" This Cardiff trio's superficially low-key 1980 debut has an almost mystical power to etch itself into the fabric of the listener's everyday life "-- The Observer UK young marble giants While browsing Domino's site recently, we noticed that the label was re-issuing Young Marble Giants ' seminal 1980 Rough Trade release, Colossal Youth , along with other collected works, thereby making it a " complete package of [...]
Growing up in the suburbs, out of the signal range of college radio and without many friends that listened to anything other than Bryan Adam's Greatest Hits, The Forrest Gump Soundtrack and Aerosmith's Pump, my introduction to indie-rock was a slow and painful one. As I found my way from Nevermind to Nico, there were a few bands that always stood out as the touchstones. The bands that all the other bands were stealing from. Here are a few classics. Name drop them around most record store clerks and they'll teach you a secret handshake and [...]
"Look a dealer in the eye." Young Marble Giants ~ Credit In The Straight World from Colossal Youth by Young Marble Giants
Watch out, for as soon as it pleases them they'll send you out to protect their gold in wars whose weapons, rapidly developed by servile scientists, will become more and more deadly until they can with a flick of the finger tear a million of you to pieces. -- Jean Paul Marat Today is the 61st anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima; sixty-one years of living in the shadow of the mushroom cloud, where the fate of human race has become the hazard in diplomatic games of chance. Fortunately, it’s a bluff no one’s dared to [...]
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