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Album · 1979 · 13 Songs.

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Toy Love Lyrics I Don't MindLyrics Swimming PoolLyrics Death RehearsalLyrics Bride of FrankensteinLyrics Toy Love SongLyrics Photographs of Naked LadiesLyrics BedroomLyrics Don't Ask MeLyrics.

Filmed at Vidcom, Auckland, July 21 1979 Toy Love: Chris Knox, Alec Bathgate, Paul Kean, Mike Dooley and Jane Walker

Listen to music from Toy Love like Swimming Pool, Pull Down the Shades & more. Find the latest tracks, albums, and images from Toy Love. The Enemy was the prototype. Then there was Toy Love. Formed late '78, first gig early '79, they played 500 plus gigs in 19 months, then they were gone. They made an indelible impression on the New Zealand music scene though, upping the theatrics and giving the punters something to dance about. High hopes of making the big time, via Australia, gave way to tougher time. oy Love's dissolution soon followed.

The Second To Last Song Toy Love Ever Wrote (Live). More albums from Toy Love. Live at the Gluepot 1980.

Regardless, without Toy Love, not only would there have been no Tall Dwarfs (where singer Chris Knox and guitarist Alec Bathgate next ended up) and potentially no Bats (future home of bassist Paul Kean), but it's imaginable that the impetus behind Flying Nun Records and the whole next wave of Dunedin bands, from the Clean to the Chills, would have sounded much.

Tracks count: 5. Views: 2. Toy Love - Bedroom 02:51. Toy Love - Aint It Nice 02:30. Toy Love - Cold Meat 03:33. Toy Love - Radio Jingle 00:33. Toy Love - Second to Last Song Toy Love Wrote (with ad lib lyrics) 03:05.

Amazingly, Toy Love played nearly 500 shows in their brief existence, and here that experience is loudly obvious. Each of the record’s 25 short, sharp songs flies by so quickly you might find have trouble remembering any single one. But that’s likely the point-- Toy Love doesn’t sound interested in finding perfectly-crafted melodies, but in cranking out tightly-wound tunes with as much snarling energy and coursing blood as possible. That head-down approach is reflected in the between-song banter of singer Chris Knox. His wry intros- this next one we found on a back of a chewing gum wrapper.