Product Details
- An MVD Exclusive
- SKU: FREUDCD054
- Format: CD
- UPC: 5013145205426
- Street Date: 06/23/23
- PreBook Date: 05/19/23
- Label: Jungle Records »
- Genre: Pop/Rock
- Run Time: 59:19 mins
- Number of Discs: 1
- Year of Production: 1983
- Box Lot: 25
- Territory: NORTH AMERICA
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Specimen - Azoic
Gothic Godfathers - the Batcave club founders with all their early studio recordings of dark glam sleaze rock, later known as 'Gothic'
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SPECIMEN formed around 1981 (a Bolanesque, theatrical, horror-gothic glam band). To get some gigs they started a club where they and their friends could hang out. THE BATCAVE soon became the place to be. Draped in nets, with sculptures, mud-wrestling and weird events going on in numerous rooms, it was soon swamped with TV crews and journalists along with all the creative artists of the era.
A bidding war saw Specimen eventually sign to a major label, who spent lots of money on orchestras, a 'Batcave' album and other whims, but issuing only two Specimen singles. Those six tracks (issued by Sire as a mini-LP in the US) are included here on AZOIC, together with 12" versions of subsequent indie singles, unreleased demos and two songs only ever heard live, Azoic and Wolverines. Guitarist Jon Klein went on to join Siouxsie & The Banshees. Singer Olli Wisdom became a psy-trance musician as Space Tribe. He died aged 63 in 2021.
TRACKS: - 1. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (12") 2. Tell Tail 3. Beauty Of Poisin (12") 4. Hex (12") 5. Returning From A Journey (12") 6. Syria 7. Dead Man's Autochop 8. Stand Up Stand Out 9. Holes (12") 10. Lovers 11. Sharp Teeth Pretty Teeth 12. Azoic (Live) 13. Wolverines (Live)
