Young Marble Giants : Colossal Youths or Little Duds

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Fucking classic. Don't forget a single perfect Peel session either.

Final Day may well be the most perfect song ever recorded.

― Sasha (sgh), Friday, 13 May 2005 08:26 (eighteen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

this still sux

― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Friday, 10 June 2005 00:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Obviously, it's an acquired taste.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 10 June 2005 00:27 (eighteen years ago) link

i don't own enough sweaters

― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Friday, 10 June 2005 00:29 (eighteen years ago) link

yr crazy jaXon.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 10 June 2005 00:30 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm having more fun listening to George Duke & Stanley Clarke's "Louie Louie"

― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Friday, 10 June 2005 00:35 (eighteen years ago) link

actually, i hate that song, but the rest of the album is awesome

also, YMG is just way too indie for my tastes anymore. if i woulda heard this 5-10 years ago, i woulda been in sweater heaven

― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Friday, 10 June 2005 00:37 (eighteen years ago) link

fun? its not all about fun you know.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 10 June 2005 00:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, but it was "indie" when the term was still respectable.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 10 June 2005 00:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Before the term was invented, I think, no? JaXon, this is a good album.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 10 June 2005 00:56 (eighteen years ago) link

you guys are wrong, i am right

― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Friday, 10 June 2005 01:05 (eighteen years ago) link

ok, you convinced me

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 10 June 2005 01:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Jaxon, you have NO INDIE BLOOD WHATSOEVER.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 10 June 2005 01:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Colossal, of course. Love the album (standout for me is "N.I.T.A." -- first song I heard of theirs and the most haunting of all next to "Wind in the Rigging"), love the "Final Day" single, and the Test Card EP cracks me up and makes me smile, especially "This Way", "Click Talk", and "Zebra Trucks". I understand that Kraftwerk comparison way upthread. As for Weekend, the only song I've heard of theirs is the demo of "Red Planes" and it's fucking amazing! Did they do anything else that good? Oh, and how's that Salad Days disc of YMG demos? Is it worth picking up?

― Ian Riese-Moraine. Exposing ambitious careerists as charlatans since 1986. (East, Friday, 10 June 2005 01:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Best. Album. Evah.

It's also one of the few albums I can get away with playing at work (along with choice Miles, Gainsbourg, Sinatra and Stereolab) so it's been in heavy rotation lately.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Friday, 10 June 2005 01:26 (eighteen years ago) link

i still can't quite get it, so i guess i'm kind of with jaxon. though i wouldn't say "dud" at all.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 10 June 2005 04:28 (eighteen years ago) link

It is one of those albums that you kinda have to be in the right mood for, I'd say.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 10 June 2005 04:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Gainsbourg at work? Do you work at a bordello?

― Nic de Teardrop (Nicholas), Friday, 10 June 2005 07:05 (eighteen years ago) link

this still sux

-- [that bastard] jaxon

I KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 10 June 2005 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Salad Days is best left to the already-converted, interesting more as a sketchbook than anything else.

― mike a, Friday, 10 June 2005 16:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Well, I'm converted, so...

― Ian Riese-Moraine. Exposing ambitious careerists as charlatans since 1986. (East, Friday, 10 June 2005 18:35 (eighteen years ago) link

For the record, if you look very closely, you'll notice that Colossal Youth is on the cover of Paul's Boutique, along with Grover Washington Jr.'s 'Mister Magic'.

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Friday, 10 June 2005 18:41 (eighteen years ago) link

i'd listen to Grover Washington Jr ten thousand times before i'd listen to YMG

― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Friday, 10 June 2005 18:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Gainsbourg at work? Do you work at a bordello?

haha. you know those restaurants in mafia movies where the whole place is empty except for one old italian guy eating spaghetti in the back? that's where i work.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Friday, 10 June 2005 19:01 (eighteen years ago) link

you know those restaurants in mafia movies where the whole place is empty except for one old italian guy eating spaghetti in the back?

South of Canal st? I've eaten there.

And at Le Mela, there really were a batch of hefty suited men with violin cases. Like a violin nonet.

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Friday, 10 June 2005 19:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Obviously, it's an acquired taste.

lol, guess so. :D

― bob n0pe (bobnope), Friday, 10 June 2005 20:58 (eighteen years ago) link

or the record, if you look very closely, you'll notice that Colossal Youth is on the cover of Paul's Boutique, along with Grover Washington Jr.'s 'Mister Magic'.

And the re-release of the first Modern Lovers album.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 10 June 2005 21:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Actually, looking at it now. That's not the Colossal Youth, that's The Modern Lovers

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000032AZ.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 10 June 2005 21:15 (eighteen years ago) link

see, they got better tastes than that

― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Friday, 10 June 2005 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link

"One album, one single and one EP of totally original, unspoilt genius, and they were gone. Classic. What do you reckon?"

I reckon The Doc's diagnosis is absolutely OTM.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 10 June 2005 21:58 (eighteen years ago) link

three months pass...

It still has room to grow on me but I'm never in the mood to listen to this when I play it. A little too fey and lightweight for me. There have been some times when I'll hear a song and sorta, kinda understand why people love this but it's never enough to get me over the hump. Then again it reminds me of my initial reaction to Joy Division.

― Cunga (Cunga), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 07:22 (eighteen years ago) link

four months pass...

The people who hate on this thread are alien to me.

Revive partially cause a slew of Alison S.'s collaborative stuff has just been reissued via LTM. Never heard any of it before so it's been grand to hear how her vocal approach changed, just, over the years.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 15 January 2006 22:51 (eighteen years ago) link

ooh ooh what's LTM stand for, Ned? Got a link?

Just got the Crepescule CD last week although I've had the records for a long time. Classic, of course, and "Final Day" really is perfect.

― sleeve (sleeve), Sunday, 15 January 2006 23:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Huzzah:

http://www.ltmpub.freeserve.co.uk/ltmhome.html

Darla distributes in the States.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 15 January 2006 23:56 (eighteen years ago) link

four months pass...

Revive, because I bought this last week and have been playing it without finding a 'way in' until last night. Girlfriend was watching ER, so I retired to the bedroom (bedside lights only) and it suddenly became great.

I have the 25 track CD thing with the bleepy stuff near the end, but as mentional upthread, Final Day, Salad days, Choc Loni etc; just wonderful.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Friday, 2 June 2006 09:59 (seventeen years ago) link

classic!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 2 June 2006 12:25 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm selling my vinyl copy for $17. buy it from me

― jäxøñ (jaxon), Friday, 2 June 2006 16:23 (seventeen years ago) link

eight months pass...

is this one album they made like 20 tracks long or something? on soulseek it seems to be. or is that just the re-release? i literally no nothing about this band.

― pisces (piscesx), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link

added ep and bonus tracks yeah

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Just about the only post-punk band on Rough Trade I don't really like, oddly enough.

They just sound so..........ordinary.

― Phil Knight (PhilK), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

ordinary?!?! Yer crazy. The only bands that maybe sounded like them were some obscure stripped down minimal type bands that never had songs that good.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link

this album feels like listening to sunday afternoon college radio

― Bernard Snowy (sixteen sergeants), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, I would interpret "stripped down" as meaning shorn of any interesting bits.

I've bought and sold this reocrd twice, and have given it a more than fair go. Only "Astral Weeks" has been persevered with longer for less reward on my cheap Czech turntable.

― Phil Knight (PhilK), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

maybe you should replace the cheap Czech turntable? Can't argue with someone who likes neither YMG or Astral Weeks, I guess.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, I like This Heat and John Martyn, so it's not an ideological thing.

The word "Dryness" has entered my mind for some reason.

― Phil Knight (PhilK), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:44 (seventeen years ago) link

ORLY.

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Classic.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Colossal Youth proper is the 15-song LP ("Searching For Mr. Right" through "Wind In The Rigging"). Most CD reissues have the "Final Day" 7" and the Testcard EP tacked onto the end, bringing the total to 24 tracks.

I'm no Astral Weeks fanatic either, but it's hard for me to be objective about YMG.

― mike a (mike a), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:58 (seventeen years ago) link

YMG is dry, stripped down to it's basic parts, the percussion is just a click and a pop. There is space, then there's a guitar riff. A nice, melodic, hook, played simply. Likewise the bass does it's job with minimal fuss, though perhaps more excitement then the other parts. Nothing's monotone, you know? They are mostly well-crafted song simply constructed and plainly presented. I think their influence on indie of the 80s on shows in that it was their songs more then their style/aesthetic.

And if you're missing the bonus tracks, Phil, that may help to persuade you.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Classic

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link

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