Young Marble Giants : Colossal Youths or Little Duds

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mandy moore covering ymg!

you heard it here first

― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 19 February 2004 09:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, Chris of Landspeed Records. He got pretty far with that YMG tribute, but for whatever reason never managed to finish it. Many of the tracks have been released elsewhere - Magnetic Fields, Barbara Manning, Versus, and Linda Smith among others.

― mike a, Thursday, 19 February 2004 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

Just heard this, colossal indeed. Wonderful collection of miniatures, never drags, some of the instrumentals are fine but the voice is a vital element.

Do have some admiration for the neatness of the discog.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 8 April 2004 09:04 (twenty-two years ago)

still wish i liked this more than i do, i so want to love it

― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 8 April 2004 10:05 (twenty-two years ago)

We all want you to love it too

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 8 April 2004 10:06 (twenty-two years ago)

ams sometimes i worry that you were born without a soul, then i realise it's just my opinionated bastardness shining through

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 8 April 2004 10:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Classic. But kinda like Stuart Moxham's next band, The Gist, even better. A bit more techno n funkee. Again, everything fits on one cd reissue. Again, hard to get, but that's what gemm.com is for.

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 8 April 2004 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

YMG/The gist hard to find. you are silly

― heroes + villains, Thursday, 8 April 2004 22:34 (twenty-two years ago)

i mean, i went to the trouble of finding the gist album (actually, i found it easily enough for fairly cheap, to the surprise of several friends who had spent years looking for it) and several s.m. solo albums, not to mention the weekend stuff (yawn), in pursuit of what i hoped would be, and sometimes pretended was already, a great musical love. i mean, i like ymg, the music i mean, but i can't find myself loving it with any great passion, or really feeling any sort of liftoff when i listen to the record.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 9 April 2004 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

the one thing i really really like in this little subsubgenre is "public girls" by the gist.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 9 April 2004 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm sure you'll get over it

― sexyDancer, Friday, 9 April 2004 13:01 (twenty-two years ago)

whatever, it's been like 8 years, and my interest has drifted away from this kind of thing anyhow

― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 9 April 2004 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

drifted into posting several times about it?
admit it... you're a huge fan

― sexyDancer, Friday, 9 April 2004 13:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I always find I have to be in a very specific mood to fully enjoy and absorb YMG's music. It is so subtle and fleeting an appeal that you have to be actively wanting their immense sparseness... The gaps in instrumentation and lack of flourish are what count really. The absence plays upon one's mind in quite a symbolic way, for me.

They tend to have some of the most affecting organ playing on record that I've heard, also...

― Tom May (Tom May), Friday, 9 April 2004 14:36 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

Has anyone seen the new dvd on Cherry Red yet? I'm only asking because every other video I have seen from Cherry Red has been horrible in quality (Felt, The Fall, Chameleons, Cherry Red Story). Just hoping this one is better.

― svend (svend), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 13:06 (twenty-two years ago)

From what I understand, it's simply the Live at The Hurrah! video transferred onto DVD. No word on extras yet. The quality isn't the clearest, but somehow works for the subject matter. It's the same effect as _Here Are The Young Men_ - Ian Curtis looks trapped by a searchlight.

― mike a, Wednesday, 12 May 2004 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

When I play this disc, I have to have a sweater nearby.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 May 2005 03:57 (twenty-one years ago)

that weekend cd really is pants though. pants + sweater = ??

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 13 May 2005 04:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Something about the spartan beats combined with that organ sound and Alison's voice makes for the sonic equivalent of a chilly draft hitting me on the back of the neck.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 May 2005 04:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I just got this. I love it and have no idea why I hadn't checked it out earlier. "Final Day" KILLS ME.

― - (smile), Friday, 13 May 2005 04:16 (twenty-one years ago)

do people really dislike the weekend records? weird.

― jwd, Friday, 13 May 2005 08:13 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

four weeks pass...

this still sux

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

Obviously, it's an acquired taste.

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

i don't own enough sweaters

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

yr crazy jaXon.

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

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

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

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 (twenty years ago)

fun? its not all about fun you know.

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

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

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

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

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

you guys are wrong, i am right

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

ok, you convinced me

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

Jaxon, you have NO INDIE BLOOD WHATSOEVER.

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

Gainsbourg at work? Do you work at a bordello?

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

this still sux

-- [that bastard] jaxon

I KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE

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

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 (twenty years ago)

Well, I'm converted, so...

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

Obviously, it's an acquired taste.

lol, guess so. :D

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

see, they got better tastes than that

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

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Love it.

― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 23:44 (five years ago)

dow: Stuart Moxham / Louis Phillipe - 'The Devil Laughs'

― mage uluk (NickB), Wednesday, 27 January 2021 00:00 (five years ago)

four years pass...

Choci Loni roams

― timellison, Monday, 15 September 2025 22:53 (eight months ago)

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