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i saw the TV Sky tour .. was wonderful. the sight of all the Rock fans - their faces when the stage set was revealed with just one monster keyboard/computer set up. i have to say though the last album Second Nature was very different .. electronica .. but with a subtle YG element to it. and last time i looked the webiste had these gorgeous loops that you can play with ..

― mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Has Anyone Heard The New Instrumental Solo Album?

― ralf, Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw the Young Gods playing a quite a small, very crowded, very sweaty venue (the Manchester Boardwalk) on the L'Eau Rouge tour (with Treponem Pal I think perhaps?), which was pretty stupendous. Also caught them on the tour after that with Cranes supporting them. I've got a rotten memory, but I do remember that they were were crushingly loud and they really knew how to work the crowd too. They had this absolute control of tension, knowing when to rein it in and let it build, and when to just let chaos rip through the walls.

― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

The Young Gods/Cranes tour I remember reading about and being spectacularly jealous of. It would have been a marvellous show.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Man, I need to open some wine and put 'Charlotte' on, right about now.

― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

"Envoye" makes me happier than virtually anything I can name.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 21:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I am SO jealous of you old-ass freaks who got to see them live!

― Clarke B. (Clarke B.), Thursday, 17 June 2004 01:14 (twenty-one years ago)

YEAH WORSHIP US BECAUSE WE ARE OLD. Infant.

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

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 June 2004 01:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Nice to hear, Ned -- I might have a future in this beverage consultant thing just yet! I put on the s/t Young Gods today and marveled at its genius -- "Jimmy" and "Feu" = unstoppable greatness.

― Clarke B. (Clarke B.), Thursday, 17 June 2004 01:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah good. :-) And yes, there's a third meal planned and your expertise will again be drawn upon...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 June 2004 01:26 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

Only Heaven is fucking MONSTROUS. What's this new comp? What else do i need?

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

Probbaly every album prior to that with the exception of the live Tv Sky tour one, seek out The Young Gods Play Kurt Weill which is a tremendous mini album.

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.

― mzui (mzui), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

Should I get into Rammstein?

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

Yes! Or at least see one of their video collections. They're, um, impressive if nothing else.

― RickyT (RickyT), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

Oh my. This is not going to be in any way objective because I write this two floors above their studio. The Young Gods are indeed with Yello our finest exports !

"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.

― blunt (blunt), Monday, 10 October 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

Only Heaven is fucking MONSTROUS

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...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 October 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

Thanks, I certainly will Ned. I'm Swiss-American.

― blunt (blunt), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

1st gig i ever saw was The Young Gods with support from laika at the OLD Glasgow Cathouse in 1995.
It was the only heaven tour. What a fantastic gig that was.
All the albums up until (and including) Only heaven are essential. The last 2 were a bit disappointing.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdhHMXTGCC8

a friend and I videotaped their NYC gig on the l'eau rouge tour, unfortunately that one's lost to the sands of time...

― Edward III, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

gee, wonder if trent reznor ever watched that "envoye" video...

― Edward III, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

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, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

seven months pass...

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

― Michael B, Sunday, 18 November 2007 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

New album is very good.

― Herman G. Neuname, Sunday, 18 November 2007 20:19 (eighteen years ago)

yes! So was the last one!

― sleeve, Sunday, 18 November 2007 20:53 (eighteen years ago)

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

― Just got offed, Sunday, 18 November 2007 21:00 (eighteen years ago)

five months pass...

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

― Herman G. Neuname, Saturday, 19 April 2008 00:10 (eighteen years ago)

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

― Herman G. Neuname, Saturday, 19 April 2008 00:12 (eighteen years ago)

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.

― factcheckr, Saturday, 19 April 2008 19:00 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 19 April 2009 16:04 (seventeen years ago)

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

― Duke, Sunday, 19 April 2009 18:17 (seventeen years ago)

i saw them the only heaven tour.

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 19 April 2009 18:18 (seventeen years ago)

six years pass...

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

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

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 October 2015 14:46 (ten years ago)

three years pass...

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

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

― kolarov spring (NickB), Saturday, 2 March 2019 11:49 (seven years ago)

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

― imago, Saturday, 2 March 2019 12:32 (seven years ago)

four months pass...

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

― MaresNest, Sunday, 7 July 2019 20:31 (six years ago)

it's really good

― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Sunday, 7 July 2019 21:03 (six years ago)

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.

― Duke, Sunday, 7 July 2019 21:24 (six years ago)

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

― sleeve, Sunday, 7 July 2019 21:26 (six years ago)

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

― Duke, Sunday, 7 July 2019 21:29 (six years ago)

only heaven is amazing. i saw them on that tour

― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Sunday, 7 July 2019 21:55 (six years ago)

one year passes...

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

Nice if you love the early YG sound.

― Shaidar Logoff (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 07:29 (five years ago)

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

― "Gaspar? No way." (sleeve), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 14:41 (five years ago)

eight months pass...

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

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

― StanM, Wednesday, 22 December 2021 17:23 (four years ago)

ten months pass...

WAHT

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

― sleeve, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 20:53 (three years ago)

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

Anybody heard anything about the new The Young Gods album?

― StanM, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 21:00 (three years ago)

There's a doc and performance video too.

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

― MaresNest, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 23:12 (three years ago)

one year passes...

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

― dead precedents (sleeve), Thursday, 25 January 2024 16:16 (two years ago)

one year passes...

this newest one RULES

https://theyounggods.bandcamp.com/album/appear-disappear

― sleeve, Friday, 13 June 2025 18:01 (one year ago)

Still love this band, found a nice vinyl copy of "Plays Kurt Weill...' the other day.

― Maresn3st, Friday, 13 June 2025 22:27 (one year ago)

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