Small World by The Young Lions

"Small World" was the Young Lions' final recording, a series of songs based on Charles Jackson's novel 'The Lost Weekend'. Most of the eleven pieces were composed in a single day-long session in the studio of Oktopus, on the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam sometime in september 1980."Small World" was performed only once, on october 22nd 1980, as part of the weekly *ULTRA* concerts, also in Oktopus, Amsterdam. These are the live recordings that were made of that particular performance.

"Small World" was originally released as a limited edition cassette album by the Amsterdam 'Link Tapes' label.

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« It doesn’t get more *ULTRA* than this! 'Small World', the final recording released during the Young Lions’s brief life, is a concept album inspired by Charles Jackson’s 1944 literary odyssey about alcoholism, 'The Lost Weekend'. [...] Impeccably avant-garde, it’s about as far from “rock” as music nominally made with rock music instruments can be. [...] Imagine a world where, instead of Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley, the rock template was based on the most outré moments of The Velvet Underground’s White Light/White Heat... »
[[ —Jim Allen, Bandcamp Daily (April 18th, 2024) ]]
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Tracklist

1.	Like the dreaded sunday	4:08

2.	Neat little tower	2:30

3.	Almost godlike	2:47

4.	A couple sat down	3:05

5.	Between them	3:21

6.	Blank	2:43

7.	Any track	2:57

8.	Reckless but safe	3:24

9.	Brains indeed	3:55

10.	Smug face	2:13

11.	Small world	3:57

Credits

released January 1, 1981

Tim Benjamin, Ronald Heiloo, Peter Mertens, Harold Schellinx, Rob Scholte

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