Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
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Artist: Young Marble GiantsEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Extra tracks
CD Release Date: 2007-09-11
Music Label: Domino
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Searching for Mr. Right
- Include Me Out
- The Taxi
- Eating Noddemix
- Constantly Changing
- N.I.T.A.
- Colossal Youth
- Music for Evenings
- The Man Amplifier
- Choci Loni
- Wurlitzer Jukebox
- Salad Days
- Credit in the Straight World
- Brand-New-Life
- Wind in the Rigging
- This Way
- Posed by Models
- The Clock
- Clicktalk
- Zebra Trucks
- Sporting Life
- Final Day
- Radio Silents
- Cakewalking
- Ode to Booker T
- Have Your Toupee Ready
- N.I.T.A.
- Brand-New-Life
- Zebra Trucks
- Choci Loni
- Wind in the Rigging
- The Man Shares His Meal with His Beast
- The Taxi
- Constantly Changing
- Music for Evenings
- Credit in the Straight World
- Eating Noddemix
- Ode to Booker T
- Radio Silents
- Hayman
- Loop the Loop
- Searching for Mr. Right
- Brand-New-Life
- Final Day
- N.I.T.A.
- Posed by Models
Free Music Notes for Colossal Youth
Free Music Review: One of my all time favorite albums
Hit: 5 Stars
I've been trying to remember when and how I first heard of Young Marble Giants. My best guess is that it was reading one of the 1980s editions of Ira Robbins Trouser Press Guide. I also can't recall if I first discovered it on LP, cassette, or CD. I do know that I flipped over it on the very first listen. It simply didn't sound like anything else I was listening to. The closest to any other band I could come up with at the time was a few cuts by Wire, but really they don't sound like anyone else either before or since. This makes it difficult music to describe to someone else. I almost want to coin a description and call it Punk Pop Minimalism. That description would do as well as anything.
Musically the songs are structured about bare bones guitar with thumping bass, backed by a drum machine (about the only time a drum machine has not driven me insane). Though to tell the truth, Stuart Moxham plays his guitar most of the time like a percussion instrument while brother Philip plays bass like it is the lead. Allison Statton sings so casually that you aren't convinced she is committed to sticking around until the end of the song. This might not sound like a recipe for an unforgettable album, but it turns out that it is.
The album exists in a number of versions at this point. Originally it consisted 15 songs, later expanded in re-releases. But the version to get now is definitely the 3-disc, 46 cut reissue. It contains just about everything worth owning by YMG.
You simply have to listen to this to understand how unique it is. "Taxi," for instance, consists of an exotic organ backed by bass and drum machine and no vocals except for some indecipherable talking at one point. But the result is haunting. "Looking for Mr. Right" is both playful and quirky. My favorite cut on the album, "Brand-New-Life," is in comparison with the rest of the album a hard driving rocker.
All in all, I can't recommend this album highly enough. The word "original" is overused in talking of bands and musicians. This is one of the rare albums that truly is unique. Luckily, it is also very, very good. Buy it. Listen to it. Share it with your friends. All of you will be better for it.
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Young Marble Giants appeared on the British music scene in the early 80s, releasing one perfect album and a handful of tracks. All those songs, as well as album demos, are collected here for the first time. A must-have for fans of The Slits, Pere Ubu, Wire, Suicide, PiL, and the Pop Group. Since 1980, YMG have influenced countless bands as disparate as Belle & Sebastian and Hole (both of whom have covered the group's songs). This deluxe 3xCD package is the definitive collection and includes liner notes from Simon Reynolds, a bonus disc of an unreleased John Peel Session, and a 32-page booklet of unpublished photos, old gig posters, and other publicity memorabilia.Alternative Rock Music CDs
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