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Consecutive Compendium of Culture – Yacht rock, Yarns, YBAs, Yiddish theatre, Yorkshire Bleeps and Bass, Yugoslav punk, yuletide songs – yield your yummy yelps, yells and yodels

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Yes, the yearlong yappy yearning to yank your yardstick for cultural contributions is nearly through. This penultimate plea is for Y.

Y not, indeed?


Art Young (one of the editors of The Masses, “…a full-fledged magazine of social protest in which editorial content and art joined in radical assault upon the social and political structure.” )

Your silent face – New Order
Just beautiful, with that wry kick in the tail at the end
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybT6TLlOdKI

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  14. How about a Weird Al tribute to Frank Zappa? Al wrote this himself and it has the Zappa seal of approval: that’s Dweezil playing the guitar intro.
    He managed to cram every Zappa cliché imaginable into this.

    Weird Al Yankovic – Genius In France

  16. How about a Human League for the Britpop generation?

    Younger Younger 28s only produced the one album, of low-fi synthpop with songs of kitchen-sink drama featuring girls out on the town while dreaming of being “a supermodel, not a supermarket checkout girl”.

  17. Here’re the achingly hip Yo La Tengo, from the magnificently title “I am not afraid of you and I will beat your ass” album, with “Mr Tough”.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_txx4JIC6GI

    Though if you’re not into hipster-friendly indiepop (or even if you are) then this might be amusing:

    “37 Record-Store Clerks Feared Dead In Yo La Tengo Concert Disaster”

    http://www.theonion.com/article/three-world-shaping-visionaries-hail-cottonelle-fl-116

    “We’re trying our best to rescue these clerks, but, realistically, there’s not a lot of hope,” said emergency worker Len Guzman, standing outside the 40 Watt Club, where the tragedy occurred. “These people are simply not in the physical condition to survive this sort of trauma. It’s just a twisted mass of black-frame glasses and ironic Girl Scouts T-shirts in there.”

  22. WB Yeats, of course…..

    HAD I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
    Enwrought with golden and silver light,
    The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
    Of night and light and the half-light,
    I would spread the cloths under your feet:
    But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
    I have spread my dreams under your feet;
    Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

  27. From that most unfortunate of subgenres: works whose title gifts the jaded reviewer with a terse, snippy review (see also “As Good As It Gets” by Gene, Rubbish by Carter U.S.M. etc)… still one of my very favourite Madness singles:

    (Yesterday’s Men)

  28. A mate recently lent me Yabby You’s 3 CD box set Dread Prophecy. I haven’t got past CD1 yet it is so good.

    Here is Yambu’s funky disco version of the classic Sunny featuring some Shaft guitar.

      • Aha! I knew of the Yankee, but I always imagined that it was the other way around – that his last name was Berra and some “humourous” team-mate gave him the nickname “Yogi” because of the cartoon!

        • It was never admitted officially it seems.

          Wiki: Yogi Bear’s name was similar to that of contemporary baseball star Yogi Berra, who was known for his amusing quotes, such as “half the lies they tell about me aren’t true.” Berra sued Hanna-Barbera for defamation, but their management claimed that the similarity of the names was just a coincidence.

  38. Ygdrassil (Linde Nijland and Annemarieke Coenders) are rather good, Linde having done a whole LP of Sandy covers, leading her, inevitably to that field in Oxfordshire.

  54. Yip Roc Heresey (with variant spellings)

    Slim Gaillard’s Lebanese food song
    kibbeh siniyya (baked kibbeh), kibbeh ba’ (probably short for “batata,” meaning with mashed potatoes),
    laham (meat) mack voutee.
    Yip Roc Heresy,
    laham mishwi (shish kebab), laham mishvoutee,
    laham misharoonimo.

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