UPDATE! It looks like this site has met with the approval of the band and the label, and I'll do all I can to provide all of you with more information, more pictures, more news and of course, more music, as the band have a new album coming out in February of 2007. I'll let my original disclaimer stand though.
I'm just a fan, but for me this reissue has been the discovery of the year. I am in no way affiliated with the band, and I will readily comply with any demands to cancel this account, if the band or the label feels it has to be taken off of MySpace. I would also gladly surrender control of this page if someone associated with the band or the label wants to take over responsibility for the spreading of the word. I just wanted to have one of their songs on my own profile, know what I mean? Anyway, enjoy, this is Australian power-pop/garage at it's very best!!!
The following review is taken from FasterLouder.com.au. I hope they don't mind too much.
Re-releases can often be a chance to simply replace your own well worn vinyl with a cleaner quality compact disc copy of music you know and trust. But occasionally it can be a vehicle to re-discover a lost gem of musical heritage. And so it is with Young Modern.
Despite a strong local following in Adelaide – centered around The Tivoli in Pirie Street – Young Modern's only recorded output was a bunch of demos released posthumously as the Play Faster LP. After splitting up in the late 1970s (following a move to Sydney encouraged by Dirty Pool management, responsible for some notable bands of the time, including The Angels), the band reformed (sort of) briefly in 1980 to promote the album and from there into the dustbin of history (apologies to Greil Marcus) went Young Modern.
Lead singer John Dowler went off to form a series of bands through the 1980s, including The Zimmermen (who released the thematic Don't Go to Sydney (It's a Place Without a Heart)), and continues to play around Melbourne (without indulging in any old Young Modern classics).
To address this terrible omission the clever people at Aztec Music have decided to re-release Play Faster on disc to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the album's initial release. As their name suggests, Young Modern were
influenced strongly by the sixties pop rock licks of the British Invasion (their white shirt/thin black tie attire indicates these influences were more than just musical) – the opening lick on Red Dress On brings to mind The Who's A Quick One While He's Away, while Do You Care has the catchy feel of Them in all its Britgarage glory – as well as the pop sensibilities of Big Star (It's Not a Crime, She's Got the Money).
Dave Laing's liner notes suggest Young Modern was the prototype Australian powerpop band, an assertion all but confirmed by such pre-Sunnyboys gems as She Wants to Be a Singer and The Big Beat. Unfortunately there's no I Wanna Be a Birdman (according to Dowler, the lyrics for each live version of this song was different).
The bonus live tracks (including an unlisted version of The Beatles' She Loves You) have been taken from various shows, and the sound quality varies accordingly (Pensacola Blues is particularly rough). But there's something ruggedly authentic about hearing live tracks recorded using rudimentary analogue equipment at the back of a local pub.
This is a very significant re-release – Young Modern may not have the reverence and mythology of its hard rock contemporaries, but the music is just as relevant today as it was 25 years ago.
Wassup in Adelaïde???? I hope everything's alright whatever you're up to... ; )
This is an invitation to go on our "Myspace" page and listen to our new song "Hey-Hey Mona!! (Fallen From The St*rz)" mixed by Octopus Turner & Helta SkeltAxis!!!
Hey Partier! I wanted to check in on ya to see if you got your Macys Gift Card in the mail this week. I got mine!!! I'm going to put in a few more emails at that website to see how many they are going to send me. Check out this SICK Chanel purse that I ordered with the Macys Card I got for FREE!
This comment is going out to everyone today to ask you to wish us luck here at South By Southwest. This one's really important for us and your support means a lot to us.
Oh, and if you happen to be here in Austin, come see us play!
Hi Young Modern,
I've just uploaded two more tracks on our mp3 player from The Tol-Puddle Martyrs soon to be released “Psych-Out USA” album:
Is There Someone There? and The Window
I hope you enjoy them and all is well at your end!
Your friend in music,
Peter.
P.S. If you haven’t seen them, or would like to see them again:
Tol-Puddle Martyrs Live
Gracias por el add!!!
Thanx for adding LOS IMMEDIATOS!!!
Hope youll Like & Enjoy Our Sounds!!!
WE LOVE YOU!!!
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Fuck man....I bought that Young Modern LP when I was in high-school-;;;"Play faster"....The one with Stuart Coupe liner-notes on it---"I bet you can't play 'Shippin' steel' etc etc" Excellent power-pop
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