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Disk two of a retrospective covering the second half of this band's career. Some of this material was made available on subsequent reissues and "vault" type releases, but it's nice to have these b-sides and outtakes all in one concise spot.

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Yo - Good Tidings (1984, Deadbeat)

Today I deliver an album entitled, Good Tidings, and it isn't even Christmas. Yo's second and third albums (Charm World, Once in a Blue Moon) seemed to over fairly well with you a few years back, so how about one final go-around, this time highlighting their debut?  Decidedly on the collegiate tip, this Cali-based contingent struck me as the types who were born for left-of-the-dial notoriety, and for better of worse that might have been the extent of their appeal.  I've highlighted Bruce Rayburn's distinctive timbre in the past, and it's no less notable here, with the man on the mic sporting a panache combining Guadalcanal Diary's Murray Attaway, Gordon Gano (Violent Femmes) and just as  coincidentally, a twinge of Morrissey.  Ten songs in almost twice as many minutes, but there's only a couple of items here that would qualify as punk adjacent, the terrifically driving and muscular "Pot O' Gold" and "Living Lie."   

01. Train of No Return

02. Pot O' Gold

03. White Eyes

04. Buildings

05. The Plough

06. Something

07. Black Forest

08. Living Lie

09. Good Tidings

10. Knives

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