[2023-02-24] Various "Young Limbs Rise Again: The Story Of The Batcave Nightclub 1982-1987" 5CD box set (Edsel UK)

Linda · **Posted:** Mon Feb 20, 2023 4:31 pm

Amazon USA
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Amazon UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BJ119KTS/?tag=imwan-21

Description
• The complete story of The Batcave Nightclub from the people who were there
• 5CD box set compiled by Jonny Slut (Specimen/Nag Nag Nag)
• 63 tracks from artists including The Cure, Sisters Of Mercy, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Cult and The Cramps
• 80-page hardback book curated by Jon Klein
• Over 100 photographs, many of which are previously unseen

London 1982. As the new romantic youthquake of 1981/1982 faded, and after what felt like a lifetime since punk’s last gasp, a tiny nightclub opened its doors in London’s Soho. Drawing to it a new generation of misfits and miscreants with a penchant for polysexual hedonism, for dressing up and showing out, The Batcave became the dark heart of alternative club culture, just like The Roxy and The Blitz before it.

Art school students, ex-punks and psychobillys, boys and girls, gays, straights, don’t-knows and don’t-cares, Camden and Kensington Market stallholders, professional squatters, kids on the dole, kids in bands, nocturnal music journalists, edgy fashionistas, androgynous randoms and even a smattering of bona fide popstars – from Nick Cave to Siouxsie Sioux, Marc Almond, Robert Smith, Kil*ing Joke and Sigue Sigue Sputnik. All were welcome to pile in, gawp at the hair, ripped, torn, bleached and rubberised fashions, and death-mask make-up and take in the dancefloor’s heady musical mix of beats-heavy post-punk pioneers, outsider icons like Wayne County and The Cramps, and a teetering pile of lusty glam rock singles from the likes of T. Rex and The Sweet.

The club even had its own house band, Specimen, fronted by charismatic and ghoulishly handsome frontman Olli Wisdom (RIP) as well as playing host to a slew of first-wave bands of what came to be known as “goth”. And it is with Specimen’s Jon Klein (later, a Banshee, too) and keyboardist Jonny Sl*t (later founder of legendary club night Nag Nag Nag) along with Sophie Chery from another stalwart Batcave band, Sexbeat, who’ve worked with Demon in putting together this deluxe and definitive musical and visual accompaniment to a moment that sparked a global youth cult.

This 90-track 5CD Collection is the first of its kind. It captures both the fun and freedom of The Batcave and a revolutionary moment in time. It’s also the first to reflect the musical influences on the scene and how that scene pointed forwards. Above everything else, it’s a fascinating evocation of what you’d have actually heard had you stumbled into that sweaty, energetic dive between ’82 and ’84. With its very strong tracklisting, Young Limbs Rise Again includes music from just about everybody that mattered – from The Cure to Joy Division, from The Sisters Of Mercy to Sparks. Accompanying the 5CDs is a stunning 80-page hardback book, with an introduction from Kris Needs, packed with flyers, record sleeves, over 100 photographs, many previously unseen, and the full story of the club as told by the people who were there.

The Batcave’s liberating air of anything-goes creativity spawned, encouraged and hosted a new generation of bands while its fashion aesthetic – fishnets, rubber, leather, diamante, piercings, jewellery, and absolutely *anything* in black – seeped first into the wider alternative scene and then the mainstream in Britain before spreading its tentacles literally all around the world. From Sydney to Mexico City to Paris to Brazil to Berlin - what came to be known as goth here in early-80s London, is arguably one of the UK’s greatest cultural exports. The goth aesthetic forged in those tiny west end dives has gone on to inform generation after generation of bands from Nine Inch Nails to Yungblud as well as walking fashion runways for Burberry, McQueen and Galiano and giving Hollywood a whole new dark palette to work with - from Tim Burton’s weird cinematic adventures to TV shows as diverse as Buffy The Vampire Slayer and American Horror Story. That thing the kids still like? It all started HERE.

As Specimen’s Jonny Slut says - "It was a light bulb for all the freaks and people like myself who were from the sticks and wanted a bit more from life. Freaks, weirdos, sexual deviants ... There's people around who'll always be attracted by something shiny, glittering, exciting…It was more Gotham City than Aleister Crowley.”

Tracklist
[CD1]
1. Temple Of Love (Extended Version) - The Sisters Of Mercy
2. Let's Go To Bed - The Cure
3. Isolation - Joy Division
4. Resurrection Joe (Long Version) - The Cult
5. Garbageman - The Cramps
6. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (12" Version) - Specimen -
7. Pagan Lovesong (Vibeakimbo) - Virgin Prunes
8. Incubus Succubus - Xmal Deutschland
9. The Hop - Theatre Of Hate
10. This Is Not A Love Song (12" Version) - PiL
11. Subterraneans - Flesh For Lulu
12. Against The Wind - Getting The Fear
13. Club Country (12" Version) - The Associates
14. Cccan't You See... - Vicious Pink
15. Misty Circles - Dead Or Alive
16. The Light Pours Out Of Me - Magazine
17. Torment - Marc And The Mambas
18. All About You - Scars
19. Fodder - The March Violets

[CD2]
1. Follow The Leaders - Killing Joke
2. Slowdive - Siouxsie And The Banshees
3. Release The Bats - The Birthday Party
4. We Love You - The Psychedelic Furs
5. Black Leather - Nightmares In Wax
6. Your Turn To Run - Malaria!
7. Planet Claire - The B52's
8. The Back Of Love - Echo And The Bunnymen
9. I Travel (Extended Version) - Simple Minds
10. My Daddy Is A Vampire - The Meteors
11. Strict Tempo - Dave Ball Featuring Gavin Friday
12. Collapsing New People - Fad Gadget
13. Heaven Is Waiting - The Danse Society
14. Nemesis - Shriekback
15. United - Throbbing Gristle
16. Sweat - Sexbeat
17. Holes - Specimen
18. I Wish I Was A Girl - Wasted Youth

[CD3]
1. Temptation - New Order
2. Soul Inside - Soft Cell
3. Uncertain Smile - The The
4. Ignore The Machine - Alien Sex Fiend
5. Alice - The Sisters Of Mercy
6. Copped It - The Fall
7. Adolescent Sex - Japan
8. Kick! - Adam & The Ants
9. Qual - Xmal Deutschland
10. Human Fly - The Cramps
11. Dr Mabuse (First Life) - Propaganda -
12. Metal Dance - SPK
13. Being Boiled - The Human League
14. The Beauty Of Poisin (12" Mix) - Specimen
15. Like An Animal - The Glove
16. Punch Drunk - Gene Loves Jezebel
17. Baby Turns Blue - Virgin Prunes
18. Jo's So Mean To Josephine - Flowerpot Men
19. She's Fallen In Love With A Monster Man - The Revillos

[CD4]
1. Dead Man's Autochop - Specimen
2. Sexbeat-Sexbeat
3. R.I.P. - Alien Sex Fiend
4. Deathwish - Christian Death
5. Sleaze - Marc And The Mambas
6. Propaganda - Play Dead
7 .Roman Candle (12" Version) - Flesh For Lulu
8. Fats Terminal - Bone Orchard
9. Last Year's Wife (12" Version) - Zero Lecrêche
10. Dance With Me - Lords Of The New Church
11. Tracey's Burning - Anorexic Dread
12. Cuts - Lets Wreck Mother
13. Raymond - Turkey Bones & The Wild Dogs
14. The Gold Of Our Lives - Furyo

[CD5]
1. Hell Raiser - The Sweet
2. Telegram Sam - T. Rex
3. Vicious - Lou Reed
4. All I Want Is You - Roxy Music
5. Amateur Hour - Sparks
6. Jet Boy - New York Dolls
7. Funtime - Iggy Pop
8. Ghost Rider - Suicide
9. Roll Away The Stone - Mott The Hoople
10. Mr Soft - Cockney Rebel
11. Needles In The Camel's Eye - Brian Eno
12. Only After Dark - Mick Ronson
13. Night Time - Wayne County And The Electric Chairs
14. Then He Kissed Me - Hollywood Brats
15. Cherry Bomb - The Runaways
16. Kick Out The Jams-Mc5
17. I'm Waiting For The Man - Velvet Underground
18. Dance With The Devil - Cozy Powell
19. New York Groove - Hello
20. Devil Gate Drive - Suzi Quatro

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Linda · **Posted:** Mon Feb 20, 2023 4:48 pm

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