Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth -Full Album-
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- čas přidán 16. 07. 2016
- 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
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this album is a perfect, flawless, lo fi rock masterpiece. I remember when I first heard it 20 years ago I thought "it feels like your in a small club watching them perform this stuff live". its so mysterious sounding, so original and unique. So claustrophobic sounding. So rocking and yet so very funky. Its use of the drum machine ranks up there with other masterworks like Sly's 'There's A Riot Going On' and Prince's 'Sign Of The Time'. Plus the songs are super short, YMG get in and out like a robbery. There's nothing like it in all of rock history. I've been loving it for 2 decades now and running.
+moehammedmedia - lofi? you know, we were recording our stuff in a cellar room with an old tape deck and merely one microphone, almost no real instruments, so when this came i was stunned how very HIFI music could be recorded, haha - some years ago a compilation of early 80s german hometaped music (science fiction park bundesrepublik) was released on "finders keepers", and one of my contributions you can hear on youtube - just look for "diet - abbelstiel" - there are a few others also... (btw. we had a euphoric british music press, haha)
i now listen to the colossal youth now for the first time since the late 80s - wow, it still sounds fresh and beautiful, oh yesssssss.... :-)
cheers from germany
edit: i just saw that there is a further music contribution of me in youtube: "mount elephant - III" - it´s from the very early 90s, outdoor recordings with my self built guitar harp or harp guitar...
moehammondmedia damn right
I don't think it's lo-fi at all. It's a very good recording/mix, just simple production. Throw a drum set on there and it isn't too different from other music of the time.
Can't believe this is 3 8 years ago.... still sounds. fresh, new Underground..... each song is a jeweled masterpiece. Not one weak song...so cool... miles ahead of their time, yet a beautiful antidote to late 70s early 80s music
one of the post punk masterpiece album ever
I used to have this on cassette with what looked like a hand-drawn cover. I bought it from the band when I went to see them play in Cardiff many years ago.
Oh, that's how you Reply - right. Can't seem to see the other Comments tho. Bleurgh.
Thank you for your hard work, Stuart!
Searching for Mr Right
Waiting up half the night
Feeling like I'll be dead
Before I'm old
Teaching myself to be
The Young Untold
How can I hope to be
Someone for you to see?
Blind as the Fate decrees
I will go on
Teaching myself to be
The Young Untold
Am I in vain tonight?
Lose you against the light
Who can you be
Mr Right?
I just got into this today; a minute into the first song and i knew right away that this album is top100 of all time. Never fallen in love with something this fast. Will go on forever and ever.,,
This album always makes me think of listening to the John Peel show, while hiding under the covers, pretending to sleep. Loved that show, and this album!
Just saw a copy of this in Rough Trade in London. Took me right back to my youth... Life is too fucking short...
One afternoon I was listening to NPR and "Eating Noddemix" was played. I've been hooked ever since and keep coming back. There is a purity, a magic to this music that can be felt but not explained, something this old fart hasn't loved since Portishead's darker work. That this from 1980? Sounds like yesterday trying hard, very hard, to ignore tomorrow. Which is what making love and music should be all about.
So far ahead of it's time, and still is. Sublime!
perfect minimalism, i love this album
S. Giles - I handmade 30 copies of that original cassette version of our stuff - you would have bought it in 1980. Thanks!
Hey! Thanks for helping create this record. It's become one of my favorites over the years. I have a Song of the Day group on Facebook where I share a CZcams clip of a different song every day with the members. I was trying to decide which song to share from the album when I noticed your comments in this thread.
fucking sweet. wish I were alive
Instazome ASMR i m 26 i listened all' my Youth Now i golf addiction so i m no younger no more i can t listen choki loni for 13 years thanks
Stuart Moxham
I got this LP from my local library in 86 , when I was 13-14, it blew me away.
It still does today, what a great LP.
I just wanted to add my sincere thanks for creating this jewel in the midst of a musical dung heap back in 1980. I bought it and within five months Gang of Four's Entertainment and both of them are musical milestones in my opinion. It's pretty remarkable that almost 40 years later they can both create a powerful mood from two totally different ends of the musical spectrum.
Timeless!!
Even if it's not my era, I love it!
Beautiful voice, and above all, very good musicians!
I can remember YMG cassettes being sold on the counter of Virgin Records opposite Cardiff Castle. Should've bought one, but at least I bought the album on vinyl when it was released. Still play it to this day. One of my favourites. Timeless stuff.
Wonderful, fab!! Finding this, thanks to a pal is like turning the clock back decades and finding Sonic Youth and the Pixies for the first time.
Extraordinary record. Greetings from Mexico City!
A foundational album for the development of alternative and indie. Definitely ahead of their time.
Brings back such sweet memories of Grass Roots café, Charles street Cardiff C79/80 great days- great great band
first heard choci loni on WPRB when i was around 13. so grateful!
Brilliant album, brings back so many memories from 1980. Nice to see Stuart Moxhams comment below.
Stuart Moxham, I heard this for the very first time today.Grew up in Cardiff and heard namechecks on the press occasionally...minor legendary status...intriguing; not much information.Put on the back-burner to listen to one day..thought erroneously that Young Marble Giants would be standard guitar music and what a relief that that preconceived notion was very far off the mark.
I saw a pristine heavy gram vinyl of this record in a shop in Brighton today.I will buy it.It's the start of a new relationship I feel ....
Love this album x
Alison, has so nice voice, and rythmics for next new way, great music for long
Have you heard Frente! from Australia with Marvin the Album? I never thought anyone could sing more beautiful than a young Angie Hart, but i guess i was wrong after hearing this :)
Credit In The Straight World wao! nice song
Love,love,love.💝
Monstreus, I follow her for sure for ever
She is Master
THe XX done right even before existing.
Dopeyawn Are you saying that The xx don’t do their own style right?
Amazing album, one of 1980's finest; only _Eating Noddemix_ is torturous with headphones.
I think Lounge Act was maybe inspired in part by the guitar part in Brand New Life.
One of Kurt Cobain's favorite albums.
That's not important. It's one of my favourite albums and a few of my friends favourite albums though. Much more important.
Jake so salty
Indeed, one can sense the inspiration for those bass string lines of Kurt.
(I'm talking about the lead guitar's bass strings, not the bass guitar)
Yeah, and the bass lines - from Pixies)
Psshhh
just coz they got popular doesn't exclude them from being good at _what they were originally trying to achieve_
- Nirvana Unplugged in NY / inutero are excellent albums imo
still have this on original vinyl LP :) a classic... pity i never saw them play live
MASTERPIECE 🙌✨🖤
This sound is very primitive, and I like this!
I love your way miss
This is GOOD
11:18 My favorite YMG song!
I knew Phil briefly. he lived in the same house as a mate of mine and crashed the bike of another guy called Jake.
Stuff.
good poker music...
album capolavoro
RIC 4001 bass? I love that sound!
got the cd got all the suff ep as well
Colossal deep in fact
I just found my original YMG Final Day badge.
This album is making my left inner ear, like, vibrate. It’s weird...
The new wave before the new wave. Would of fit in down in Athens GA here in the states!
New wave was already there dude ;)
indeed
Europe will, as Colossal young ever an old countries
choci loni (!)
Spooky as fuck. A friend of mine put one of these on a compilation cassette tape circa 1981 to educate me, a hick at uni. Salad Days. That indefinable quality eh? No drums, is that it? It sounds innocent, unfinished like half the instruments are missing. But knowing. These people weren't hicks.
eating noddemix is like a 20$ bar of chocolate as a song
wish it wld last forever but then youd lose the luxury of eating a $20 bar of chocolate..
& by the end of it 2 mins seemed like 30 seconds
I have the original vinyl - 33 tours
I HAD the original vinyl many moons ago....
^F
je croyais aussi l'avoir, mais, en cherchant, je n'ai retrouvé que le CD, édité en 1990. le prix qui y était encore affiché m'a scotché: 10 Francs!!! le label du distributeur: Danceteria.
Kurt Cobain brought me here
I dont like this music really. But I do agree that that bass guitarist is very, very good. I like his bass lines.
So you're a music snob who has no taste? Got it
Renato Russo me trouxe aqui.
(disculpa, sólo hablo español, pero...) ¿qué relación tiene Renato Russo con esta banda? Aguante Legão Urbana
from the era when people sang how they felt !
People still do that a lot
no they don't, they do it for paying up mortgages and mainly money and fame being they're first 2 objectives. there have to be exceptions, it's just that in the last 15 years there is almost nothing remarkable...all the big bands that still perform today are from the 70-80-90's, show me a new remarkable artist from 2000 onwards.
Jeff Rosenstock, Kendrick Lamar, Mount Eerie, Deafheaven, Touche Amore, Father John Misty, Laura Marling, The Wonder Years, Sun Kil Moon, Brand New, Sufjan Stevens, the list goes on.
Damn, even less serious pop punk bands aimed to teenagers like Modern Baseball and The Front Bottoms have emotional songs that comes from the heart. Your generalization makes you sound like a grumpy old man and it's not helping anyone. No offense dude...
:) i am a grumpy old man, but kendrick lamar?! come on man! :)
:) i am a grumpy old man, but kendrick lamar?! come on man! :)
Can’t think of many bands who sound like this, they are totally original, people compare them to Stereolab but in my opinion Young Marble Giants are much better. There are some tracks by Broadcast and Pram that have a similar groove but YMG still got the edge over these. Anyone know any YMG soundalikes?
Ladytron borrowed from The Man Amplifier. Otherwise check out Trish and Jame's mixes and playlists for some good recommendations, though not exactly like YMG.
Stereolab (?)
Palmer G. Broadcast. Lol
What a marvelous trio!
The influence is there, for sure.
The album that inspired Nickleback to start making music
i don't know if that's good or bad
Don't forget Imagine Dragons too
DO NOT MOT 9-30-19
Some songs remind me of the white stripes with Meg on vocals
Rolling Stone brought me here
Kurt Cobain brought me here