In their short lifetime, the seminal Young Marble Giants - Alison Statton and brothers Stuart and Phil Moxham - released a handful of singles and one album. That album, 1980's acclaimed 'Colossal Youth', is one of the most definitive records of the post-punk era; becalmed, resigned and a little tense, it created a new vocabulary for song. Colossal Youth quickly became the independent scene equivalent of a blockbuster smash and one of Rough Trade Records best-sellers. Clearly the punters were partly responding to the sheer quality and aesthetic integrity of the record, but they were also transfixed by the originality and unusualness of the sound - Young Marble Giants made the abstract immediate and the introspective warm and natural. There was nothing else like them around at the time. Since then, the sound of 'Colossal Youth' has seeped into the vocabulary of personal music. Their influence filters through every generation from Nirvana to Belle & Sebastian and 'Colossal Youth's attention to sparse detail is now a modus operandi for haunted electronica auteurs and spectral singer-songwriters alike. But ultimately, only the Young Marble Giants sound like Young Marble Giants! This incredible reissue of 'Colossal Youth' and the Collected Works of Young Marble Giants draws together the band's album and singles for the first time ever, remastered on double CD.

CD One:
"Colossal Youth" album
CD Two:
tracks 1-6: "Testcard" E.P.
tracks 7-9: "Final Day" Single
track 10: taken from "Is The War Over" compilation
tracks 11-26: "Salad Days" album

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. This Way (2007 Digital Remaster)
2. Include Me Out (2007 Digital Remaster)
3. The Clock (2007 Digital Remaster)
4. Eating Noddemix (2007 Digital Remaster)
5. Zebra Trucks (2007 Digital Remaster)
6. Nita (2007 Digital Remaster)
7. Final Day (2007 Digital Remaster)
8. Music For Evenings (2007 Digital Remaster)
9. Cakewalking (2007 Digital Remaster)
10. Choci Loni (2007 Digital Remaster)
11. Have Your Toupee Ready (Demo)
12. Salad Days (2007 Digital Remaster)
13. Brand New Life (Demo)
14. Brand New Life (2007 Digital Remaster)
15. Chocolate Loni (Demo)

1. Searching For Mr Right (2007 Digital Remaster)
2. Posed By Models (2007 Digital Remaster)
3. The Taxi (2007 Digital Remaster)
4. Clicktalk (2007 Digital Remaster)
5. Constantly Changing (2007 Digital Remaster)
6. Sporting Life (2007 Digital Remaster)
7. Colossal Youth (2007 Digital Remaster)
8. Radio Silents (2007 Digital Remaster)
9. The Music Amplifier (2007 Digital Remaster)
10. Ode To Booker T (2007 Digital Remaster)
11. Wurlitzer Jukebox (2007 Digital Remaster)
12. Nita (Demo)
13. Credit In The Straight World (2007 Digital Remaster)
14. Zebra Trucks (Demo)
15. Wind In The Rigging (2007 Digital Remaster)
16. Wind In The Rigging (Demo)
17. The Man Shares His Meal With His Beast (Demo)
18. The Taxi (Demo)
19. Constantly Changing (Demo)
20. Music For Evenings (Demo)
21. Credit In The Straight World (Demo)
22. Eating Noddemix (Demo)
23. Ode To Booker T (Demo)
24. Radio Silents (Demo)
25. Hayman (Demo)
26. Loop The Loop (Demo)