The blare to the recording is harsh but grows into something. Toy Love were an early punk rock band from New Zealand. They originated from Dunedin and were active between 1978 and 1980; ofter referred to as progenitors of the Dunedin sound that Flying Nun Records began documenting in the 1980s. More Chris Knox, Alec Bathgate (later Tall Dwarfs), and Paul Kean (later The Bats).
How does it feel to be on your own? Sifting through the rubble, bringing up the dead, reassembling history from below.
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"Not Given Lightly," Chris Knox (1989)
So I'm on a mini-Chris Knox kick. He's special. This might be what you could call Beatlesque, and there will be people who will have a problem with that. Not me. "'Cause it's you that I love/And it's true that I love/It's love not given lightly." Named New Zealand's 13th best song all-time.
Bonus: And, FWIW, the Beatlesque was no cheap pop move but a longstanding feature of much of Knox's music. From 1980, his punk rock band Toy Love doing "Don't Ask Me":
"Nothing," The Enemy (1978)
Chris Knox in a 1978 punk rock mohawk. The Enemy were one of the first punk rock bands from Dunedin, and for some mark the beginning of the "Dunedin sound"; New Zealand's indie rock sound documented and spread by Flying Nun Records. Very crude live recording. A guy in the band, probably Knox, complains about not being ready to play for the people who traveled a 100 miles from Christchurch to see them. Flying Nun was formed in Christchurch. Proto-NZ punk rock.
Bonus: Knox's next band, Toy Love, was definitely ready to play. A power pop songfulness pokes out of their headstrong noize.
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