Track Listing

1. Victims Of The Riddle
2. Indecision
3. Love Me
4. Vision
5. Tribal Look
6. Bird In Flight
7. Danced
8. Insects
9. Race Through Space
10. Ieya
11. Ghosts
12. Neon Womb
13. Love Me
14. Waiting
15. Street Creature
16. Neon Womb
17. Dawn Chorus
18. War Boys

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16600 in Music
• Released on: 2006-11-06
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Live, Special Edition

Album Description
Originally released in 1980, Toyah! Toyah! Toyah! was the first live Toyah album and followed up two studio albums and a string of singles (`Ieya', `Victims of the Riddle', `Bird in Flight' - all included here) which charted highly in the independent charts.

The TV Company, ATV commissioned a documentary on Toyah in 1980, in which cameras followed her acting, presenting, recording and rehearsing. A concert in Wolverhampton was also filmed for inclusion and is the source of this live album. The full concert was recorded but a pair of tracks were excluded and used on the B-side of the single release of `Danced (live)'.

This special edition of the album - with expanded artwork - brings together all of these live tracks for the first time. In addition further live bonus tracks make their CD debut including songs recorded at the ICA, London, recorded just before this line-up of the Toyah band disbanded forever.

Four previously unreleased tracks from 1982's The Changeling Tour close the CD. Recorded in Glasgow, these include the uncut unexpurgated `Dawn Chorus'/'War Boys' suite.

Customer Reviews

At long last!

I first heard this album by chance just a couple of weeks after it was released. I was 16 at the time and it was just one of a stack of records I'd borrowed from the local library. I'd never heard of Toyah, and in fact I'd only borrowed it because I really liked the cover, (to this day it still remains one of my all time favourite record sleeves).

Listening to it was an absolute revelation for me as I'd never heard music like it before. I'd been enjoying Prog music like Genesis and King Crimson for years and didn't really listen to anything else. I also never listened to music radio, read the music papers, or watched Top Of The Pops, so I had no idea of what was going on in the post-punk music world.

Thanks to this album I actively sought out new music to listen to, and soon I was enjoying bands like Magazine and Siouxsie And The Banshees, as well as all the old Prog stuff, which I'll always love. I even discovered a wonderful DJ called John Peel who played all kinds of weird and wonderful music on his late night Radio One show. It was a very exciting time for me, and it was all thanks to this one amazing album.

Right from the opening chords of "Victims Of The Riddle" you can tell there's a musical treat heading your way. The music is raw, but the quality of the recording is absolutely top notch, in fact it's one of the best live recordings I've ever heard. The band itself sound incredibly tight, and Toyah's voice has never been better. Apparently she was pretty exhausted around the time of this concert but you can't tell, if anything she sounds like she's having the time of her life, especially during the hyperactive version of" Tribal Look".

This new version of the album comes with eight extra tracks not included on the original release, four of which were recorded during the 1982 Changeling tour. To be honest these four extra "Changeling" tracks don't really do much for me. It's not because they're bad as such, it's just that they obviously belong on a re-release of Warrior Rock and not on this album. Toyah Toyah Toyah is such a unique snapshot of the band performing as they did in 1980 that even tracks from just two years later seem really out of place.

Anyway if you want to hear Toyah live and at their very pre-pop best get yourself a copy of this album right away. In fact get two, as you'll wear the first one out in about a week.

Toyah! Toyah! Toyah!
I bought this album in 1981 after being introduced to Toyah's music via 'Four From Toyah' and 'Anthem'. It is such a good live album and beats anything that came after 1982's 'The Changeling'. The live versions of 'Danced' and 'Ieya' are so much better than the original studio versions from 1979 and 1980 respectively. 'Victim of The Riddle' is also an excellent into. This collection together with extras from 1981 and 1982 will probably surprise anyone who only knows Toyah for her pop hits and was a revelation to me in 1981. Great to listen to it all over again on cd.

Astonishingly good
I have played this album regularly for over twenty years. I think that says it all really. I gave a copy to my mate who is seriously into rock and seriously dismissive of Toyah, he gave it back and grudgingly agreed it was pretty cool. I believe he now has his own copy