Various Artists - To The Shores Of Lake Placid

I’ll be returning from Ireland this weekend and as I do, I felt it time to have a wee visit with the Scousers and spend a little time with some of my favourite artists from the early 80’s. After first hearing “Rescue” by T’Bunnymen I was in, hook-line-and-sinker. Eventually Sounds published a Pete Frame family tree with all the bands that played Eric’s during the late 70’s and early 80’s that I was interested in. So began the collecting. I had become acquainted with ZOO Records once I had found T’Bunnymen’s first single “The Pictures On My Wall” and decided to dive in. I paid my money at the gate and took a journey “To The Shores Of Lake Placid”

I posted this little gem back in October 2018, and I figured if I was going to have a Liverpool based compilation album worth dancin’ to on a Saturday evening, this was gonna be it. 

Now let’s see what I wrote last time…

The origin of Zoo Records is probably known the world over, so prepare your-self for a plethora of artists that have become legendary. Formed in Liverpool in 1978 by Bill Drummond and David Balfe (Keyboards in the Teardrops Explodes) to release a 12” single by Drummond’s perennially struggling band, Big In Japan (From Y to Z And Never Again). Zoo would only release two albums and a handful of singles by the likes of the Teardrop Explodes, Echo & The Bunnymen and Lori & The Chameleons. Inside we're informed that the music had been taken from a play To the Shores of Lake Placid which ran from August 24 1978 to February 21 1981 with "all titles performed by the Original Cast". Society For Cutting Up Men (SCUM) by Big In Japan opens (shown in a photo with a young Ian Broudie lying against a giant Teddy), followed by Drummond's other band Those Naughty Lumps with Iggy Pop's Jacket (issued as a single in January 1979). Next up we have the Teardrop Explodes with their original version of When I Dream, a couple of tracks by Echo & The Bunnymen and to close side one a couple of real gems in the Lori & the Chameleons single Lonely Spy and the Turquoise Swimming Pools (featuring Troy Tate) previously unreleased track The Wind. Side two begins with Whopper and Dalek I Love You and more from the Turquoise Swimming Pools, Teardrop Explodes, Big In Japan and Echo & the Bunnymen.

Ripped to MP3

A1 Big in Japan - Society for Cutting Up Men 2:30

A2 Those Naughty Lumps - Iggy Pop's Jacket 1:38

A3 The Teardrop Explodes - When I Dream 4:17

A4 Echo & The Bunnymen - Pictures on My Wall 2:45

A5 Echo & The Bunnymen - Read It in Books 2:57

A6 Lori & The Chameleons - The Lonely Spy 3:35

A7 The Turquoise Swimming Pools - The Winds 5:11

B1 Whopper - Kwalo Koblinsky's Lullaby 4:04

B2 Dalek I Love You - A Suicide 2:54

B3 The Turquoise Swimming Pools - Burst Balloons 4:20

B4 The Teardrop Explodes - Camera, Camera 2:37

B5 Big in Japan - Suicide a Go Go 2:25

B6 Echo & The Bunnymen - Villiers Terrace 4:10

B7 The Teardrop Explodes - Take a Chance 2:01