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    Colossal Youth & Collected Works

    Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth & Collected Works

    09/11/2007 | Domino 

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    All Music Guide Review

    Young Marble Giants' Colossal Youth is a collection of sparse, evocative tunes emphasizing Alison Statton's floating vocals and minimal guitar/organ/bass/drum machine arrangements. Comparable to little else from its time or since, this is rock music at its most austere. The original album had 15 songs; subsequent CD editions added a few more. But the 2007 edition on Domino is the one to buy, pushing the total to 46 tracks, with additions from the Testcard EP, the 1979 "Final Day" single, the Salad Days album, a compilation cut, and a 1980 session for John Peel -- everything they ever did, in fact. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide

    Colossal Youth & Collected Works Track Listing

  • Track#
  • Title
  • time
  • lyrics
  • 1
  • Searching for Mr. Right
  • 3:03
  • Sound Clip for Searching for Mr. Right from Colossal Youth & Collected Works


  • 2
  • Include Me Out
  • 2:00
  • Sound Clip for Include Me Out from Colossal Youth & Collected Works


  • 3
  • The Taxi
  • 2:07
  • Sound Clip for The Taxi from Colossal Youth & Collected Works


  • 4
  • Eating Noddemix
  • 2:04
  • Sound Clip for Eating Noddemix from Colossal Youth & Collected Works


  • 5
  • Constantly Changing
  • 2:04
  • Sound Clip for Constantly Changing from Colossal Youth & Collected Works


  • 6
  • N.I.T.A.
  • 3:31
  • Sound Clip for N.I.T.A. from Colossal Youth & Collected Works


  • 7
  • Colossal Youth
  • 1:54
  • Sound Clip for Colossal Youth from Colossal Youth & Collected Works


  • 8
  • Music for Evenings
  • 3:02
  • Sound Clip for Music for Evenings from Colossal Youth & Collected Works


  • 9
  • The Man Amplifier
  • 3:15
  • Sound Clip for The Man Amplifier from Colossal Youth & Collected Works


  • 10
  • Choci Loni
  • 2:37
  • Sound Clip for Choci Loni from Colossal Youth & Collected Works


  • 11
  • Wurlitzer Jukebox
  • 2:45
  • Sound Clip for Wurlitzer Jukebox from Colossal Youth & Collected Works


  • 12
  • Salad Days
  • 2:00
  • Sound Clip for Salad Days from Colossal Youth & Collected Works


  • 13
  • Credit in the Straight World
  • 2:29
  • Sound Clip for Credit in the Straight World from Colossal Youth & Collected Works


  • 14
  • Brand-New-Life
  • 2:55
  • Sound Clip for Brand-New-Life from Colossal Youth & Collected Works


  • 15
  • Wind in the Rigging
  • 2:25
  • Sound Clip for Wind in the Rigging from Colossal Youth & Collected Works


  • 16 (2)
  • This Way
  • 1:41
  • Sound Clip for This Way from Colossal Youth & Collected Works


  • 17 (2)
  • Posed by Models
  • 1:24
  • Sound Clip for Posed by Models from Colossal Youth & Collected Works


  • 18 (2)
  • The Clock
  • 1:39
  • Sound Clip for The Clock from Colossal Youth & Collected Works


  • 19 (2)
  • Clicktalk
  • 2:42
  • Sound Clip for Clicktalk from Colossal Youth & Collected Works


  • 20 (2)
  • Zebra Trucks
  • 1:33
  • Sound Clip for Zebra Trucks from Colossal Youth & Collected Works


  • 21 (2)
  • Sporting Life
  • 1:04
  • Sound Clip for Sporting Life from Colossal Youth & Collected Works


  • 22 (2)
  • Final Day
  • 1:43
  • Sound Clip for Final Day from Colossal Youth & Collected Works


  • 23 (2)
  • Radio Silents
  • 1:53
  • Sound Clip for Radio Silents from Colossal Youth & Collected Works


  • 24 (2)
  • Cakewalking
  • 2:49
  • Sound Clip for Cakewalking from Colossal Youth & Collected Works


  • 25 (2)
  • Ode to Booker T
  • 3:03
  • Sound Clip for Ode to Booker T from Colossal Youth & Collected Works


  • 26 (2)
  • Have Your Toupee Ready
  • 1:09
  • Sound Clip for Have Your Toupee Ready from Colossal Youth & Collected Works


  • 27 (2)
  • N.I.T.A.
  • 4:28
  • Sound Clip for N.I.T.A. from Colossal Youth & Collected Works


  • 28 (2)
  • Brand-New-Life
  • 2:54
  • Sound Clip for Brand-New-Life from Colossal Youth & Collected Works


  • 29 (2)
  • Zebra Trucks
  • 1:33
  • Sound Clip for Zebra Trucks from Colossal Youth & Collected Works


  • 30 (2)
  • Choci Loni
  • 2:14
  • Sound Clip for Choci Loni from Colossal Youth & Collected Works


  • 31 (2)
  • Wind in the Rigging
  • 2:38
  • Sound Clip for Wind in the Rigging from Colossal Youth & Collected Works


  • 32 (2)
  • The Man Shares His Meal with His Beast
  • 4:24
  • Sound Clip for The Man Shares His Meal with His Beast from Colossal Youth & Collected Works


  • 33 (2)
  • The Taxi
  • 2:03
  • Sound Clip for The Taxi from Colossal Youth & Collected Works


  • 34 (2)
  • Constantly Changing
  • 2:06
  • Sound Clip for Constantly Changing from Colossal Youth & Collected Works


  • 35 (2)
  • Music for Evenings
  • 2:57
  • Sound Clip for Music for Evenings from Colossal Youth & Collected Works


  • 36 (2)
  • Credit in the Straight World
  • 2:12
  • Sound Clip for Credit in the Straight World from Colossal Youth & Collected Works


  • 37 (2)
  • Eating Noddemix
  • 2:01
  • Sound Clip for Eating Noddemix from Colossal Youth & Collected Works


  • 38 (2)
  • Ode to Booker T
  • 3:01
  • Sound Clip for Ode to Booker T from Colossal Youth & Collected Works


  • 39 (2)
  • Radio Silents
  • 2:52
  • Sound Clip for Radio Silents from Colossal Youth & Collected Works


  • 40 (2)
  • Hayman
  • 1:26
  • Sound Clip for Hayman from Colossal Youth & Collected Works


  • 41 (2)
  • Loop the Loop
  • 2:59
  • Sound Clip for Loop the Loop from Colossal Youth & Collected Works


  • 42 (3)
  • Searching for Mr. Right
  • 2:36
  • Sound Clip for Searching for Mr. Right from Colossal Youth & Collected Works


  • 43 (3)
  • Brand-New-Life
  • 2:48
  • Sound Clip for Brand-New-Life from Colossal Youth & Collected Works


  • 44 (3)
  • Final Day
  • 1:57
  • Sound Clip for Final Day from Colossal Youth & Collected Works


  • 45 (3)
  • N.I.T.A.
  • 3:43
  • Sound Clip for N.I.T.A. from Colossal Youth & Collected Works


  • 46 (3)
  • Posed by Models
  • 1:31
  • Sound Clip for Posed by Models from Colossal Youth & Collected Works


    • Colossal Youth & Collected Works Notes

    from Domino: Since its release the sound of Colossal Youth has seeped into the vocabulary of personal music. Young Marble Giants made the abstract immediate and the introspective warm and natural. Their influence filters through every generation from Nirvana to Belle & Sebastian, and there is something almost canonical about the album's use of voice, muted instruments and space. Their tracks have been covered by Belle & Sebastian and Courtney Love's Hole; "Colossal Youth"'s attention to sparse detail is now a modus operandi for haunted electronica auteurs and spectral singer-songwriters alike, but ultimately, only the Young Marble Giants sound like Young Marble Giants.

    Domino are proud to rerelease "Colossal Youth" and the Collected Works of Young Marble Giants, drawing together the band's album and singles for the first time ever on a CD set. Including a 32 page booklet, the limited edition initial pressings of the set will also include a third disc, which features 6 tracks the band recorded for John Peel in 1980, making it a complete package of Young Marble Giant's recorded tracks.

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