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| 1. Neon Womb | |||
| 2. Indecision | |||
| 3. Waiting | |||
| 4. Computer | |||
| 5. Victims Of The Riddle | |||
| 6. Elusive Stranger | |||
| 7. Our Movie | |||
| 8. Danced | |||
| 9. Last Goodbye | |||
| 10. Victims Of The Riddle (Vivisection) | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Ieya | |||
| 2. Spaced Walking | |||
| 3. Ghosts | |||
| 4. Mummies | |||
| 5. Blue Meanings | |||
| 6. Tiger Tiger | |||
| 7. Visions | |||
| 8. Insects | |||
| 9. Love Me | |||
| 10. She | |||
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Customer Reviews
You know how it is, don't you? - somehow your original vinyl copies of albums you never wanted to lose vanish into thin air and you spend the rest of your life nursing an increasingly threadbare cassette tape that you originally made so you could play them in the car. And every so often, you riffle through the racks in the more obscure corners of your local record shop and you find a 'best of' CD - but it never is the 'best of' selection you would have chosen yourself. All it ever is is a selection of the tracks which were commercial and banal (and safe) enough to make it into the charts, whereas most of Toyah's really good stuff was much too dark and strange to be played on the radio or on Top Of The Pops.
Buy this for:-
IEYA
BLUE MEANINGS
NEON WOMB
THE LAST GOODBYE
INSECTS
MUMMIES
OUR MOVIE
and
DANCED (which is a very slow starter, but stick with it).
While you're at it, you should probably buy 'The Changeling' just for "THE PACKT" and 'Anthem' for "THE MARIONETTE" and "JUNGLES OF JUPITER", although these albums are slightly less good overall than Blue Meaning and Sheep Farming.
If you're a fan of songs like 'It's A Mystery' and 'I Want to be Free' then you may find these albums a little bit weird - they are quite different from her later albums. But if you like music which is slightly weird then this is about as good as it gets. Toyah's training as an actress enables her to do things with her voice which other singers would never even have thought of, and the music combines melodic synth lines with a gritty, thumping bass which is quite unlike anything else you're likely to have heard. Both albums have stood the test of time really well. This re-issue is also very good value for money, with two worthwhile bonus tracks on each album.
Sheep Farming in Barnet is such a mature and complex album that it's incredible to think Toyah was only 21 when she created it. The vocals are incredibly expressive, and while the analogue synths place it in a distinct late-70s/early-80s niche it still manages to sound fresh and contemporary. Styles range from thunderously energetic, such as Our Movie and Race Through Space, through the more ethereal Elusive Stranger, to the downright weird, such as the brilliant and disturbing Victims of the Riddle (Vivisection) which represents animal suffering in musical form with a hallucinogenic whirl of electronic beats, disembodied synth fragments and bizarre vocal squeals.
The Blue Meaning is worth having just for the magnificent Ieya, which showcases Toyah's unusual repertoire of high-pitched squeaks, but the rest of the album is also excellent, and perhaps a tiny bit heavier than Sheep Farming. The token 'weird' track is Spaced Walking, with its very spaced out 'helium' vocal, while Ghosts has an addictive pounding energy and Love Me is haunting, heartfelt and beautifully strange.
I still don't know why these two brilliant albums have been unavailable for so long, but I hope they will now find a new generation of fans and belatedly get the appreciation they deserve.
it has some of toyahs rawest and rarest sounds . Read more
I bought this double album as a bit of a nostalga trip,not really expecting to like it overly much. Boy was I wrong. Read more
One of the things that caused the Toyah band to have such a changeing lineup was that she expected their albums to be a group effort but they felt... Read more
Hearing the title track 'Blue Meanings'turns my insides to mush.
Dark, twisted and brilliant.
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