The Purple Toads - Love Songs for the Hard of Hearing (1988)

Finally! Some more Can-Con! The Purple Toads hail from the beautiful, the desirable, Oshawa, Ontario. They formed after their old band, Durango 95, fell apart in 1985 and then they recorded a self-titled album in 1986. Their only other album is this one, Love Songs for the Hard of Hearing from '88. They didn't get very good reviews, grouped in with the rest of Oshawa's drunken garage-rock scene, maybe because of lines like "Well you got the kind of body that makes me come alive, but I'd rather have my hand wrapped 'round a bottle of Colt 45", but I find them to be some good rock and roll. "Troubled Mind" is a particularly good track. Other than that, there are a couple of covers - one of John D. Loudermilk's "Tobacco Road", which isn't stellar, and a cover of "What A Way to Die" by The Pleasure Seekers, a 1960's female garage-rock band from Detroit. The singer also has a funny sounding lisp that comes out sometimes.

Lineup:
Guitar - Paul MacNeil and Rob Sweeney; Bass - Roger Branton; Drums - Mark Keigan; Vocals - Rob Sweeney

Track Listing:
Side One
1. Wildtime
2. All I Want
3. What A Way to Die
4. Troubled Mind
5. You Gotta Believe Me
6. Love's All Gone
Side Two
7. Don't Understand Your Love
8. Ain't No Friend of Mine
9. Love On Your Back
10. Too Much of You
11. Tobacco Road
12. Everybody

The Purple Toads - Love Songs for the Hard of Hearing (1988) - 320kbps