VA - Young Limbs Rise Again - The Story Of The Batcave Nightclub 1982 - 1985 (2023)

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, Killing 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.

Track List:

CD 1
01. The Sisters Of Mercy - Temple of Love (Extended Version)
02. The Cure - Let's Go To Bed
03. Joy Division - Isolation
04. The Cult - Resurrection Joe (Long Version)
05. The Cramps - Garbageman
06. Specimen - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (12'' Version)
07. Virgin Prunes - Pagan Lovesong (Vibeakimbo)
08. Xmal Deutschland - Incubus Succubus II
09. Theatre of Hate - The Hop
10. PIL - This Is Not A Love Song (12'' Version)
11. Flesh For Lulu - Subterraneans
12. Getting The Fear - Against The Wind
13. The Associates - Club Country (12'' Version)
14. Vicious Pink - Cccan't You See
15. Dead Or Alive - Misty Circles
16. Magazine - The Light Pours Out Of Me
17. Marc And The Mambas - Torment
18. Scars - All About You
19. The March Violets - Fodder

CD 2
01. Killing Joke - Follow The Leaders
02. Siouxsie And The Banshees - Slowdive
03. The Birthday Party - Release The Bats
04. The Psychedelic Furs - We Love You
05. Nightmares in Wax Pete Burns - Black Leather
06. Malaria! - Your Turn to Run
07. The B-52's - Planet Caire
08. Echo and the Bunnymen - Back of Love
09. Simple Minds - I Travel (Extended Version)
10. The Meteors - My Daddy Is a Vampire
11. Dave Ball feat. Gavin Friday - Strict Tempo
12. Fad Gadget - Collapsing New People
13. The Danse Society - Heaven Is Waiting
14. Shriekback - Nemesis
15. Throbbing Gristle - United
16. Sexbeat - sweat
17. Specimen - Holes
18. Wasted Youth - I Wish I Was A Girl

CD 3
01. New Order - Temptation
02. Soft Cell - Soul Inside
03. The The - Uncertain Smile
04. Alien Sex Fiend - Ignore the Machine
05. The Sisters Of Mercy - Alice
06. The Fall - Copped It
07. Japan - Adolescent Sex
08. Adam & The Ants - Kick!
09. Xmal Deutschland - Qual
10. The Cramps - Human Fly
11. Propaganda - Dr. Mabuse (First Life)
12. SPK - Metal Dance
13. The Human League - Being Boiled
14. Specimen - Beauty Of Poisin (12'' Mix)
15. The Glove - Like An Animal
16. Gene Loves Jezebel - Punch Drunk
17. Virgin Prunes - Baby Turns Blue
18. The Flowerpot Men - Joe's So Mean to Josephine
19. The Revillos - She's Fallen In Love With A Monster Man

CD 4
01. Specimen - Dead Man's Autochop
02. Sex Beat - Sex Beat
03. Alien Sex Fiend - R.I.P
04. Christian Death - Deathwish
05. Marc And The Mambas - Sleaze
06. Play Dead - Propaganda
07. Flesh For Lulu - Roman Candle (12'' Version)
08. Bone Orchard - Fats Terminal
09. Zero Le Creche - Last Year's Wife (12'' Version)
10. Lords Of The New Church - Dance With Me
11. Anorexic Dread - Tracey's Burning
12. Let's Wreck Mother - Cut
13. Turkey Bones & The Wild Dogs - Raymond
14. Furyo - The Gold Of Our Lives

CD 5
01. Sweet - Hell Raiser
02. T. Rex - Telegram Sam
03. Lou Reed - Vicious
04. Roxy Music - All I Want Is You
05. Sparks - Amateur Hour
06. New York Dolls - Jet Boy
07. Iggy Pop - Funtime
08. Suicide - Ghost Rider
09. Mott The Hoople - Roll Away The Stone
10. Cockney Rebel - Mr. Soft
11. Brian Eno - Needles In The Camel's Eye
12. Mick Ronson - Only After Dark
13. Wayne County & The Electric Chairs - Night Time
14. Hollywood Brats - Then He Kissed Me
15. The Runaways - Cherry Bomb
16. MC5 - Kick Out the Jams
17. The Velvet Underground - I'm Waiting For The Man
18. Cozy Powell - Dance with the Devil
19. Hello - New York Groove
20. Suzi Quatro - Devil Gate Drive