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what happened to Leicester's finest: yeah yeah noh? the producers of the best pop lyric of all time: "gonna put the west back into country and western" from Bias Binding. (and i challenge anybody to come up with a finer one-liner) (oh, and i remember Sue Dory (the percussionist) playing washboard and casiopads for Birmingham skiffle band Terry and Gerry for a while)

― johhny dbini, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Great band. There's a 'best-of' out now on Cherry Red which I must get. I will be meeting some folks tonight who know/knew them, so will post fully after we've talked.

― Dr. C, Saturday, 12 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There's a YYN best of? ABOUT F***ING TIME TOO! My poor old vinyl is dying a death here. Almost every line of their lyrics was a brilliant one-liner, I simply couldn't pick one. One member of YYN had something to do with The Australians, who turned into Space. Other than that they seemed to have dropped out of the music world - so Dave, do let us know what's happening.

― Rob M, Sunday, 13 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Uh, forgot to ask! Sorry. I thought I'd heard rumours of gigs a la the recent Nightingales/Prefects short-lived comeback dates, but I could be mistaken. Will try and find out. I no longer have an YYN on vinyl, so my recollections may be slightly out-of-whack, but IIRC my favourite tracks were Cottage Industry, Beware The Weakling Lines, Superimposed Man and especially the fantastic and surreal Another Side To Mrs. Quill.

Rob, as a Factory-head you might be interested to know that there are lots of new releases by Factory and related bands out or coming soon on LTM. (http://www.ltmpub.freeserve.co.uk/ltmnews.html) This includes 4 Wake CDs, one from Ludus (with possibly 3 more to come) Stockholm Monsters (2 coming soon), a new Crispy Ambulance studio album in April (produced by Graham Massey) and some info on 2 albums from Random Hold.

― Dr. C, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Funnily enough, picked up a copy of "Fun on the Lawn Lawn Lawn" the other night. I'm quite looking forward to hearing what it sounds like (this will occur after busted-up record player has been sorted).

YYN were never my favourites: too often I thought they sounded lazy and bored when I wanted sharp. But when they hit the spot ("Beware The Weakling Lines" and "Bias Binding" were favourites as I recall) they really hit the spot. I always thought "Gonna put the fun back in being pretentious" was a genius thing for such an unassuming-looking band to sing.

More excited by Dr. C's Stockholm Monsters news than I thought was possible.

― Tim, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And me! I've been going nuts trying to find a copy of 'Alma Mater' on vinyl.

― Dr. C, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh happy happy joy joy! YYN and the Wake and the Stockholm Monsters all on CD! You've made my day all over again (it was made pretty good for just having Harvey Williams reply and agree with me about "Tubular bells"...) I'm just so star-struck...

― Rob M, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Damn, how cool about all the LTM reissues. I've got most of what they put out already, so now it's time for the second wave. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

hey, you can count on my vote for the Ludus/S.Monsters Reissues Excited Party.

oh, sorry johnny - yes, 'Bias Binding' was indeed fab.

― Jeff W, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

six years pass...

revive: So the (great) CD re-issue didn't cause much of a revival - hey I can wait for the rest of you to catch up.

The earlish singles such as cottage industry are lovely, but they got better, and the twisted Lynchian psychadelic tinges (psychosis-adelic heh!) were unique and special it would have been really interesting to see where they would have taken that, what was on the other side of 'other side...'?

― Sandy Blair, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 21:07 (eighteen years ago)

They were great at capturing a certain type of English squalor. In that sense, they remind a bit of the Monochrome Set. The distinction being the Monochrome sang about Jet Set Juntas and the sins of the upper class, while Yeah, Yeah, Noh were kitchen-sink drama. Loved the rockabilly twang as much as the Fall too.

― leavethecapital, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 21:39 (eighteen years ago)

I ADORE this band, and while I think the "Prick Up Your Ears" single and the 'Cottage Industry' EP were their high points, I do like the later more psych-tinged stuff a lot as well.

As to other folks not "getting it"/ knowing about them -- having a look at Gemm, it seems that I can re-acquire all the singles I stupidly got rid of long ago for not too much $$. Hooray to that!

― Mike McGooney-gal, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 23:45 (eighteen years ago)

the way the jingle-like refrain on Prick Up Your Ears fades in is glorious (can a "refrain", fade in? Probably not, but this one does...)

― Sandy Blair, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 06:15 (eighteen years ago)

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