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Tell me: What's as beautiful as The Gist's "Embrace the Herd"?

― Michael Jackson, Thursday, 3 June 2004 07:59 (twenty years ago) link

i assume you're already aware of young marble giants' "colossal youth"? if not then BY GOD MAN there's your next step

― the surface noise for the sake of noise (electricsound), Thursday, 3 June 2004 08:04 (twenty years ago) link

The G!st b-side 'Yanks' is truly wonderful in a repetitive kind of way. 'Light Aircraft' is simply scary.

Re the album, I bumped into Stuart in an e-forum...he confirmed my suspicion that Nixon (credited on the album) was his dog, and supplied the lapping 'vocals' on one of the songs.

You'd probably like the Clientele's 'Suburban Light' LP.

― Jez (Jez), Thursday, 3 June 2004 12:13 (twenty years ago) link

As much as I adore the YMG Lp, there's nothing like this record. It's a horrible shame.

― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 3 June 2004 12:15 (twenty years ago) link

The Cherry Red comp Pillows & Prayers also seems appropriate.

― Jez (Jez), Thursday, 3 June 2004 12:39 (twenty years ago) link

Maybe if you formed a pyramid with Marshall Jefferson, Felt, and early Magnetic Fields you challenge the greatness of this lp. But you might as well face the facts... it's perfect.

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 3 June 2004 13:37 (twenty years ago) link

grab grab the haddock.

― roboX, Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:49 (twenty years ago) link

What happened with the Gist? It was in print for a while on CD on Rhino but only in the UK and pretty much never made it here. I've only heard comped tracks and the single, never heard the complete album. Jez, find out why it's not available!

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 3 June 2004 18:07 (twenty years ago) link

This is one of those cds I play for house guests all the time and they never fail to try to mug me for a copy before the evening's over.
Hey hey put it in print, make a mint.

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 3 June 2004 18:10 (twenty years ago) link

burn me a copy, dude. Maybe it'll be ACTCD008

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 3 June 2004 18:17 (twenty years ago) link

Yo Dan, you can ask Stuart directly at http://www.appelstein.com/ymgforum. Someone needs to reissue his '90s solo catalog pronto - most of those releases were on Feel Good All Over, which of course has long vanished.

― mike a, Thursday, 3 June 2004 18:22 (twenty years ago) link

(sorry to blow my own horn - it's just a shame that the guy can't get a decent US record deal.)

― mike a, Thursday, 3 June 2004 18:23 (twenty years ago) link

I have one of those CDs. Honestly I don't think we could handle his later solo releases. Everything we do, we invest so much money in that there has to be a relatively big market, and while I think I could sell a Gist CD, his solo records probably wouldn't do as well. I look forward to the point where maybe Acute can be big enough to put all sorts of worthy stuff back in print, but for now I want to focus on more landmark/lost type things. Don't know if you saw mention, but we're doing a Prefects CD now, and still waiting to sort out some stuff with the Lines.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 3 June 2004 18:27 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, I hear you. The world definitely needs a Gist reissue, though; on that we can agree.

― mike a, Thursday, 3 June 2004 18:31 (twenty years ago) link

A dog named Nixon, what a hip fuck Moxham is. The inner tray card of the Ryko re-ish has a priceless photo of the makings of two giant spliffs laid out on the mixing board. The band all look like gay poets, striped shirts n all. Awesome.
>>Back to the project!!!

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 3 June 2004 18:40 (twenty years ago) link

i have a 7" which i don't think is from "embrace.." maybe i'll play it tonite maybe on eastvillageradio.com

― duke decibel, Thursday, 3 June 2004 18:54 (twenty years ago) link

"We're doing a Prefects CD now."

Cool!

― Tim Ellison, Thursday, 3 June 2004 19:19 (twenty years ago) link

Thanks Tim, I'm very excited about it.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 3 June 2004 20:14 (twenty years ago) link

one year passes...

I think Embrace The Heard was just reissued, I just bought it new at Amoeba, unless they found some back stock.

― svend (svend), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:27 (eighteen years ago) link

errr Herd, not Heard

― svend (svend), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:29 (eighteen years ago) link

this sounds amazing! the idea of ymg, weed and cold storage studio sounds impossibly rich. w/ eno inspired interludes!

i must get a copy of this- plus i read the producer phil legg went on to produce t. t. darby. the hardline according to...stuart moxham!

― nebbesh (nebbesh), Thursday, 25 May 2006 20:52 (eighteen years ago) link

eleven years pass...

https://thegist.bandcamp.com/album/holding-pattern

unreleased album is now released and it's pretty good, sounds like Durutti Column, Radio Dept and reggae.

― boxedjoy, Sunday, 24 September 2017 10:19 (seven years ago) link

Oh wow, thanks for the heads up! All the versions with the book/booklet are gone already, sadly.

― etc, Monday, 25 September 2017 20:43 (seven years ago) link

Oh, and a "related items" from that led me to this quietly charming French tribute compilation to various Moxham-related projects:

https://lesdisquesmaladroits.bandcamp.com/releases

― etc, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 00:46 (seven years ago) link

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