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Four decades ago, San Francisco's punk & New Wave music scene was electric: countless bands were shaking the walls of dozens of live music venues. Rehearsal rooms and recording studios were booked solid. Streetlights and telephone poles around the city were covered with ever-thickening layers of paper fliers, wheat-pasted and stapled over each other, promoting dozens of bands every night of the week. From 1978-1984, thousands of those fliers advertised performances by Lloyds (a/k/a The Lloyds), a vibrant power pop quintet that filled night clubs in the Bay Area and beyond. As you'll hear on this CD - which includes their best recordings plus a 1980 bottle rocket of a live set - they wrote and played dramatic, hook-laden songs that cut across musical styles and they were energetic, engaging performers who loved to entertain and win over new fans. Avoiding "heavy-osity" - Lloyds-slang for anything pretentious - characterized the group's approach and gave them the freedom to express themselves in whatever musical style they favored, from driving power pop (When the Party's Over) to anthem rock like Rock & Roll Made Me What I Am Today (subsequently recorded by heavy metal hottie Lita Ford and Swedish metal king Rob Nasty) to ballads like All Alone by Ronnie Jay with his soaring harmonica solo over a boardwalk summer night groove) and Still In Love With You, a soulful torch song with a burning slide guitar solo by David Martin.

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Sales Points

• CD contains 13 unreleased studio tracks and 7 live tracks from their appearance at the Old Waldorf on 3/30/80
• Learn about the Lloyds via their website https://thelloydsband.com
• In May, 1980, they represented San Francisco in the 'Eight A Day' for the 80’s new wave festival (along with the Ramones, Wreckless Eric and others) in Michigan
• The drummer's father created the Heimlich maneuver
• They appeared, performing on screen, in the 1980 Robbie Benson film, “Die Laughing.” performing “And That’s Why (I Don’t Like You”)
• They beat over 60 other bands to win the Bay Area Emerging Rock Championships

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Lloyds, a double-guitar quintet fronted by a lead singer who calls herself only Lulu, turned in a fabulous set that proved the group to be one of the best ensembles on the local scene. The sound is a penetrating, exciting mix of '60s girl-group passion and '80s new wave attitudes, with Lulu delivering a string of superlative original tunes with a voice that would stand up in a hurricane

     —Jack McDonough, Billboard

In any Bay Area rock 'n' roll club where the Lloyds may be playing, audiences will be seen dancing, having fun. And often you will see people gazing enviously up at this small girl/woman on stage with her red hair, baggy Boy Scout shirt, and tight black p

     —Jeffrey Glorfeld, S.F. State Phoenix

The Lloyds were spotlighted and praised for their role in the movie 'Die Laughing' ('an auspicious debut,' said the San Francisco Examiner).

     —Art Bennett, Bay Band Calendar

he Lloyds are not only entertaining; they're topical, which has made them a favorite of gay activists in San Francisco. They played to a quarter of a million people at Gay Freedom Day in 1980, and are a favorite at such events as the annual Castro Street

     —Richie Begin, Santa Cruz Good Times

The Lloyds are one of the most baffling success stories to come out of San Francisco in recent years - simply because the band has attracted a large and loyal legion of fans without a major recording contract.

     —Greg Beebe, Santa Cruz Sentinel

Power pop quintet The Lloyds had everything - crackling original songs with radio-friendly hooks, a commanding frontwoman in the personage of Lulu Lewis, and energy to spare.

     —The Second Disc

Compiling a host of the band's best tracks, along with a blistering live set, Attitude Check perfectly illustrates why the Lloyds were, and still are, so highly regarded.

     —The Midlands Rocks