Young Gods: Classic or Dud

I havent heard their new album "Second Nature". Is it any good?

Founded the fan mailing list for them in 1995, finally saw them that year, own every album except the new one, which I really need to order...great band. And Franz Treichler's a friendly guy!

I should note that they're not the only Swiss meisters, though. There's also Yello. ;-)

On the subject of the Young Gods - I have only owned 'L'Eau Rouge' which I used to like and grew tired of. That was 10 years ago. Vitually everything else I've heard has been good, but not great. I suspect that's not the way to listen to them, though, and that if I spent time with any of their later albums, given time I'd grow to love 'em. What's a good place to start?

'The Young Gods'- Sounded like nothing on earth. Even that Gary Glitter cover sounded evil long before... well you know. 'L'eau Rouge' + 'L'Amourir/Pas Mal' - their peak. 'TV Sky' - disappointing, - 'The Kurt Weil' album - wonderful curiosity, - 'live sky tour' packs a mean punch. 'Only Heaven' return to form, techno/ambient influences fusing well with the headbanger in Franz. Since then, completely lost track of them, wondered if they'd split....any know whats happened, future releases etc ..cousin Omar?

I also saw them on the "L'Eau Rouge" tour and they were such a great live act.

(BTW, Clarke, we ended up choosing a Cotes-du-Rhone from 2000 and it went down a treat!)

The new comp is just a best of although there is an extra CD of remixes, they are also playing the Barfly in London on Nov 25th.

"Envoyé" is THE tune that smacked us all in the head (and the everything else) back in 1987 (!) and their 1st album remains a classic light years ahead of its time. Their late 80's live shows were awesome and I think I owe Franz a lifetime investment in music somehow. When you're not from a huge town and witness a local band with such a novel approach, you believe you too can do anything - or that at least the possibility exists.

Not content to do "just" shows these days, they're on a string of elaborate productions, most recently a live soundtracking of the "Woodstock" movie, and they pulled it off in style.

That it is. And yes you should get into Rammstein, Tom.

Blunt, that's a great post and summary! And I didn't realize you were Swiss, now there's that. Please pass my regards onto them when you run into them next, as I guess you sometimes do; just tell them I was that crazy Californian who started up that net mailing list ten years back...

any of their stuff after 'only heaven' any good?

New album is very good.

yes! So was the last one!

"I'm The Drug" is one of the best album-openers of the year, if not THE best.

So........ there's an acoustic album of old songs coming out

http://www.younggods.com/cms/front_content.php?idart=240

cd & dvd by the looks of things

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knock_on_Wood_(Young_Gods_album)

I saw that L'Eau Rouge tour, they were fucking incredible. The only band I can think of where the guitars sound real (but aren't) and the drums sound like a machine (but are real).

-- sleeve

OTM. Had a long chat w/them back in... whenever that was. I think the key to their live "goodness" was, there was no sequencer, so there was a really "live" feel to them. Interesting how they managed to sound more sequenced than they were, whereas Minstry/Rev Co, who played w/backing tracks managed to sound more "live" than they were.

Saw them live during the TV Sky tour. Absolutely fucking classic.

i saw them the only heaven tour.

My latest for the Quietus -- looking back at Only Heaven:

http://thequietus.com/articles/18973-young-gods-only-heaven-review-anniversary

Not listened to it yet but *sampled fanfare* - new album!

The Young Gods - Data Image Tangram
https://theyounggods.bandcamp.com/album/data-mirage-tangram

Listening now. It's sounding quite cool in a nice chilled-out-yet-still-threatening way

Man, this is a good record, they really have evolved into some sort of 21st-century version of the Doors.

it's really good

Really? I must give it a go, then.

I saw them twice in the early 90s and emerged from the gig thinking, "best gig I've ever seen". Always a good sign!

I've not paid attention since TV Sky, I think.

oh man ya gotta hear Super Ready/Fragmente at the very least, Second Nature is great as well, I have not heard the new one but their output over the last 20 years has been very very solid

Ok. I'll take a look. I sort of forgot they existed..

only heaven is amazing. i saw them on that tour

http://theyounggods.bandcamp.com/album/john-peel-session-1988

Nice if you love the early YG sound.

fuckin' RAD, thanks! I love "Irrtum Boys" and "L"Amourir"

https://hummusrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a

/A\ = Emilie Zoé (Swiss singer songwriter), Franz Treichler (guitar & vocals) and Nicolas Pittet (drums).

WAHT

https://theyounggods.bandcamp.com/album/the-young-gods-play-terry-riley-in-c

yeah I revived the wrong one last month I guess :-(

Anybody heard anything about the new The Young Gods album?

There's a doc and performance video too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8c6xwINo7Q

really digging Data Mirage Tangram this morning, hope they do a new one soon