Rockfield Studios March 1980. 

Track A4 - original version featuring Echo, released as single (Zoo Cage 004) March 1979. Recorded August Studios, Liverpool March 1979. 

Track A5 - b-side of Track A4, not the version on American copies of 'Crocodiles' or Korova Special Offer Version. 

Track A6 - originally released by Zoo Records through Korova Records. Recorded Rockfield Studios January 1980. 

Track A7 - previously unreleased. Recorded Rockfield Studios February 1981. 

Track B1 - from the forthcoming album 'The Fuel Of The Big Machine', licensed from 'Radio Peeking Duck'. 

Track B2 - originally released on Back Door. Recorded Rockfield Studios early 1979. 

Track B3 - previously unreleased. Recorded Rockfield Studios February 1981. 

Track B4 - Brief remix of 'hit' single (Zoo CAGE 006) previously unreleased. Not credited on the package. 

Track B5 - previously released as b-side of 'Sleeping Gas' (Zoo Cage 003). Recorded Open Eye Studios, Liverpool November 1978. 

Track B6 - previously released on 'From Y To Z And Never Again' (Zoo Cage 001). Licensed from Warner Bros. Music Ltd. 

Track B7 - recorded for John Peel Session May 1979. With kind permission of the BBC. 

Track B8 - previously unreleased. Recorded Cargo, Rochdale November 1979. 

 

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