Background to Lifetime

A few months ago I wrote about two really great records from Lifetime - Hello Bastards and Jerseys Best Dancers (here) and a little later out of curiosity I picked up and wrote about the bands later LP (here). Well that's three of the bands four albums and you know what that means? Yep, it was incomplete. I've rectified that recently though. Lifetime - Background

I spotted this on eBay and put in a small bid thinking there wouldn't be many people out there keen to pick up Lifetimes debut record on New Age Records. I was right, I was only out bid by one person but luckily for me it seems they flaked on the deal so I was offered a second chance bid and picked this up for next to nothing. It's not brilliant as record goes and by the time the bands next two records roll around they are pretty much a completely different band with only a few lasting echoes of this early sound. But I didn't have the record and now I do so it's all good and I've scratched that missing LP itch at least. Standard black vinyl, I'm not sure if this was ever released on colour vinyl or not.

My Fire Burns On On On

I added a third copy of Strifes My Fire Burns On to my collection a week or so ago.

This is an original New Age Records pressing on black vinyl that I scored on the Bay. I wasn't particularly seeking this out but couldn't resist adding the original press to the two other versions I have. It's a littke scuffed and what not but it's not too bad considering it's age now.

 

I'm tempted to see if I can complete the set now although I have no idea how many other versions there are or how hard they are to get hold of for that matter.

 

 

I've included the little group shot below too.

 

New Age Strife

A while ago I was bemoaning Flatspot Records delivery speed. They had the audacity to take over a month to deliver me my lovely goods. Well New Age Records make Flatspot look like over night couriers. 6 Months it's taken for these two Strife records to get to me, I only bought them on a whim in the first place.

It's two copies of the My Fire Burns On 7" - The '77 Pink version limited to 77 copies and the Grey with Yellow version of which 350 were pressed.

I'm hoping as some way of a 'dude, sorry it took 6 months' they did throw in some stickers and these two 7"s.

Last Of The Believers, Paper Ships EP on what's actually a really nice thick clear grey.

Amendment Eighteen, This Years Enemy on grey. Which judging by the ring wear has been hanging around New Age Towers for quite some time.

I've never heard of either band, they might be awesome, I'm guessing they ain't.