What is the best Young Marble Giants song?

wurlitzer jukebox. the bassline, oh man

best band ever

It's hard to choose, I love elements of pretty much most of those. 'Choci Loni' I always come back to... and 'Wurlitzer Jukebox' is DANG amazing, aye.

boy, those postpunkers and their killer basslines...

brand - new - life

"Colossal Youth" might be their best written song, but it's not their best performance on record. So I voted for "Final Day".

Oh, Final Day is IT! Perfect! and oh, you guys!

Second would be Radio Silents.

The album in it's entirety is third.

Everything else is dud.

It was a great shame, a band who really did not understand their own greatness.

I guess "Eating Noddemix" but I think of YMG as being more interesting for their overall sound and feel than for any one song.

There's something very wonderful about this band, but they make me feel restless, as though I'm being told to sit still. Maybe one day the music will completely take hold of me, but until then I can only take a few minutes of YMG before I feel the need to do about ten pushups or a cartwheel.

What 69 said

Something off the Testcard EP!!

Or Include Me Out. Or Brand-New-Life. Or The Taxi!

I voted Ode To Booker T, but I nearly did Eating Noddemix

The album in it's entirety is third.

Yeah, I've possessed tracks from YMG for years, and they seemed like a fine band. But I only heard Colossal Youth from start to finish in the last year, and it did take complete hold of me. Individually, the songs are cool and cold, but they add up to something incredibly emotional. Brand-New-Life, with it's neutered power chords, feels like an outburst there at the end of the record. Those lyrics, those riffs, ache with loss.

"Credit In The Straight World," y'all.

I'm going with "Music For Evenings" as a dark horse, with "Noddemix" not far behind. But I agree with the former posts that it's really about the whole album.

dlp OTM, it's almost like all their songs are equally good if you're feeling it. But still "Eating Noddemix" for me.

If I could change my vote I would vote for Salad Days

Off the top of my head, "Credit In the Straight World," but I agree the whole album is very much of a piece. This is a cool story:

Very early in their existence, there was a fourth member of the band, Peter Joyce, Phil and Stuart Moxham's cousin. Joyce was a Telephone Engineer and an electronics whizz, who had made his own synthesiser from a kit. This was a small touch-sensitive keyboard with an attache case-like box of circuitry... The YMGs used tape recordings of Peter's home-made drum machine (Roland didn't release the Boss DR-55, the first fully programmable drum machine, until 1979), since they had no desire to have a drummer.

COOL!

Where's the love for "N.I.T.A."?
It's wonderful, the most wonderful song of a truly wonderful band.

i w*ould only vote for that if i could be certain it stood for Not in da Ass

"Salad Days" turned up to hearing-damage levels

Noddemix here. Btw wtf is noddemix?

http://www.danish-deli-food.com/images/P0220.jpg

Oh, I'd always assumed it was a 'get round using a registered trademark' substitute word for Weetabix.

anyone else?

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hahah i bumped it 14 minutes before the auto-bump, go figure.

BRAND NEW LIFE

I went for the obvious "I own a Hole album" choice.

I do actually have Colossal Youth, honest.

"Searching For Mr. Right" -- the only Young Marble Giants song I will ever care about.

xhuxk -- why?

They've never held my attention beyond that one song? And I tried with Collosal Youth and an EP or two back in the '80s, and with the 3-disc reissue this year. I dunno -- just not my thing; they helped invent the super-low-energy kind of indie rock I hate, which makes them originals (which I respect), just not ones I ever want to listen to.

Never even cared about "Final Day" on Wanna Buy A Bridge much, come to think of it. (Though it never especially bothered me on that album, either.)

I'm going with "Music For Evenings" as a dark horse

I am OTM with Mike on this? I flatter myself!

This is the one song of theirs I can't get out of my head, like EVER.

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a little sad to see no votes for constantly changing and man amplifier

"Final Day" only won because of the Galaxie 500 cover and WBB, imo.

best band ever

good results; just about what i expected, too. the only surprise is no votes for "Cakewalking" which i think is v. good.

I guess everyone that could have voted "Radio Silents" went for "Final Day", which makes sense.

where has this band been all my life???? just listening to them for the first time and think I am in love...

i think the real answer is 'salad days'