Young Marble Giants Live at the Western Front November 6, 1980

October 12, 2024 4:24 PM

Young Marble Giants Live at the Western Front November 6, 1980

What it says on the tin
posted by y2karl (13 comments total)

Young Marble Giants

Do they play Music With Rocks In?
posted by Greg_Ace at 5:02 PM on October 12 [1 favorite]

No, those are the Old Marble Giants.
posted by Mr. Yuck at 5:29 PM on October 12 [1 favorite]

Oh man, this is awesome.

Skipped straight to 'Wurlitzer Jukebox', worth the price of admission all by itself.
posted by multics at 5:37 PM on October 12 [4 favorites]

They are smoking so much one could get contact emphysema just for watching this. And the YT comments are to die for:

I've never seen Allison take off her coat halfway through the set before

and Stuart takes of his jacket 3/4 through ;)

Neotonous Stone Gargantuans
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I don't know why I find Allison so pretty and huggable

Are they time travelers? Did they cover Hole before Hole wrote the song?


posted by y2karl at 6:10 PM on October 12

Are they time travelers?

Given their music still sounds like the future, I think there's some solid evidence for this proposition.
posted by multics at 6:48 PM on October 12 [8 favorites]

yes.

I own two different copies of Colossal Youth and I also rewired my entire speaker system because of this album (it wasn't necessary but it was also good).

I love this band.
posted by edencosmic at 7:05 PM on October 12 [3 favorites]

Now THIS is a SLYT FPP
posted by kensington314 at 8:00 PM on October 12 [2 favorites]

edencosmic please say more about the rewiring
posted by kensington314 at 8:00 PM on October 12 [2 favorites]

Oh hey that’s just down the street from me! It’s a fantastic space, they often have really interesting events on. Well worth checking out if you’re in Vancouver BC
posted by Jon Mitchell at 9:17 PM on October 12

Link for context:western front
posted by Jon Mitchell at 9:18 PM on October 12

I love that performance, I must’ve put it on a dozen times.
posted by Kattullus at 4:26 AM on October 13 [1 favorite]

My friend Jeanne Legault, former resident of New Orleans mentioned in passing in my Carsie Blanton post -- who has had the most transtemporal multiple dimensional encyclopedic knowledge of contemporary music of any human being I have known so far -- turned me onto both Young Marble Giants' Colossal Youth and Neu '75 on one ten minute car ride she gave me home to Capitol Hill in the 1980. Nowadays her husband Joe Swinford -- another musical polymath on an equally grand galactic scale -- and she both produce The Original Trash City Radio Show. I don't think there is a better source to hear contempary music of all eras on the planet at present. Plus they have Biscuit, the most adorable Maine Coon cat ever. Friend them on Facebook and subscribe to their show. Because, in the immortal words of Richard 'Dick' Proennke, You Can't Beat That.
posted by y2karl at 5:38 AM on October 13

Edenscomic, I used to play an ancient vinyl of Colossal Youth on my college radio show, and my strongest association is of the difficulty of getting the levels right for the beginning of Searching for Mr. Right. I love your comment and your project.
posted by chesty_a_arthur at 6:18 AM on October 13