(agree the 2lp is the coolest - a benchmark of '90s free form freak-out - but probably real hard to come by?)
possible insight: i was playing someone the track "mendle" from the mr fox lp "the gypsy" (transatlantic, ca.'70) in the weekend and they were like "oh, so this is where richard youngs gets it from!"
― jon, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Andrew L, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Nitsuh, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― francesco, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
the stuff with wickham-smith is all over the place. the latest one (LAMMERGEIER) is electronic-sounding and isn't really compelling, ditto for _veil_. _lake_, _red and blue bear_, _giladji_, and _kretinmuzak_ all explore abstraction in varying degrees and in varying lengths; i like _red and blue bear_, which is a children's story with accompanying music.
everyone hates their _pulse of the rooster_ cd, btw, but i think it's great drone/psych/pop come at from a completely fucked up angle. beautiful music that could go on forever, vocals that annoy a lot of people. worth hearing. i think you can sample a few of their releases at vhf records.
― your null fame, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
he has a new record out, it's called "airs of the ear." has anyone heard it?
my favorite records by him are "festival" (by a long shot) and then "may" and "sapphie." i believe "making paper" has that song "warriors" which i've never liked much.
what's odd is that when i mention r.y. to the one or two acquaintances of mine that know his music, they roll their eyes as if to say, 'oh that toss..."
does anyone have his vegan cookbook?
― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 6 March 2003 06:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
Neil Campbell and Stewart Walden's duo cassettes are better for pure drone-age tho
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 6 March 2003 06:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 6 March 2003 07:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 6 March 2003 07:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 6 March 2003 07:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
i forgot to mention that youngs' _advent_ will leave your carpet smoking.
― your null fame (yournullfame), Thursday, 6 March 2003 08:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 7 March 2003 04:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 03:23 (twenty years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 03:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 19:56 (twenty years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 21:18 (twenty years ago) link
hm that was an understatement.
i figured out which machaut piece "machaut's dream" quotes from (it's available on t he "art of courtly love" collection) but now i forgot the name. it's in medieval french anyway.
― amateur!!st, Friday, 12 November 2004 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link
(You still looking for that cookbook, amateurist? there was recently a copy in the student fleamarket here...)
― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 13:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:17 (nineteen years ago) link
new ilk album! it's only been a decade. richard youngs in proper prog clogs. i bet i'm the only person excited by this though.
― jwd, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 08:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stewart Keith, Monday, 2 May 2005 10:18 (nineteen years ago) link
And in my opinion Richard Youngs has always been better with other people than just solo.
― Stewart Keith, Monday, 2 May 2005 10:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amon (eman), Monday, 2 May 2005 10:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― blackmail.is.my.life (blackmail.is.my.life), Monday, 31 October 2005 14:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― the don juan he, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 00:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― toby (tsg20), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 10:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 11:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― a, Tuesday, 20 December 2005 11:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― be home by 11 (orion), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― be home by 11 (orion), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link
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― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― be home by 11 (orion), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link
Ah no -- and since I love Galbraith, I must investigate, even if he's a limited presence.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― be home by 11 (orion), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― be home by 11 (orion), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:31 (seventeen years ago) link
Anyway, my favorite Richard Youngs has always been the first song on Festival. I fell out for a while but got back at some point and got really into Sapphie, one of the most gorgeous solo records I've ever heard, really really beautiful.
I was so into their stuff in college. My boss at the record store got the vinyl in, releases on Forced Exposure and stuff like Durian Durian. I'd just never heard anything like that before. Then we got in Kretinmuzak and I was so confused. What was this stuff? It sounded like 2 guys, a casio and a cardboard box making electronic choral music from Mars. I started collecting all that stuff, and remember having really high hopes for the Richard Youngs/Matthew Bower record on VHF but not liking it as much as I hoped, and I think it made my entire record collection smell funny(er) because of the inks or paints on it.
And echoing above, I dont' know if everybody hates Pulse of the Rooster, but I think it's awesome, more accessible, electronic art rock, definitely Simon and Richard at their most Joy Division! If you don't know what I mean, check out By the Sea...
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― nik bozic (nikjasdf), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 13:49 (seventeen years ago) link
saw him and alex neilson (and campbell kneale, also on gtr, for one number) play a fantastic noize duo blowout earlier this month
aye, this was good, especially the two really sludgy pieces in the middle. although it dragged a bit towards the end.
― m the g (mister the guanoman), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link
it was good indeed. I went for a slash after his set and every bloke at the urinal was singing 'summer's end'. how touching.
― m the g (mister the guanoman), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link
As far as one single, simple song of his goes, though, you can't go wrong with "The World Is Silence In Your Head" from "Making Paper", a great Feldman-y piano ditty along the lines of Grubbs/Gastr.
― Craig Dunsmuir (Craig D.), Thursday, 1 February 2007 05:19 (seventeen years ago) link
youngs is a totally unique artist. I've been familiar with him for a year or so, and I'm no closer to truly understanding what he's doing. there are so many facets to his music, but they're all reflecting the same image...if that makes sense. it's very early. pre-coffee early.
― m the g (mister the guanoman), Thursday, 1 February 2007 09:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 8 February 2007 08:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Craig Dunsmuir (Craig D.), Thursday, 8 February 2007 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link
Oh man, I totally forgot about that. Worked late and was exhausted and came home to more work and debating if I'm going to Lindstrom/Todd Terje and totally forgot about Richard Youngs even though it's in my calendar. Saw him and Simon Wickham-Smith at the Table of the Elements Festival at the Knitting Factory in the 90s. First Tony Conrad show since the 70s I think? W/ Jim O'Rourke. Zeena Parkins played as well.
― dan selzer, Friday, 6 September 2013 03:02 (ten years ago) link
his best stuff on canticle, by ilk
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 6 September 2013 03:06 (ten years ago) link
Northampton show was great, too! I was hoping for some Ilk, but I'll take what I can get since he hardly ever plays live in the US.
― I'll take the jangle-jangle over the throb-throb (brg30), Friday, 6 September 2013 23:07 (ten years ago) link
Just ordered from VT: a tour cd "rumoured to be the album ‘rejected’ by a notorious cabal of bozos masquerading as an ‘underground’ record label"
Hmm, who would this be? Jagjaguwar maybe? They've not released one of his records for a while. Heard one track and its typically tripped. Sounds great actually. Is that 6 LPs this year then?
― kraudive, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 17:26 (ten years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/volcanictongue/unreleasedrichardyoungs
― yes, i have seen the documentary (Jon Lewis), Friday, 6 December 2013 17:02 (ten years ago) link
went to a local glasgow library this lunchtime to return a cpl of bks. slightly disconcerted to find richard youngs behind the counter. he had that slightly wary "you might know me outside of my day job" look, so I didn't say anything.
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 14:03 (ten years ago) link
For context, that unreleased tracks soundcloud "release" is as-picked by Neil Campbell from a pile of unreleased R. Youngs stuff he has lying around. It's a fun listen for sure.
Ward, that is very cool and decidedly weird.
― grandavis, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 14:08 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7mBRk3WCx8
― am0n, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 16:54 (ten years ago) link
gorgeous
― first is the worst (askance johnson), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 17:50 (ten years ago) link
RICHARD YOUNGS - A TOWER HAMLETS TRILOGYThree different performances in three different places...For this very special trilogy of shows in London's Tower Hamlets, Richard has been working with Upset The Rhythm to take live music away from its safe domain of established venues to somewhere different in search of a more radical and memorable experience. Over the three nights Richard Youngs will perform an entirely different in tune with each specific place...
...For this very special trilogy of shows in London's Tower Hamlets, Richard has been working with Upset The Rhythm to take live music away from its safe domain of established venues to somewhere different in search of a more radical and memorable experience. Over the three nights Richard Youngs will perform an entirely different in tune with each specific place...
http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk/
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Friday, 19 December 2014 12:29 (nine years ago) link
No Fans Compendium 7xCD box set on VHF in April!
http://www.vhfrecords.com/news/2015/2/19/richard-youngs-no-fans-compendium-7cd-box-available-april-6-2015
― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Thursday, 19 February 2015 23:18 (nine years ago) link
that sounds great, and VHF releases are usually affordable.
― sleeve, Thursday, 19 February 2015 23:20 (nine years ago) link
descriptions of the 7 CD's contents and some sounds herein case you (like me) were wondering if you need 7 CDs/$45 worth of hard-to-find Richard Youngs musichttp://www.vhfrecords.com/catalog/richard-youngs-no-fans-compendium-7cd-box-set-vhf137
― groundless round (La Lechera), Monday, 23 March 2015 19:12 (nine years ago) link
~~sold~~
― adam, Monday, 23 March 2015 19:22 (nine years ago) link
i'd like to pay to download this. hope they port it to emusic.
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Monday, 23 March 2015 19:57 (nine years ago) link
New disco thing, although I'm not sure he had any involvement other than singing on it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQpE8Aqb32U
― heaven parker (anagram), Thursday, 23 February 2017 09:30 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH5HQ4yFYHI
― 👁 (am0n), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 20:13 (six years ago) link
AMON.
― ian, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 20:14 (six years ago) link
Disco things got Paul from franz ferd on it. Not sure who else.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 20:44 (six years ago) link
Finally got a copy of A Glasgow Wassail this summer and it's on now for the first time. Sounding lovely and a bit spooking / Christmas Eve BBC 2. Them vibes.
I'd also recommend to those interested his recent collaboration with Daniel O'Sullivan - brings out the best in both of them.
― kraudive, Wednesday, 23 December 2020 20:58 (three years ago) link
All Hands Around the Moment from last year is getting to me at the moment. If Tim Buckley had made an album for ECM it might've sounded a bit like this.
― mahb, Monday, 1 February 2021 12:05 (three years ago) link
Also, RY's pal/peer Eric Chenaux just released a nice extended-song semi-cover/tribute as part of the Constellation Corona Borealis series:https://ericchenaux.bandcamp.com/track/3-stars-on-mountain-of-doom
― Kangol In The Light (Craig D.), Monday, 1 February 2021 15:52 (three years ago) link
thanks for highlighting this, i totally missed it last year (to be honest i've been out of contact with his stuff for quite a while) and it's really great
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Monday, 1 February 2021 20:15 (three years ago) link
Did we need a "reimagining" of Sapphie by Hypnotic Brass Ensemble + friends? Probably not. Is it worth a listen? Sure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xmNczXQSak
― in a bar, under the (seandalai), Sunday, 18 July 2021 01:50 (two years ago) link
spin me endless in the universe
what an incredible song
― z_tbd, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 20:02 (one month ago) link
i can't seem to find lyrics, so i'm putting it on genius. i'm absolutely the worst at guessing at lyrics, so if anyone has corrections please let me know here or out-genius me on https://genius.com/Richard-youngs-spin-me-endless-in-the-universe-lyrics
if I were a superherosuperhero with superpowersmy superpower it would beit would be honesty
spin me endless in the universespin me endless in the universe
all of us are industriesindustries one of factories [?]factories manufacturingmanufacturing some kind of truth
wish I were I wish I was [?]as rugged I could be [?]former is now [?][never is unconditional [?]
if I were the strongest manstrongest man in the worldI would [?][?] out of time and space
imagine somehow that we arethat we are undefeatableundefeatable in what we doundefeatable in love
[?] they are falling downfalling down on the factoriesstill there manufacturingmanufacturing some kind of truth
[?] they are falling down[?] and can you feelcan you feel my superpowersuperpower of honesty
look my love at the stars [?][?] stars are such freedomfor my love yes my lovemy love is unconditional
[?]when i stay insideat the world get out of heresomewhere out of time and space
― z_tbd, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 20:34 (one month ago) link
i had to clarify some richard youngs lyrics once -- i went to the man himself on twitter but idk if he's on there anymore. it was "oh reality" from beyond the valley of ultrahits.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 21:37 (one month ago) link
can't help you with the lyrics, but i love this man nd his muic.
― ian, Friday, 17 May 2024 20:13 (four weeks ago) link
I could never really find my entry point into this guy’s solo work but I absolutely love the duo record he did with the guy from Acid Mothers Temple
― Slim is an Alien, Friday, 17 May 2024 20:18 (four weeks ago) link
Beyond The Valley Of The Ultrahits is so good, other than that I would actually start with the early stuff, the collabs with Wickham-Smith
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Friday, 17 May 2024 20:21 (four weeks ago) link
His first, Advent is still my favourite. One of my favourite records of all time.
Sapphie is lovely, also Autumn Response.
― kraudive, Friday, 17 May 2024 20:29 (four weeks ago) link
I picked up “All hands around the moment” recently, ray the recommendation of a guy sleeve and I play d&d with and it’s GORGEOUS. That said I find the earlier stuff typically less interesting than when he started experimenting with song BUT I’ve hardly heard all of it. Prolific being the understatement.
― ian, Friday, 17 May 2024 23:13 (four weeks ago) link
I like beating stars w/ Alex Nelson a lot too
― ian, Friday, 17 May 2024 23:32 (four weeks ago) link
Neilson*
― ian, Friday, 17 May 2024 23:33 (four weeks ago) link
I stopped being able to keep up and only have dipped in and out of the catalog. Nothing but admiration for the breadth and depth of his talent and experimentation. Didn't he do like 6 volumes of records where he played the guitar with his feet?
Got into him while I was in college and was really into the Skullflower/VHF records axis of noisy stuff and wait a minute, I think I posted my thoughts already upthread...17 years ago! Jesus. I stand by this statement "Then we got in Kretinmuzak and I was so confused. What was this stuff? It sounded like 2 guys, a casio and a cardboard box making electronic choral music from Mars."
Looking at my digital catalog, I have 21 Richard Youngs albums,1 with Matthew Bower, 1 with Raul Refree, 1 with Stephen Todd, 1 with Tirath Singh Nirmala, and 11 with Simon Wickham-Smith!
― dan selzer, Saturday, 18 May 2024 00:47 (four weeks ago) link
it's a 3 way collab but belsayer time is the one i always go back to
― no lime tangier, Saturday, 18 May 2024 06:30 (four weeks ago) link
Sapphie and All Hands… are the albums I keep coming back to - I’ve dabbled around the catalogue (never heard Ultrahits though) but it gets hard to keep track
― that's that me: a Viking (seandalai), Saturday, 18 May 2024 19:04 (four weeks ago) link
Hey z_tbd, i had a relisten to that song and this is what i got...
former is now [?]never is unconditional [?]
for my love, yes my lovemy love is unconditional
I would [?][?] out of time and space
where would this world besomewhere out of time and space
[?] they are falling down
hearing that as "poor slaves they are fallen down"?
look my love at the stars [?][?] stars are such freedom
I hear stones instead of stars
[?]when i stay insideat the world get out of here
let us close [?] doorlet us stay insidelet the world get out of here
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Saturday, 18 May 2024 22:37 (four weeks ago) link
also if you ever get the chance to see him perform, do not miss it! :)
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Saturday, 18 May 2024 22:38 (four weeks ago) link
I often/almost always have to catch my bearings/recalibrate whenever I decide to get back into Richard Youngs, and I almost always do so via relistening to River Through Howling Sky (with Naive Shaman a close second)
Shout-out to Foot Guitar and Simon Wickham-Smith and all the almost-endless permutations/variations, but despite all the amputations, IMHO you can put on River Through Howling Sky and as Lou somehow predicted, it is almost certainly almost always almost alright
― Funding Hostile (Craig D.), Sunday, 19 May 2024 00:30 (three weeks ago) link
(P.S. Holy crap that album came out over 20 years ago now)
― Funding Hostile (Craig D.), Sunday, 19 May 2024 00:32 (three weeks ago) link
really nice to hear all of the different takes here, lots of stuff I need to check out
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Sunday, 19 May 2024 00:34 (three weeks ago) link
bower / youngs relayer is fantastic, bower dipping into his sunroof “pretty” side matches richard really wellagree, beslayer time is also fantastic. galbraith meets young is a true meeting of 90s / 00s underground idiosyncrasy
― sknybrg, Sunday, 19 May 2024 01:03 (three weeks ago) link
I didn't get this the first time I heard it, when I was in college, and now it gives me big feelings. I love "May," great record.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlSKnt2FDGA
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Sunday, 19 May 2024 01:50 (three weeks ago) link
?!?! dang I am a total Galbraith fiend and never knew abt this one! xp
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Sunday, 19 May 2024 01:51 (three weeks ago) link
Like others, tho, I need to get into his catalog more. I do love most everything I have heard.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Sunday, 19 May 2024 01:51 (three weeks ago) link
agree, beslayer time is also fantastic. galbraith meets young is a true meeting of 90s / 00s underground idiosyncrasy
decade and a half ago i saw galbraith open for youngs with the changeover being the both of them singing the title track together, magic!
― no lime tangier, Sunday, 19 May 2024 04:42 (three weeks ago) link
xposts didn't see all these posts and forgot to bookmark it! thanks nickb, i updated the lyrics with your suggestions, appreciate it!
― z_tbd, Sunday, 19 May 2024 15:30 (three weeks ago) link