Young Marble Giants : Colossal Youths or Little Duds

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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 years ago) link

YMG/The gist hard to find. you are silly

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

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

I'm sure you'll get over it

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

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 years ago) link

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

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

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 years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 13 May 2005 04:06 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

do people really dislike the weekend records? weird.

― jwd, Friday, 13 May 2005 08:13 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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