Everything but the Girl.

how is their "back to mine" volume?

more please.

a friend used to joke that ben and tracey suffered from opposite maladies: her eyes were too close together and his were too far apart. but they are both so cool i really feel bad making any such comments.

Surely you jest!

Okay, maybe you don't. Here's Andrew in all his finery:

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Having said that, I do find it a little annoying that they nowadays behave as if their entire pre-"Missing" career is not worthy of any attention. Idlewild is, as noted at the start of the thread, a fab album melodically and lyrically; only its slightly dated and thin-sounding production lets it down. But the band doesn't perform any early tracks in their concerts (not that they've given any in a while), and the more recent remix album (Adapt or Die) should have offered them a chance to revisit and update those early tracks. Instead, all the remixes were of Wounded and Tempermental songs. Frankly I'm hurt.

just pulled this out of my shelf and played it for the first time in a long while

this is a really nice lp (mini-lp?) that time seems to have forgot

in fact i don't think anything ebtg-associated is particularly hip right now, least of all the early stuff

I flirted with them again when Walking Wounded came out.

I wish I could hear Baby The Stars Shine Bright again but I don't have the vinyl with me anymore. :(

Has anyone heard this song by Working Week (having at least one former members of Young Marble Giants) that had Tracey Thorn and Robert Wyatt singing on it called "Venceremos" something like that? Oh my GOD that is great.

i think i am the only person who likes this record

ben watt's lazy dog mix cds are pretty great... haven't heard his more recent mix project, whose name escapes me...

Faux?

His illness?

Not meant judgmentally - more in the sense that I initially assumed "Five Fathoms" was actually produced by Deep Dish but it's Ben Watt saying "I wanna make my own "Future of the Future"."

It was released as 7" and a 12", was included on their first album, Working Nights, the 2LP B/O Pay Day and the CD distillation of that album Pay Check., and yes it is indeed great.

I don't believe any permanent members of Working Week had ever been in YMG 'though, although Simon Booth had worked with Alison Stratton in a post-YMG band called Weekend, which was also where he met Larry Stabbins with whom he subsequently formed Working Week.

Philip Moxham of YMG did play bass for EBTG for a while 'though.

Fwiw Corrine Drewery (later of Swing Out Sister) was WW's vocalist for a while before they recruited Juliet Roberts.

Buzzin' Fly Volume 3 was released last week and like the other two volumes, it is something pretty special. All three volumes heartily recommended.

Does anyone know anything useful (like a tracklisting maybe?) about a "Collector's Edition" of Eden which is apparently coming out in a month's time?

Amazon are listing it as a single disc, with just the same 12 tracks as the original and no indication what would make it so special as to warrant the huge price tag they've put on it; while Play are listing it as a double disc, but not offering a tracklist.

Can't find any details anywhere else - not even a mention of the official EBTG website.

There are plenty of great non-album singles & b-sides available so it could be great: "Night and Day", "Feeling Dizzy", "On My Mind" (although that single was on Cherry Red iirc, so presumably they'd need to licence it?), "English Rose" (recorded for an NME freebie single, so who knows who owns the rights to that one?!), "Laugh You Out the House", "Never Could Have Been Worse", "Mine", "Easy as Sin", "Gun Cupboard Love", "Native Land", "Riverbed Dry", "Don't You Go" (didn't they have a different debut album in the US which ditched half the tracks on Eden in favour of those later singles and some of the B-sides)?

Now THAT'S a slow burn. (The news is kinda buried in the post but it's there.)

Now how about a new EBTG album?